Dirty Dancing
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| German title | Dirty Dancing |
| Original title | Dirty Dancing |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 6 |
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| Director | Emile Ardolino |
| script | Eleanor Bergstein |
| production | Linda Gottlieb |
| music | John Morris |
| camera | Jeff Jur |
| cut | Peter C. Frank |
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Dirty Dancing is an American dance film directed by Emile Ardolino from 1987. Eleanor Bergstein wrote the screenplay . The main roles are played by Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray .
action
Summer vacation 1963 in New York State :
Seventeen-year-old Frances Houseman, known as "Baby", spends the holidays with her parents and sister Lisa at the holiday resort "Kellerman's" in the Catskill Mountains . There she meets the lower-class dance teacher Johnny Castle. One evening, when she goes illegally to a hotel staff party, Baby and Johnny get closer.
Johnny's dance partner, Penny Johnson, accidentally becomes pregnant after an affair with budding medical student Robbie, who works as a waiter at the camp. After Penny distances herself from Penny, she decides to have an abortion, also for fear of losing her job through pregnancy, for which she lacks the financial means. That's why Baby asks her father for financial help, but doesn't tell him what the money is for. With the doctor who is supposed to perform the abortion only available on one night, Penny is absent from an important dance performance outside the resort, and Baby stands in for her as Johnny's partner. In the days leading up to the gig, Baby and Johnny train hard and deliver a good performance on the crucial evening. Still in a celebratory mood, Johnny and baby find out after their return to the resort that Penny has been treated by a botch and is now in severe pain. Baby calls over to her father, who is also a doctor and provides Penny with medical care. Due to a misunderstanding, he thinks Johnny is the creator of the unwanted pregnancy and behaves repellent because of his supposed lack of character.
Frances (Baby) falls in love with Johnny while practicing together and begins a relationship with him. When their relationship becomes known, Johnny loses his job as a dance instructor and leaves the resort. On the last evening of the season, however, he returns to dance the final dance to (I've Had) The Time of My Life with "his baby". Temporary waiter Robbie thanks Dr. Houseman for his letters of recommendation for the university and also for the discreet help with medical care Pennys in the assumption that Dr. Houseman knew of Robbie's near-fatherhood. The disgruntled doctor then takes back the envelope with the letter of recommendation, realizes that he had false suspicions about Johnny, and gives him and Frances his blessing.
The dance
Dirty Dancing should be reminiscent of the film musicals, in which dance was a form of seduction. The choreographer Kenny Ortega based all of his dances on the original style of the early sixties. Influences come from Mambo and Cuban rhythms.
Based on the film, the expression dirty dancing , literally "dirty dancing", is used today, especially in the USA, to refer to dance styles that are emphatically sexy and powerful.
Soundtrack
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The music album was produced by Jimmy Lenner. 14 old titles include Be My Baby by The Ronettes , Big Girls Don't Cry by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons and Will You Love Me Tomorrow by the Shirelles .
Seven songs were composed especially for this film. These include the theme song (I've Had) The Time of My Life sung by Bill Medley in a duet with Jennifer Warnes , Hungry Eyes by Eric Carmen and She's Like the Wind by lead actor Patrick Swayze .
synchronization
The German dubbing was done by Deutsche Synchron Karlheinz Brunnemann , Berlin .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
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| Frances "Baby" Houseman | Jennifer Gray | Rebecca Völz |
| Johnny Castle | Patrick Swayze | Wolfgang Müller |
| Jake Houseman | Jerry Orbach | Claus Jurichs |
| Penny Johnson | Cynthia Rhodes | Karin Buchholz |
| Max Kellerman | Jack Weston | Engelbert von Nordhausen |
| Lisa Houseman | Jane Brucker | Bettina Spier |
| Marjorie Houseman | Kelly Bishop | Marianne Lutz |
| Neill Kellerman | Lonny Price | Hans-Jürgen Dittberner |
| Robbie Gould | Max Cantor | Thomas Petruo |
| Billy Kostecki | Neal Jones | Torsten Sense |
| Magician | "Cousin Brucie" Morrow | Stefan Fredrich |
| Stan | Wayne Knight | Hans-Werner Bussinger |
| Mrs. Schumacher | Paula Trueman | Hannelore Minkus |
| Vivian Pressman | Miranda Garrison | Viola Sauer |
| Moe Pressman | Garry Goodrow | Gerd Holtenau |
reception
criticism
“The surprise success of the 1987/88 cinema season turns out to be a content-wise and formal entertainment film that tries to combine slight indecency with sentimental morality, but has clearly struck a 'zeitgeist nerve' in the presentation of dance scenes and romance with happy endings. "
Gross profit
The film grossed around $ 218 million worldwide. The budget for the film was $ 6 million.
