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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Breakfast Club and dancing


Lo the dancing scene from The Breakfast Club.

I've just watched this classic film again, and I was about to rip this scene for you, when I realized I was probably not the only fan of it... and indeed not. It was already there on YouTube, of course.

I don't know why there are not more dancing scenes in movies, they are often favorite parts for many, including me. (Just witness the brief dancing scene in Pulp Fiction.)

I love what Molly Ringwald is doing here. I'm amazed at what some girls can do with a little movement, just a universe of aesthetics packed in there. And this dance here, I am not sure how it's happening, but it's like she is in the air 4/5 of the time. Gravity-defying.
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6 comments:

  1. Cristina Rodguez17 Jun 2007, 19:41:00

    I couldn't agree more, the movie is lovely and this dancing scene is just sublime. I used to have an animated gif of this displayed on my blog.

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  2. laurie17 Jun 2007, 23:46:00

    there are some beautiful and sexy dancing scenes in one of my favorite old movies, FAME. It's about kids at the New York School for the Arts.

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  3. Eolake Stobblehouse17 Jun 2007, 23:50:00

    Huh. I am not a big musical fan, but maybe I should give Fame a chance.

    (I'm not against them either, I liked Grease.) (But I did not like West Side Story.)

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  4. Alex18 Jun 2007, 01:10:00

    Just rent some Bollywood flicks. If they are set in a village, then everyone has a song and dance every 15 minutes, and what could be nicer than all those flowing saris? You guessed it, a Bollywood movie set in, of Bangkok, London or some other exotic location, then they have a dance scene every 20 minutes in a night club. The easy entry ones are Chocolate, Lagaan, Dhoom and Ek Ajnabi.

    There are other good dance films, like Moulin Rouge, and I forgot how much dancing was in Romeo + Juliet.

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  5. Eolake Stobblehouse18 Jun 2007, 01:12:00

    Maybe I had an off-night, but I couldn't get into Moulin Rouge at all. It was so weird, and not in the good way. I dunno.

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  6. Alex18 Jun 2007, 01:27:00

    Didn't say it wasn't wierd, but I thought it was kinda fun. I guess I'm just well disposed to seeing my films on the darker, surreal side. It liked the "Like A Virgin" sequence, whatsis face has been a fave since I saw him in History of the World, or "All The Worlds a Globe", and again in Blackadder.

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