Dance dance dance, the Hollywood version

Very informative analysis of dance and choreography from classical Hollywood dance movies: how deceptively simple was the complicated choreo of the barn sequence in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," the give it up and forget you're a regular guy mode of "In and Out," and how Gene Kelly's splash down a rainy street is reminiscent of a 4 year old's simple joy.

Also learned from article that they're doing a batch of remakes, headed by "Shall We Dance?" I saw this movie many years ago in UP, and its simplicity wowed me. Saw it in the same year as Baz Luhmann's "Strictly Ballroom," also a dance movie in the same mode in which the ugly duckling shy person blossoms into a formidable dancer. In the Hollywood remake, the shy Japanese businessman role will be essayed by Richard Gere, hopefully now with more dancing skills than what he exhibited in Chicago, and the dancing muse will be played by Jennifer Lopez.

And the Dirty Dancing remake will be set in Havana, now cleverly called "Dirty Dancing Havana Nights." How innovative is that, 'no? Hehehe. But I think I'll watch it because it stars Diego Luna, that impish little boy from Y Tu Mama Tambien. Gael Garcia Bernal may be the man, but I don't object to watching impish naughty little boys either. Hehehe.