Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Friday, December 25, 2020
Sunday, December 20, 2020
The Development of Lisa's Political Rebellion -- Part 14
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13
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As Lisa Houseman read the novel The Fountainhead that her boyfriend Robbie Gould had lent to her, she shifted her focus from the character Howard Roark to the character Dominique Francon. When Lisa began to read the novel, she was fascinated mostly by Howard, an architect who strove to develop Modern architecture.
As she read the novel's Part I, however, she became fascinated more by Dominique, a wealthy young woman whose father owned an architecture business. Dominique wrote an interior-decorating column for a New York City newspaper. Dominique was glamorous and intelligent, but she apparently suffered from a psychological disorder that prevented normal relationships with other people. She argued with her father, with her newspaper editor and with prospective boyfriends. She told one prospective boyfriend that she never had felt any sexual desire. She seemed to have no female friends.
Dominique told her newspaper editor that she had stolen an ancient statue of a nude male from a Greek museum and then had thrown it down a shaft to smash it to smithereens. She explained to her editor that she had loved the statue but had stolen and destroyed it in order to prevent anyone else from ever seeing it again.
The context of this conversation was that the editor was mad at her about a series of articles that he had assigned her to write for their newspaper. He had wanted the series to expose some Manhattan landlords for abusing and exploiting their apartment tenenats. Instead of exposing the landlords, however, Dominique's articles had exposed the tenants themselves as messy, immoral and irresponsible. The editor was so angry that he decided to not publish any of the articles that Dominique had written. In their subsequent conversation about his decision, she told him about stealing and smashing the museum's ancient statue of a nude male. Essentially, Dominique gave her editor one more reason to fire her from her newspaper job. (He did not fire her.)
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Reading such a long, complicated, philosphical, psychological novel was a new experience for Lisa. Outside of her school assignments, she read only articles and short stories that were published in popular magazines, like The Saturday Evening Post. Lisa was plowing through The Fountainhead now only because it had been recommended and lent to her by Robbie Gould, her new boyfriend. Lisa valued the book as a romantic token. She made a show of carrying the book around and reading it, and she was proud to tell people that the book had been given to her by her boyfriend, who was an intellectual medical student.
As Lisa read the novel -- and the many annotations that Robbie had handwritten in the page margins -- she thought about how she would discuss the novel with Robbie. She wanted to impress him that she would and could share his intellecual interests. She wanted to discuss the novel intelligently, profoundly, with him.
Lisa recognized that Robbie intended Lisa to identify him with Howard Roark and to identify herself with Dominique Francon. Lisa was happy to imagine that she herself, like Dominique, was intelligent and glamorous -- and was a witty, sophisticated connoisseur of art.
However, Lisa could not identify herself with Dominque's personality disorder. Lisa got along normally with her family and her many friends. Lisa intended to follow in her mother's footsteps. Lisa would marry a handsome, intelligent, successful man -- preferably a doctor -- and would support her husband, create a beautiful home and raise their children. Later, after the children had grown up, Lisa would begin her own professional career, preferably in the arts. Lisa was content with her own relationships, with her own social status and with her own intended future. Lisa felt normal sexual desire and looked forward to a playful, pleasureful, life-long sexual relationship with her future husband.
As Lisa read the novel, she pondered Dominique's personality disorder. This was the novel's aspect that Lisa intended to discuss with Robbie. She intended to assure Robbie that she herself would not be a troublesome wife -- as Dominique surely would be. In particular, Lisa would be enthusiastically sexual with Robbie. More generally, Lisa as a wife would support and promote Robbie. Lisa would do as her own mother had done in supporting her husband. Lisa knew how to be a doctor's wife. Lisa knew how to socialize and play golf with other doctors' wives and how to host parties in an impressively beautiful home and how to display her sincere admiration for her wonderful doctor husband. In that regard, Robbie should not worry that Lisa might turn out to be like unreliable, self-destructive, pernicious Dominique.
In that regard, Lisa resembled more the novel's character Katie Halsey, a young woman who was subordinate, supporting and self-sacrificing in relation to the man she loved (Peter Keating). Lisa saw in Robbie's annotations, though, that Katie should be viewed as a contemptible character. Lisa foresaw that she herself would have to discuss with Robbie intelligently this contrast between Dominique and Katie -- and would have to distinguish herself from both from Dominique and from Katie. Lisa wanted Robbie to perceive herself as a happy medium between Dominique and Katie. Lisa was well-adjusted.
