So I finally saw Dirty Dancing. Good script. Classic Hero's Journey.
It took a while for the "Hey look!" factor to settle down. As in "Hey look-- it's Jerry Orbach pre-CHUNG-CHUNG Law & Order!", "Hey look-- it's Wayne Knight pre-Newman!", and "Hey look-- it's Jennifer Grey pre-nose job!".
The more I learn about screenplay structure, the more dialogue and scenes seem stilted and contrived, not just in this movie but in others as well. "Oh, here his where Patrick Swazye defines his need." "This is Jennifer Grey's refusal of the call to adventure." But people love this movie, so the lesson must be not to think too much about how contrived something seems. When it works, it works.
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