In todays lesson we had a look at two different film genres which included vampires with films such as Twilight and The lost boys and two dance films such as Flashdance and Step up. For the post I have decided I am going to talk about both flashdance and Step up.
Here is the trailer for Flashdance: (1983)
Here is the trailer for Step up: (2006)
Both films are about people wanting to dance, but they take a different path in showing this. I n the trailer for flashdance it starts off with the main character 'Alex' a girl who is describing how dancing makes her feel. Her style of dance is Ballete. There is a narrator who speaks over the trailer saying what she wants. Whereas in Step up it starts with one of the main characters in his court case getting sentenced to community service, his style of dance is break dancing, so you can already see the differences between the two. It then shows the other main character 'girl' who is looking for a dance partner and she does ballete, so there is a link to the Flashdance character with this person.
In the trailer for Flashdance it says she is a "woman living in a mans world" and chasing her "dream" which is dancing. Similarly in Step up the girl is chasing her dream, but she needs help doing it. Both stories have a romance in them aswell, as the woman in both fall in love with a man, in Step up this being the other main character. The music for both trailers are very different for each other, as in the 80's Flashdance trailer it is very pop styled, but in the 2000's film Step up it is very hip hop.
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