As Lisa thought about Dominique, she decided that Dominique was much too cynical. Dominique had grown up as the pampered daughter of a wealthy businessman. In her environment, Dominique perceived that successful people -- her father was just one example -- were morally pretentious. Such businessmen pretended to act for the common good, but actually were deceiving the public for their own personal benefit. For example, Dominique perceived that her assigned newspaper series, which was supposed to expose abusive landlords, actually was supposed to depress the real-estate values in those neighborhoods so that her newspaper's owners could buy that neighborhood's apartment buildings more cheaply. Dominique recognized that secret purpose because she had grown up among deceitful, self-serving manipulators of public opinion.
Since Dominique recognized and wanted to sabotage this deceitful purpose, she wrote her articles with a slant that blamed the tenants problems largely on the tenants themselves. Her newspaper's editor recognized Dominique's sabotage of her assignment and refused to publish her articles. Dominique perceived this entire situation with utmost cynicism.
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A major reason why Lisa was reading the novel so thoughtfully was to ponder her own incipient sexual relationship with Robbie Gould. Lisa did want to be sexual with Robbie, but in accordance with the going-steady rules that were supposed to govern such situations. Robbie was much too aggressive and critical. When he was supposed to be satisfied with reaching "second base" (petting above the waist), he already was demanding "third base" (petting below the waist). Robbie did understand those going-steady rules -- as all teenagers in 1963 understood them -- but he violated them anyway.
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As Lisa Houseman read the novel The Fountainhead that her boyfriend Robbie Gould had lent to her, she shifted her focus from the character Howard Roark to the character Dominique Francon. When Lisa began to read the novel, she was fascinated mostly by Howard, an architect who strove to develop Modern architecture.
As she read the novel's Part I, however, she became fascinated more by Dominique, a wealthy young woman whose father owned an architecture business. Dominique wrote an interior-decorating column for a New York City newspaper. Dominique was glamorous and intelligent, but she apparently suffered from a psychological disorder that prevented normal relationships with other people. She argued with her father, with her newspaper editor and with prospective boyfriends. She told one prospective boyfriend that she never had felt any sexual desire. She seemed to have no female friends.
Dominique told her newspaper editor that she had stolen an ancient statue of a nude male from a Greek museum and then had thrown it down a shaft to smash it to smithereens. She explained to her editor that she had loved the statue but had stolen and destroyed it in order to prevent anyone else from ever seeing it again.
The context of this conversation was that the editor was mad at her about a series of articles that he had assigned her to write for their newspaper. He had wanted the series to expose some Manhattan landlords for abusing and exploiting their apartment tenenats. Instead of exposing the landlords, however, Dominique's articles had exposed the tenants themselves as messy, immoral and irresponsible. The editor was so angry that he decided to not publish any of the articles that Dominique had written. In their subsequent conversation about his decision, she told him about stealing and smashing the museum's ancient statue of a nude male. Essentially, Dominique gave her editor one more reason to fire her from her newspaper job. (He did not fire her.)
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Reading such a long, complicated, philosphical, psychological novel was a new experience for Lisa. Outside of her school assignments, she read only articles and short stories that were published in popular magazines, like The Saturday Evening Post. Lisa was plowing through The Fountainhead now only because it had been recommended and lent to her by Robbie Gould, her new boyfriend. Lisa valued the book as a romantic token. She made a show of carrying the book around and reading it, and she was proud to tell people that the book had been given to her by her boyfriend, who was an intellectual medical student.
As Lisa read the novel -- and the many annotations that Robbie had handwritten in the page margins -- she thought about how she would discuss the novel with Robbie. She wanted to impress him that she would and could share his intellecual interests. She wanted to discuss the novel intelligently, profoundly, with him.
Lisa recognized that Robbie intended Lisa to identify him with Howard Roark and to identify herself with Dominique Francon. Lisa was happy to imagine that she herself, like Dominique, was intelligent and glamorous -- and was a witty, sophisticated connoisseur of art.
However, Lisa could not identify herself with Dominque's personality disorder. Lisa got along normally with her family and her many friends. Lisa intended to follow in her mother's footsteps. Lisa would marry a handsome, intelligent, successful man -- preferably a doctor -- and would support her husband, create a beautiful home and raise their children. Later, after the children had grown up, Lisa would begin her own professional career, preferably in the arts. Lisa was content with her own relationships, with her own social status and with her own intended future. Lisa felt normal sexual desire and looked forward to a playful, pleasureful, life-long sexual relationship with her future husband.
