This is a family musical. It has themes of family, love and creation. It follows the story of the Potts family, Truly Scrumptious (Yes that's her name) and Chitty the car. It mainly starts when the king of Bulgaria sees the car and wants it so he tries to steal it but in the end kidnaps granddad Potts, so the family and Truly go to rescue him. For this I shall be mostly focusing on performance and misc en scene.
In one section where Granddad has been kidnapped he starts to sing the posh song as they go over the sea. As he does this his voice changes, the meaning of this is so that he feels posh. Apart from actually leaving his family he seizes the opportunity to enjoy himself and have "The posh life". Doing this shows the audience that he is happy to be gone and that he feels free. In addition it also is one of the most comical bits in the film.
In another scene granddad Potts had been tasked with making a car sail. For this he is sent into clearly a lab. We know this as there looks to be experiments consonantly going on in the room. In addition all of the people in there are wearing lab coats, something they also have is beards so when they say they have been there for such along time. During the song The Roses of Success we are clearly reminded that they are working on building a floating boat as they keep on grabbing sailing equipment.
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