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The 1927 film ''
''The Jazz Singer'', despite its reputation as the first "talkie," is fundamentally a silent film, with an atmospheric musical backdrop, no sound effects, and dialogue on title cards. It ''does'', however, have several recorded songs which are lip-synced (with [[Hong Kong Dub|variable success]]), and during the filming/recording of one of these songs, Jolson ad-libbed a spoken intro: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'!" (Additionally, the film has one short synchronized dialogue scene where Jolson talks to his mother.)
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There were two [[Revision|remakes]] of this film:
▲2. 1980. [[Neil Diamond]] is The Jazz Singer. This version is very much a sound film. Synopsis:
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* [[Billy Elliot Plot]]: Sort of, if you consider singing to be "feminine" and being a cantor to be "manly."
* [[Blackface]]: One of the most famous examples in film.
* [[Dies Wide Open]]: Cantor Rabinowitz
* [[I Have No Son]]
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Inverted
▲* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Inverted in the original; Cantor Rabinowitz dies after Jack returns to the synagogue and sings, thus earning his father's forgiveness.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: All the Jazz Singer wants is his father's approval.
▲=== Parodies of the basic plot (not specific to any of the film versions) include: ===
* The 1936 [[Looney Tunes|Merrie Melodies]] cartoon ''[[I Love to Singa]]'', directed by [[Tex Avery]], featuring fledgling jazz singer "[[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Owl Jolson]]" rebelling against his family of traditionalist musicians.
* An ''[[SCTV]]'' sketch, guest-starring Al Jarreau, which reverses the plot in that the father expects the son to be a jazz singer like himself but the son instead becomes a cantor.
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