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Tractor Chicken!?!?! Anger Dancing?!?!?! WTF!!!

posted 16 years ago by s.kelly-25
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I can't believe no one ont this board has mentioned that two of the most awesome scenes in film history are contained in this film.

#1. I could not stand it I was laughing so hard. Apparently this is how they settle their differences in small towns. By playing tractor chicken. I never knew such a thing existed. Thank you Footloose for bringing this joy into my life.

#2. I can't stand this small town and their rules. I NEED AN 80'S MONTAGE AND AFTER I CHUCK THIS BEER (ugh!) I'VE GOTTA DANCE. WEE! Kevin Bacon's moves are so damn hilarious I couldn't breathe. Literally. This scene almost killed me. I had to concentrate to tell my lungs to bring in air. But then he swung from the ceiling like Tarzan and I lost it again. Then I lost it even more when he did a gymnastics routine at the end of it. Without question this is one of the greatest scenes ever created in all of cinema.

The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed.

[–] Hancock_the_Superb 16 years ago

I disagree about the first, but the second certainly was funny as hell.

"You bastard!"
"Yes, sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, sir - you're a self-made man."

[–] shadycargo 16 years ago

You're awesome.

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[–] thummper13 16 years ago

OK Seriously folks you are commenting on this film like it was made last year. HELLO!!! It was 1984 back then kids didnt write horrible stuff on the walls...it was much more innocent then

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[–] jack_skellington_ 16 years ago

You have put into words what I have not been able to express. Thank you.
The Anger Dancing scene remains one of the single most affecting sequences I have ever come across. It's pure poetry. Poetry of hilarity. I cried.

this isn't me, i'm not mechanical

[–] marvellous1 16 years ago

People taking the mick out the anger dance scene obviously:

1) Just don't get musicals, which is what Footloose is an updated version of in film terms.

and

2) Haven't seen West Side Story and the number "Cool". Now THAT is anger dancing!

Whatever gets the juices going though. I mean, some people get pumped from watching Rocky train and the song "Gotta Fly Now" makes people want to fight.

[–] Clemencedane 12 years ago

I thought West Side Story was ridiculous, too. Real life gangs were beating and knifing each other back then, not doing group dance scenes.

[–] PsychoDingo 12 years ago

when I want real life, I'll go outside

Who cares about stairs? The main thing is ice cream.

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[–] Laurie217 16 years ago

In the movie Hotrod with Andy Samberg, they spoof the anger dancing scene. Hilarious!!!

[–] Lonepalm4444 16 years ago

Oh Goodness! thank you! I'm a little kinda buzzed and just started watching this movie for the first time and, yes! I have never laughed at two scenes harder! this is the exact post I needed to see! love it! I love how hard they try to infuse the soundtrack into the movie. Phenomenal! not much more I can say now. back when I finish the flick. ohhh, Bacon!

[–] KCantu 16 years ago

For all of you folks not from small town America, this is not fiction. They really do ban kids having fun. You won't find kids dancing or even listening to music out in public, the cops would be all over that in a second.

You don't have to worry about the preacher burning books from the library, because the books worthy of Christian scrutiny would never be put there in the first place. Believe me, I know. I'm from Kansas, the state that tried to remove evolution from its school criteria and replace it with "Christian Science".

I don't know about the whole tractor chicken thing. Usually if some slick looking city kid comes to town, the redneck kids just beat the sh!t out of him unless he proves himself tougher than they.

The synopsis keeps calling this movie unlikely. What's unlikely about it? The only thing unlikely is that the small town idiots would relent and let their kids do anything remotely stimulating.

Next time you laugh at this movie, think about what small town kids are really doing for fun...Getting drunk, high, and pregnant. That's no joke. In Podunk, USA, there is NO difference between 2009 and 1984.

[–] crockett_john 12 years ago

There's some truth to what you've said. I grew up in small towns. In one of them, when I was around 14 or 15, if I was out (walking) after 11:00 at night, I'd get the police harassing me and telling me there was a curfew and that I needed to get home or end up in jail. There was no curfew. They would just make it up.

The tractor chicken scene and angry dancing were two pretty funny scenes, though. If I remember correctly, they played that Bonnie Tyler song that was popular at the time. I wonder how many movies that song appeared in for dramatic effect. I know it was in one of the "Short Circuit" movies. "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? Where's the blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah..."

[–] EvangelionPerson 16 years ago

i thaught the anger dancing scene was amazing. i was awe struck.

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