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"Dirty Dancing"

My favorite movie ever, is “Dirty Dancing” directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. In the movie Jennifer Grey plays Baby (her name) and Patrick Swayze plays a handsome dance instructor. The movie was made in 1987 but takes place in 1963,the producers had to shade the colors of the movie in order to make it seem as if its old.
Dirty Dancing is somewhat a musical because the movie is full with dances, beats, music, singing and performances, but behind that there is also a romantic story of two totally different people who fall deeply in love, and change each others life.
It is pretty amazing to see and recognize the different shots taken of dance moves; close up on the dancers feet, on their body movement etc, point of view shots when dancing in pairs... these shots really draw the audience into the film and into the dancing.

It’s the summer of 1963 and Baby is stuck at the Catskills on vacation with her parents and sister. Life couldn’t be more boring until she meets the handsome rebellious dance teacher Johnny Castle, who changed everything for her. Baby starts taking private dance lessons with Johnny, learns steps to a “dirty dance” and eventually performs in front of a large audience, as Johnny’s partner. Throughout the movie Baby and Johnny fall in love and help each other discover new strengths and talents as well as defining their individual place in the world. Baby in the process tangles with her father, and totally disobeys him. She hides her relationship with Johnny from her father because he disapproves of Johnny (for no reason). At the end of the movie Baby finally reconciles herself with her strong strict father.
This movie displays different relationships; the romantic passionate forbidden relationship between Johnny and Baby, the relationship between Baby and her father, and the very competitive relationship between Baby and her sister Helisa.
"Dirty Dancing" is a very sexy movie, it has some kind of magic to it, it pulls you in, fascinates you. The combination of the great music, the energy, the amazing sexy dancing, the beats, the beautiful characters makes the movie so passionate and attractive that one can never see it to many times.