The 80s - Dirty Dancing #10: “You were right, Johnny. You can’t win no matter what you do!”

**My Kind Of Crazy** · 11-11-2021, 06:15 PM

Dirty Dancing Appreciation Thread

Movie Info

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach. The story is a coming-of-age drama that documents a teenage girl's relationship with a dance instructor whom she encounters during her family's summer vacation.

Originally a low-budget film by a new studio, Great American Films Limited Partnership, and with no major stars (except Broadway legend Jerry Orbach in a supporting role), Dirty Dancing became a massive box office hit. As of 2009, it had earned over $214 million worldwide. It was the first film to sell more than a million copies on home video, and the Dirty Dancing soundtrack created by Jimmy Ienner generated two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles, including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", which won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Grammy Award for best duet. The film spawned a 2004 reboot, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, as well as a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America, with plans to open on Broadway.

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**Melis** · 11-11-2021, 06:20 PM

Good title

**My Kind Of Crazy** · 11-11-2021, 06:32 PM

thanks. Its the only one I could find that would fit. all the rest was either ones we used already or they were too long

**Melis** · 11-11-2021, 06:37 PM

This movies does have great lines.

**GardenSirens** · 11-17-2021, 03:38 PM

has some of the best!

**Melis** · 11-17-2021, 04:27 PM

Fave?

**My Kind Of Crazy** · 01-29-2022, 11:38 AM

**Melis** · 01-29-2022, 02:12 PM

Oh, I haven't seen her in ages.

**Melis** · 03-04-2022, 07:25 PM

**Melis** · 04-02-2022, 08:39 PM

I could never dance like them.

**Melis** · 04-12-2022, 08:43 PM

Gio Gio · 04-18-2022, 10:47 AM

Jennifer Grey Opens Up About Plastic Surgery, Patrick Swayze, Former Loves and a Dirty Dancing Sequel - people.com

new pic

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Chemistry — or lack thereof— with Patrick Swayze:

Dirty Dancing rides on the tension between your and Patrick's characters. You didn't have the best relationship off camera, but you think that fueled the movie.

"The same way Baby and Johnny were not supposed to be together … a natural match, right? And we weren't a natural match. And the fact that we needed to be a natural match created a tension. Because normally when someone's not a natural, you… both people move on, but we were forced to be together. And our being forced to be together created a kind of a synergy, or like a friction. I actually just had a thought about Patrick. I feel like if I could say anything to him now I would say, 'I'm so sorry that I couldn't just appreciate and luxuriate in who you were, instead of me wishing you were more like what I wanted you to be.'"

Literally everyone in America wanted him in some way, and wanted you two to be together. He just wasn't your type, huh?

"And the weird thing was, it's like, "What's wrong with me?" I mean, I was not lacking. And he was married. and very in love with his wife. Whatever he was doing, I was not… I was very busy with Matthew. Like, what could be more different?"

On a new Dirty Dancing:

What can you tell us about the possible sequel?

"It was lightning in a bottle, it's like this thing happened, and it's so beautiful, and I can't explain it. No one can explain it. We're working on this sequel, I'm working on it with Lionsgate and working on the script. We've been working on it for a couple of years. And I know in my heart, I would love to give fans or a young, new audience an experience that would never replicate that, but has the same kind of underpinnings. Today people think that their identity is limited, the world has told them what it is. But there are certain people who can see other parts of you. Dirty Dancing was a fairy tale, a successful movie and formula, using dance as a metaphor for embodying your energy and getting out of your head, and your limiting belief systems."

**Melis** · 04-18-2022, 02:58 PM

Thanks for that.

**Melis** · 04-20-2022, 09:48 PM

**GardenSirens** · 04-21-2022, 02:06 PM

oh those are creative and awesome!

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