How Did Johnny's Dance Show The Ability To Love?

Dirty Dancing (1987), is a romantic film that shows how a shy girl name Baby did not really know about life, but later changed to an energetic person. This film illustrated a Jewish family that went to Kellerman’s Resort, located in New York’s Catskill Mountains during the summer, which her father worked there as a personal physician (Mcguire, 2017). Romantic comedies are movies with a “light-hearted, humorous story involving people in love” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). The movie Dirty Dancing shows the capacity of drama, the stem of romance, and the ability to love, which will be shown through the cinematography, lighting, movement, shots, and angles. The capacity of drama is shown in the scene when Johnny’s dance partner became ill from
During the many times, they spent with each other, caused their feelings to grow for one another. One day when Baby decided to visit Penny, Johnny showed up. Both were acting awkward and Penny realized they were having an affair. When Baby leaves the room, Penny tried to talk to Johnny to remind him about his own advice about not getting involved with the guests. Because of the love he had for Baby, he didn’t listen. During that scene, the camera caught them cutting their eyes at each other. If the camera didn’t catch that, we would not have noticed how awkward they were acting. Another scene that showed their feelings of love was when he came back to perform and walked over and took Baby on stage. Once they made it on stage, Johnny stops the music and informed everyone that even though he was fired, he always gets the last dance of the season. He also speaks on Baby’s behalf on how she is willing to stand up for other people no matter what. The editing of this scene showed the series as being slow which referred to the pace of the song. This showed us that the music was an important convention of the film. During the time on stage, the camera showed low-lighting and some lights in the background, which gave a soft and romantic