Yes, professionals, but also just those what can really move. It's a bit of a guilty secret that I love those silly modern dance movies, like Step Up. Can't help it. And I like watching Justin Timberlake dancing. But not Jennifer Lopez. She's trying too hard.
This is in my mind because last night I watched Staying Alive. I have never seen it before. And it was hysterical (as in I was practically hysterical by the end of it). Staying Alive is the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, as any fule kno. But where SNF had grit, Staying Alive has, well, face tinsel.
Staying Alive was written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. No, I am not kidding. Tony Manero has basically decided to give up being a Brooklyn bum by day and tip-top disco dancer by night, to focus his energies on becoming a Real Dancer and a better person. There's a nice girl, and a bad girl. Both wear face tinsel. There are some songs by the Bee Gees and some by Frank Stallone, brother of Sly. Sly even makes a 'meet cute' cameo which you have to see for the outfit alone.
The bad girl can only kick up her right leg, so without knowing it she was laying the foundations for a French & Saunders sketch. She can't act either, but that's by the bye. John Travolta can't do the splits and grimaces whenever he has to pick up a girl.
THE OUTFITS! boyohboyohboy you have to see the outfits.
Was there really a time in the mid-eighties when people wore black tie to see modern dance shows, ie theatre length shows with nowt but folk dancin'? No chat? Would they really have paid good money to see 'Satan's Alley'?
Anyway, I have digressed.
Amidst the tears of laughter caused by Staying Alive I enjoyed watching the dancing. These are people not bound by the everyday laws of gravity. I envy and admire them. But not Jennifer Lopez.
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poor old jenny from the block.
ReplyDeletefor me it is the boring 'falling for your dancer' schmuft, leg shaver 'Venus' adverts and pimping her kids out for armani that gets me down. the dancing i can take.
TICK for learnt something new about Sly. Never knew that. will store in the brain facility and reuse as my own factlet at some juncture.
but mostly, god bless the bee gees. for without them, the film would not be what it is.
in other news i won the saturday night fever album in a raffle (everyone got a prize). only thing i have ever won, but it was fab. to be fair i won it about 20 years after it came out, but still beggars and choosing etc.