During the very popular 'Dancing in the Dark' scene from the film "The Band Wagon", the director, Vincente Minnelli manages to foreshadow the fact that Fred Astaire's character, Tony Hunt, and Cyd Charesse's alter ego, Gabrielle, will succeed in becoming a couple by the film's conclusion. Up until this particular scene, the audience has been led to believe through a series of misunderstandings and petty arguments that there will be no hope of romance between …showed first 75 words of 1188 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1188 total…without a doubt, the fact that the number combines both their styles of dancing into one and that they actually can dance together, can only have one effect, to allow the audience to imagine that Gaby and Tony may find a way to discover their ability to love together. Even without the use of any critical dialogue, and against a river of contradictory narrative evidence, Minnelli has succeeded in foreshadowing the conclusion, boy gets girl.