I never dance, nor do the people around me.
But I am jealous of people who can dance. Together with the music, they seem to have changed into another person, shy, cramped, uneasy, inferior, and flustered...all missing, replaced by a dazzling light like the sun.
Twisting, hip swinging, leaping, turning... the stories that happened in different corners of the earth, the emotion of collision, the secret of bursting, the flowing love, the enlightened Zen, and the refined philosophy are all hidden in a person's In the body, a fascinating world is transformed.
Love, everything originates from love, and the curiosity and fascination with dance also originates from a 1987 love movie "dirty dance".
In the summer of 1963, a 17-year-old Jewish named "Baby" The girl, who went to the summer resort with her father as a doctor, accidentally ran into an underground dance party called "dirty dance", fell in love with a man, broke the myth of her father worship, and broke the limitation of class vision , From a girl to a woman.
How hypocritical
was the United States in 1963 The United States in 1963 was not as open, diverse, spontaneous, and free as it is now, but rather well-defined and heavily barriered.
The world is in a cold war. The confrontation between East and West has been for decades, and Americans are beginning to worry that they may not be able to deal with the military threat from the Soviet Union. President Kennedy called on American youth to rekindle their loyalty and dedication to their country.
On January 20, 1961, in President Roosevelt’s eponymous inauguration speech, Kennedy shouted, “My fellow Americans, don’t ask what the country can do for you, but what you can do for the country?”
He took office. Three months later, they led two major events with far-reaching global impact. One was planning the Cuban Bay of Pigs incident, and the other was sending U.S. combat troops into Vietnam.
The former triggered the Cuban missile crisis and opened the "balance of terror" strategy during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Since then, civilians around the world have been shrouded in the shadow of nuclear weapons destroying the earth.
The latter is regarded as a sign of the beginning of the Vietnam War. From 1961 to 1973, 6.5 million American youths traveled across oceans and paid a very heavy price to fight a war they didn't want to fight at all.
The United States is in class antagonism.
The black people are still under the oppression of the apartheid system. Martin Luther King, the great black movement leader, has not published the "I Have a Dream" speech. Sitting in the back of the bus.
Women do not have the autonomy of abortion. Many states regard abortion as illegal for religious and historical reasons, and many women who have accidentally become pregnant have died on the operating table of doctors.
The boundaries between classes are strict. In the movie, employees in the resort area live in cramped and cramped shacks. The signs expressly instruct guests not to enter. Only those entertainers who go to college at Harvard or Yale and are just a summer job can chat with the guests. , Dancers from the bottom are strictly prohibited from contacting the guests, "Don't talk, take care of your hands!"
Unlike her sister who wears a sundress and is obsessed with high heels, "Baby" cares about politics and wants to use "love and peace" to change this division against the world. He has to participate in the so-called "The Peace Corps" to volunteer The identity of the person in the third world countries, as teachers, doctors, engineers, to help them change the status quo of backwardness, poverty, and ignorance. It is precisely to help female dancers who have to have an abortion that she accidentally hit the world of the bottom laborers involved in the accident and let the dance truly enter her life.
How "dirty" is Mambo?
"Dirty dance (Dirty dance)", literally translated as "dirty dance", as its name implies, is a low-level dance that is difficult to be elegant and dirty. Cancan dance and pole dance belong to this category. The "Dirty dance" in the movie is a variation of the double Latin dance with the Mambo as the main dance. Due to the indecent movements, it is still banned in American middle schools.
"Baby" was first in the ballroom lobby. I saw a piece of professional standard Latin dance, lifted prancing, energetic, exquisite skills, jaw-dropping, amazing; then hit a low-level hidden hot dance in the small crowded wooden house, with limbs entwined, The ears and temples are swaying like clouds and flowing water, and there is the power of restraint between laziness and leisure, which makes the heart rippling and mesmerized. The performer of the dance is the great dancer and actor Patrick Swayze (Patrick Swayze). )-In the movie, the actor Johnny (Johnny Castle).
Mambo, known as the "Dance of the Devil", was born in the Caribbean, named after a priestess who gave people fanatical hallucinations. "Baby" also has magical powers in her body. This girl who wears jeans, a big shirt and cares about national affairs, under the leadership of Johnny, has naturally changed because of learning mambo.
"Baby" is definitely not. A dancer, very clumsy, even at the end of the movie, she was still unconcealed among a group of professional dancers. However, the mambo dance made her no longer a child with stiff limbs, every inch of musculoskeletal They all resonate with the emotional fluctuations deep in the heart, no longer relying on the right brain and eyes to experience the world, "You are not doing things, you are jumping Mambo."
