Step Up
Street Dance Boys
School of Rock
Youth Prom Queen
Center Stage
Charming
Maiden Cheerleaders
Street Dance Boys
Dance Out My Life
Title: Step up
Translation: Dance My Life Away
Directed by Adam McKay Adam McKay
Starring Channing Tatum
Jenna Dewan Jenna Dewan
Rachel Griffiths Rachel Griffiths
Damaine Radcliffe Radcliffe Damaine Radcliff
Genre: Drama/Music/Romance
Length: 100 minutes
Rating: rated PG-13 (for humor involving crude and sexual content, foul language, drug content and brief slapstick violence)
Distribution: July 29, 2008
Official website:/stepupmovie
Recommendation index:★★★★★
Plot synopsis
Everyone deserves a chance to chase their dreams, but some encounter nothing but frustration. Tyler is a rebellious young man from Baltimore's underclass who spends his days trying to get out of a less-than-ideal life. Nora is a ballerina who attends Baltimore's elite Maryland School of the Arts and has only one obstacle on the road to her bright future, finding a great partner and competing in the Senior Dance Competition. Sentenced to community service at the School of the Arts for a run-in with the law, Tyler comes to the school full of resentment as an outsider, until one day his outstanding street dance choreography catches Nora's attention. As their intermittent collaboration on stage sparks between the two men, Tyler realizes that the only way he can prove that he can get out of his current life and achieve the bigger dreams he has never touched is through performance.
Background of the film
Street dance is a kind of improvisational street dance originated from the black community in the United States in the 1970s, and its exaggerated and casual, flamboyant personality, distinctive rhythms, and rebellious style are widely loved by teenagers, so it has been widely spread in the American society, and has gradually reached the main room and become a popular mainstream music expression form, which is an indispensable part of the contemporary hip-hop culture. It is not uncommon for Hollywood films to feature dance themes, but the story of "Dance My Life", in which ballet and street dance join forces to fight the world, is quite new.
The film is the directorial debut of Anne Fletcher, America's premier dance instructor, and features several superstars from the American music industry, including R&B superstar Marlo, Drew Sidora, and the legendary rapper Heavy D. The movie's exciting song-and-dance scenes are one of the film's highlights.
Film cast
Channing Tatum, who plays the main character Tyler, was born in 1980 in a small town called Cullman, Alabama. As a child, he had a lot of energy and was always getting into trouble, so his parents worked hard to cultivate his interest in sports. in 9th grade, he enrolled in a military academy and began to specialize in football, earning an athletic scholarship to the University. After graduation, Channing worked as a construction worker and mortgage economist before entering the modeling world, where he shot several TV commercials, and from there he embarked on a career in acting, playing the role of Bob Davenport on the hit series CSI, and his last film credit was Coach Carter.
Channing Tatum's co-star, Jenna Dewan, who plays the show's leading lady, Nora, is a professional dancer by trade, having worked as a backup dancer for music superstars such as P-Diddy, Janet Jackson and Ricky Martin. Her extensive stage and music TV appearances set the stage for her later acting career, and she was fortunate enough to land a lead role in the supernatural thriller "Tamara" in her film debut, as well as "Take the Lead," a dance film.
And the show's other star, Rachel Griffiths, is an Australian star. Her 1994 film "Muriel's Wedding" made the Australian-born Rachel an overnight sensation, winning her the Australian Film Institute's Best Supporting Actress award. Rachel had already made a name for herself by starring in Barbie Gets Hip and Secrets. In more than a decade of acting, her major film credits include "My Best Friend's Wedding," "My Son the Fanatic" and "Blow," among others.
"Street Dance Boys"
Synopsis: In Los Angeles, there is a group of street dance boys who are obsessed with hip-hop culture, twisting and turning, and dancing their way through their youth in a mixed underworld of Los Angeles. Here, it is a world dominated by blacks, with strict hierarchical division, gangs and gangs in addition to the dance fights, armed combat has become a common occurrence. DJ Williams, known as the King of Dance, has just experienced a club fight caused by a dance battle, and the most painful thing for him is that his brother, whom he has been caring for, was accidentally killed in the bloodshed. ...... physically and mentally exhausted DJ decided to change the environment of life, he came to Atlanta alone, and entered the highly reputable black school, the Truth! University to further his education, and although his talent and ambition for dance was enough to make him a top dancer, yet due to the fact that DJ felt too confined at the school and the pain of losing his brother, he kept himself hidden. It is in this new environment, which is completely contrary to his personality, that DJ discovers the world of "step dancing". "Tap dancing is a traditional dance that has been passed down among black people living in the United States, derived from the historic African boot dance, and combines precise steps, hand clapping, and foot movements. At Truth University, the winner of the traditional Step Dance Championship has been the main target of competition between various "fraternities," and when DJ inadvertently revealed his dancing talents at a local club, he quickly caught the attention of the two dominant and fiercely competitive fraternities and became one of their most popular members. When a local club inadvertently reveals DJ's dancing talents, he quickly attracts the attention of two dominant and fiercely competitive fraternities, who are vying for his membership, and the beautiful schoolgirl April's special attention to DJ causes suspicion in her boyfriend, Grant, who is also the school's star step dancer.
After DJ decides to return to the stage and joins one of the fraternities, his bold street style brings a whole new look to step dancing and makes the competition increasingly fierce. ...... However, DJ's arrogance and overly self-centered stench soon alienates him from his new friends, and Grant takes advantage of this to set up a trap to keep him in the step dance. As he is expelled from the fraternity on the eve of the Step Dance Championship finals, DJ learns not only to put away his bad temper, but also the redefined sense of brotherhood that he learned in the fraternity, and DJ's freestyle style of dancing takes Step Dance to a higher level.
FILM REVIEW
With the global popularity of street dance, street dance movies have become a more independent genre, and 2004's street dance-themed film "You Got Served" became a trailblazer for the genre when it came out. This film has a much stronger cast than that year's "You Got Served", and at the same time, it intends to take street dance to a whole new level, upgrading it from a form of entertainment for black people to amuse themselves in the neighborhood to a competitive sport with physical and mental training. The insertion point chosen in this movie is different from the main line of previous street dance movies. Although it has not departed from the contradictory way of expression of competition, the process design has got rid of the form of previous movies which only focuses on the performance of competition scenes, and at the same time, the enhancement of the plot also makes the movie have more inspirational flavors. In addition, the film's dance action design is exquisite and unrestrained, many difficult street dance moves breathtaking, definitely worth the majority of street dance enthusiasts to vigorously pursue, beyond the classic morale is very full.