“When
you give up your dream, you die.”
Is it just me or do most musicals have the plot where a
person has a dream of becoming a dancer like on Broadway or going to a dance
school? You think of the plot when it comes to a musical and it is most likely
has been done. Flashdance is no different
when it comes to typical musical stories. Sometimes typical works and sometimes
typical bombs. With Flashdance
typical bombed.
Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) lives and works in
Pittsburgh. By day she works as a welder and by night she is a dancer at a bar.
Alex has been dancing her whole life and has a great passion for it. Her dream
is to be accepted into a prestigious dance academy. She had gone to apply one day;
she was in the application office but backed out because she sees she was not
like the other more well trained girls also applying.
I am not in the mood to write out any more of the plot of
Flashdance because it was boring as
all hell. Just know that Alex has a few setbacks and some struggles and
realizes that she has nothing to lose and applies and of course she gets in.
I really was not expecting much from Flashdance. It is one of those eighties movies that I have always
heard about and wanted to see what the big deal was. Of course I had heard the
theme song so many times and I knew that the cut sweatshirt comes from this
movie and who has not seen the parts where Alex is dancing up on stage and pulls the lever to bring water down on her or the scene where she dances to "Maniac". Jennifer Beals I have seen over the years in other shows. She was not
bad in the other shows but in this movie her acting was horrible. I laughed
quite a bit her acting was so bad in some scenes. I had certainly not expected
it to be good and it was not. Flashdance
was not terrible but it was definitely not the best.
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