I can remember being 7 or 8, running home from school and popping Dirty Dancing into the VCR. Forget after school cartoons, it was all about Baby, Johnny, and that summer in in 1963, when "everybody called [her] Baby, and it didn't occur to [her] to mind.".
I'm sure I didn't get any of the events, such as Johnny's whoring around pre-Baby, Robbie the creep sticking his dick in anything that moved, or Penny's abortion from her whoring around. No, I'm sure I was in it for the dancing, Patrick Swayze in tight pants, and the music.
I'm baffled that my parents actually let me watch this countless times as a child, and I'm baffled that I still love this movie. It never fails to make me feel better when I'm sick, cranky, or depressed. I still love the music, the dancing, but find Patrick Swayze in tight pants questionable.
In the end, love conquered all and Baby and Johnny were allowed to be together. Part of me wants a sequel. Did Baby join the Peace Corps? Did Johnny join the housepainter's union? Did they shack up, start an acid lab and raise barefoot hippie children? Dancing was a just a gateway, people!
Favourite memorable quotes:
Johnny: just put your pickle on everybody's plate college boy and leave the hard stuff to me.
Baby: I carried a watermelon.
Penny: Go back to your playpen, Baby.
Baby: Me? I'm scared of everything. I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you.
3 comments:
I watched it this weekend!!! I can't believe I got to watch it as a kid either. Probably because my mother knew how blissfully unaware I was and knew I just wanted to bobble around the living room with my hair all a'flying. And the watermelon quote is THE BEST!
Gus, I remember looking for his butt, too.
Did either of you see the tripe that was DD: Havana Nights? Man, that movie was terrible. And Patrick Swayze was waaaay too old to be doing a cameo as Johnny before the first DD took place. Eep.
I saw Havana Nights. AWFUL. Elise wanted to rent it after one of our cultural days, and I don't think I'll ever let her choose the movies again!
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