There are too many fascinating dance teaching scenes in the movie. Johnny and "Baby" are focused in the dance room, swaying gently on the forest cross, and practicing leap lifts in the lake, from unfamiliar to proficient, from boredom to boredom. The tacit understanding, from teaching to resonance, the two gradually grew in love with each other, and their bodies would sway with the music.
In addition to love, Mambo also awakens the self-awareness of "Baby". People without self-confidence cannot dance the Mambo.
The two class traits are perfectly integrated into "Baby", making her a dual incarnation of morality and sexiness.
Facing the huge class difference between the two, "Baby" is brave and reckless, upright and strong, smart and stubborn.
Just like Mambo teaches himself, feel love with your heart, instead of seeing it as a means to seek the benefit of life, and don't make any self-righteous criticism of Johnny's past.
Just as my father taught myself, he must adhere to his own moral code and bear the consequences of the decision. However, all this also allows the "baby" to see the hypocrisy, prejudice and cruelty of the adult world, including his father.
The old world is beginning to collapse, and a new world is slowly being established. "Baby" is also a salvation for Johnny, allowing him to start to believe that hard work may really change the status quo.
How fascinating the movie is
"Dirty Dance" is one of the most successful independent films in Hollywood in the United States. This is just a low-cost film targeted at a young audience. It only cost 5 million US dollars to shoot, but in 1987 it won 170 million US dollars. At the box office, it became one of the best-selling movies in the United States that year. After entering the video market in 1988, it became the first movie to sell one million sets. By 2005, it sold 1 million DVDs a year, and by 2007 it sold more than 10 million. In May 2007, a survey conducted by Sky Films in the United Kingdom showed that "Spirit Dance" ranked first in the "most women's attention film".
Movies are derived from real life experiences. The screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein is also the youngest daughter of a Jewish doctor in New York. She spends the summer with her family in the Mountain Resort and participates in dance competitions. He is also called "Baby". At the same time, she was also a guy who learned to dance on the streets of Brooklyn, and paid her college tuition by becoming a dance teacher. Therefore, she is both Baby and Johnny in the movie, so she can write such a vivid character.
In an interview with the British "Guardian" in 2006, she said how much the socialist camp loved this movie. In the Soviet Union, when a abused woman went to a shelter for help, aid workers bandaged her wounds and gave her hot soup. It’s best to let her sit down and watch this movie. When the Berlin Wall fell, children were everywhere dressed." The picture of the "Hot Dance" t-shirt, shouting, "We want what they have in the West! We want the Hot Dance!"
Before becoming an actress, Patrick Swayze was a ballerina in New York Joffrey and Harkness ballet school (Joffrey and Harkness ballet school) received rigorous dance training before performing in the Eliot Feld ballet. It is this kind of solid dance skills that allows him to show the image of a masculine Latin dancer in the movie. With the concentration and elegance of gestures, no one can resist his charm.
Patrick is a tough guy. In the movie, "Baby" always giggled because he was ticklish when practicing dance. Johnny repeatedly showed impatient expressions. This is not a performance, but a real situation on the set. Practicing lifting lifts in the cold lake, Patrick injured his waist at the beginning, but persisted until the end of the filming.
Of course, Patrick is best known to Chinese audiences as the TV series "The North and the South" which was popular in the nineties of the last century (the entanglement of grievances and hatreds, which is very good-looking), and the 1990 movie "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts".
The sexy goddess Scarlett Johansson once revealed that at the age of 15, she met Patrick at the 2000 Vanity Fair Oscar party, and "Spice Dance" was her favorite movie at the time. So she stepped forward and said to Patrick, "I love you, I have loved you since "Spirit Dance". 'Patrick said, "Wow, that was a long time ago." Scarlett recalled that Patrick glanced at her strangely, as if saying, "Is this girl a lunatic?"
Because screenwriters, directors, and actors are all people who can dance, there are a large number of dance mirrors in the movie that switch between the long-range and the middle-range. The spontaneous dance charm of the actors greatly enhances the beauty of the film. Unlike "Chicago" in 2002, despite the participation of many stars such as Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere, But relying on MTV-style fast editing to create a dance that can only exist on the silver screen, it looks like a horse and a flower, dazzling and powerless.
Tomorrow, the National Day holiday is coming to an end, relive this "Spicy Dance", Inject vitality into the ordinary life that is about to be repeated, and feel the world with your heart like a mambo dancer.
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