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Flashdance is a musical and romance film released in April 1983, and was one of the most successful films of the early 1980s. The film was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and its presentation of some sequences in the style of music videos was an influence on other 1980s films including Top Gun, the most famous of Simpson and Bruckheimer's films. Flashdance opened to poor reviews by professional critics but was a box office success, becoming the 3rd highest grossing film of 1983 in the USA.[1][2] It is best known for the Academy Award-winning song "Flashdance... What a Feeling" performed by Irene Cara which was written for the film. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (502 × 755 pixel, file size: 64 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. ...
Adrian Lyne (born 4 March 1941 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English filmmaker and producer. ...
Donald Clarence Simpson (October 29, 1943 - January 19, 1996) was an American film producer. ...
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Josef Eszterhas (born November 23, 1944) is a controversial Hungarian-American writer, best known for his screenplays for the films Basic Instinct and Showgirls. ...
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former teen model and American film actress who is best known for her role as Alexandra Alex Owens in the 1983 movie Flashdance and as Bette on the lesbian themed drama series The L Word Beals was born to...
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Giorgio Moroder (born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26, 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Academy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. ...
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While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the storys protagonists. ...
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Donald Clarence Simpson (October 29, 1943 - January 19, 1996) was an American film producer. ...
Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is a film and television producer in the genre of action, drama, and science fiction. ...
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Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. ...
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Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
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- What a feeling.
- When the dancer becomes the dance.
- Take your passion... And make it happen!
- Something happens when she hears the music... it's her freedom. It's her fire. It's her life.
Plot summary Blue-collar worker Alexandra (Alex) Owens (played by Jennifer Beals) is an exotic dancer in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bar at night and a welder at a steel mill during the day. Her dream is to obtain a place at a prestigious dance school, the (fictional) Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance and Repertory. During one of her performances at Mawby's, the bar where she works, she attracts the attention of Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) who is the boss of the steel mill, and he learns that Alex is one of his employees. Alex is 18 years old and she lives on her own in a converted warehouse with her pit bull dog Grunt. Image File history File links Flashdance_beals_nouri. ...
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Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former teen model and American film actress who is best known for her role as Alexandra Alex Owens in the 1983 movie Flashdance and as Bette on the lesbian themed drama series The L Word Beals was born to...
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Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former teen model and American film actress who is best known for her role as Alexandra Alex Owens in the 1983 movie Flashdance and as Bette on the lesbian themed drama series The L Word Beals was born to...
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Alex's best friends also work at Mawby's and they have their own dreams of fame. Jeanie Szabo (Sunny Johnson) is a waitress who aspires to be a professional ice skater and Jeanie's boyfriend Richie Blazik (Kyle T. Heffner) is a cook who aspires to be a professional stand-up comedian. Also prominent in the film is Johnny C. (Lee Ving) who runs the local strip club, the Zanzibar, and is invariably accompanied by his strong but dense bodyguard Cecil (Malcolm Danare). Johnny C. visits Mawby's to check out the dancers and tries to recruit both Alex and Jeanie to work at the Zanzibar. Lee Ving (real name Lee James Capalero, born in Philadelphia,1949 - ) was the lead singer of the 80s punk band Fear. ...
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Alex goes to the Conservatory to ask for an application form for an audition, but walks out when she realizes that she lacks any formal dance training and will have to leave that section of the form blank. Alex's dance teacher and mentor is a retired ballet dancer named Hanna Long (Lilia Skala) who encourages Alex to pursue her dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer. After Jeanie falls over twice at an audition for an ice show, she loses confidence in herself and becomes a dancer at the Zanzibar, where she performs in the nude, and Alex goes to the strip club to rescue Jeanie. The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. ...
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Alex and Nick become lovers and she learns that he has an ex-wife called Katie (Belinda Bauer), and they have a frosty meeting in a local restaurant. Nick uses his contacts to secure an audition for Alex at the Conservatory, and just before the audition she goes to Hanna's house and learns that Hanna died the previous night. Belinda Bauer (born January 1, 1951) is an Australian actress whose promising career never led to super-stardom. ...
At the audition, Alex falls over at the start of her routine, but starts again and completes the routine successfully. In the final scene, Alex runs out of the Conservatory building with a smile on her face and is hugged by Nick, who gives her a bunch of red roses. The ending of the film does not say directly whether Alex wins a place at the Conservatory as a result of her audition.
