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PS: Favorite 20th Century Jukebox Musical Movie (Ready)

Which of these selected jukebox musical movies that features the popular music of real-life musicians or musical acts embedded into a fictional story is your favorite 20th century movie to rock out to?

According to Wikipedia, "a jukebox musical is a stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known, pre-existing popular music songs, rather than original music composed for the musical. Some jukebox musicals use a wide variety of songs, while others confine themselves to songs performed by one singer or band, or written by one songwriter. In such cases, the plot is often a biography of the artist or artists. In other jukebox musicals, the plot is purely fictional. For musicals about a musician or musical act, some of the songs can be diegetic, meaning that they are performed within the world of the play or film. Works in which all the music is diegetic, however, such as a biographical film about a singer who is at times shown performing their songs, are generally not considered jukebox musicals."

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Breumaster

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urbanemovies, your list is set to private. I can't access it.

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I guess Footloose is already on the list. Maybe Flashdance and Dirty Dancing?

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Sorry, all are excellent suggestions, as all these movies have great soundtracks. The key is whether the songs were popular before the movie debuted. A jukebox musical movie is a film in which a majority of the songs are well-known, pre-existing popular music songs, rather than original music composed for the movie.

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Footloose the song was released in January 1984, the movie was released in February 1984. https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt1068242/ It doesn't say musical. On both movies.

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Ok. Mamma Mia, that surely IS a jukebox musical. All songs existed before the movie was released and it is a musical.

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The second movie, too. (here we go again)

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Jersey Boys

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Rock of ages

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Moulin Rouge!

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Rocketman

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<p></p> <p><a href="https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495619c17a0660597f700d" data-username="Breumaster">Breumaster</a><span>​</span></p> <p>I have already created the 21st century version of this poll which Moulin Rouge!, Rock of Ages and Mamma Mia! lead. &nbsp;Favorite Fictional 21st Century Jukebox Musical Movie - IMDb @&nbsp; <a href="https://www.imdb.com/poll/pQuMN275tiw/">https://www.imdb.com/poll/pQuMN275tiw/</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495619c17a0660597f700d" data-username="Breumaster"></a></p> <p></p> <ul> <li></li> </ul> <p>According to Wikipedia, "a jukebox musical is a stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known, pre-existing popular music songs, rather than original music composed for the musical.</p>

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Maybe 'Breakin' and 'Breakin' 2- Electric Boogaloo'? But I can't say if the music is produced before or exact for that.

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Beat Street?

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chatgpt threw out about 25 options which would fit the character, but are not tagged on IMDb as musical.

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One of them who is tagged as musical are: Ain't Misbehavin' and one of the which isn't is: The Buddy Holly Story

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Thanks, the jukebox lists on ranker and wikipedia, both seem to have inaccuracies too.

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I love musicals, I'm not sure if they are fictional jukebox but here it goes, perhaps one or another applies to the idea: the wiz, xanadu, repo the genetic opera, mamma mia, grease, jesus christ superstar, labyrinth, rock of ages, encanto, dreamgirls, hairspray, hair, fame

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I'd question Saturday Night Fever since it is not a musical. Most of the Bee Gees songs were also written for the film. Most of the songs in Purple Rain were not previously released. Show Boat seems to mostly feature songs from the original musical, which does not make it a jukebox musical.

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I agree, I used the wiki list as a starting list, but it needs to be more than tweaked (as it does not follow the jukebox musical rules). I will go through the list and delete movies mostly with original songs and movie biopics.

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I suggest removing "Fictional" from the title: the movies aren't fictional. 

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@rubyfruit76​ Thanks, corrected.

I removed the George M. Cohan biographical film, 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and the Bob Fosse semi-autobiographical movie, 'All that Jazz' from the answer pool instead. But, I still will included those bio pics that are "loosely based", "highly fictionalized" or are less "fact than fiction" stories. 

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@urbanemovies​ Hi Urb. Sorry, that's not what I meant: I meant that the films themselves are real. They are works of fiction but not fictional themselves. : )

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@rubyfruit76​ I am not sure I understand???

I want to avoid biographies that feature bands or musical artist playing their popular music and fall into the music genre rather than musical genre. Music movies and the use of original music vs. pre-existing musical songs seem to be two types of landmines to avoid in the answer pool. Plus, there is a 21st century version of this poll suggestion @ Favorite 21st Century Jukebox Musical Fictional Movie and want the pools to mirror each other in scope.

Regardless, I think moving the term fictional to modify movie is clearer. 

Before: Favorite Fictional 20th Century Jukebox Musical Movie. 

After: Favorite 20th Century Jukebox Musical Fictional Movie. 

Which of these selected jukebox musical movies that features the popular music of real-life musicians or musical acts embedded into a fictional story is your favorite movie to rock out to?

I think a true-story or biographical jukebox musical is possible, but needs to have stringent parameters and would be better served as a poll suggestion on its own.

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I don't think moving the word helps, in fact it's worse. Perhaps you can do without the word in the title since you have "fictional story" in the question.

@rubyfruit76​ 

M-W's definition of fictional says, "of, relating to, characterized by, or occurring in fiction". I'd say the movies are at least characterized by fiction.

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@Peter_pbn​ I agree, its clunk, muddled and long. I removed it altogether.

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#2 and 5: featuring various popular songs by various rhythm & blues artists spanning multiple decades

#11: featuring African American performed renditions of popular 1920s and 1930s songs

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@Peter_pbn​ Thanks, corrected.

I added the missing "by" to #2 and #5, and changed the text in #11 to "featuring African American artists performing renditions  of popular 1920s and 1930s songs"

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