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Because Johnny showed honor by accepting responsibility for his friend even though the easiest thing in the world would be to say 'not me'; he wouldn't shame her. Simple concept really. It takes a man to keep his mouth shut if you thing that is the right thing and let others blame it on you.
I understand he didn't want to make her feel shamed at that given time, but then later he could have just spoken to Baby's dad in private and tell him that he just said that cause he didn't want to feel shamed, and that he didn't really get her pregnant, and tell him in confidence, rather than taking the blame for it, and having the dad develop the wrong impression of him.
Yes, it actually is. At least I'm pretty sure, because honestly I have never been able to sit through the whole thing. DD is the epitome of everything bad about '80s movies. I think the longest I've ever been able to sit through it is forty minutes. Life is too short to waste on a bad movie.
The only other movie from that era that is wildly popular but actually an even worse movie is TOP GUN.
Johnny did not lie. Frances's father made an assumption and he didn't see the use in correcting him. Actually, he tried to, but the Dad didn't want to hear it.
JAKE: Don't you tell me what to see. I see someone in front of me who got his partner in trouble and sent her off to some butcher while he moved to an innocent young girl like my daughter.
JOHNNY: Yeah, I guess that's what you would see.
Whether he actually got that other dancer pregnant was beside the point. The father saw him as a low person regardless. The 'help'. Even Baby was afraid to tell her father about him. It was a big thing between the two of them. Watching the other's daughter's well-bred young man stroll along with the father.
But if you're looking too deeply at the plot, it's going to let you down regardless. They couldn't tell because he'd lose his job for dating a guest. In the end, to save him from the stealing charge, he got fired for being with her.
I was late teens when it came out and didn't get it's popularity either. Swayze seemed so out of Baby's league as to be completely unbelievable that he "fell" for her or whatever. I still don't get it, other than to guess it touched on every average girl's fantasy to get the super hot, super cool older guy? and yeah I get that he was poor and Baby came from a rich family, but this "couple" still lacked any semblence of chemistry imo.
I'm curious, any males here that found this movie spectacular?
I was an 80s teen. That film came out around my freshman year of college. I did not see it back then. And I still haven't seen it decades later. The song was very popular though - played excessively at the time on the radio.
If you want to watch a great Swayze film see "Pointbreak" with Keanu Reeves.
But all the ones you mentioned, accept for Ghost, are considerably better I think.
So what? Aren't there always better and worse?
Dirty Dancing was all about the dancing and the chemistry. Nothing else matters.
The reason it was a hit was because it had plenty of both, and still does. When every guy wants to be Patrick Swayze and every girl wants to be Jennifer Grey when they walk out, a movie is going to be memorable.
Nothing is inherently great about Dirty Dancing... or about any other movie ever made!
Some people like Dirty Dancing. Others don't. Some films push the buttons of a lot of people. Others are enjoyed only by a comparatively small number of people. That's the nature of subjectivity!
Why must you fixate on this idea that just because you don't like a popular film, that you're either missing something, or everyone else is wrong? I don't care for Dirty Dancing either, but I'm not baffled that others do. They just have different tastes than I.
I never thought Johnny TOLD the Dr. he was responsible for the pregnancy. Dr. just assumed it.
But honestly? You're way overthinking it. And guess what...just because lots of people like a movie doesn't mean everyone should.
The doctor saw a woman who was pregnant and got an abortion and said "Who is responsible for her", and Johnny said "I am".
How could Johnny possible not think that he just admitted to getting her pregnant, unless he's an idiot? Not once did this cross his mind, as to why the Dad didn't like him.
Then later, when the Dad accuses him of doing it, and Johnny says "Yeah, you would see that", and then leaves. Well duh, you told him you did. How is he not suppose to see that, when you said you did it? It was just really dumb of him I thought.
I know it's a movie and it's suppose to be romantic, but the fact that Johnny keeps painting himself into a corner and not realizing it, causes so many face palms for me, that sticks out. How am I suppose to enjoy the romance and music, when I can't help but face palm Johnny in this situation he makes worse for himself, when all he had do, was just explain.
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