In 1987, the risqué film, Dirty Dancing, not only was released to the public, but was also used as a vice to highlight sensuality during a time of civil chaos. This romantic drama was based off a young girl’s (Jennifer Grey) experiences on her family’s summer vacation in the Catskill Mountains of southeastern New York. During her trip she meets a dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) who opens her eyes to a different way of life, while trying to overcome the hierarchical status differences between him and her family. Jennifer Grey’s character, Francis Houseman, also known as “Baby,” was expected to behave a certain way while staying at Kellerman’s Resort considering her father was close to the owner, Max Kellerman. This became a nearly …show more content…
In the opening scene, the director shows slow-motion clips of several couples dancing in the most intimate way, face to face. All the while, the song “Be My Baby” by The Ronettes is playing in the background. Right after the opening credits, the mood is quickly shifted to a more family-friendly scene of Baby driving to the resort with her family in their safe and cookie-cutter station wagon. Thus giving the audience a reality check from the sexual dance floor nirvana and a push towards the innocent act of going with your parents on a vacation. This family scene was shot while listening to “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by The Four Seasons, a pg-rated song. Further into the film, the sex scene every viewer was anticipating finally arrives. Baby goes to visit Johnny in his less than luxurious cabin after the awkward encounter between him and her father takes place after Penny’s abortion scare. The song choice of “Cry to Me” by Solomon Burke sets the mood and is used by the two lovers to say what they’ve wanted to say all along. The lyrics “Nothin’ can be sadder than a glass of wine alone”…. “Loneliness is such a waste of time”… “You don’t ever have to walk alone,” say exactly what the characters are feeling, and it shows once the physicality of their relationship begins moments after. Music was used in this film to add flair to the lustful nature of Baby and Johnny’s …show more content…
Disappointed, by Johnny fleeing from the resort, Baby plans to watch the show from the sideline. That is, until Johnny shows up with the famous quote “Nobody puts baby in the corner.” The duo began the biggest dance number of the movie, leading off by the song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes. Their performance of the scandalous “cha-cha” style wows the crowd and lures them into joining in. The song and the dance just radiate the theme of being comfortable with your sexuality and not being afraid to express that to your loved
This song was Pat’s wedding song with his ex-wife. It was also the song playing when he found his wife in the shower with another man. Pat becomes anxious that the song is playing and even though he tried to remain calm and not let it affect him, he couldn’t. Pat then knocks chairs across the room. It was an exercise, a part of his therapy, and his doctor wanted to see if it was still a trigger for him (Russell, 2013). This scene presented uncontrollable actions and
A lovable, heartwarming story of love is one of “ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”. A story of seven men who have no guidance find themselves in love. The two main characters in the play are Adam and Millie. By being husband and wife they help the story out with their own love and romance. The seven brothers fall in love with seven beautiful woman and through out the play we see al the ways they try to get their gals. The singing in this play helps us figure out the songs: “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”, “Goin Courtin”, and “Sobbin Woman”. The style of music they use to get this point across is old fashion, traditional music.
This club emulates hip hop culture because it is a typical scene from hip hop videos where the settings take place in an upscale club, where people can drink and party, privately, protected by the club’s exclusiveness, where many of the guests dress to impress each other, as the dress code directly states. Partying and the club seen is a prominent part of hip hop culture because this culture originally began with backyard and street parties, similar to the ones that take place at the 40/40 lounge . In these club settings, historically and presently, “pressures to sexualized interaction with other young people on the hip hop dance floor may well be present in the interpretations that young people of the visual imagery of the people dancing in the club, of hip hop music videos and their lyrics,” a stereotypical image that many artists and hip hop enthusiasts seek to maintain and participate in” (Munoz-Laboy &Weinstein & Parker, 2007, pg.