As Lisa read the novel, she pondered Dominique's personality disorder. This was the novel's aspect that Lisa intended to discuss with Robbie. She intended to assure Robbie that she herself would not be a troublesome wife -- as Dominique surely would be. In particular, Lisa would be enthusiastically sexual with Robbie. More generally, Lisa as a wife would support and promote Robbie. Lisa would do as her own mother had done in supporting her husband. Lisa knew how to be a doctor's wife. Lisa knew how to socialize and play golf with other doctors' wives and how to host parties in an impressively beautiful home and how to display her sincere admiration for her wonderful doctor husband. In that regard, Robbie should not worry that Lisa might turn out to be like unreliable, self-destructive, pernicious Dominique.
In that regard, Lisa resembled more the novel's character Katie Halsey, a young woman who was subordinate, supporting and self-sacrificing in relation to the man she loved (Peter Keating). Lisa saw in Robbie's annotations, though, that Katie should be viewed as a contemptible character. Lisa foresaw that she herself would have to discuss with Robbie intelligently this contrast between Dominique and Katie -- and would have to distinguish herself from both from Dominique and from Katie. Lisa wanted Robbie to perceive herself as a happy medium between Dominique and Katie. Lisa was well-adjusted.
As Lisa thought about Dominique, she decided that Dominique was much too cynical. Dominique had grown up as the pampered daughter of a wealthy businessman. In her environment, Dominique perceived that successful people -- her father was just one example -- were morally pretentious. Such businessmen pretended to act for the common good, but actually were deceiving the public for their own personal benefit. For example, Dominique perceived that her assigned newspaper series, which was supposed to expose abusive landlords, actually was supposed to depress the real-estate values in those neighborhoods so that her newspaper's owners could buy that neighborhood's apartment buildings more cheaply. Dominique recognized that secret purpose because she had grown up among deceitful, self-serving manipulators of public opinion.
Since Dominique recognized and wanted to sabotage this deceitful purpose, she wrote her articles with a slant that blamed the tenants problems largely on the tenants themselves. Her newspaper's editor recognized Dominique's sabotage of her assignment and refused to publish her articles. Dominique perceived this entire situation with utmost cynicism.
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A major reason why Lisa was reading the novel so thoughtfully was to ponder her own incipient sexual relationship with Robbie Gould. Lisa did want to be sexual with Robbie, but in accordance with the going-steady rules that were supposed to govern such situations. Robbie was much too aggressive and critical. When he was supposed to be satisfied with reaching "second base" (petting above the waist), he already was demanding "third base" (petting below the waist). Robbie did understand those going-steady rules -- as all teenagers in 1963 understood them -- but he violated them anyway.
On the day after their golf-course incident, Lisa and Robbie discussed the incident. Robbie apologized, explaining that Lisa's physical beauty caused him to lose his self-control. Their subsequent conversation led to Robbie's recommending and lending to Lisa the novel that she now was reading.
In this situation, as Lisa finished reading the novel's Part I (on page 201), she wondered what Robbie intended her to understand about her own relationship with Robbie.
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In this situation, as Lisa finished reading the novel's Part I (on page 201), she wondered what Robbie intended her to understand about her own relationship with Robbie.
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Continued in Part 15
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020
How come I never heard of Mike Martin before?
This is brilliant !!
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Four more of Mike Martin's videos
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Friday, November 6, 2020
The Dirty Dancing Scene in the Movie Holidate
The Wikipedia article about the movie Holidate
Sloane and Jackson hate the holidays! Their enduring singledom leaves them subject to the judgment of their meddling family members or stuck with clingy, awkward dates on each festive occasion. When these two meet, they pledge to be each other's plus-ones for each holiday celebration over the course of the year.
(This video is dubbed into Italian.)
An Analysis of the "Hungry Eyes" Scene
Araselys ("Ari") Harris made this excellent video for a Film and Culture class:
Harris argues that the "Hungry Eyes" scene portrays the development of Baby's maturity. Harris's analysis includes the following points.
Baby is the person in the scene with the "hungry eyes"
Penny symbolizes the maturity that is guiding Baby
When Baby faces Penny, she sees her own mature self as if in a mirror
As Johnny watches, he perceives that Baby is maturing before his own eyes
Baby's progression of shoes symbolizes the progression of her maturity.
The tickling moment shows that Baby remains childish to some extent
The lighting highlights the romantic mood
My main criticism of Harris's video is that her analysis of the song's lyrics is too sketchy. My own analysis of the lyrics is here.
Harris's analysis of the scene's cinematography is better than any such analysis that I myself ever have done.
