On this day in 1983, one of the best movie soundtracks dropped, signaling the release of one of the best dance films of all time.
Four days later, the world met Alex Owens, played by the magnificent Jennifer Beals, a Yale student at the time who told The Guardian in 2022 that she deferred her schooling for the role because she was in pursuit of pure joy.
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View this post on Instagram“I didn’t even feel like I wanted control or impact,” she said, “I wanted joy, full stop. It was completely pleasure principle: ‘This is fun. I enjoy this. And I can feel myself expanding -- it’s really exciting and totally terrifying.’”
The film, directed by English creative force Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful, Fatal Attraction), follows Beals' 18-year-old dreamer whose days are spent in a steel mill and nights spent tearing up the dance floor, trying to prove that dreams can pirouette their way out of a hard hat and into the spotlight.
The film reached No. 1 at the box office in its second weekend of release and stayed at the top for three weeks, per Box Office Mojo. Making more than $92 million on a $7.5 million budget, it was certainly a huge success with fans. Critics, however, were a bit harsh, calling the film flat in narrative but dynamic in its dance sequences and Beals’ performance.
The soundtrack is a story all its own. An absolute hit, the record, produced by Giorgio Moroder, is widely considered one of the best and most influential albums of all time, selling 20 million copies worldwide and winning multiple awards, including an Oscar for Best Original Song for “Flashdance … What a Feeling.” The film was nominated for three others.
According to Billboard, the soundtrack spent 25 weeks on the Billboard 200, spending two weeks at No. 1 and bumping Michael Jackson’s lengthy Thriller run from the top spot. The soundtrack’s title single by Irena Cara spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and scored Cara a Grammy. “Maniac,” by Michael Sembello, also hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, enjoying 22 weeks on the chart and two at the top spot in September 1983.
The ultimate ’80s underdog tale, the film captured the zeitgeist of the time beyond just its song and dance, with sweatshirt sales soaring after the film’s release, per People, and leg warmers and ripped rehearsal gear launching into mainstream fashion as symbols of ambition and self-invention. Flashdance was an era-defining film and one that definitely deserves a revisit.
Flashdance is streaming on Prime Video.
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