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[clip] the five best unexpected singing moments in film (from the Guardian)

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Clip joint: the five best unexpected singing moments in film

Five of the best examples of cinema characters unexpectedly bursting into song



Ferris Bueller takes the mic for an impromptu singalong. Photograph: Paramount/Everett/Rex Features

Sian Pitman is a journalist and film junkie with a particular passion for picking holes in adaptations and Ryan Gosling films. When she's not at the cinema, watching a DVD or streaming from Netflix, she's probably asleep. Follow her on Twitter here.

You know how it is – you're watching a film, when suddenly, out of nowhere, the characters burst into song. Fine when it's a musical – much more surprising when it's not. Here's some of the best of these moments – but can you think of any others? Share them in the comment thread below..

500 Days of Summer

Joseph Gordon Levitt's adorable Tom finally spends the night with the beautiful and quirky Summer and launches into a cheery, dance-filled rendition of You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall and Oates. Almost as elating as losing your virginity, this happy, colourful scene is easily one of the highlights of the film. Sadly the next scene is not nearly so cheerful…

Anchorman

Taking a break from the hyper-macho guy talk, the Channel 4 Evening News Team decide to ask Ron what it's like to be in love, leading to a perfectly harmonised, barbershop-style performance of Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band. Afterwards, Ron is deemed to be crazy, with mental issues. The concept is lost on simpleton Brick (Steve Carrell) though, who proclaims that he "loves lamp".

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Teen classic Ferris Bueller finds the titular character (Matthew Broderick) ditch school for a day of shenanigans. Briefly disappearing during the city's Von Steuben Day parade, he emerges on one of the carnival's floats, dancing and lip synching to Twist and Shout by the Beatles. Teenage girls and guys across the world swooned in unison.

10 Things I Hate About You

Hands up who didn't fall in love with Heath Ledger when he took to the football stands to proclaim his love for Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles). As he sweetly croons along to Frankie Valli's Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You, joined by the school's marching band, who would have guessed that nearly ten years later, he'd be scaring the pants of us as the Joker in The Dark Knight?

My Best Friend's Wedding

Julianne (Julia Roberts) tries to break up the wedding of her best friend Michael (Dermot Mulroney) and the sickeningly-sweet-even-down-to-her-name Kimmy (Cameron Diaz) by pretending to be engaged to her gay BFF George (Rupert Everett). His musical account of how they got together is possibly the highlight of the film, but still fails to out George and Julianne's faux relationship, despite the incredible campness of it all.


For full post:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/may/15/clip-joint-unexpected-singing-moments