"A wonderful film"
Today I bring you an interesting proposal from the artistic and historical point of view. It is the second installment of the well-known "Dirty Dancing" that Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray back in 1987, and that both box office success was in theaters.To choose the distribution of this second part took into account the requirements of a passionate love story. Ferland (the director); explains: "One of the things that differentiate from the original film is the origin of the history of love." "Katey and Javier are very good friends before falling in love". I had to find players to succeed in making this stage credible, as well as sexy and romantic.
Romola Garai
Romola Garai, the star who began his career in "nicholas nickleby" and "I Capture the Castle" played Katey Miller, an exemplary student that Ferland describes as "a little lonely, absorbed by the books." The way for Romola is perfect for the world and the time that narrates the film. "And as Katey, he is very intelligent."Garai says that Katey initially refused to look beyond their books. "Katey wants not to be in Cuba;" She is studying and has outlined its goals and ambitions. "It is a very serious person and finds it difficult to adapt to the warm and passionate Cuban life style."To give life to Javier, Ferland sought an actor capable of transmitting a Joie de vivre that leave you defenseless Katey. He chose the young and charismatic Mexican actor Diego Luna, who starred in the success of Alfonso Cuarón "Y Tu Mamá También". Ferland tells us: "Just look him in the face and look at her smile to realize that is joyful and carefree character." It is precisely the best friend that Katey needs. "And the chemistry between Romola and Diego arose from the moment in which put them face to face in a screen test."
Diego Luna
The Idyll that is born between Katey and Javier is the first for both. Although Javier is the head of the family, it lacks the necessary experience to know what to do when she falls in love with this American girl. Moon describes him thus: "Javier has to take very important decisions, but not really more than a boy." "He knows nothing of love, nor what it means to be in love".Garai and Luna became friends as soon as he started filming, the two actors had to deal with the same challenge: giving life to two characters from different countries and environments. Producer Sarah Green says: "Romola hid his British accent and became a real American." Diego became Cuban Mexican roots and began to speak English with a Cuban accent. Brought a touch of freshness into history thanks to this challenge that had to deal with. "And that made it even more interesting the love story between two very different people."To choose the parents of Katey, Bert and Jeanne Miller, the filmmakers had to take into account both the past of the Miller as champions of dance hall, as the reason for that go to Havana. Ferland sums it up well: "These two actors as well as attractions and agile;" they had to look like dancers. "They should also give the impression have succeeded in life, to be successful executives."Green added: "the film is set in the 1950s, when people married and had very young children." "We needed a young and attractive couple."Sela Ward, winning an Emmy for "Once and again" Star, played Jeannie Miller. Green points out: "Sela is very beautiful and elegant and has a body of dancer." It also has a very peculiar character, a very important factor as Jeannie and Katey fight tirelessly throughout the film. "Sela is able to make you believe that despite arguing with her daughter her he wants with madness."
Sela Ward
Ward points out that the reactions of his character are inevitably influenced by his own experience as a dancer's room. "Jeanne left his career and the dance to have children." "Why, see his daughter on the dance floor doing what she longs for both him produces a sweet and sour sensation".With Ward we see actor John Slattery, who has starred in the HBO "K street" movie. Green became excited about the performance of Slattery "Traffic", which earned multiple Oscar ®, and considers it one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. "John is one of those camaleónicas people immersed completely in their role." It emanates a simplicity and a sweetness that make it perfect for this role. He is fatherly without being the typical father. "In addition, John has the elegance, the charisma and style that we needed for Bert," says the producer.
John Slattery
There is another renowned film dancer: Patrick Swayze. The star of the original movie "dirty Dancing" embodies a hotel dance teacher. The first time it appears on the screen, Swayze character is doing a demonstration with his partner, played by Jansen, the choreographer for the film and a source of inspiration for the character of Katey. In a later sequence, Katey and it helps you to overcome their fears. "The Professor of dance is a key mentor for Katey both practical and emotional level." "It is the only person that can go, since you can not confess to his parents to participate in the dance contest with Javier," noted Jansen. And adds: "Count on Patrick Swayze for the role was a gift double." "Obviously it is completely credible as a teacher of dance and also gave us the perfect opportunity to pay tribute to the first film".
Patrick Swayze
And continues: "Dance with Swayze was incredible." It's very imaginative and attentive; It has a tremendous integrity when it rehearses and dances. It is a fantastic dancer and a really lovely person. "We pleased count on him".Mika Boorem, which received critical acclaim for his performance in the movie surf "blue crush" (on the edge of the waves), she played Susie, her sister Katey small. Green indicates Boorem character is very different from her older sister. "Susie is the popular girl, which fits into any site." Mika is bold and fun, so it was perfect for the character. Susie Katey fight like all teenagers, but also want and support. "And Mika has captured all these facets", emphasizes Green.
Mika Boorem
The Cuban actor René Lavan gives life to Carlos, the older brother of Javier. As with the Miller sisters, the relationship between Carlos and Javier is based on competitiveness and the Fellowship; in the case of the Suarez brothers, their relationship is complicated because of the revolution. The way Carlos reflects the struggle for freedom in Cuba. Green says: "Carlos is very committed to the cause and leaves aside his family, but has a compelling reason to do so." "René brings a touch of humanity to a radical character, because it manages to convey the love professed Carlos and Javier, that will ultimately be forgive each other".
