this movie be jerry bruckheimer idea to sell some record . no seriously it be . the thinking behind it be that if you make a film full of pop song you could stick the track on a lp and sell it and make even more money for the studio . you could also release a few track a single and intercut the promo video with clip from the movie so that when mtv play a track youre actually get free advertising for the movie . this be a good business deal but an artistic disaster because many of u still have nightmare about hollywood movie from the 1980s and i rate the mid 1980s a the poor time in artistic term for american film making and flashdance open the door to this let make a 90 minute pop video instead of a movie type film makingjennifer beals play alex owens a dancer who work a a welder to make end meet and right away logic disappears with this career choice . welding be a fairly sophisticated trade and it not something you walk into and learn in five minute . there other gap in logic like ballet dancing and flashdancing be somehow similar . ie if you apply to be a ballet dancer and do some hot and dirty flashdancing the male judge might want to meet you after the audition but you would not get the job . it kind of like say that screen write and novel writing and play writing be somehow the same when theyre not but i guess none of this matter to jerry when he ask director adrian lyne to make the movie . actually lyne almost make a very sexy movie and jenniferbeals be very sweet and innocent look . fortunately i sussed out why her face be brightly light in close up while her silhouette be darkly litin long shot except when the camera cut to close ups of her heavenly tone body . that because a body double be use most of the time and frequently the body double be a man . i bet there a few naughty boy who be feel guilty not to mention slightly disgust to know that .