Strictly Ballroom: Rewatching classic Australian films.
This essay will demonstrate how the film supports the value of individualism through character construction and camera work. Strictly Ballroom focuses on characters, beginning by satirizing dancers whose lives are dominated by the strict regulations of the Federation. Luhrmann uses mock interviews cut into the dancing scenes to introduce the main characters, and their reactions to Scott.
It’s pure entertainment and a great afternoon family film. It is the story of Scott. A dancer who dreams of one day breaking the mould and dancing his own unique steps but this is to everyone around him and his dance groups disapproval. He meets an amateur dancer called Fran who is the only one who seems to believe in him. Here starts a lovely relationship both on and off the dance floor. A.
In Baz Luhrmann’s film Strictly Ballroom, characters such as Scott Hastings are significantly impacted by the barriers associated with the ballroom dancing world’s control of individuality and requirement to conform before they are able to feel accepted. This is also demonstrated though Fran and her struggle to meet the standards of the glamorized world compared to her depleted world.
Essay on Narrative Structure in Strictly Ballroom Narrative structure plays an important role in engaging the audience in a film, while at the same time in promoting particular ways of thinking about the world. In Strictly Ballroom, narrative structure is especially important in conveying the idea that, through determination and dedication, it is possible to defeat the status quo and assert.
The film is a fairy tale, with shades of Dirty Dancing (or actually, Dirty Dancing resembles Strictly Ballroom). It tells the story of a young man called Scott, who comes from a family that revolves around dancing. Ballroom dancing in particular, and the world of championships, sequins, bow ties, elaborate costumes and spray tan. It is all about winning, and to win you have to play by the.
The film that introduced us to Baz Luhrmann is perhaps his most grounded work to date. There are some flashy and quirky characters, but what I loved was it feels more as a character study in comparison to his later and most recent work where everything feels so (often unecessary) huge and over the top.
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