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Critical responses Flashdance has seldom received favorable reviews from professional critics. Roger Ebert placed it on his list of Most Hated films, stating: "Jennifer Beals shouldn't feel bad. She is a natural talent, she is fresh and engaging here, and only needs to find an agent with a natural talent for turning down scripts".[3] Halliwell's Film Guide gave it one star out of four while The New Yorker described the film as "Basically, a series of rock videos." The Guardian described it as "A preposterous success." Detractors of the film argue that in addition to the shallow plot, the film represents the worst excesses of 1980s film making with its emphasis on short sequences and rapid editing between shots. The screenplay of the film was nominated for a Razzie (Golden Raspberry) award. A common criticism is that Michael Nouri seems too old to be the love interest of Jennifer Beals (Nouri was 36 and Beals was 18 at the time that the film was in production). Critics have also questioned whether an 18-year-old woman would have been given a job as a welder in an old-fashioned steel mill. Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...
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Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former teen model and American film actress who is best known for her role as Alexandra Alex Owens in the 1983 movie Flashdance and as Bette on the lesbian themed drama series The L Word Beals was born to...
The dimly-lit cinematography and montage-style editing are due in part to the fact that Jennifer Beals does virtually none of the dancing in the film. Her main dance double is the French actress Marine Jahan, while the breakdancing that Alex performs in the audition sequence at the end of the film was doubled by the male dancer Crazy Legs (Richard Colón). The shot of Alex diving through the air in slow motion during the audition sequence was performed by Sharon Shapiro, who was a professional gymnast. ‹ The template below is being considered for deletion. ...
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Although Flashdance has been compared to Saturday Night Fever with a female lead,[4] the tone of the two films is very different. Saturday Night Fever takes a much more downbeat look at the world of people trapped in low paid jobs, while Flashdance works best as a disco era retelling of the Cinderella story with all the implausibilities that this brings. Like the original theatrical release of Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance was rated R by the MPAA, which meant that audience members under seventeen years old required an accompanying parent or guardian to watch the film. This was due to some strong language, nudity and sexual content which were removed for the television version of the film. Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 movie starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a Brooklyn discotheque. ...
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Flashdance is not a musical in the traditional sense as the characters do not sing, and the songs are presented in the style of self-contained music videos. The cable television channel MTV had been launched in August 1981, and Flashdance can be seen as an attempt to recreate the style of the pop music videos of the period for the big screen. The use of sequences in the style of pop music videos became a common feature of 1980s cinema films, with the song "Take My Breath Away" from 1986's Top Gun being one of the most celebrated examples. Top Gun was a later project of the producers of Flashdance, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and the music for the song "Take My Breath Away" was composed by Giorgio Moroder, who also wrote several of the songs for Flashdance. The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ...
A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...
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Take My Breath Away is the name of a love song from the film Top Gun, performed by the band Berlin. ...
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Donald Clarence Simpson (October 29, 1943 - January 19, 1996) was an American film producer. ...
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Giorgio Moroder (born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26, 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Academy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. ...
Copyright issues
 The video of the 2003 Jennifer Lopez song I'm Glad led to a copyright lawsuit Flashdance was inspired by the real life story of Maureen Marder, who was a construction worker/welder by day and worked by night in a Toronto strip club. Like the character of Alex Owens in the film, she aspired to enter a prestigious dance school. Tom Hedley wrote the original story outline for Flashdance, and on December 6, 1982 Marder signed a release document giving Paramount Pictures the right to portray her life story on screen, for which she was given a one-off payment of $2300. Flashdance is estimated to have grossed $150 million worldwide, and following the use of dance routines from the film by Jennifer Lopez in her 2003 video "I'm Glad" (directed by David LaChapelle), Marder sued Paramount and Sony Corporation (the makers of the "I'm Glad" video) in an attempt to gain a copyright interest in the film. In June 2006, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a lower court's ruling that Marder gave up her rights to the film when she signed the release document in 1982. The panel of three judges stated in its ruling: "Though in hindsight the agreement appears to be unfair to Marder - she only received $2,300 in exchange for a release of all claims relating to a movie that grossed over $150 million - there is simply no evidence that her consent was obtained by fraud, deception, misrepresentation, duress or undue influence." The court also noted that Marder's attorney had been present when she signed the document.[5] Image File history File links Jennifer_Lopez_-_I'm_Glad_CD_1_cover. ...
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Although Jennifer Lopez argued that her video for "I'm Glad" was intended as a tribute to Flashdance, in May 2003 Sony agreed to pay a licensing fee to Paramount for the use of dance routines and other story material from the film in the video.[6][7]
History
 Flashdance was released on DVD in October 2002 Adrian Lyne, whose background was primarily in directing television commercials, was not the first choice as director of Flashdance. David Cronenberg turned down an offer to direct the film, as did Brian de Palma, who chose to direct Scarface instead. Executives at Paramount Studios were unsure about the film's potential and sold 25% of the rights prior to its release.[8] The audition for the part of Alex Owens was narrowed down to a final shortlist of three candidates, Jennifer Beals, Demi Moore, and Leslie Wing[9] before the part was awarded to Beals. Flashdance is often remembered for the sweatshirt with a large neck hole that Jennifer Beals wore on the poster advertising the film. Beals said that the look of the sweatshirt came about by accident when it shrank in the wash and she cut out a large hole at the top so that she could wear it again.[10] Image File history File links Flashdance. ...
