That Part In The Movie Where Song And Dance Gets You All Teary-Eyed...

[needlefingers]

Satruday Night Fever?

Flashdance?

Beat Street?

Choosing from the club/street/dance movies of the '70's and '80's, at what part do you lose it and get weepy? When song and dance collide into a perfect moment.

I have 2.

In Breakin, when they take over the audition...




And the sequal, Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo, at the end, when Carol Lynn Townes sings...



The last video was re-dubbed with the lp track, but I love the film editing matching up with the hand claps and the balloons.

Hokey wins!!!

[Dayna]

This has to be it..
Due to the memories and magic from this time in my life and the era in general..

[JussiK]

YouTube - The Last Days of Disco: End Credits

...if I may be allowed to include this later example? -When the film came out who did I bump into walking out of the Notting Hill branch of Agnes B but Matt Keeslar, seen here with Chloe Sevigny. We chatted for c 45 seconds, about this scene mostly. The moment when the whole car gets up to dance is one of the most joyous/bittersweet sequences in film history.

[Dayna]

YouTube - The Last Days of Disco: End Credits

...if I may be allowed to include this later example? -When the film came out who did I bump into walking out of the Notting Hill branch of Agnes B but Matt Keeslar, seen here with Chloe Sevigny. We chatted for c 45 seconds, about this scene mostly. The moment when the whole car gets up to dance is one of the most joyous/bittersweet sequences in film history.

Jussi..I love that too~!
Matt Keeslar is SO HOT~! haha..That was very a "feel good"ending..

[needlefingers]

I never saw The Last Days Of Disco, though I have the soundtrack.

I thought it was a "yuppie" movie not set in the disco era. But I just read the synopsis online and will have to watch it now.

[drlove]

My memory (sometimes faulty) says in the opening sequence of "Skatetown USA" (1979), a deejay dressed up as a Wizard goes in the deejay booth and "zaps" the various lights on, then zaps skaters to "roll" on down the entry chute onto the rink, and finally, just as he zaps the huge dance floor to suddenly be filled by roller-disco skaters, the soundtrack booms Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive".

I can't think of any better song to drive-home this fantastic retro-dance sequence that makes me quite wistful (upon occasional viewings) for the innocence of youth spent under some twirling disco lights.