30 years ago, Dirty Dancing came to the cinema. That he would be one of the greatest successes of all times, knew no one. Why was the Film more as a “only” summer, music, Dancing and the great love?
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
To a box office success, no one believed at the time
The summer romance with Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze would be directed by Emile Ardolino to be a Hit, it hardly a thought in 1987. Although a Teenager-ran movies like “Ferris Bueller’s day off” (1986) successfully and had managed since “Flashdance” (1983) dance on the canvas, considered to bring the Studio bosses at the beginning, “Dirty Dancing” is the only Video out of it.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
You had to really be able to dance
The Romance is about a Teenager who falls in love with the summer holiday before starting at a private University in a dancer, was also popular because of the 1960s Soundtracks, and the hot dance scenes in the cinema audience. Unlike in the case of “Flashdance” had to be the actors are actually dancers. So Swayze got the Job only because he had previously danced for Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
Abortion as an important secondary theme
“Dirty Dancing” is playing in 1963 – a decade before abortion was legalized in the United States. So he was one of the first films that took up the issue of “illegal termination of pregnancy”. The dancer Penny (left) opts for an abortion, a Baby will jump for you.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
The next topic was not perceived
In a first Screening, 39 percent of the audience took the side of abortion not true. Instead, class differences were the main focus for you. As a doctor, daughter, Baby will visit in the future, a private University and comes from a completely different world, like Johnny, who comes from the working class. Critic Roger Ebert appreciated: “tedious and predictable story”.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
So good you don’t understand…
According to the script, Grey and Swayze fall in love. Rumor has it that behind the camera, rather, the opposite prevailed. Grey and Swayze had previously turned in “Red Dawn” together and not understood at all. After the test shots for a “Dirty Dancing” raved, however, producer Bergstein of the “breathtaking” chemistry between the two.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
Jennifer Grey laughed at the wrong Moment
In a very romantic Moment between Grey and Swayze the actress suddenly starts to laugh. The choreographer Ortega has called the spontaneous scene later, “one of the finest and most honest moments of the film”. Actually, it should go in the serious scene of mutual Affection. But Grey is ticklish – the Director decided to let the sympathetic Laugh.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
No Sex for the workforce
Two months, the rotary continued to work in the rural Virginia and North Carolina. No wonder, then, that celebrated the workforce – far from home – so some nights, Parties. The party atmosphere often held until the next day. Producer Eleanor Bergstein, but have intimacies among the actors prohibited, in order to increase the erotic tension for the filming.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
The lake was much colder
In an iconic scene with Patrick Swayze takes his new dance partner with in a lake, to practice a Lift. What you don’t see in the scene: the temperature of The water of the Mountain Lake in Virginia was just slightly above the freezing point. Later, Grey said, she would have been at the time, so “young and hungry”, it would have made the scene never.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
To a box office success, no one believed at the time
The summer romance with Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze would be directed by Emile Ardolino to be a Hit, it hardly a thought in 1987. Although a Teenager-ran movies like “Ferris Bueller’s day off” (1986) successfully and had managed since “Flashdance” (1983) dance on the canvas, considered to bring the Studio bosses at the beginning, “Dirty Dancing” is the only Video out of it.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
You had to really be able to dance
The Romance is about a Teenager who falls in love with the summer holiday before starting at a private University in a dancer, was also popular because of the 1960s Soundtracks, and the hot dance scenes in the cinema audience. Unlike in the case of “Flashdance” had to be the actors are actually dancers. So Swayze got the Job only because he had previously danced for Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
Abortion as an important secondary theme
“Dirty Dancing” is playing in 1963 – a decade before abortion was legalized in the United States. So he was one of the first films that took up the issue of “illegal termination of pregnancy”. The dancer Penny (left) opts for an abortion, a Baby will jump for you.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
The next topic was not perceived
In a first Screening, 39 percent of the audience took the side of abortion not true. Instead, class differences were the main focus for you. As a doctor, daughter, Baby will visit in the future, a private University and comes from a completely different world, like Johnny, who comes from the working class. Critic Roger Ebert appreciated: “tedious and predictable story”.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
So good you don’t understand…
According to the script, Grey and Swayze fall in love. Rumor has it that behind the camera, rather, the opposite prevailed. Grey and Swayze had previously turned in “Red Dawn” together and not understood at all. After the test shots for a “Dirty Dancing” raved, however, producer Bergstein of the “breathtaking” chemistry between the two.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
Jennifer Grey laughed at the wrong Moment
In a very romantic Moment between Grey and Swayze the actress suddenly starts to laugh. The choreographer Ortega has called the spontaneous scene later, “one of the finest and most honest moments of the film”. Actually, it should go in the serious scene of mutual Affection. But Grey is ticklish – the Director decided to let the sympathetic Laugh.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
No Sex for the workforce
Two months, the rotary continued to work in the rural Virginia and North Carolina. No wonder, then, that celebrated the workforce – far from home – so some nights, Parties. The party atmosphere often held until the next day. Producer Eleanor Bergstein, but have intimacies among the actors prohibited, in order to increase the erotic tension for the filming.
