{"id":46479,"date":"2020-01-07T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=46479"},"modified":"2020-11-23T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:14:25","slug":"flashdance-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=46479","title":{"rendered":"Flashdance (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You go out there and the music starts, and you begin to feel it, and your body just starts to move.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Poster-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Poster-87x128.jpg 87w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Poster.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA welder and club dancer (Jennifer Beals) hoping to audition for the Pittsburgh Ballet Company dates her boss (Michael Nouri) while supporting her friends in their dreams of professional ice skating (Sunny Johnson) and stand-up comedy (Kyle T. Heffner).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspiring Stars<\/li>\n<li>Cross Class Romance<\/li>\n<li>Dancers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;phenomenally popular film&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;set in Pittsburgh&#8221; &#8212; offers us director &#8220;Adrian Lyne&#8217;s conception of the perfect &#8216;modern&#8217; woman: talented, ambitious, loyal to her female friends, confident, stubborn, and sexually liberated&#8221;. He notes that while the &#8220;picture has a potentially interesting feminist theme, an appealing performance by Beals, and some exciting dancing by Beals&#8217;s double Marine Jahan&#8221;, the &#8220;film is done in by a shallow script, overly stylish direction, and far too much editing.&#8221; Peary&#8217;s review precisely highlights the problems with this beautifully filmed but vapidly plotted movie, which is built on one simplistic platitude &#8212; &#8220;Don&#8217;t give up on your dreams!&#8221; &#8212; and fails to develop any relationships in a meaningful way. Perhaps especially frustrating are scenes between Beals and her elderly mentor (Lilia Skala), which tell us nothing at all about how they met or why their special bond developed. You can feel free to skip this one. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luminous cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Cinematography-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Cinematography-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Cinematography-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Cinematography-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Cinematography-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Cinematography.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Enjoyable dance sequences<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Dance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Dance-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Dance-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Dance-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Dance-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Dance-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Flashdance-Dance.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Irene Cara&#8217;s Oscar-winning theme song<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, unless you&#8217;re nostalgic or curious to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085549\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/04\/15\/movies\/pittsburgh-and-dance.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1817&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You go out there and the music starts, and you begin to feel it, and your body just starts to move.&#8221; Synopsis: A welder and club dancer (Jennifer Beals) hoping to audition for the Pittsburgh Ballet Company dates her boss (Michael Nouri) while supporting her friends in their dreams of professional ice skating (Sunny Johnson) and stand-up comedy (Kyle T. Heffner). Genres: Aspiring Stars Cross Class Romance Dancers Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary writes that this &#8220;phenomenally popular film&#8221; &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=46479\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54152,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479\/revisions\/54152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}