5 Master Edits in a Hollywood Film

  The most obvious example of Leit Motif in the movie is when Tracy's best friend, Penny runs to Tracy's house to inform them of the great news of Tracy making it onto her favorite show. Not only is her hellbent sprint similar to that of the one we see earlier, the TV shows theme repeats itself, this time adding Tracy into it.

During the big Miss Hairspray pageant, paranoia that Tracy will turn up leads to sloppy police work. They get themselves locked out, and use a large hairspray can as a battering ram. It is revealed that this same can they used contained Tracy within it, meaning the can symbolized a tool used by both the protagonists and antagonists for their benefit.

Continuing with the musical numbers, as the movie is a musical after all, the director exemplifies contrast when the stories antagonist, Amber, is singing a light-hearted song about "The New Girl in Town." The song repeats itself with compliments of this said new girl, but the author repeatedly cuts to Amber and her mother at different points demonstrating disdain and dislike for Tracy.

  For parallelism, the movies opening music number transitions from one scene to the next with the main character, Tracy, holding out a long note, and even adding a key change to exemplify progression.

A premier example of Simultaneity is shown in the reprisal of Queen Latifa's "Big, Blond, and Beautiful." This remix alternates between Edna and main antagonist Velma von Tussle. While Edna sings about her finally wanting to reignite romance with her husband, Wilbur, Velma attempts to seduce Wilbur to ruin Tracy's home life in hopes she quits the show.