Singing in the Rain's "Broadway Melody"

In the film Singing in the Rain, there is a section called “Broadway Melody”. It is made in a completely different style from the rest of the movie; it is far more cartoony than the rest of the film, which is quite realistic. “Broadway Melody” even features a new character, a woman in a green dress, who is not in any of the other scenes in the rest of the movie. The woman is the reason that Don Lockwood’s character in the scene goes through the rest of the scene. He essentially does a bunch of dancing and singing. This is a clip of Don Lockwood's actor dancing with the woman in green.

 

All this scene really does is show off the actor who plays Don Look wood’s’ character. While he is the protagonist, it really is just too much of him for the film to flow well. It has no real effect on the rest of the movie in anyway plot-wise, and no real discernible meaning. The director should have cut it from the movie and instead used a scene that actually had relevance to the plot in the film.