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Eight things you didn’t know about “Dirty Dancing”
The lake was much colder
In an iconic scene with Patrick Swayze takes his new dance partner with in a lake, to practice a Lift. What you don’t see in the scene: the temperature of The water of the Mountain Lake in Virginia was just slightly above the freezing point. Later, Grey said, she would have been at the time, so “young and hungry”, it would have made the scene never.
As a Dirty Dancing 30 years ago in the cinema came, no one would have suspected that the Film would become the most popular woman film in the world. For the 20th time. Anniversary of the cinema starts, which were sold ten million DVDs of the blockbuster – previously, it was already the first Film, had cracked the 1 Million mark for the DVD sales. That was not enough, the Musical Version of the film already broke the pre-sale, in London in 2006, all of the Ticket records. In 2007, an international survey revealed that “Dirty Dancing” is the most popular Film among women. And you look at it like several times.
Since then, film scratching, critics wonder: What makes “Dirty Dancing” through the decades so successful? In a veritable Ode, which Israel titled-American journalist Irin Carmon, appropriately, with “”Dirty Dancing, the best movie of all times”, she writes: “It is a great, brave movie for women.” Jennifer Grey would embody in the role of “Baby” a strong-willed, idealistic woman with her own interests. “You do not need to change for the man – even if she does throughout history, a Transformation from a clumsy wallflower to a self-conscious stage dancer,” writes Carmon.
“Baby” jumps in for a Penny, which fails because of an abortion
This is perhaps the reason why so many women with the movie could identify the heroine is both at the same time: ordinary and yet extraordinary. And a woman in matters of love, the Say.
More than a mere Romance
The superficial story of “the Ugly duckling learns about the great love” have helped the Film, certainly his commercial success, Carmon. But “Dirty Dancing” is more than a Coming-of-age story or a Teenage summer romance. In essence, it is a view of the 1960s, growing up in the United States, including the then-prevailing class distinctions.
So the doctor’s daughter, Baby, fall in love during a family vacation in the upmarket Kellerman’s Resort in Johnny is hired, a dancer of the working class, to entertain the guests. An age-old Plot: to fall in love with someone who comes from the “wrong” family, is as old as the story of Romeo and Juliet. Some movie critics were in 1987, before the cinema release, therefore, sympathetically.
Also successful as a Musical. Here at Admiral Palace in Berlin
For the screenwriter and producer Eleanor Bergstein much more too, but also in the love movie. You are placed in the Plot is a subtle allusion to the theme of abortion, which was nevertheless so Central, that they could not be removed anymore from the movie. Although not mentioned explicitly, it is clear that the dancer is pregnant and decides to have an abortion in the case of a traveling doctor to perform a procedure that was in 1963, in the United States illegally. Excited neither the Studio were from this part of the story-holder, nor the lenders. “The Studio said to me: ‘Okay, Eleanor, we are paying You, so You go back in the cutting room, and the abortion scene out of cut’,” recalls Bergstein, in an Interview in “Bust”magazine.
The topic of abortion in the year 1963
“I had always suspected that this day would come and was prepared accordingly. I replied, ‘I would really like to do, but if I cut the scene out, collapses the whole story. Then there will be no more reason why Baby for the dancer Penny should step in and accordingly, you would not dance with Johnny and not fall in love with him.'”
The political overtones did not deter the Mainstream audience. Most who watch the movie again and again, to be found in the story and cheer: A summer in the countryside. The music and the Dancing. Obstacles overcome. Learn to fly, and from family constraints, free. A classic Coming-of-age, holds the audience. Or how the main actor Patrick Swayze once said: “This is a Film that will never die.”