Dance, Dance, Dance

This is in response to my lovely wife, Tamara's, Monday Mix Tape blog post. The theme of her mix this week is "dancing".

May I present the 1984 motion picture -- Footloose, staring Kevin Bacon.

The story is about Ren, a high school aged hormone machine (but all around good guy) who moves to a small western town where Ren is surprised to find that dancing and rock music are illegal. Ren promptly falls for troubled damsel-in-distress, Ariel, who is the daughter of the towns Bible thumping preacher -- Reverend Moore (John Lithgow).

SPOILER ALERT: Reverend Moore is the force behind the law banning dancing. As the story progresses it is uncovered that one of Moore's children had died returning from a dance. Alcohol was somehow involved in the tragedy. Moore's thinking is simple -- dancing leads to drinking and drinking leads to death; therefore, ban dancing and eliminate teenage death.

The movie peaks when Ren makes an impassioned speech to the town counsel using the Bible to defend dancing.

Do yourself a favor. Watch Footloose in all of its' big hair, spandex, leg warmer glory.