Sunday, May 19, 2019

"More Than a Woman" as a Wedding Dance

I recently fast-forwarded through the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever.  The movie's climax is the characters Tony Manero (the actor John Tavolta) and Stephanie Mangano (the actress Karen Lynn Gorney) winning a dance contest with their performance to Bee Gees' song "More Than a Woman".


Because countless wedding couples have danced to the Dirty Dancing song "Time of My Life", I wondered whether many couples have danced to the Saturday Night Fever Song song "More Than a Woman". I did find a few.




I estimate that, in wedding dances, the ratio of "Time of My Life" to "More Than a Woman" dances is at least 10,000 to 1.

The movie Saturday Night Fever enjoyed a ten-year head-start on Dirty Dancing, but its dance is not as triumphant. The character Tony Manero voluntarily forfeits the first-place prize to the second-place couple. Also, the "More Than a Woman" dance does not end with the female dancer climaxing up into the male character's strong arms. Rather, the "More Than a Woman" couple fizzles into just a good-enough embrace and kiss.

The female characters in both movies wear ultra-feminine pink chiffon dresses and strappy shoes. I wonder if the Dirty Dancing costume designers copied that girly look from Saturday Night Fever.

Was this ultra-feminine, pink, chiffon dress
a model....

for the Dirty Dancing dress?

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Everyone must recognize also that the BeeGees' falsetto singing is kind of gay. Most brides do not want to feature that vibe at their weddings.

Here is the kind-of-gay Glee rendition of "More Than a Woman".

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