I propose a remake
of Footloose.
It's as much a diatribe about the fickle nature of youth as it is a pure slapstick comedy, featuring a humdinger of a hipster prophet in the form
of a footloose Greta Gerwig.
Following the success
of Footloose, Kevin Bacon struggled to shake off the on - screen image and found himself typecast.
Years later, he was cast in the film remake
of Footloose starring Kenny Wormald, in which he played the same character as in his high school musical.
Now it's time for the new updated 2011 version
of Footloose, presented specially by Craig Brewer, director of Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan prior.
With elements
of Footloose and Step Up, the story is continually brought crashing back around us with clips from Platoon — a film Josh so loves that it plays a central role in the film's climax and redemption for all involved.
Blu - ray are as follows: · Commentary by director Craig Brewer · Jump Back: Re-Imagining Footloose · Everybody Cut: The Stars
of Footloose · Dancing with the Footloose Stars · Deleted Scenes with optional commentary by director Craig Brewer · «Footloose» Music Video by Blake Shelton · «Fake ID» Music Video by Big & Rich · «Holding Out For A Hero» Music Video by Ella Mae Bowen · Footloose Rap
«Everybody Cut: The Stars
of Footloose» focuses on the cast of the film.
We've already had new versions
of Footloose, The Karate Kid and Red Dawn, and the craze for remaking iconic 1980s movies seems destined to continue.
Some new images from Craig Brewer's (Hustle & Flow) upcoming remake
of Footloose have appeared online.
He also talks about the changes he made to the project when he signed on by saying, «The project that they wanted to do was like a big dance celebration
of Footloose.
Paramount has sent over four clips from the remake
of Footloose.
Roles in the remake
of FOOTLOOSE and the party - gone - wrong crime comedy PROJECT X followed.
Actor Kenny Wormald arrives in Craig Brewer's thoroughly winning remake
of Footloose with a lot to prove, just like his character, Ren MacCormack.
The remake
of Footloose should be a fine addition to this campy canon.
The world didn't need a remake
of Footloose, the 1984 movie where outsider - rebel Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) takes on a town - wide ban against public dancing.
It's so easy for so many aspects
of Footloose to descend into cartooniness, but it only really happens when Chuck is on screen, and his scenes feel like dull diversions from the real story.
When young rebel Ren (Kenny Wormald) rolls into Bomont, Georgia at the beginning
of Footloose, he needs a job.
This shift in upbringing has led to an increasing number
of footloose «nones.»
She mentions «the redemptive wilderness of the Western imagination,» but her writing undercuts that romantic frontier narrative, just as it reveals the dark side
of footloose wandering.
Not exact matches
Back in 1995, when the album R.I.O.T. (Righteous Invasion
of Truth) was released — a mere 11 years after
Footloose hit theaters — factory dance - offs were still seen as a legitimate form
of protest.
Seems like the only «
Footloose» film Cams ever watched is a x-ray
of his ankle folks.
So, (opens beer) basically the entire history
of this sport is like if the Soviet hockey team were the good guys in
Footloose: Ice dancing was created to translate the fluidity
of ballroom dancing to ice because in the 1930s no one understood how important the males 18 - 34 demo was in all decision making.
Arriving at Liverpool Football Club in 2007 on the back
of an award winning season at Brazilian side Grêmio, the box - to - box midfielder whose forward runs were as
footloose as his shoulder - length hair, was signed by Rafa Bentiez to compliment an already impressive midfield contingent.
A runaway kangaroo enjoyed its 15
footloose minutes
of fame Saturday in the land down under the Verrazano Bridge.
Like Kevin Bacon in the movie
Footloose, he won gratitude for the gift
of danceand Sony discovered what the town fathers in that film learned: forbidding dancing is really, really bad for public relations.
But no study addressed whether parenthood itself was responsible, or whether men who became committed partners and fathers started out with lower levels
of the hormone than did their single,
footloose friends.
is a fusion
of yoga, dance and music with a live DJ that will ensure you not only get
footloose and fancy free, but simultaneously fight fat.
Future sound
of yoga (FSOY) is a fusion
of yoga, dance and music with a live DJ that will ensure you not only get
footloose and fancy free, but simultaneously fight fat.
We're having dinner with Will's college crew in the city tonight and seeing
Footloose at my high school on Saturday night (four
of the seven ABC girls my parents take care
of are starring in the play!).
And, really, I can't blame Collectif for that, because it makes a lot
of sense; the stripes as a print are season - free, olive as a colour is just as
footloose and fancyfree for looking good all year long.
footloose mature dating - Make the most
of this winter.
Each profile verified through phone and email, it also consists
of basic information about Are you single and feeling a little «
footloose»?
Each
of these Are you single and feeling a little «
footloose»?
«
Footloose,» then, provides a fun time
of close to two hours to its principal audience with a great performance by Kenny Wormald.
Brewer is a natural fit for the material, being a self - admitted
Footloose fan, a teenager
of the»80s, a music - lover, a connoisseur
of the South, and a parent, and all
of which he draws upon to make the movie smarter than it needs to be.
The story
of the movie is echoed in the way the dances are put together, from the makeup
of the town (which is more diverse and real - looking than in the original
Footloose) to the relationship between characters.
While the «
Footloose» remake doesn't differ much from the original musical - drama, in terms
of the characters and plot - line, Brewer was able to successfully modernize the tale while staying true to its important message.
There aren't an overwhelming number
of extras on the «
Footloose» Blu - ray / DVD combo, but the ones they included are noteworthy.
But the new
Footloose, thankfully, isn't just a faithful retelling
of scenes and backward - looking nods.
Kevin Bacon followed his breakout role in
Footloose with this story
of a washed up stock broker who finds his calling as bicycle messenger.
For such an iconic dance movie,
Footloose is an odd bird
of a movie with surprisingly little dancing.
While known for helming the drug filled drama «Hustle & Flow,» Brewer proved his talent as a filmmaker by capturing the rebellious feelings
of the current high school generation in «
Footloose.»
Footloose thankfully avoids the most heinous
of dance - movie pitfalls: casting actors who can only do half the job, either actors who can't dance or dancers who can't act.
If the pilfering
of «80s films must continue (though ideally, it will stop, soon), the other studios could learn a thing or two from what Paramount did here with «
Footloose.»
«
Footloose» turns out to be a sort
of Boy Scout version
of «Flashdance,» a carefully toned - down, overly respectable piece
of schmaltz...
Like the rest
of today's video - happy teen - age entertainments,
Footloose doesn't expect to be watched closely or taken seriously.
Eventually she spread her wings, leaving the comfortable nest
of Dancing With the Stars in order to appear in movies like Burlesque,
Footloose, and the hair - metal jukebox musical Rock
of Ages.
«Thelma & Louise» is a rare thrill - a gleefully offbeat road movie in which two women, instead
of the usual
footloose fellas, exult in the heady freedom
of America's lonesome highways.
An energetic and curiously faithful remake
of the 1984 film
of the same name starring Kevin Bacon, writer - director Craig Brewer's
Footloose is a virtual cinematic poison pill to anyone irrevocably divorced from any trace memories
of adolescent feeling, and further proof that in life but especially art feeling is stronger than thought.