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What is a good technical term for someone who is floppy-indignant towards “dance scenes” in movies?

Asked by ipso (4481points) June 17th, 2010

I have… ah, a friend, who thinks dance scenes are cheesy, contrived, and just so overwhelmingly ridiculous that he wants to understand better what this phobia might be properly called.

The technical idea is a severe breach of “aesthetic distance”.

The only “great” dance scenes my friend acknowledges are these:

- Reality Bites (1994) – stoned girls are great
– an unknown Japanese movie with a Geisha dancing – thought Kaidan, but not – TBD
Chaplin shoe dance – well before it all went wrong
The Holy Mountain (1932) – another pre-talkie
Reservoir Dogs – the only anti-dance scene I know of.

And for contrast, THE quintessential bad example

Note: Originally movie audiences did not understand non-diegetic sound. They had to have people dancing to relate to music in the scene, otherwise viewers would think “where did that come from?”. Now the movie language has evolved. I think My friend thinks that dance scenes are a throwback, and should be discarded.

What are some more good examples that might turn the tide? or bad examples!

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