Official Footloose Live-Twitter Open Thread

Hey folks, I’ll be updating this post over the next couple hours with my Tweets from the Footloose Live-Twitter Extravaganza. I’ll also be posting Videos and photos here to add to the experience. Find out more about how to follow along at Twitter here and here.

Here are my Tweets from ““Twootloose: A Live Twitter Examination of the Social, Political and Moral Implications of Footloose”

I now present: “Twootloose: A Live Twitter Examination of the Social, Political and Moral Implications of Footloose” - Hit play

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Opening credits. A young Michael Flatley saw this and his life changed

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Footloose came out 25 years ago. A remake is coming staring some cute kid as kevin Bacon

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Raise your hand if you wore leg-warmers in 1984? - you know you did

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Kenny Loggins will either be remembered for Footloose or Highway to the Danger zone. Either way, not pretty

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Rev. Lithgow sets the premise immediately - Rock & roll is noise pollution. Rock & Roll is gonna kill ya.

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Mmmmm.. Rock & Roll = easy sexuality

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Kevin Bacon is Ren - an aging teen with an attitude

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A young Ted Haggard saw Rev. Lithgow’s opening speech and his life changed

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Lori Singer is Ariel, the Rev. Lithgow’s daughter - She shares a moment with Ren. She has wildness that one

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Sarah Jessica Parker!!!!

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There is teen pregnancy mentioned. This town is full of Sin

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Lori Singer’s boyfriend shows up. He’s hunky. And never seen again after this movie

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The infamous car scene - Singer is a rebel

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Singer is hanging from two cars. She’s a a crazy rebel

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she is now straddling both cars, as a truck bears down on her - She is, in fact, dangerously suicidal and insane

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Ren is hanging with the adults. Possibly, because he is an adult

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Ren reads Vonnegut! You can hear a sin drop!

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Ren is quite an intense young man. Prone to gazing and pondering

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A small child thinks Ren is a “fox” Rev. Lithgow points out that this is proof society is a hellish nightmare

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Who should play Rev. Lithgow in remake? Ashcroft? Palin?

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OH DEAR LORD> Singer plays music at a drive in!!!!

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The teens, bursting with hormones can’t help dancing. Even the super creepy short order cook dances. Creepily.

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Rev. Lithgow stops the music!!!!!

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This town is just a small little slice of the Taliban, located in the good ol’ U.S.

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Y’know, for a town that’s not allowed to dance, they sure can do the white-guy, lip-bite shuffle

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Ren’s first day at school. He’s an outsider. He’s a rebel. He’s in his mid-20s

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Ladies and gentleman, a round of applause for Chris Penn

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Ren makes fun of Penn’s ha(t). A bromance begins

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Chris Penn is now Stimpy to Bacon’s Ren

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ooooooh. Ren has slow danced with a girl.

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Awwwww, psyche! Ren was just lying about liking girls

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Ren learns dancing is illegal - Money Quote “Jump back?”

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Ren is struggling to deal with the complexities of a non-dancing society

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Ren likes Men at Work. His coolness is almost blinding

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The cops pull Ren over. With no black people in town to harass, they go after the metrosexual new kid

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There’s no dancing allowed because some kids died in a car crash. GOP logic - dancing kills, it must be stopped

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Lithgow :”You know, I can’t always be with Ariel … That’s why I need to lock you in the basement

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oooooohhh Rev. Lithgow is such a hypocrite. Classical music is good, rock & Roll confuses the mind

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Singer’s boyfriend has a seething hatred for Ren. Ren puts him in his place

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Ren’s looking for work - but can’t operate a palate Jack. Maybe they can send him to a school to learn

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Ren’s boss lets him know he’s dangerous. A 5’6, 120 pound, hair-moused ball of danger

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Singer is cut out for more than that little town. She’s cut out for a nationwide crime spree

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You don’t let kids dance - they resort to tractor chicken races. this is the price for not letting kids dance

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Singer’s BF goes 420 on us. He is now my favorite character

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These are the most suicidal group of non-dancing white kids evah!!!

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Everyone screams as the tractors bear down on each other at 5 mph

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Sing it - Holding on for a hero!!!

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This chicken tractor race is the most exciting thing ever. And it takes 20 minutes

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Ren wins He’s more suicidal!!!

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So they destroyed a tractor. That’s the price to pay for coolness

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Sarah Jessica Parker has been spying on Ren. That’s basically how she kept busy pre- Sex & the City - stalking Kevin Bacon

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Ren says no to drugs!!!!

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Ren just can’t avoid trouble. It finds him. He’s a rebel. Like James Dean. On a hunger strike

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Ok, we are about to see the greatest scene in the history of cinema

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An angry Ren is a dancing Ren!

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That Kevin Bacon’s career survived the angry dancing scene is testament to how bad ass Kevin Bacon is

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Ren suffers premature dancegasm as Singer interrupts him

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Singer is literally bubbling with sexuality. Ren accuses her of being a slut. Or at least kissing a lot

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When a hot Rev.’s daughter says “You wanna see something” you say yes. Period

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They have a secret hideout for poetry

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The sexual tension between SInger and Ren is so strong, you need a sexual tension cutting device of some kind

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Singer eyes another suicide opp. An oncoming train!!!!!

