Step Up Up Revolution

“Enough with performance art, it’s time for protest art!” – Step Up Revolution!

Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily’s father’s development plans.

Step Up Revolution (also known as Step Up 4: Miami Heat, and previously titled Step Up 4Ever) is a 2012 American 3D dance film and the fourth installment in the Step Up film series. It was released on July 27, 2012. The film was directed by Scott Speer and stars Ryan Guzman and Kathryn McCormick, the latter from the sixth season of So You Think You Can Dance. The film features choreography by Jamal Sims, Christopher Scott, Chuck Maldonado and Travis Wall.

The production design was created by Carlos A. Menendez. Unlike the first three films, produced by Touchstone Pictures and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, this film was produced by Summit Entertainment and Offspring Entertainment without Disney’s involvement and distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment. This is also the first Summit Entertainment film after being acquired by Lionsgate in January 2012.

“The main thing we want to strive with this movie is that you can fight for what you believe in, that you feel like you might not have a voice and people might not hear you. But little do you realize that if you believe in something as much as you should, and people will hear you, and people will recognize genuine people!” ~ Ryan Guzman

Hey, everyone out there! I have something to share with you all! Something I’ve been waiting to tell you! Also been waiting till the time was right!

So, here it is: I’ve been inspired throughout my life so far, and that all together has changed my life such a beautiful way and I’m so happy for that! This movie: Step Up: Revolution is one of the many who inspired me! They helped me find the inner me and bring her out for the world to see!

And now that I’m that girl on the outside, I’m not afraid to be who I am without ever being limited of who to be and how far I can go in life! This movie, inspired me the way I thought it would and I absolutely admire that about it! This gave me more inspiration, courage and want to do something as amazingly awesome thing they created…a revolution!

The way they created it and what they inspired to the audience really impressed me and gave me only thoughts on doing the same! I know one day I’m gonna do that, nothing & no one will ever stop me from doing that! No matter what it may be against!

I believe in myself and I’m sticking with that! Nothing can break something like that! If you wanna see what I’m talking about, watch the movie for yourself and see what it’s all about! And why I love it so much! I guarantee you, it will inspire you! Encourage the things you want from their way of inspiring!

The movie begins on Ocean Drive in Miami, Florida. A flashmob, later identified as ‘The Mob,’ shuts down Ocean Drive by cutting off the streets with retro convertibles and dancing on cars to music blasted by DJ Penelope (Cleopatra Coleman). A few hours later, Sean (Ryan Guzman), Eddie (Misha Gabriel), and Jason (Stephen “tWitch” Boss), the leaders of the Mob, watch their latest flashmob air on the news in a restaurant kitchen where they work. A few complain about their public disturbance, while others praise it. After they get off work, they sneak into the Dimont Hotel’s beach club (where they work), claiming to be guests, not employees.

Meanwhile, across the club at the bar, Emily (Kathryn McCormick) tries to get the waiter’s attention, but ends up preparing her own beer. Sean, who is immediately smitten by her, asks for a beer. She tells him its on the house, then heads down to the beach to dance, resulting in a dance battle between the two, but ending with Emily suddenly running off when she sees one of her dad’s business partners, Trip.

The next day, Emily and her dad Bill Anderson (Peter Gallagher) argue over breakfast at the Dimont Hotel. Sean, their waiter, immediately recognizes her, but Emily spills her orange juice in an attempt to distract Sean. He helps clean it up, but when he goes to far Emily immediately storms off in an angry fit with Sean following her into the hotel’s ballroom, where Emily begins a fast contemporary dance, oblivious to Sean’s presence. After Emily notices Sean and warms up to him, she explains to him that she’s trying to nail an audition for the prestigious Winwood Dance Academy Company, which she is already a pupil of. Sean advises her to incorporate faster, more interesting moves, but Emily declines, saying that there are rules. Sean, in turn, tells her to break the rules, giving her an address and telling her to come there. Emily does and finds herself at the Miami Museum of Fine Arts, where the paintings and statues come to life, which is work of the Mob. By telling her to attend, Sean basically reveals to her his participation in the Mob.

