dance fever

Yesterday I went to my singles ward FHE Oscars. There were four fabulous movies that were played and I played gurtrude in the oscar award winning movie "Love is a Battlefield." Well actually all the movies got some type of award because even though we are in college we still need to all get a prize, like when we were three. Well I guess if I didn't get a prize I would feel really sad. Back to the story. I was also a co-choreographer of the big dance scene, that, in my opinion, every movie should have. Our movie was pretty much just a compilation of a few movies from the 80's. We had a grandpa reading to a sick bulldog (a guy dressed up in the Provo High mascot suit that mysteriously disappeared a few years ago) like in Princess Bride. There was a guy holding a stereo above his head in front of a girl's house for a long time, like in one of the many 80's movies that John Cusack is in. Then there was a break up scene like in Better Off Dead, where the girl finds it in her best interest to date someone who drives a better car. (Another movie with John Cusack) And then there was the greatest part of the whole movie, the dance scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This was the dance scene that I was c0-choreographer of, well actually we just learned the steps from the movie, but who cares.

The weekend before the oscars our group got together and filmed the entire movie. We all dressed up in our 80's clothes that we secretly love and ran around BYU campus filming scenes. We caught a lot of peoples eyes and when I looked into their eyes I could see the jealousy in them because we looked so cool. or was it a look of pity. either way, people were looking at us. After hours of practicing on the stairs outside the Marriot Center we finally were able to film the twist and shout dance. We even had a section of people sliding down the railings, it was amazing.

After the editing was all done, we had a private viewing of the movie for the actors/actresses only. It was then that I realized that I will never be an actress. I simply don't have the "it" factor. It is a rare quality and I have accepted the fact that if I moved to hollywood I would'nt make a dime. It was also then that our entire group realized that our movie made little to no sense at all. We tried to take every 80's movie and weave them together into one beautiful tapestry of 80'sness. Instead we got a pile of... well lets just say it didn't quite turn out like I thought it would. I'm not saying I didn't like it because I did, I just think that its one of those things where if you weren't personally involved, then it doesn't make sense and its not really funny. But it was all worth it to get the "Doggy Flick of the Year" award. I guess they gave us that award because we had a big bulldog in our movie, very creative.