Because of this preference, I naturally did not miss "Take the Lead" (leading the trend) based on the experience of professional ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine.
The biggest selling point of the "Take the Lead" promotion is the charismatic Antonio Banderas as suave dancer Pierre Duran, the dancer who introduced ballroom dancing classes into the New York public school system with an old-school flair. The gentleman's demeanor is very different from Banderas's previous wild and sexy Latin lover image. At the same time, Banderas also has a hot tango performance in the film. Although this tango is made by editing tricks, the movements that really pay attention to skill and difficulty in choreography are mainly completed by the female dancers of the partner, but they only attacked before the start of shooting. Banderas, who has undergone a short-term dance training, has a similar movement and is not timid, which makes people think that he is really a tango master.
However, this film has long been reminiscent of Pierre's "dance is life" point of view, which was once made fun of. The people who made fun of him thought it was just a dancer's unrealistic romantic idea and professional paranoia. They I don't think that the life philosophy of professional dancers can resonate with the life of ordinary people. In fact, the dance in "Take the Lead" is closely related to everyone's life, reflecting different life trajectories and life experiences.
Pierre is good at ballroom dancing, but the public school students he is obliged to teach love most is hip-hop. These two completely different dances actually represent very different life backgrounds: ballroom dancing is to cultivate etiquette and demeanor, and pay attention to rules. Today, in addition to the real hobby, only children from a well-off family environment will do so out of social interaction. It needs to be learned; and hip-hop, which originated from the gangsters fighting each other, is free and unrestrained, it is the dance of the common people. The temperament of ballroom dancing and hip-hop dance can be said to be completely different, and there is a deep gap between the two.
You can only imagine what Pierre would encounter when he tried to cross this chasm: in the eyes of teenagers surrounded by violence and drugs and family problems, Pierre and everything he represented were outdated and old-fashioned, to himself. reality is not helpful.
The views on dance that Pierre and these teenagers constantly exchanged were actually exchanges of different life experiences. The passage that best represents this difference is when the students scoff at his beloved backing dance music, he says, "These songs are all about love," while the students say, "Maybe your love is not the same as us...we But we don't have time to do that, we just want to do it overnight." The
younger generation is too practical and only pursues the immediate and accessible benefits, and many ancient but beautiful things are becoming unfamiliar to them. Pierre dressed neatly and went to see the principal, but the students he met in the reception room asked him in surprise: "Who died?" Pierre had to answer: "Your courtesy." Quite helpless.
Rather than sticking to his own world, Pierre tries to approach his world from the students' point of view with a seductive tango effort that eventually bridges the divide.
When a clumsy rich girl leads a black boy to dance with confidence at a birthday party, when a boy and a girl who is like fire and water build trust between them, when the boys who compete with each other join hands in a ballroom dance competition, a wonderful three-person tango...
They are not simple. They changed the form of dance, but it was dance that allowed them to start changing their own lives.
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