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✨ a film for every year of my life ✨ | Dirty Dancing (1987) dir. Emile Ardolino
That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn’t occur to me to mind.
#dirty dancing#patrick swayze#jennifer grey#cynthia rhodes#emile ardolino#movieedit#filmedit#1980s movies#80sedit#i made a thing#mine: films#bdyearfilms
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Season 1, Episode 3 | DIRTY DANCING (1987)
Gabby and Amy discuss Dirty Dancing, the ultimate coming-of-age movie complete with trenchant class analysis, a convincing argument for women's reproductive freedom, a killer soundtrack, and Patrick Swayze's perfect ass (and chest, and hair and arms, etc.). What more could you want in a movie?
https://chickflicks.libsyn.com/dirty-dancing
#movies#films#chick flicks with gabby & amy#chick flicks#chick flick#dirty dancing#patrick swayze#jennifer grey#coming of age#80s movies#80s films#film soundtrack#abortion rights#reproductive rights#feminist film#eleanor bergstein#jerry orbach#cynthia rhodes#kelly bishop
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Dirty Dancing (1987) - Emile Ardolino
When I made the movie in 1987, about 1963, I put in the illegal abortion and everyone said, ‘Why? There was Roe v. Wade ― what are you doing this for?’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t know that we will always have Roe v. Wade.’
Eleanor Bergstein, screenwriter and co-producer of Dirty Dancing
#dirty dancing#emile ardolino#cynthia rhodes#Cynthia Rhodes#patrick swayze#film#roe vs. wade#roe v wade#watched in st louis#watched in april 2022#abortion#reproductive rights#scotus#wtf#mandatory rewatch
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Finola Hughes on the cover of People magazine with John Travolta and Cynthia Rhodes to promote the 1983 movie "Staying Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever".
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surely someone has probably already noticed this but i just discovered this the other day.... in Dirty Dancing (1987) the actress Cynthia Rhodes (co-star to Jennifer Grey) plays a character called Penny Johnson which as you may recall is Penny Halliwell’s maiden name who is played by the actress Jennifer Rhodes
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DIRTY DANCING 1987
Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.
#dirty dancing#1987#jennifer grey#patrick swayze#jerry orbach#cynthia rhodes#jack weston#jane brucker#kelly bishop#lonny price#max cantor#charles coles#neal jones#wayne knight#paula trueman
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Now available to listen on the podcast!!
#podcast#dvd collection#why do we own this dvd#filmgifs#dirty dancing#jennifer grey#patrick swayze#johnny castle#nobody puts baby in a corner#jerry orbach#cynthia rhodes#I carried a watermelon#kenny ortega
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Dirty Dancing (1987). Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
It's such a funny thing to watch these 80s movies that just ooze sex when there's this rise of puritanical cinema again. It' been a minute since I last saw this, but man, if it isn't easy to see why it's got the cultural legacy it has - it really stands up! Just full of charm and chemistry and just bonkers enough to sell its own fantasy. Love it. 8/10.
#dirty dancing#1987#Oscars 60#Nom: Song#Won: Song#emile ardolino#eleanor bergstein#patrick swayze#jennifer grey#jerry orbach#cynthia rhodes#kelly bishop#america#american#coming of age#dancing#1960s#8/10
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Staying Alive (1983)
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Genre: Romance, drama (horror.. im kidding but really)
CW: SA is mentioned briefly as it pertains to this movie and Saturday Night Fever.
The only thing this movie improves upon it's predecessor, is that it's a much shorter runtime.
Staying Alive attracted me because it looked bad and I was obsessed with how incongruous it feels for Sylvester Stallone to have directed it. The screenshots I was seeing of Travolta scantily clad in torn clothing while arms reach for him were too appealing for me to simply ignore them. In fact, it low-key reminded me of the poster for Barbarella which is a movie I do love the appearance of.
Of course, I couldn't simply watch the sequel to a movie I hadn't seen before, so I first watched Saturday Night Fever from 1977. Saturday Night Fever, faultless it is not, was still a pretty swell watching experience. But it definitely impacted how I was to see the sequel. And how could it not?
When the emotional through-line of the film is class struggles, racism, and especially sexism, then it's hard not to notice how a sequel carries on with those themes.
Staying Alive's solution is largely to ignore these things. Or ignore them in part. There is still some pointing and gesturing at the class disparity between Tony (Travolta) and those around him, especially Laura (Finola Hughes). Sexism is also very much alive and well but, unlike SNF, there isn't really a point to these themes and conflicts being there or a lesson we are meant to learn.
SNF managed to make the character of Tony still a tad likeable despite it all. In Staying Alive I feel none of this goodwill. SNF ended with a promise of change and self awareness. Staying Alive begins with a Tony as problematic as he started. There is something macabre about it to be honest. Between those six years of lost time, Tony spurned Stephanie for good and has now been meandering around Manhattan terrorizing women, jaunting about like a gangly, unsteady gazelle. At times he is borderline terrifying, and you'd expect his character to feel right at home as the dangerous stalker in some horror flick.
Somehow he still has a girlfriend named Jackie (Cynthia Rhodes), whom he decides to cheat on very immediately into this movie. And despite all logic, she still gives him a chance, not only to be her friend but picks up dating him again. And even in the end he cant help himself. He has to kiss Laura without her consent for what? To prove he can? Both women end the movie interested in him, though he decides to commit to Jackie.
On to Laura, she is a pseudo antagonist. She's meant to be annoying and bitchy, but can you really fault her? She has to deal with Tony this whole movie and that is so much to ask of anyone. Her character is so inappropriately handled. Tony expects much from her and ignores all her very DIRECT declarations that she is not at all interested in him in a long term sense at this point. He makes it her fault, and in turn, the movie never sees him serve time for his poor behavior towards her. At times she or someone else will call him out on it, but you never see his character learn from this behavior. After he forces a kiss on Laura, she apologizes to him and he doesn't even bother to say it back himself, which is the LEAST of what he should be doing.
Tony IS the bad guy. He's annoying and rude to her, grabs her and touches her without permission, and is just all around unapologetic for any of it. It feels like he only really stops bothering with her because Jackie's still throwing herself at him, and it gives him a sense of power to see Laura wanting him.
AND THAT'S NOT TO MENTION THE DANCING. SNF almost manages to endear itself to me PURELY for the dancing. Travolta's little disco floor scene (you know the one) is the best part of the movie. In this movie, the dancing is all so meeehhhhh. We spend all this time building up the final Broadway show, and the resulting product was so underwhelming.
If this movie had been about male entitlement and ego, it would have been so perfect, but it's not about that even though it so perfectly depicted it. Feeling like a 2/10 on this one.
#staying alive#staying alive 1983#80s movie#john travolta#Finola Hughes#Cynthia Rhodes#saturday night fever
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Runaway 1984 Trailer | Tom Selleck | Cynthia Rhodes
You remember this cyberpunk, killer-robot, movie starring Tm Selleck (Magnum PI) and Gene Simmons (KISS); don’t you?
#youtube#b-movie#sci-fi#tom selleck#kirstie alley#gene simmons#Cynthia Rhodes#acid spitting spider robots#cyberpunk
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Cynthia Rhodes and John Travolta. “Staying Alive” 1983
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