I think Harris deserves a top grade from her teacher for doing this video.
Monday, October 26, 2020
Jerry Orbach and the Murder of "Crazy Joe" Gallo
I no longer think that Frank Sheeran murdered Joe Gallo. For my current thinking about that murder, see my later blog article Jerry Orbach and the Murder of Joey Gallo.
However, I will not delete this article here, since a best-selling book and a feature movie portray Sheeran as the murderer.
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In 1971, when Jerry Orbach (Jake Houseman) was 36 years old, he starred in the movie The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Orbach played the role of a Mafia gangster nicknamed "Kid Sally", who was based on an actual Mafia gangster named Joseph "Crazy Joey" Gallo.
About three-and-a-half months after the movie was released (December 22, 1971), Gallo was murdered on April 7, 1972, in Manhattan. Gallo was murdered while he and some of his friends were celebrating Gallo's 43rd birthday. The birthday party had begun in the Copacabana nightclub and then had moved to Umberto's Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy. While the party was in this second restaurant, a Mafia gangster named Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran walked into the restaurant and shot Gallo to death.
About three decades later, Sheeran told his life story to a lawyer named Charles Brandt, who wrote Sheeran's biography, titled I Heard You Paint Houses, published in 2004. This biography was turned into a feature movie, titled The Irishman, which was released in 2019.
At the first restaurant during that birthday celebration, Gallo encountered Sheeran and Sheehan's mob boss, Russell Bufalino. Gallo mocked Bufalino for wearing a lapel pin demonstrating Gallo's support for the Italian-American Civil Rights League. After that encounter, Sheeran followed Gallo from the Copacabana nightclub to Umberto's Clam House and then murdered Gallo there.
The following video clip is the scene in The Irishman movie that depicts the encounter in the Copacabana nightclub. Sheeran is played by the actor Robert DeNiro, and Bufalino is played by the actor Joe Pesci.
When Joe Coffey, the detective investigating the murder, arranged to question Jerry Orbach, Orbach brought along his lawyer, who informed Coffey that Orbach would not answer any questions at all. Years later, Coffey told the book's author, Brandt, that he might have solved the murder in 1972 if Orbach had cooperated in the investigation. Since Orbach did refuse to cooperate, the murder was not solved until the book was published in 2004.
For more information, see the book's 2016 edition, pages 213-225 and 309-315.
The Take -- Analysis for Film and TV Fans
On August 1, I posted an article titled The Deeper Meaning of Dirty Dancing, Explained. I just watched the video again, and I want to say that the video provides a superb analysis of the movie Dirty Dancing. Everyone should watch the video.
Also, the comments on the YouTube page for this movie are plentiful and interesting.
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The YouTube website for The Take lists many videos that provide superb analysis. Here are a few.
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The Rom-Com Formula, Explained
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The Feminist Trope, Explained
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The Femme Fatale Trope, Explained
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Grease: Performing Gender
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Dirty Dancing a plein d'anachronismes
Dirty Dancing is full of anachronisms.
If you can read French,
turn on the video's subtitles.
Hi ! My name is Marjorie Le Noan, and after 8 years on YouTube working on collective channels: Good Monique and Le Latte Chaud, I now devote myself to my own channel on which I create specialized retro / vintage videos (20s to 2000): fashion, beauty, music, everyday life, etc ...
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At 5:55 in the video, Marjorie criticizes Baby Houseman's hair as an anachronism. Baby's hair looks like hair in the mid-1980s, when the movie was made. (Click on images to enlarge them.)
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| Baby's hair is mid-1980s' hair |
In the early 1960s, Baby's hair during her visit to Kellermans' would look more like the following.
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| Early 1960s female hair |
Marjorie points out this anachronism not only in Baby's hair but also in the minor characters' and extras' hair. Here is just one such example.
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| Extras wearing mid-1980s female hair |
Likewise, Johnny Castle has mid-1980s male hair.
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| 1980s male hair |
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Marjorie does credit, however, the movie's clothing as early 1960s clothing.
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My French-reading ability is not good enough to be sure about this, but I think that Marjorie criticizes Baby's bra as being too soft for the early 1960s.
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| Baby's bra is a mid-1980s bra |
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| Early 1960s bras |
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| Early 1960s bras |
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Of course, Marjorie points out the anachronism of the movie's mid-1980s dancewear.
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| Penny and Baby in mid-1980s dancewear |
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| Mid-1980s dancewear |
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| Early 1960s dancewear |
There is much more in Marjorie's video. I am providing only a few moments here in my blog article.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Saturday, October 10, 2020
What makes Baby's first dance lesson beautiful?