The next day, Emily persuades Sean to let her take part in their next Mob, which is scheduled to hit a restaurant the following week. Eddy immediately dislikes Emily, giving her the lead to test her. Sean then introduces her to “the gang” where she meets Eddy (The Hacker), Penelope (The DJ), Jason (The FX), and Mercury (The Artist), who never talks. He also explains that they are trying to win a contest through YouTube by getting 10 million hits on the site. The flashmob goes well and Eddy admits that Emily did great. They then celebrate at Ricky’s, where Emily and Sean salsa together, much to everyone’s delight. Emily and Sean then sneak onto a boat Sean had reserved for himself to sail down the river.

There, they bond over their mothers both not being a part of their lives, and they kiss and sleep on the boat until morning. When they hurry back to Ricky’s, which turns out to be owned by Sean’s uncle, Ricky reveals to them that Emily’s dad, a building tycoon, is planning to develop the strip, destroying Ricky’s bar, Sean’s home, Sean’s sister’s home and workplace, and many other things. Enraged, Emily storms off to talk to her dad, with Sean following behind her. Emily wants to tell the Mob who her dad is, but is reluctantly convinced by Sean not to. She instead finds out from her dad that there will be a meeting to determine whether the project to develop the strip goes through or not. She convinces the rest of the Mob to protest the plans. Their dance is a huge hit, gaining the group over a million more views.

Eddy finds out that Emily is Bill’s daughter through watching a tape of Sean and Emily rehearsing where she reveals the truth, without knowing that they are being recorded. Enraged, he reveals with the Mob to Bill through a protest dance that Emily is a part of the Mob. This ruins relationships for Emily with Sean (romantically), Eddy (friendly), Bill (trustfully), and the rest of the Mob. Emily leaves embarrassed, and Sean, brokenhearted, is arrested for trying to stop Eddy from being arrested after they fight.

Emily had rehearsed her Winwood audition piece as a duet with Sean, but now that she and Sean are estranged, she no longer has him as a dance partner. Instead, she adapts the piece, dancing it as a solo performance. The result falls flat and she fails her audition for the troop. She finally meets Sean, and tells him she is going back to work for her dad, per a promise she made with her dad that if she did not become a professional dancer by the end of the summer that she would work at his hotel.

After Eddy and Sean were sent to jail for being caught in the flashmob, Ricky bails them out and Eddy and Sean make up. Sean convinces the Mob to do one last protest to speak for the people who don’t have a voice, but the Mob gives them one. They then Mob the development public announcement, with the help of past Step Up characters, including Moose (Adam Sevani), Kido, and Vladd. Emily and Sean then perform the original audition piece.

Seeing his daughter so happy, Bill decides to build up the community rather than tear it down, and he and Emily reconcile. Sean and Emily kiss passionately and make up, and Eddy and Sean makes a deal with the owner of the marketing firm that represents Nike for the Mob to dance in their commercials. The end sequence shows numerous dance numbers from throughout the movie.

When it comes to inspiring change the right way, there is some amount of pressure to get it right without being labeled as a failure, stupid or any other labels.

“Living in world like this, you learn pretty quick that you have to speak louder than everyone else if you wanna be heard. Because the truth is, everyone has a voice. And it comes a time when you have to shout, to fight for what you want. But me and my friends, that time is now” ~ Ryan Guzman (Step Up Revolution)

The art of life is really an amazing power we have of humans to change the world. To make the world more beautiful and bright for everyone to see the real beauty of!

I dance because dance can change things. One move, can set a generation free! – Moose

If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough! Do the impossible that others believed you couldn’t achieve. To achieve many things, you must do the thing you think you cannot do. Show them what your made of. Show yourself what your truly capable of; you’ll be amazed!

Do something everyday that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain

Creating revolutions is really a great method with creating long-lasting change in our world. After all, it’s the only earth we will ever have! So why not think and act reckless positively to create change in the most creative, fun and insanely crazy ways!

