Ren : See that? I thought only assholes used the word "pansy". Ariel : Woo, he gotcha on that one, Chas! Son of a bitch is gonna pay for that! Reverend Shaw Moore : Were you drinking? Ariel : No. Reverend Shaw Moore : Smoking something? Ariel : No! I wasn't stealing, I wasn't gambling, I wasn't dancing, I wasn't reading books I'm not supposed to!
I am late! Reverend Shaw Moore : Who were you with? Ariel : Ren McCormick. Reverend Shaw Moore : I don't want you to see him anymore. Ariel : Why not? Reverend Shaw Moore : Because I've heard he's a troublemaker.
Ariel : Just because he hasn't lived in this town for 20 years doesn't make him a troublemaker! You like it or not, this is it. It doesn't get much better. Ariel : I'm no saint you know. I'm not even a virgin. Reverend Shaw Moore : Don't you talk like that here! Isn't this where I'm supposed to come to confess my sins to my preacher? I ask to be forgiven! Ariel : How come you don't like me?
Ren : What makes you think that I don't like you? Ariel : You never talk to me at school. Ren : Yeah, well maybe that's because if I did, your boyfriend would remove my lungs with a spoon. Ren : What are you doing here? Ariel : Watching. Ren : I thought I was alone. Ariel : Not in this town. There's eyes everywhere.
Ariel : [to her father, the town preacher] I just don't know that I believe in everything you believe in. But I believe in you. Ariel : [Shaw is busily typing in his den, Ariel is in the next room over, studying Shaw is playing classical music in the background] Daddy? For the record, fellow students treat Willard like a mindless fool, but he has really good insight. He knows everything about everyone, typical in a small town, but he can read people.
Case in point: He says the preacher's daughter acts tough so others will forget that she's the preacher's daughter. Stunt doubles are endemic to filmmaking. But back in the '80s, they were sometimes embarrassingly obvious, and Footloose was no exception. During Footloose 's iconic warehouse scene, it's clear that someone else took the wheel for Kevin Bacon during those too-hot-to-handle dance moves, as it's hard to not overlook how Bacon's facial features ostensibly morph throughout the scene.
Bacon discussed having a dance double for Footloose in a interview. I was furious," Bacon told People magazine when discussing his flips and complicated dance moves being a facsimile during the warehouse scene. Reverend Shaw Moore John Lithgow plays the antagonist of Footloose as he presses to keep Ren from achieving his goals.
Add in the fact that his daughter Ariel is interested in Ren, and a nightmare scenario begins building for Shaw. To make things even worse for the reverend, his daughter just might be the most deviant teenager in Bomont. In one scene, Ariel stands upon two vehicles driving alongside each other as an oncoming semi-truck closes in.
In another, her love for danger is matched by her desire to escape conformity when she plays verboten hits loud enough for the whole town to hear. She's a preacher's daughter in red cowboy boots who kisses boys, drinks alcohol, and plays her music too loud. But Shaw is so focused on making the town a "better place" that he doesn't realize his daughter is screaming out for help. She's a rebel in her own right, but she's a smart one with a bright future. Ariel is a rebel with a cause who wants her father to notice her — while she's simultaneously repelled by him.
The town of Bomont doesn't allow dancing because the adults don't want these things to occur This town is obsessed with preventing sin, but the adults seem blind to other ungodly acts. Alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs appear constantly throughout the story. And it appears that this town has greater issues than young people doing the moonwalk. One of the teachers even catches a student passing Ren a joint.
Sure, he flushes it down the toilet, but the dissonance is already made clear. Ariel even recalls the story of the infamous bridge accident where drunk teens played car tag and plummeted off the bridge, which resulted in heavy sanctions on drinking and dancing.
Yet the kids never seem to have a problem getting their hands on alcohol. While these teenagers would likely get in trouble if they were caught boozing, they still do it. They gladly, however, follow the no-dancing rule.
Dancing or the lack thereof is a major theme of Footloose , but it's hard not to recognize other cultural norms routinely being broken. The adults canceled dancing so young people wouldn't drink, do drugs, or have sex — but Footloose showed us that dancing really had nothing to do with it.
Footloose would seem to indicate that its teenage main characters are old enough to walk into any bar and have a drink, yet they still listen to their parents, live by their rules, and, most importantly, don't dance. Although not every single high schooler in the film is of drinking age, the main core — Ren, Willard, Ariel, and Rusty Sarah Jessica Parker — are of legal drinking age in late s Oklahoma.
When Ren wants to show his new friends what they're missing out on, he takes them to a nearby town that allows boozing and dancing, showing them the other side of a coin they never had the chance to flip. Although philosophically important, this is the point where the premise loses a bit of steam, considering that the "rebellious" teenagers who want to break the no-fun rules can simply go one town over and do whatever they want to.
Parenting issues are a universal struggle, and they're prevalent in Footloose. Telling young people what they can and can't do tends to push them into a more contrarian mindset, especially when the parents of the town side with a draconian fire-and-brimstone preacher. The parents in Bomont, Oklahoma, acquiesce to the reverend's wishes — which are now the law — in the hope of increasing their kids' safety.
After the town's tragic bridge accident, the adults have become collectively hidebound, and they take no chances with their children. If that means taking away rock music and dancing, then so be it But alas, the parenting playbook is a hard one to execute as times change faster than anticipated, and kids, especially teenagers, embrace those seemingly extreme changes with youthful energy.
Hoverboards and fidget spinners were popular in the s, recycled styles and denim were in demand during the s, windbreakers and overalls were happening in the s, and, based on a few scenes in Footloose , motorcycles were the "it" accessory of the late s. In a conservative town that takes precautionary measures, the local teens ironically ride around on motorcycles as if it's the new trend. As dangerous as motorcycles are, the teens up the ante by not wearing helmets — a vocal statement of teenage rebellion, coupled with the unsaid and prevailing hypocrisy.
Motorcycles are also expensive as compared to, say, a sweet denim suit. The two-wheel death machines are supposed to make the teens look cool, and they kind of do, but it's hard for a more seasoned viewer to not notice how conflicting they are to the message of keeping the kids safe, demonstrating the contradictory nature of groupthink parenting. But, by all means, ride on?
Ren is a city kid from Chicago who dresses like a rock star. He's viewed as an outcast, and his differences make him a bad boy by association. But for someone who's trying to supposedly destroy this town's myopic values, he's actually a very understanding and accepting person, who drives a peaceful Volkswagen Beetle, in case the viewers didn't notice.
Bad boys aren't typically known for teaching other people how to dance, but an entire montage features Ren showing Willard how to let the dogs out on the dance floor. Ren does, however, drink and drive at the beginning of the warehouse scene, keeping his bad-boy persona intact.
Most important, though, is how Ren goes about bringing dancing back to the town. He could have thrown a rager at any point in the movie, but he attended a town hall meeting to state his case, citing bible verses during his argument, and accepting defeat when the vote favored the status quo of outdated laws. Once again, Ren could have easily reacted by painting the town red, but he instead focused on brave, positive change and proceeded to ask Reverend Shaw if he could take Ariel to prom.
Chuck Cranston played by Jim Youngs is a no-good human being, a grade-A bully, and a sore loser. It's implied that he's having sex with Ariel, but their relationship was never defined.
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