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Another Video About the Dirty Dancing Murders
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Now, I am posting this second video.
The discussion of the murders begins at 16:50
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Tristan Convert's One-Minute Review
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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High School Musical 3
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Grease
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The King and I
Michelle DeMoss's Three Takes on Baby's Monologue
The Basic Take
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The Serious Take
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The Sarcastic Take
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
The Change of Blogger
I write this blog with a Google application called Blogger. In May 2020, Google announced that the application was being updated.
I tried the updated version and found that it worked badly. For me, the biggest problem was that the updated version did not accept many YouTube videos. There were many other problems.
However, Google allowed blog-writers to continue to use the old version instead of the updated version. In recent days, however, blog-writers must use the updated version.
I am dismayed. I have just begun to use the updated version, hoping that the problems have been solved since May.
Below are some discussions of the problems in the updating of Blogger
Google's NEW Blogger interface does not work properly!
11 Huge Reasons to AVOID Blogspot in 2020
The third discussion includes the following passage.
Blogger overall looks defunct, neglected. And Google has a history of killing great things despite being used by many: Google+, Google Reader, and Inbox to name a few. ...
Here’s my theory as to what is going on. Two major things have caused Google to ignore Blogger and let it flounder.
First, Google+. The company was all-in on their major social network, weaving it into every other Google product. The resources expended on it left little room for much else. Then it slowly declined into oblivion. Meanwhile, Blogger was tossed around in that maelstrom.
The other thing is that while social media took over the internet, publishing and media as we knew it fundamentally changed. The paradigm shift left blogging upended, thus Blogger became less important.
Somehow, after all this, Blogger still exists. It has survived; I’d love to see it thrive. But at this point, even if it dies, I just want to know one way or the other. What’s up with Blogger these days, does it have a future or not?
I just do not understand why Google is ruining Blogger.
Monday, September 7, 2020
The "Dirty Dancing Situation" in the Movie The Choice
The 2016 movie The Choice, based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, includes a discussion of "the Dirty Dancing situation", which is a pregnancy that must be dealt with.
The "Dirty Dancing Situation" is discussed
beginning at about 2:00 in this video
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020
Desvistiendo Dirty Dancing
If you can at least read Spanish,
then turn on the video's closed captions.
then turn on the video's closed captions.
Happy 33rd Anniversary of Dirty Dancing
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The Worst Wardrobe Malfunctions Not Edited out of Movies
See 3:52 to 4:29
See my previous articles The Worst Costume Mistake in Dirty Dancing and The Bottom Part of Baby's Pink Bra Outfit.
The latter article includes these photographs:
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| Girls wearing short shorts in the 1950s |
My Memories About Patrick Swayze And The New Ideas About Dirty Dancing 3
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Saturday, August 8, 2020
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Hayden White's Favorite Dirty Dancing Moments
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The Deeper Meaning of Dirty Dancing, Explained
This is the Take. It's where you come to understand more about your favorite movies, shows and culture. Our video essays make the story worlds you enter richer and deeper. Think: Endings Explained, Character Studies, Hidden Messages and Symbols Revealed, Actor and Director Profiles, and more.
The first 1000 people who click the link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/thetake87 | What makes Dirty Dancing so irresistible? As much as we keep coming back to Emile Ardolino’s 1987 film for the iconic romance, Patrick Swayze, and of course, the dancing, there’s a deeper meaning in Frances “Baby” Houseman’s character arc that explains why this story has struck a chord for so many viewers ever since its release. Frances’ progression from “Baby” to woman is a symbolic awakening into her femininity and sexuality—a coming-of-age expressed as coming into one’s own body. As Baby takes ownership of her desires and physicality, she achieves confidence, maturity and purpose. Here's our Take on Dirty Dancing’s timeless insights into the young female experience.
The first 1000 people who click the link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/thetake87 | What makes Dirty Dancing so irresistible? As much as we keep coming back to Emile Ardolino’s 1987 film for the iconic romance, Patrick Swayze, and of course, the dancing, there’s a deeper meaning in Frances “Baby” Houseman’s character arc that explains why this story has struck a chord for so many viewers ever since its release. Frances’ progression from “Baby” to woman is a symbolic awakening into her femininity and sexuality—a coming-of-age expressed as coming into one’s own body. As Baby takes ownership of her desires and physicality, she achieves confidence, maturity and purpose. Here's our Take on Dirty Dancing’s timeless insights into the young female experience.