ComingSoon Senior Editor Spencer Legacy spoke with Flashdance director Adrian Lyne about the movie's 40th-anniversary release.
“Alex Owens is a beautiful young woman who works a day job in a steel mill and dances in a bar at night,” reads the movie’s synopsis. “When Alex discovers that her handsome boss, Nick Hurley, is both interested in her and supportive of her performing career, she renews her efforts to get accepted into a prestigious dance conservatory. Although Alex is frightened of failure, she is cheered on by Nick, as well as by her mentor, former ballet performer Hanna Long.
It’s also hard to imagine any other actress in the role of Alex, but what qualities about Jennifer Beales made you really know that she was the perfect fit? The movie’s really stylish and we can see it’s influence all throughout the ’80s, especially in Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson’s work. How do you view the movie’s impact on film?. These two old Broadway producers, they said, “We like the movie. We like.” They were 90 — really old, these guys. They’d been around since the ’30s. One of them said, “You’ve got the buttons right.” And I guess the button is going out at the end of a scene with a bang that pushes you into the next scene.
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