Dirty Dancing

This film was released in late 1980's (1987), but placed in summer of 1963. It fits into a few genre categories; musical, drama and romance. The director was Emile Ardolino, producer Linda Gottlieb and Eleanor Bergstein wrote the script. 

Fraces Houseman (Jennifer Grey), nicknamed Baby, does on a three-week holiday with her family to upstate New York's Catskill Moutains resort. Baby's father (Jerry Orbach) is a doctor and she is 'dady's little girl'. Her plan, or her fathers to be exact, is to go to university and join the Peace Corps and marry a doctor. But when she gets to the resort she falls for a dance instructor, Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze). Johnny's dance parther and friend is Penny (Cynthia Rhodes). For medical reasons (abortion), Penny was unable to preform with Johnny and Baby fills in for her. She did not know how to move, had no rythm and was quite clumsy, but Johnny manages to teach her the dance rutine. Spending all of that time together, leads to them falling in love.

Throughout the film, Baby changes her look from innocent to a quite revealing sexy, but still subtle look, but her make up and hair don't change as much. At the beginning she wears longer, very 50's dresses and cardigans, shirts, floral patterned tops, denim shorts and white Keds shoes. But the more she hangs out with Johnny, the more skin she shows. The way see it is; the more she falls in love with him the more she gets undressed, up to the night where they start consuming their relationship, and everything comes off. I also noticed that when she rehearsed with Penny, Penny's shoes were gold and Baby's were silver; a teacher and a student. Johnny and Baby were always wearing constrasting colours; he wore black and she wore very soft colours such as baby pink, and also white. I think that represented their two very different personalities (impure and pure/ bad and good).

Baby's style when she first started dancing with Johnny

Jennifer Grey

Dirty Dancing 

1987

(source: http://viewerscommentary.com/2013/05/09/review-dirty-dancing/)

How Baby dressed after a few days into Johnny's lessons

Jennifer Grey

Dirty Dancing 

1987

(source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2438431/Jennifer-Grey-Lisa-Kudrow-share-warm-hug-catch-fundraiser.html)

Make up artists David Forrest and Gilbert LaChapelle did not use much make up and kept it very neutral for Baby's character, she is a teenager after all. But she did wear a blue eyeshadow on the night of her and Johnny's preformance. Baby's biggest atribute was her kind of short curly hair that beautifly framed her face.



Personally, I think that the moral of this film is not to judge anyone based on their looks, in other words; don't judge a book by its cover. You don't know anyone's story until you get to know them. It is so easy for people to form an oppinion on someone before actually getting to know them. People seem to pick up on only the bad things they have heard about someone and sometimes even refuse to interact with that person or even listen to their side of story.






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