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Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome... to the MoFo Musical Countdown preliminary thread!
The rules:
- Submit a ranked list of your top 25 musical movies (Your #1 at #1 which will receive 25 points, your #2 at #2 which will receive 24 points etc.)
-You can submit your ballot using Yoda's patented ballot submission tool. I will add the link to this here when it is ready.
-The deadline for submissions will be Tuesday 17th September, which gives you 3 and a half months of musical-watching.
- All lists are final. Please do not post your list here or anywhere public before the end of the countdown.
-Partial ballots with 10 or more movies will be accepted.
Eligibility
A musical is defined by wikipedia as:
"a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers".
And by @Harry Lime as:
"where people (and animals or candlesticks) randomly burst into song"
I'm not going to request people check eligibility using tags on imdb or anything like that (although you can certainly use those to help you find eligible movies). A musical has songs throughout, not just one or two incidents of characters singing karaoke.
Allowed: animated movies, jukebox musicals, classic musicals, modern musicals, musicals where all the singing takes place on stage, musicals with no dancing whatsoever, sung through musicals
Not allowed: concert films, documentaries, movies with only one song, musical TV episodes
Will it be a top 100? Yes, providing we get enough ballots submitted!
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