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When I first watched this, I didn’t see how nuts Singer was. She is certifiable

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Have you been drinking? “No, just dodging trains and hanging out with that dangerous dancing gymnast

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Ren likes porn. Just another sign of his rebellion

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Who will Ren kiss first - Chris Penn or Lori Singer?

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Rev. Lithgow is spreading the word of small-town goodness. He lives in the real America

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Ren’s plans of organizing a dance are found out. Another sign that waterboarding works

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Luckily, just outside the small town is a cowboy bar that doesn’t check IDs.

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Chris Penn’s darkest secret - he can’t dance. He has lived with this shame for so long. But Ren will help

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Was he John Cougar, John Mellencamp, or John Cougar Mellencamp in 1984

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We’re at the scene where they are in the cowboy bar, smokin, drinkin, dancin. Just generally sinnin’

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Chris Penn lives in a non-dancing hell. It will not end well for him

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rur roh, creepy cowboy alert

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“Why don’t you just flake off!” This cowboy talks the talk. Then punches Penn out. He walks the walk also it seems

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We now learn why dancing is banned - drunk-driving deaths on a bridge. And one was Lithgow’s son. It’s all coming together now

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Diane Weist, the best actress in the film, has now had 2 full minutes of screen time

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Singer and Rev. Lithgow just can’t get along. He’s a conservative puritan that hits her, she’s an insane maniac that gets hit

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Let’s update - there’s no dancing or drinking, but lots of weed, tractor chicken, hidden dancing and poetry and Chris Penn

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Ren hits the streets to push his dance agenda

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The tough kids start man-handling Ren. Singer comes to his rescue. They find someone else to violently harass

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Ren’s the kinda guy who hangs out having important discussions in the showers.

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A montage!!!!

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Let’s all learn how to dance. If Chris Penn can, so can you!!!

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Penn & Bacon, dancing together. Seriously, I’m getting kinda hot

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Wrong Penn @martyeisenstadt Chris is the dead one

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For a town that outlawed dancing, there is sure a lot of dancing.

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Montage over! Penn can dance!!! In a way.

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A brief discussion of book burning. You give the Taliban an inch, they take a mile

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Tucker Carlson had a cameo as a book burner. Did not know that

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Singer’s doper BF is so jealous of Ren. He hits Singer! Pot-smokers the world over lose a hero

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Ren is not particularly concerned with the Singer beat down. He’s got a dance to fight for

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Well, nothing like a little episode of violence against women to lighten the mood

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Ren kisses her a bit like I imagine Ted Haggard kisses his wife

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“When kids dance they become sexually irresponsible,” Rev. Lithgow

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I could use some sexual irresponsibility. Just sayin.

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Can @mileycyrus pull off the SInger role? I just don’t see it.

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Hey kids!! Let’s go to the Town Council and see if they’ll allow us to put on a show!!

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Adam Lambert as Ren??? Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Singer has a trick up her sleeve - she’s actually read the Bible.

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And now a little vandalism.

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Ren is on a mission - It’s more than just dancing. It’s about his father who abandoned him. It’s all coming together now

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Ren is one deep bastard. A deep, possibly bi-sexual, gymnast, dancing, deep bastard

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Ren speaks to the Town council…Mr. Lithgow Take Down this Dancing Ban!!!

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Dancing = spiritual corruption. Delicious, delicious spiritual corruption.

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Diane Weist stands up for Ren!!! She has so secured 47 roles in Woody Allen movies with this act

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remember people. There is a time to dance. “This is our time to dance!” says Ren

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Ren’s boss finds a loophole!!! They can dance on the other side of city lines!

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Good news for Singer, she hasn’t been hit, or tried to commit suicide in more than 15 minutes

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You see Rev. Lithgow talk and you think, damn, I bet he’d make a great alien

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OMG. Singer is not a virgin. 3,543 blood vessels spontaneously burst in Lithgow’s forehead

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Lithgow, realizing his daughter does it and the town is becoming a book-burning Nazi regime, has an epiphany! Who are we to judge

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Ren & Lithgow sit down to negotiate. Lithgow accepts diplomacy and now likes Ren. Lithgow is such a RINO

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If @mikearama can go down to that warehouse and get pictures of himself dancing, he wins the Internet Forevah!

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Rev. Lithgow caves!!! He will allow dancing!!! Soon, people will be able to marry pigs in Beaumont. That’s how these things work

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They can dance! Cue Kenny Loggins!!

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Ok, let me get this straight - no dancing, but no helmet law for riding a motorcycle.

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It was at this point that Twitter notified me that I had Tweeted too much for the hour. So, sadly, I was unable to Tweet the final dance scenes that ended the movie. Despite getting cut off, it was a hell of a lot of fun. So let’s dance!

-WKW