Ch-Ch-Changes: And It’s a Dance-Off

After putzing around with ideas for the past few weeks, the new format is about set.  The Monday Movie Match-Ups have proven popular enough to stick.  Only now they’re moving to Fridays.  I’ve gotta give another nod to Ironic Mom for an assist on the new title we’re going with: The Friday Flick Faceoff.  Film just isn’t as fun as flick, eh?

These features are running together.  Faithful Facebooker Arty saw the headline for this week’s Wikipedia Wednesday article Jack the Ripper and Sesame Street and thought he was voting for some strange movie match-up!  He said, “For the heck of it I would go with the Sesame Street Movie.”  Yeah, me too I think.

Before we get our Kevin Bacon on, I’ll just mention that my weekly article will now appear on Mondays.  I know, I know.  No one cares and yes I’ll wait whilst you alert the networks.  I was planning on making the switch to start 2011 until yesterday when a brand new course on American Government suddenly plopped in my lap.  I now have an entire prep for a new course to be taught over the next few weekends.  Hence the schedule change.  Okay, I believe we made it through that shocking development without the world spinning off its axis.

Time to cut loose and get your hair dirty. I don't know what that means.

Back to Ironic Mom and Arty.  How strange that they both suggested the exact same movie match-up, er, flick faceoff?  What are the odds that two people would suggest Footloose vs. Flashdance?  Well, I guess the odds would be pretty good had I been talking to Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Beals, but I digress.

Kevin Bacon has been well chronicled around the eduClaytion Nation, but I have to admit I didn’t know who Jennifer Beals was until I went to see Twister with Sister Sarcasm years ago.  She asked me if the one lady was Beals.  “Who’s that?” I asked.  Apparently everyone should know who Beals is since she took a shower on that chair in Flashdance.  Whatevs, I said.  I come from the Paula Abdul era.  She danced with a cartoon cat and took on an entire waterfall without any chairs. 

At any rate, we must not miss a chance to play 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.  Flashdance star Jennifer Beals was in Twister (not really) with Bill Paxton who appeared in Tombstone with Kurt Russell who appeared with Mel Gibson in Tequila Sunrise (1988).  Gibson and Julia Roberts were in Conspiracy Theory (1997) together, and Roberts was in Flatliners (1990) with Bacon.  So there’s a tidy 5 degrees for ya to connect today’s faceoff.

So, I’ve never seen Flashdance, but I’m here to give the people what they want, and I’ve already had this faceoff suggested by people in two different countries.  Also, I like the alliterations of the Fs.

So welcome to the First Friday Flick Face-off Featuring Footloose vs. Flashdance.  It’s a dance-off. 

The Friday Flick Faceoff features films that somehow share a common thread.  Cast your vote anyway you like and don’t worry if you’ve seen the movies or not cause in a true democracy you only need a pulse to participate.  Love to hear why you picked what you picked though.