Locations
The Mountain Lake Lodge in Pembroke , Virginia served as the backdrop for Kellerman's Resort . Other scenes were shot in Lake Lure , North Carolina .
Awards
Dirty Dancing won the Independent Spirit Award in 1988 for best debut film. In 1987 the film was awarded the Jupiter for Best Film in Germany.
For the title song (I've Had) The Time of My Life , composers Franke Previte , John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz were awarded the Oscar for best song at the 1988 Academy Awards .
In January 1988, Dirty Dancing was nominated in four categories at the 45th Golden Globes . The title song (I've Had) The Time of My Life won over the jury as Best Film Song .
In the three remaining categories
- Best film - comedy or musical
- Best Actor - Comedy or Musical - Patrick Swayze
- Best Actress - Comedy or Musical - Jennifer Gray
the nominees received nothing.
At the 1988 Grammy Awards , Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes were recognized for Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Pop for the theme song in March 1988 .
Continuation and adaptations
From 1988 to 1989 the television series Dirty Dancing was produced. It is an adaptation of the film.
In 2004 the musical Dirty Dancing had its world premiere in Sydney . It is a music and dance show based on the film. From October 2011 to October 2012 the musical was performed in the Metronom Theater in the CentrO in Oberhausen. Before it ran in Hamburg in the Neue Flora and then in Berlin in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz. Since April 2014 the musical can be seen again as a tour production. The first venue was the Admiralspalast in Berlin. The venues that followed were the Musical Dome in Cologne, the Wiener Stadthalle , the Musical Theater Bremen , the Kleine Olympiahalle in Munich, the Capitol Theater (Düsseldorf) , the Mehr! -Theater am Großmarkt in Hamburg, the Stadthalle Graz , the Alte Oper in Frankfurt as well as the Frankenhalle in Nuremberg.
Dirty Dancing 2 was also released in 2004, as was the original dance film. Except for the title, the film has nothing in common with the first part. The film is set in Cuba and Patrick Swayze makes a small appearance as a dance teacher. A parody of the film was released in 2008 under the title Dörte's Dancing , produced by the German television station ProSieben . The main role is played by Jeanette Biedermann .
The television station ABC showed a three-hour remake on May 24, 2017 . Abigail Breslin and Colt Prattes play the main roles, while supporting actors include Debra Messing , Nicole Scherzinger and Billy Dee Williams . Wayne Blair directed and written by Jessica Sharzer . The international reviews of the remake were largely negative.
As was announced in August 2020, work is in progress on a new Dirty Dancing film, in which Jennifer Gray is to act as an actress and also as an executive producer . Jonathan Levine is to act as the director ; the script is written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis .
literature
- Hannah Pilarczyk (Ed.): I had the time of my life. About the film Dirty Dancing and its meaning , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943167-13-9 .
Web links
- Dirty Dancing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dirty Dancing. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on October 3, 2017 .
- Dirty Dancing at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Dirty Dancing . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2011 (PDF; test number: 58 516 V).
- ↑ Age rating for dirty dancing . Youth Media Commission ( TV version).
- ↑ Chart sources Dirty Dancing : DE-AT-CH
- ↑ Charts UK
- ↑ Chart sources More Dirty Dancing : DE-AT-CH
- ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 . / US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
- ^ Dirty Dancing. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 3, 2017 .
- ^ Lexicon of International Films . CD-ROM edition. Systhema, Munich 1997
- ^ Dirty Dancing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 3, 2017 .
- ^ Dirty Dancing. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
- ↑ The World of Filming Locations: Dirty Dancing , accessed January 9, 2019
- ↑ [1] , September 2, 2013, accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Rachel Desantis: See the first look at ABC's 'Dirty Dancing' remake. In: nydailynews.com. April 6, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Anthony D'Alessandro: New 'Dirty Dancing' Movie With Jennifer Gray Confirmed By Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer. In: Deadline.com . August 6, 2020, accessed August 7, 2020 .