Tuesday, March 08, 2005
I just finished watching Footloose. The title song is on one of our CDs at Curves and I heard it yesterday and it made me want to watch the movie. I hadn't watched it since I got it on DVD. I first watched something about the music in it. Very interesting. The guy who wrote the screenplay wrote all of the lyrics to all the songs. It was one of the first movies that the songs were written for the movie but not sung by characters. For each song, he thought about what was happening in the scene he wanted and who it was in it. He thought carefully about the voice needed for each song, because he wanted the song to be like the character. When he approached people to help with it (Kenny Loggins, Sammy Hagar, etc), he didn't even have a budget for the movie and only had the screenplay and lyrics to songs. So, he said it was basically a promise to them. So they helped write the music to go with the lyrics and sing the songs. And, you can see watching the movie after how well the songs fit. He said MTV was a great thing then. It was just becoming huge and they put the album out first, with videos. He said he went to a sneak preview they had of the movie and all these young girls were there. He asked them why they wanted to see it and they said they came to see Kevin Bacon dance (b/c they had seen him in the videos). How exciting...
boy was that a long paragraph.
boy was that a long paragraph.
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