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Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former teen model and American film actress who is best known for her role as Alexandra Alex Owens in the 1983 movie Flashdance and as Bette on the lesbian themed drama series The L Word Beals was born to...
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There were proposals for a sequel to Flashdance but the film was never made. In March 2001, plans were announced for a Broadway musical version with new songs by Giorgio Moroder, but this also failed to materialize.[11] For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ...
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Flashdance was the first success of a number of filmmakers who became top industry figures in the 1980s and beyond. The film was the first collaboration between Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who went on to produce Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop. Joe Eszterhas, the screenwriter of Basic Instinct, received his second screen credit for Flashdance, while Adrian Lyne went on to direct Fatal Attraction, 9½ Weeks, Indecent Proposal and Lolita. Lynda Obst, who developed the original story outline, went on to produce Adventures in Babysitting, The Fisher King and Sleepless in Seattle. She is currently producing and writing Interstellar, the next Steven Spielberg project. Donald Clarence Simpson (October 29, 1943 - January 19, 1996) was an American film producer. ...
Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is a film and television producer in the genre of action, drama, and science fiction. ...
Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. ...
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Josef Eszterhas (born November 23, 1944) is a controversial Hungarian-American writer, best known for his screenplays for the films Basic Instinct and Showgirls. ...
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 Cover of the 1983 single "Flashdance... What a Feeling". "Flashdance... What a Feeling" was performed by Irene Cara, who also sang the title song for the similar 1980 film Fame. The music for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" was composed by Giorgio Moroder, and the lyrics were written by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara. The song won an Academy Award for Best Song, as well as a Golden Globe and numerous other awards. It also reached number one in the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1983. Despite the song's title, the word "Flashdance" is not used in the lyrics. The song is used in the opening title sequence of the film, and is the music used by Alex in her dance audition routine at the end of the film. Flashdance is the soundtrack to the 1983 American musical and romance film Flashdance, directed by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri. ...
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Another song used in the film, "Maniac", was also nominated for an Academy Award. It was written by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky, and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac. The lyrics about a killer on the loose were rewritten so that it could be used in Flashdance. The song was disqualified from the Academy Award nomination on a technicality when it emerged that it had not been written specifically for the film. Like the title song, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts later that year in September.[12] // The song was used in the 1983 film Flashdance and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac. ...
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Other songs in the film include "Lady, Lady, Lady", performed by Joe Esposito, "Imagination", performed by Laura Branigan, and "I'll Be Here Where The Heart Is", performed by Kim Carnes. Joe Esposito, known as Bean, is an American singer who had a modestly successful career primarily in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
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The soundtrack album of Flashdance sold 700,000 copies during its first two weeks on sale and has gone on to sell over 6,000,000 copies in the US alone. In 1984 the album won the Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for A Motion Picture or a Television Special. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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References in popular culture
The "Chair Dance" scene from Flashdance has been widely parodied. Flashdance has been referenced in popular culture on a number of occasions. These include: Image File history File links Flashdance_chair. ...
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- A variation of the song "Flashdance... What a Feeling" was used as the basis of an Apple Computer commercial in 1984. The music was slightly different, and the lyrics were changed from "What a Feeling" to "We Are Apple". [13]
- In September 2006, an Australian television commercial for Carlton Draught beer called FlashBeer parodied the audition sequence from Flashdance almost shot for shot. The commercial features a rotund, bearded man called Kevin Cavendish who "auditions" for a job at the Carlton Draught brewery while wearing the same black leotard as Alex Owens. He launches into a dance routine that closely follows the real audition sequence in the film, and is successful in obtaining a job. [14] [15]
- One of the most famous shots in the film occurs in the opening "Chair Dance" sequence at Mawby's bar when Alex tips a bucket of water on to her chest. This shot has been parodied many times, including an episode of Scrubs in which Ted's Band sings an a cappella version of "Maniac" while Ted tips a jug of water over his head.
- In an episode of the British comedy series The Office, David Brent claimed his dancing skills were a fusion of "Flashdance with MC Hammer". [16] [17]
- In the pilot episode of the Comedy Central series Stella, the main characters reenact the audition sequence in a similar room with the same setup while they dance to try and prove their worth in being tenants for the apartment building.
- In a 2007 French TV commercial for Orangina, an anthropomorphic doe re-enacts the Chair Dance, only with Orangina instead of water. [18]
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Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1949) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror host persona Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. ...
The distinctive Orangina bottle Orangina is a carbonated soft drink made from oranges and tangerines. ...
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Footloose is a 1984 movie that tells the story of Ren McCormick (played by Kevin Bacon), a teenager who was raised in Chicago. ...
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