question about the dancing


I know that the dancing is not the main point of the movie... but Jennifer was into dancing, and he put time into dancing, and they bet that they would score a 5/10 in dancing (when the professionals scored about a 7/10). So, in theory they should have been halfway-decent dancers; not great dancers and not professionals, but decent dancers. And sure they botched the jump part; things happen. But the way they shot the dance scenes was always very choppy. We never got to see any extended dancing scenes. I don't know diddly about dancing, but the only conclusion I can draw is that the actors could not put together 2 minutes of decent dancing; hence the choppy scenes. I would have guessed that they could have invested the time to put together 2 minutes of decent dancing. Some actors have invested hours studying e.g. martial arts to perform a scene, or practicing a foreign accent, or even losing 40 pounds to play a part. Is it just me, or did they seem to take an easy out on the dancing scenes? (And again -- let's not forget that the dancing took on some import to the plot of the movie. It was important to her; everybody came to the dance, including the wife; a big bet was on the dancing; there was a whole scene where his buddy helped them with some dance moves; the dance practice conflicted with the Eagles game. So it's not as if dancing was entirely trivial to the movie...)

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I noticed that too and chalked it up to the fact that dancing probably isn't Bradley Cooper's strength at all, and it was just easier to not have to have him learn any choreography when it worked well enough to just let Jennifer Lawrence carry the dancing scenes.

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