This week Kate is joined by Jennifer Berk to talk about the messages and childhood confusion in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. They talk about the music and the dancing, explore motifs of upstairs/downstairs, father-daughter relationships, fear, and wonder just what is “an appointment” is and what being “in trouble” means. Trigger warning we do talk about abortion in this episode in the context of the movie.
Check out Jennifer Berk’s IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2439388/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Sources:
- Dirty Dancing IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/?ref_=nv_sr_2
- Dirty Dancing Soundtrack History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dancing_(soundtrack)
- American Graffiti Soundtrack History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41_Original_Hits_from_the_Soundtrack_of_American_Graffiti
- Roe V Wade Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
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Each week filmmaker & author, Kate Chaplin dissects a movie that has inspires her life for good, bad or ugly and shows you the universal messages hidden within. Like on Facebook. Follow on Twitter.
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
- May 11 – Star Trek OTS (with Special Guest Adam Eastwood)
- May 18 – Star Trek Next Gen & Enterprise (with Special Guest Adam Eastwood)
- May 25 – Star Trek Voyager & Deep Space 9 (with Special Guest Adam Eastwood)
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HISTORY
Kate’s Take started on D20crit.com in October of 2014. Kate was a guest on D20crit’s show A Bit of Geek and Nerdery Episode #12 talking about the new film she was producing called Ezekiel’s Landing (link to episode). She became a returning guest and before long Wil asked if she had an idea for her own show. Kate’s Take is an adaption from a never-finished novel entitled “I Blame Lucas” where Kate recalls her life through the movies she had watched starting with Star Wars: A New Hope and ending with Return of the Sith. Wil Derringher co-hosted, edited and produced the show for D20crit. Together Kate and Wil produced 57 episodes and won 5 awards for the show from INDYpodnet.
In August of 2016 tragedy struck with the loss of Wil’s beloved wife, Tristan. Understandably Wil was unable to do the show. November 2016 the show was moved from D20crit to Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy and re-titled Kate Take: Reloaded.
AWARDS
- Most Entertaining – 2016 INDYpodnet Awards
- Best Audio Quality & Editing – 2016 INDYpodnet Awards
- Most Entertaining – 2015 INDYpodnet Awards
- Rookie of the Year – 2015 INDYpodnet Awards
- Best Coverage of a Geek Event – 2015 INDYpodnet Awards