René Lavan
Completing the secondary cast are Jonathan Jackson, who gives life to James Phelps, lover of Katey, and January Jones as Eve, the ringleader of the Group of teenagers. Green commends the two actors have avoided stereotypes portraying American youths in a bubble of privilege and sophistication. "His characterizations were very smart," he says. "We didn't want to that James was a stereotype but a normal boy that comes big situation and just lose control." "Jonathan portrayed very well to this character that despite having some defects is sexy and attractive".
Jonathan Jackson
January Jones
And continues: "January had fun playing Eve, but also provided many other things as well as comical character." Firstly, he is very intelligent and is noticeable in his portrait of Eve. Also gave the character a touch of very personal humour. "It is not an unpleasant, but rather funny character."
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As in the original movie "dirty Dancing", "Dirty Dancing: havana nights" combine love, dance, and a personal history. In 1958, JoAnn Jansen was a teenager living in St. Louis, Missouri, when they moved to Havana to his father, an Executive of Reynolds aluminum. Jansen did not wanted to leave St. Louis, but he had no other choice. His family became part of the American community who lived in luxury hotels in Havana, where they lived a King and socializaban in exclusive clubs field, ostentatious private parties and opulent nightclubs/casinos. She moved to a new country was a real shock cultural, to put it in some way. Jansen remembers him thus: "We were a family of middle class and, suddenly, lived in a luxury hotel with domestic service and a driver available twenty-four hours a day." "Is that we were part of the American upper class, but I I fell in love with a latino boy who discovered me an incredible country".
Discover Cuba also met a culture in which the dance and music are part of everyday life. Jansen danced well; He had studied ballet for years and his parents were professional dancers from Hall. But the form of dance in Cuba - the mode in which moves people, the way in which they rub bodies - was a world apart. For Cubans, the dance was also a way to express themselves through the body. Jansen tells us: "Never seen anything even remotely similar to the way dancing I discovered in Havana." But it was not just something sexual; He also had to do with body freedom and expression. I discovered that you can move your body as you want. It is part of your personality and nobody can retrieve you it. "The Cuban people are well aware".
The experience of Jansen in Cuba influenced many facets of his life, including the decision to become a professional dancer. Jansen headed his own modern dance company in New York when she met Lawrence Bender, who began his career as a dancer and actor. They became friends and ended up working together when Bender became a producer and worked on films such as Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and "Fresh" from Boaz Yakin. Since then, Bender and Janson have worked in the development of the film version of the experience that Jansen lived during his teenage years. The pieces finally fit when Bender became involved in the production of a new installment of "dirty Dancing". Bender tells us: "I was talking with JoAnn and Boaz Yakin and we realized that the story of JoAnn was perfect for a movie"dirty Dancing"." Before he was dancer, so the prospect of making a musical or dance film made me very excited. "It was a project I wanted to make long."
Yakin undertook to draw up an initial script, and in 2001, Bender and Jansen presented his idea to Artisan Entertainment and Miramax Films, which had formed a team to produce the new "Dirty Dancing". Bender claims that no one considered that the project was to replace the first film. "I loved 'dirty Dancing'". "It is a very special film," he declares, pointing out that since the movie was released in 1987 he became "a real phenomenon." The public had never seen a few dances like those. But the interesting thing about this story is Cuba. Somehow, Cuba is a kind of forbidden fruit. "Most Americans have never been in Cuba, but is a country that has a strange fascination".
"The characters and the unique scenario of the film were the main elements that convinced the acclaimed director Guy Ferland, who has collaborated on projects for the likes of"the shield"television series (The Shield: the margin of the law) and the award-winning TV film Bang, Bang, You're Dead" Peabody. "What attracted me most was that the protagonists are almost polar opposites and however, are a point in common emotional ground." "Today, seems to me a very interesting topic for use in a movie", he declares Ferland. "The atmosphere prevailing in Cuba in 1958 was above all musical and cultural." And what we have done is to explore these two elements from the perspective of a naive American teenager. "For this reason, the film is not just a story of love, but also a musical, a drama and a story about a culture and a different country".
The choreography of "Dirty Dancing: havana nights" comes from the narrative and covers a wide and attractive range of styles. The choreographer Joann Jansen produced numbers of dance for each of the four major dance premises: the Palace, where the contestants perform dances structured; the black rose, the underground club where the Cuban dance extremely bold way; the club de campo, where the American teenagers go to dance the rock and roll in the 1950s; and the streets and cobbled squares of Havana, where Cubans of all ages dancing to the beat of the street music.
Describing the fabulous Jansen choreography for the film Ferland declares: "Succeeded in fusing many styles." The sauce was just the beginning; There were also merengue, mambo, Afro dances and dance hall. "All beautifully mixed by JoAnn".
