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Partly a (mid-2020) Dance Club roster highlight (ouch, none for Yamagishi, though? or Maria), but contains more general H!P group dance features.
Fred and Gene each had a lot of different screen partners, but this has that sublime sync you can find from the best ice dancers with dedicated partners. Being married for 8 years by this point probably helps.
(Marge and Gower Champion's "Someone to Watch Over Me" scene from the 1955 movie "Three For The Show", choreographed by Jack Cole)
Writing level: the noticeable quality difference (which can't be helped by the actors) is a key part of the characterization and plotting.
Which isn't to say that George isn't still a top tier dancer! The gap is waaaay smaller than, say, the Sinatra/Kelly team-ups. George, after all, did pair with Eleanor (and Buddy) as the actual leading man in 1938.
This is still true to the characterization and plotting in this movie, as King is able to execute to the satisfaction of anyone who hasn't seen Johnny yet.
What are Astaire Protocols?
Apologies for using the jargon, it is true that there is no such term specifically called the Astaire Protocols that anyone used at the time.
Fred had creative control over his dance numbers, and one of his insistences was that the camera stick to full-body framing, and do long takes (single takes if possible). Avoid cuts and weird angles (especially closeups), because it's all about watching the dancer dance, not the camera.
What's the point of the choreographer and performers putting in all of that work if we don't get to see it as they did when creating their art, full-body in the mirror? Cuts are distractions, as well as undercutting the performers' ability to pull off the entire number in one go.
This can generalize to e.g. martial arts or sword fights in film.
(I wonder if there's something to connect to the portrait orientation of modern mobile videos being particularly appropriate, and TikTok's origins as an app for dance videos.)
Poor James Mitchell was stuck being merely the jilted boyfriend in The Band Wagon, but he gets his full dance number with Cyd Charisse in 1954's "Deep in My Heart".
Those spins starting at 1:06, wow. Honestly, the number already peaked there.
"Yeah, you're supposedly good at dancing, but are you Beat-Generation-in-knee-high-boot-stiletto-heels good"
Man, seriously, idols keep doing Kpop covers on their social media in order to establish their dance skill cred, but it's a travesty that Fairies choreo isn't a standard the way SNSD's ITNW is. Like sure, you can do those Kpop hook dances or whatever (or even some of the more impressive 48G stuff like Rumor), but can we really be impressed if you haven't tried doing a Fairies? Or are they like BoA-tier of "untouchable so not even going to try?"
Oh hey, I own a copy of the jacket Miyo is wearing.
