New Dirty Dancing Movie - w/added Communist revolutionaries!

[jon]

Saw a teaser for Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808403732) today. Release in late February.

[Sagitta]

I checked out the trailer. Really cool!!

[Salsero_AT]

I did not like it. The music had very little in common with cuban music and in the trailer i found nearly every cliche dance films have.

[brujo]

I did not like it. The music had very little in common with cuban music and in the trailer i found nearly every cliche dance films have.

So there is a bit of creative choreographing. I think Casino moves don't translate as well to the screen as the exhibition style in New York / LA style. Think 'Tango de la Muerte' from the Simpsons, not 'Shall we dansu' ( a remake which is also in the works ).

I know some people fall in love with dancing through really cheesy movies ( Dirty cough cough Dancing ). If the movie is half decent, I suspect you'll get a brief boom like when 'Dance with Me' came out...

[Salsero_AT]

I did not expect people dancing Casino but i hoped that the music would be a little more cuban .... :(

[pygmalion]

I'm with you brujo. Cheesy or not, inauthentic or not, a dancing movie is a good thing, to me. It gets people interested in dancing. Besides, if we dancers don't support these movies, the movie industry will likely make fewer of them, reducing the chance that some good ones may come out in the future. Eh! Even if it is cheesy, it's just a couple hours in the theater. No harm done. :lol: 8)

[SDsalsaguy]

No harm done. :lol: 8)
No argument from me on that front Jenn! :D

...but wouldn't it be nice if they could made a salsa movie that dancers actually :GASP: liked? :shock: :shock: :shock: . . . :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Swing Kitten]

that's an awfully small target-- you have to admit.

[brujo]

I'm with you brujo. Cheesy or not, inauthentic or not, a dancing movie is a good thing, to me. It gets people interested in dancing. Besides, if we dancers don't support these movies, the movie industry will likely make fewer of them, reducing the chance that some good ones may come out in the future. Eh! Even if it is cheesy, it's just a couple hours in the theater. No harm done. :lol: 8)

Unless that movie is named HONEY, of course... :shock:

[pygmalion]

:shock: :oops: I wasn't going to mention that. :lol: :lol:

[Swing Kitten]

ahhh I haven't seen Honey-- how has everyone liked it so far?

[brujo]

No harm done. :lol: 8)
No argument from me on that front Jenn! :D

...but wouldn't it be nice if they could made a salsa movie that dancers actually :GASP: liked? :shock: :shock: :shock: . . . :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wouldn't work. Dancers don't go to movies. They go dancing. You're better off selling movies to bored teenagers that can't mack it up in the clubs. Movies with authentic salsa like Mambo Kings ( 1992 ) didn't do to well when they came out...

[Salsero_AT]

No harm done. :lol: 8)
No argument from me on that front Jenn! :D

...but wouldn't it be nice if they could made a salsa movie that dancers actually :GASP: liked? :shock: :shock: :shock: . . . :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wouldn't work. Dancers don't go to movies. They go dancing. You're better off selling movies to bored teenagers that can't mack it up in the clubs. Movies with authentic salsa like Mambo Kings ( 1992 ) didn't do to well when they came out...

I would go and see it :)

[salsachinita]

...but wouldn't it be nice if they could made a salsa movie that dancers actually :GASP: liked? :shock: :shock: :shock: . . . :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wouldn't that be great?!

This is off topic, but I've been a Japanese "Manga" (comics) follower since childhood, and have recently found a great series called "Hip-Hop: Street Dance" from Korea. It was every bit authentic, with lots of instructional break-down of moves :D ! One can technically use it as teaching notes.

I am just dreaming that some artists out there would one day produce a salsa one. Let's face it, there ARE enough good stories going around salsa scene (all over the world), the story line should be quite interesting :wink: !

[youngsta]

that's an awfully small target-- you have to admit.
How are you targeting a small audience? You make a movie good enough that dancers feel it's authenticity and non-dancers enjoy it too. That's my goal anyway (writing screenplays is a hobby of mine)

Wouldn't work. Dancers don't go to movies. They go dancing. You're better off selling movies to bored teenagers that can't mack it up in the clubs. Movies with authentic salsa like Mambo Kings ( 1992 ) didn't do to well when they came out...
That's so untrue. I have a huge group of dancer friends and we are all avid movie goers. If someone makes a good dance movie both camps (dancers/non-dancers) will enjoy it. btw, Mambo Kings can't be considered a dance movie. Dancing isn't even it's focus, mambo musicians are. There has to be less than 2 minutes of dancing shown in that movie.

[dancersdreamland]

ahhh I haven't seen Honey-- how has everyone liked it so far?

The dancing was fresh...the acting only okay and the plot line non-existant. Definately worth seeing, but if you have a "discount theater" see it there or wait for the video.

[ballroomboilergirl]

I know some people fall in love with dancing through really cheesy movies ( Dirty cough cough Dancing ). If the movie is half decent, I suspect you'll get a brief boom like when 'Dance with Me' came out...

*sigh* Alright, I admit it: I am one of the bleeding-heart romantics that was inspired to dance after swooning over Patrick Swayze's smooth moves and envying Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing when I saw it for the first time in junior high.

However, I'm going to have to agree with Jen on this one: I appreciate ALL dance movies for the interest they generate in the general public for dance. I respect anyone and anything that gets people motivated to try out dancing, whether they come across as "cheesy" or not. The future of dancing lies, in part, with this kind of publicity: again, if no one made big-budget flicks about dancing, the public would know even less, and would make even less (if any) effort to try it out...and eventually the number of dancers would dwindle and probably die out :cry:

Granted, most dance movies do have notoriously cheesy/flimsy/ridiculous/non-existent plots...for instance, I watched Robert Duvall's Assassination Tango last night after a friend recommended it, and I found the plot to be downright HEINOUS (an aging, 60-something assassin is sent to Buenos Aires to off a old Argentine dictator, but ends up falling in love with the Milongo after stumbling into a salon one night and has a pseudo-romantic relationship with a dancer half his age while she attempts to teach him the dance, and all the while he pines for his 40-something girlfriend and her daughter, who is actually more like a granddaughter to him, back in the States?! :shock: :? :roll: :lol: Whatever blows your hair back, I guess...), but the Argentine Tango scenes were absolutely WONDERFUL. Again, not a necessarily a great film, but it brought much-deserved attention to a dance style that few people know about in a great way...now I'm inspired to learn more about Argentine Tango.

In fact, I find that what most dance movies lack in substance, they make up for in breathtaking dance scenes...its as if they scrimped on the script (hey, that kinda rhymed :P ) and took the money they saved to really beef up the dance scenes. Even with decent movies such as [/i]Dance with Me, you have to admit that you don't watch them for the plot, and you forget all about Ruby's struggle as a single mother once Rick Valenzuela starts shakin' his bon-bon...mmmm.... :wink:

[Sagitta]

I'll third this!! Anything that gets people out dancing if fine with me. Then we need the good instructors to make sure that the dance is taught properly. BUt, before that we need people to make that first initial step, and that's a tough one to get people to take. I know quite a few people who watch dancing on TV, talk about loving to do that...which has helped me push them to try dancing out. :)