“And then to break her heart forever, the baby boy who has begun to talk, starts to sing the Pepsi commercial he heard on T.V. No Speak English, she
Now grown up, Sidney is the chief and editor of XXL, a hip-hop magazine and Dre is a talent scout for Millennium Records. Both Sidney and Dre are very invested in their love for hip-hop. There are complications between the two throughout the movie that starts with Dre proposing to his girlfriend, Reese. Dre decides to quit his job and start his own record company, planning to focus on what real hip-hop was and to emphasize the ways in which his generation fell in love with it in the first place. Reese does not support him, while Sidney does, this brings them closer together because Dre makes Sidney his partner in the label. Both characters realize in their struggles and love for hip-hop that being true to one another and the music is the only way to change anything for the better. In one of the scenes during the film, Sidney says “I don’t have to pretend with hip hop and hip hop doesn’t have to pretend with me” (Brown Sugar). Sidney makes very clear in her book and in her love for hip-hop that she is talking about Dre metaphorically. Love begins to spark between two people through mutual love for something that is respected within the community in a professional manner, that being
The music in the film was spectacular and was incorporated in dance scenes to highlight different parts of the love story. All of the actors had some expressions on their faces that entertained the audience throughout the entire show. It made it look like all the actors were engaged
There is no music in the shots until the very end. There is nondiegetic, faint, disjointed, sounds of horns that begin to play. Then a sound of xylophone or keyboard and violins join in. The volume increases from faint to a more full sound, as Ennis embraces the blood stained jacket and shirt. I must note that during the course of the movie, there was a very signature musical motif. We hear a steel guitar strumming a very serene melody as violins and a faint hint of a slide guitar play this beautiful recurrent melody. This beautiful musical motif is significant in that it is repeated every time Jack and Ennis are together on Brokeback Mountain. The song signifies their time spent together as their love affair grows. It signifies the beauty and serenity of the mountains and a secret place where Jack and Ennis could go and share their love without being judged or scrutinized by the public's disapproval of homosexuality in the 1960’s.There are few sound effects in the shots. Most of the sounds heard are natural sounds like the wind blowing or the floor creaking. We can hear a crow cawing in the distance and a cow mooing when Ennis opens the window in the scene. This helps us understand that we are in the
As this occurs, Elton John’s “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” fades into the scene and continues until William finds an intoxicated and distraught Penny in her hotel room. The song contains lyrics like “But now I know that rose trees never grow / in New York City” and is about the gritty reality of New York and how much that reality contradicts with the public’s glamorous perception of the city. This can just as easily be applied to Penny’s current situation, as her story proves that the seemingly glamorous lifestyle of a groupie is not as amazing as it may appear to be. Instead, groupies are often forgotten by the famous men they adore and love. This is exactly what happens to Penny at the hands of Stillwater, who have chosen to trade her off because she may potentially ruin Russel’s relationship. The lyrics of “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” add to the gravitas of the scene, as they are representative of the realizations that Penny and William are both coming to about the rock scene and its artifice. Using a song that parallels the events taking place on screen essentially reiterates the importance of the scene in the minds of the audience, as Crowe saw fit to depict the message of the scene in more than one
The mise en scene is what the viewers see on the big screen, such as the backgrounds, characters, and the lighting. The set, makeup, props and placement of actors can tell the story with dialogue, setting the mood and setting the plot (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). This film displayed several elements. It was a lot of lighting, movement, shots, and angles. The first element that I noticed was during the scene when Johnny and Jennifer (Baby) first met to learn how to dance. That scene gave different shots and angles. It showed the fun side of them. The second element of lighting was used pretty much throughout the movie. One scene was at the time on stage, the camera showed low-lighting and some lights in the background, which gave a soft and romantic feel. Another scene was when Johnny and Baby were dancing in his studio before they became intimate. This scene illustrated their upbeat mood. The last element will be edit. The scene when Johnny walked up to Baby and took her on stage. The editing of this scene showed the series as being slow which referred to the pace of the song. This showed the viewers that the music was an important convention of the
This grand reveal is also accompanied by the Metallica soundtrack that appears to be in a minor key. Perhaps Berlinger and Sinofsky wanted to appeal to viewers’ emotion, this time through heightening music. The speed of the music welcomes the emotions we associate it with. That is, sadness and seriousness. The film makers almost want viewers to be dismal, connoting the severity of the situation and leading them to wonder who was responsible for the death of these young boys and what consequences will
The sex-worker Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) is introduced by a montage of lingerie shots surrounded by cheap makeup, “trashy” clothing and an overall low quality lifestyle, present with its own dangers as depicted by Vivian climbing down
There are songs, establishing mood throughout the video. The song Maria becomes slow, then loud with passion. The mood begins to become in love and sweet passion.
This song really brought the band to the front lines for a lot of their audience. In the music video recorded for the song, the visual appearance that goes with the music does not seem like the typical music one would expect from a Japanese pop and heavy metal band, but seems expected from these three young women in Babymetal. The way their music transitions from head-banging music to idealistic pop style music is intriguing at the least. They have an ability to draw in multiple audiences. The biggest question that seems to arise from all of the work that Babymetal does, is why they play the music they do. Throughout the research, there seemed to be a lack of criticism, but a large array of people who voiced opinions about why they did like the band, and most people claimed it was because of the way they sung, the music they played, and the amount of energy they put into every
Sound is an extremely important element to a film. Music, the sound chosen in this scene, is categorized as non-diegetic, which means that the music is not in the story world. The directors use deep, dramatic, intense music when Nick is interrogating Judy about her speech. The music in the scene helps the audience feel the anxiousness that Judy is feeling towards predators, particularly Nick. As the music plays in the background, the intensity of the scene grows immensely. The directors use the music to help heighten the emotion during this encounter and reveal Judy’s inner fear of predators that gets the best of her in this
Luhrmann’s creative sense of putting the song Young and Beautiful is what made the film wonderful to watch because of the way it sound and the flow that it had through the film, but many people might disagree with the way he did it and of using the same artist and song through each scene.