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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll...


Cutting loose with Footloose !!!!!
In the late 70's and early 80's teen movies were a very liberal affair.
In films like "Grease ", "Fame ", "Porkies ", "Fast Times at Ridgemont High " and "The Big Chill ", it literally was all about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
Films that took you straight into teenage hedonism with a sense of total freedom and of course, unless you were watching the German teenage movie "Christiane F " (1982) or listening to Rap music of the time , there was nothing in the way of moral exploration or consequences.

In a sense it was all sugar-coated and dumb, but entertaining.
Then, just like with the violent films of the early 70's killing off the carefree swinger spirit of the 60's, at around 1983/84, teen movies changed and began to portray and articulate the backlash of parental control and the evangelical oppressive establishment in suburbia, in the home, at school and in the church, which always has a tendency to oppress teenagers as potential perverts and write them off as lost souls if they falter.. For me these aspects of evangelicism are what for me makes organised religion more than simply annoying but totally grotesque.....

Sometimes those films were the voice of rebellion, sometimes they were there to reinforce oppression and encourage teenage subservience and a sense of powerlessness- and in-fact some of them are so humiliating and cold hearted , they're downright unpleasant viewing, but for me this is a well rounded, balanced, emotionally strong and positive example.

This movie is and will always be one of my all time favorites.
Other movies that you might like include Hairspray starying Ricky Lake, Flash Dance,and Girls just wanna have fun.
"Footloose " is a Gr8 movie and is by almost anyone who has seen it.
This movie is Gr8 for all ages.

【Dianne Wiest】Footloose【Lori Singer】
Fight For Your Right To PARTY
A city boy is moving into a town out in the country, and walking right into a environment.
Being a man of pop-culture, he is really into music, dancing, and everything that goes with it.
For him, this is like a journey back in time as he comes across a town that is against everything that he stands for.
Due to a tragic past, the town has a lot of "ghosts " that it lives with.
As a result, the parents and administrators of the town have become overly protective of the younger kids in the city, and thus want to make sure that no tragedy like the one that has occurred can ever happen again.
Of course we as the audience are not supposed to side with the rulers of the town, and through the actions of the teenage populous, we get taken through an interesting story of rebellion and self-actualization.

"Footloose " has a lot of good messages at the center of the film that include family values, and what it means to really be there for your kids.
It likes to point out how parents decide what's best for their kids without really thinking about how it might affect them in the long run.

"Footloose " has been remembered fondly like the other Teen Dance orientated films of the time such as "Grease" and "Dirty Dancing".
But I'll let you know something- "Grease " and "Dirty Dancing " where the type of films which left me very, very cold indeed.
I could rate them grandly on the level of dance choreography, but they both had an unpleasant tweeness about them, coupled with an underlying and unacknowledged humiliating and degrading aspect to the teen characters which was unpleasant.

This film is so unlike the above movies- it brims with fire and passion.
The dancing choreography in the film is ironically its weakest point and looks terribly amateur , but the whole energy of it makes it compelling, the sweat, the physical violence, the daredevil antics, the teenage wildness.
The cinematography is also great, very grainy and soiled, a sense of there being no clear skies, a sense of being dumped on by repression and being stained by sin, and a sense of fighting spirit like chucking mud when cornered , it makes the film look human.

The music soundtrack is worth a mention too - its all hedonistic tunes - even the soul band Shalamar abandon the crooning here for the party track "Dancing in the Sheets "-, it's all rather like disco music except a bit more loud and energetic.
Couple this with a screenplay that isn't afraid to aim for depth and melodrama and mood juxtaposition and brilliantly glues the chemistry between these characters and you've got one outstanding 80's teen movie.

Thought that is a theme, we are treated more to a movie about a teen fitting into surroundings, and bringing with him a wave of change.
Bacon was pretty good , and there are a lot of scenes where he was very interesting as an actor on screen.
The movie definitely keeps your attention, and the main selling point are all of the classic songs that you get to hear.

You have Footloose, Let's Hear it For the Boy, and I Need A Hero.
All Gr8 80's tunes that got their first air-play through the film.
The story is pretty strong, the acting is decent, and the story is good enough to watch more than once.
For all those reasons I do recommend this film.


LET'S DAAAAAAAAAANCE !!!!!