In the film, the emotional changes are expressed through dance. For example, as Katey is changed, is feeling more comfortable with the incandescent Afro rhythms. Jansen explains: "Katey is a girl who is locked up in itself, but this type of dance require body contact and have to be carried away by your partner." So Katey not can learn is that memory. You have to follow Javier rhythm of the music and let the rhythm of the drums to mark his body movements. And in the end it reaches the point that can penetrate inside and release itself. "Dance is the way they express their sensuality and its passage from girl to woman."
Katey and Javier are both experienced dancers who bring different to their secret relationship styles. However, neither Garai nor moon had experience as dancers, so the first task of Jansen was to teach them the skills and the steps that their characters already knew or were going to learn. Before you begin production, actors spent ten weeks in Puerto Rico train eight hours a day with Jansen and other four dancers and choreographers.
" It was like to return to the college: we had to get up early very much to be going to work. We receive classes of Afro-Cuban dances, tango, sauce, full and many things more ", he remembers Moon. Garai and he also found out on the historical context in which there arose some of these dances.
" It was very interesting to study the African influence in the dance of the Carib. For example, the teacher was showing us a step of Flemish style and was making clear to us that the slaves had invented it to joke of his owners. Then we were going out in the night and saw the people doing this type of movements. In this moment you you realize that these African influences are present in his lives ".
And he continues saying: " Every day we were beginning with an hour of warming, later we were practising the game of feet for the sauce and we were testing during an hour with our pair before the rest to eat. After the rest, the training was ending with the choreography ". Jansen explains it to us: " we Start by creating numbers and combinations of movements with the arms and the feet. When you dance with someone the arms they do not do the same thing that the feet; in certain way, your body is divided in two. Romola and Diego had to learn to move the feet to the pace of the maracas whereas his arms were following another different pace. It is a professionals' work ".
The first number of dance that Jansen created is one of two dances that Katey and Javier interpret in the Palace. " It is a mixture of what Katey learns of Javier in the Black Rose and of what Javier learns of Katey on flamenco dancing. We them fuse and turn his number into an elegant and agile flamenco dancing that goes transforming in a funky, sexy, Afro-Cuban and sensual dance ".
Garai and Luna practised the number again and again, until it stopped being a simple choreography to turn into something more visceral. Garai remembers the moment into which finally they fitted all the pieces: " Two weeks before it will finish the period of tests, we realize the number three times. We still had the first time acceptable; we did everything in his time and it was not bad. The second time they said to us: ' you Have to feel it '; we do not still had the technology very polished, but it had more energy and passion great, we were more dedicated. The third time the technology and the emotions were fused, suddenly everything flew simultaneously ".
From this moment, the choreography turned into an authentic teamwork of Jansen, Garai and Luna. Jansen comments: " When we were testing other scenes of dance, Romola and Diego already had the necessary knowledge to say: ' I Believe that it should do this step to construct the history, because it is better the one that expresses the feelings of my personage in this moment '. The dance was going out of them, of the feelings of his prominent figures and of the point in which they were in the history. Because of it, the spectators will have the sensation that these boys are teaching something to him for then interpret it ".
Curiosities
1.-The script belongs to Boaz Yakin and the debutant Victoria Arch, which base on the royal history of the producer JoAnn Jansen, who moved to Cuba with his family in 1958.
2.-When the filming of the movie promised to be Ricky Martin and Natalie Portman was mentioned as possible protagonists.
3.-He appears as the second part of "Dirty Dancing" (1987), led by the missing person Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray, though the history passes years before that that of the first delivery.
4.-None of the protagonists could dance Sauce and 10 weeks happened in Puerto Rico training 8 daily hours with JoAnn Jansen.
Synopsis
Havana, November, 1958. Katey Miller, of 18 years, is discovering an innate curiosity for the Hispanic thing in his new life in the capital of Cuba, where his father is destined as executive of the Chrysler. She has gone to classes of flamenco dancing, and wait to join the group of American, neighboring young persons of the Miller in the exclusive hotel Oceana. Then it knows Javier, a waiter that he turns out to be an excellent dancer. Determined to learn these spectacular movements, which Javier seems to take in the blood, Katey convinces him in order that she is his pair in a prestigious national contest of dance that is celebrated in the club Palace. Together they will begin to test his sensual and harmonious steps in the Havana nightclub, while the passion begins to grow between them...
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Director: Guy Ferland
Country: USA
Genre: musical Drama
Duration: 86 min.
Scriptwriters: Boaz Yakin and Victoria Arco
Producers: Lawrence Bender and Sarah Green
Executive producers: Jennifer Berman
Rachel Cohen
Amir Malin Jacob
Bob Osher
Meryl Poster
Original music: Heitor Pereira
It comes out in photographs: Anthony B: Richmond
Publishers: Luis Colina and Scott Richter
Actors:
 | Diego Luna (Javier Suárez) | |
 | Romola Garai (Katey Miller) | |
 | Sela Ward (Jeannie Miller) | |
 | John Slattery (Miller Bert) | |
 | Jonathan Jackson (James Phelps) | |
 | January Jones (Eva) |
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Qué Tengo Pa' Tí
2012
2012
