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[skygiants]

Everyone who never told me to watch Strictly Ballroom for the first twenty-six years of my life is immediately fired. It's a VERY SERIOUS MOVIE about the TWO PASSIONATE REBELS who could BRING DOWN the entire repressive, corrupt Australian ballroom dance regime! It's so full of sparkly costumes I don't even have words! GUYS. COME ON.




Strictly Ballroom has taught me a number of valuable life lessons. Here are the top five:

1. Losing the local ballroom dance competition can very easily drive you into a life of SORROW, SECLUSION and SHAME.
2. A disapproving family can ALWAYS be won over with a surprise dance-off.
3. Relatedly, ALWAYS wear a flamenco shirt under your work clothes in case you need to participate in a surprise dance-off with your daughter's boyfriend.
4. And always, ALWAYS bring the fancy pimped-out dress. Everywhere. Just in case.
5. BALLROOM DANCING IS VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS.

If you remember these simple rules, you are sure to lead a sparkly and successful life. A LIFE NOT LIVED IN FEAR.

(If Baz Lurhmann's upcoming Great Gatsby film has even a quarter of this sparkly ridiculousness, I will be the happiest trollfaced English major ever.)

Comments

[ceitfianna]

I love that movie, its the one I kind of point in terms of why I love Baz Luhrmann. He gets musicals and that kind of over the top thinking and puts it on film, which is amazing and sparkly.

[skygiants]

Yes! Someday a film set of his will just explode in a nuclear sparklebomb and everyone will shake their heads sadly and say, "well, it's the way he would have wanted to go."

[winding_path]

I apologize profusely for not having told you to watch it before. It just never occurred to me that you hadn't seen it.

I adore that movie. And "that was unexpected" is the greatest and most useful line to randomly quote in every day life, ever.

[skygiants]

My life had a gaping hole in it! ;____;

My life also currently still has a gaping hole in it where a Greek chorus of tiny judgmental ballroom dance children should be, but that seems unlikely to be remedied any time soon...

[winding_path]

Yeah, I'm not sure where one goes to acquire one of those.

We will just have to keep muddling along without one.

[skygiants]

I used to go to lots of ballroom dance classes but I never got one free with registration. :(

[nny]

...I don't understand how you haven't seen it before. DRUNK ME MADE SMALLER WATCH IT THE OTHER NIGHT. I DRUNK FORCE IT ON PEOPLE.

[skygiants]

The problem here is clearly that we have not had a night to be drunk together and watch terrible movies!

THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS FIXING. :D

[nny]

I SO AGREE. I HAVEN'T SEEN NEWSIES YET.

[skygiants]

THIS REMAINS A TRAGEDY AND A TRAVESTY

[ashen_key]

But Becca, I thought you had seen it!

:O!

That movie is the very, very, very best.

[skygiants]

EVERYONE KEEPS SAYING THIS. You're all deeply unhelpful. ;____;

[aeslis]

I just rewatched it recently with someone who had never seen it, and IT IS THE BEST. The ~~climactic scene~~ is everything I could ever want in a movie, and oh, man, the intense way they stare at each other while they dance, I just can't even.

[skygiants]

I love intense, ridiculous dance scenes more than almost anything! SO GREAT. SO FULL OF HILARITY SRS DRAMA.

[katta]

I love this movie! The ridiculous aesthetics, over-the-top acting, and camp storytelling are just ace!

(Of course, it does worry me a bit that Baz Luhrmann includes those elements even when he's being serious.)

[skygiants]

But the fact that Baz Luhrmann includes these elements all the time is EXACTLY what makes Baz Lurhmann the precious gem he is. *___*

[katta]

Precious gem, yes. Good filmmaker, not always.

[skygiants]

But who needs 'quality filmmaking' when you can have SPARKLE?


. . . okay I guess there are times when you might possibly want a little more quality. Maybe. Occasionally. >.>