Dirty dancing is a movie that defines social classes and expresses different types of social themes in the 60’s. It identifies the differences between upper class, middle class and lower class. At the same stand point it also it expresses how division in our society could be stereotypical and not accurate, as not all is as it seems. From the beginning of this movie one could see the difference between the classes. There are the waiters and the dancers and the guest. One might say there is no difference between one another, guest, waiters and dancers work for a living. Therefore they should be categorized as the working class. There also could be seen thru out the film only one couple of black dancers that always remained together.
Dirty Dancing’s plot is about a young girl, Frances Houseman (Baby), form the upper class falling in love with a dancer from the lower class. She arrives to Kellerman’s Resort with her mother Marjorie Houseman, her sister Lisa Houseman and father Jake Houseman who is a doctor. Baby is different from her family, she gets bored with the daily routines of the resort.
One day she decides to follow one of the workers of the resort. He was carrying two watermelons. He spotted her and Baby ended up helping him take the watermelons to the cabin. When they arrived she finds herself in the mist of dancers. She said she never seen someone dance like that. This is a distinction the movie makes between classes. Baby being from the upper class never seen someone dancing in a sexual manner hence dirty dancing. This is how Baby meets Johnny. The guy Baby had help with the watermelons was Johnny’s cousin. Johnny then asked his cousin; what is she doing here? Baby answer embarrassed “I carried a watermelon”. That night ...
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...dge Johnny wrongfully. Johnny comes back to the dance even though he was fired because he always had done the last dance of the season. He walked over to Baby who was sitting in the corner and said “nobody puts Baby in the corner”. He gets on the stage and said ”I’m going to do my kind of dance with a terrific partner who taught that there are people who are willing to stand up for you no matter what it cost them. Someone who taught me the kind of person I want to be.”. They danced and everyone started dancing; dancers with guest, guest with other staff.
In conclusion Dirty Dancing was a movie that in the time period that was supposed to reflect (1960’s) there was a lot of segregation whether it was by class, race or gender. At the end of this movie it showed how at least for that time they “had the time of their lives” without discriminating by class, race or gen
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Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Class-passing : social mobility in film and popular culture (Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2005).
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