Why was dancing banned in "Footloose"?
"Footloose" gave us Kevin Bacon in tight jeans, a soundtrack that knocked "Thriller" off the charts, and the radical notion that teenagers should be allowed to dance. The 1984 movie follows a Chicago kid who moves to a small town where dancing is illegal and decides that's simply unacceptable. Why was dancing even banned in "Footloose"?
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Correct Answer: Someone died after a night of dancing
(Source)There was a real town in Oklahoma that banned dancing in 1898 to control drinking and kept that ban for 82 years until some high schoolers fought to hold a prom in 1980. Screenwriter Dean Pitchford traveled there to research their story but decided to dial up the drama and gave us a grieving father instead of an ancient temperance law. And technically, the kids in the movie never even overturned the ban. Their prom was held in a grain mill just over the county line, which is exactly the kind of thing a big-city boy would pull off to annoy a town council.
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