Those who make peaceful revolution, impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – John F. Kennedy

You want to change the world, you must start from within. Michael Jackson has quoted that in ‘Man In The Mirror':

• I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer. If you wanna make the world a better place. Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

Mary J. Blige has her inspiration very inspirational with plenty of real and true logic. No more drama…

• We don’t need, don’t need, no haters. Just try to love one another. We just want why’all have a good time. No more drama in your life. Work real hard to make a dime. If you got beef, your problem, not mine. Leave all that BS outside. We’re gonna celebrate all night. Let’s have fun, tonight, no fights. Turn the great track way. Making you dance all night and I. Got some real heat for ya this time. Doesn’t matter if you’re white or black. Let’s get crunk ‘cause Mary’s back

“Ladies and gentlemen. For weeks, you’ve been asking “who is the mob?” The mob is all of us. The mob is Miami. Miami is its culture. If you take down the culture, you take down Miami.” ~ Ryan Guzman

Some takes time to learn an art of something of a sport, passion or hobby before they get good. And others were just born with talent and just continue getting better as they continue practicing the things they excel in.

Some people learn to dance. Others were born to.

All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

Step Up: All In is a 2014 American dance film directed by Trish Sie and the fifth installment in the Step Up series. The film was released on August 8, 2014.

Sean (Ryan Guzman) and his crew the Mob from Step Up Revolution, are in Los Angeles trying to make a living from dancing, but are turned down at every audition. After being refused at another audition, the Mob visit a club where they are noticed and challenged to a dance battle by another crew, the Grim Knights. The Grim Knights win the battle and the Mob decides to pack up and leave Los Angeles and return to Miami, thinking there is nothing left for them and that they aren’t ready for Los Angeles.

Sean decides to stay and while there, he notices a dance competition called The Vortex taking place, inspiring him to put together a new crew with help from Moose (Adam G. Sevani). Moose gets Sean a job working as a janitor in a dance center owned by Moose’s grandparents, where Sean takes up residence in a janitor’s closet. Sean and Moose recruit Andie West (Briana Evigan) and later Vladd, Violet, the Santiago Twins, Monster, Hair, Gauge, Jenny Kido, and Chad to the crew. The group soon makes an audition video as the LMNTRIX and are accepted into the competition a few weeks later.

The crew heads to Las Vegas to compete. Upon arriving, Sean finds out that both the Grim Knights and the Mob are also in the competition, motivating the LMNTRIX to practice extra hard. While the rest of the crew are at a bar, Sean and Andie reveal they have broken up with their respective partners. Moose kisses another girl while freestyle dancing at the bar, which his girlfriend Camille Gage (Alyson Stoner) witnesses. She runs off, prompting Moose to leave the crew and return to Los Angeles to make up with her. The LMNTRIX battle the Mob in a Vortex exhibition match; during the battle, Sean tries to force Andie to perform a trick they tried during one of their practices but Andie refuses and leaves. The LMNTRIX, however, still win the battle and the Mob leave, angry at Sean. Sean finds Andie outside, where she confronts him about his actions. Sean realize that he has made a lot of mistakes; he apologizes to the Mob and later makes up with Andie and the LMNTRIX.

Moose goes home and finds Camille on the patio, where she reveals that she wasn’t actually upset at him, but was jealous when she saw his dancing and realized that she hasn’t committed herself to it, despite being a talented dancer; they later make up. Chad and Kido overhear Alexxa Brava, the host of The Vortex, and Jasper, the leader of the Grim Knights making out, realizing that Alexxa is rigging the competition. Once the whole crew finds out, they come up with a plan to teach Alexxa and the Grim Knights a lesson.

Moose returns and rejoins the crew (bringing Camille along), and the Mob join forces with the LMNTRIX for the competition. When the finals of The Vortex approach (the Grim Knights vs. the LMNTRIX), the Grim Knights give a great performance, which the host remarks will be hard to beat. Before LMNTRIX perform, Sean takes the stage and discusses with the crowd that his experiences have taught him what really matters. He then persuades the crowd to forget about winning or losing and just enjoy the show. The rest of the crew then take the stage and give an amazing performance. Andie and Sean decide to end the dance by performing the trick Sean wanted her to do earlier in the film, which they successfully complete, followed by a passionate kiss between the two, leaving the crowd amazed.

The producers call Alexxa and inform her that the LMNTRIX won and that they will get a three-year contract for their own show. The film ends with the LMNTRIX and the Mob happily celebrating their excellent performance and victory.