Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/19/devil-shot-while-breaking.html
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The ending makes sense. The Devil wouldn’t be trying to break up teens dancing, he’d encourage them, right?
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Yeah, he didn’t think that one out.
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I understand this story as the Minister trying to break up the dance, by dressing as the Devil (in order to frighten the kids, and get them to associate dancing with evil.) Not that the character of Devil was policing the teens. (Obvz the Minister was trying to do that.)
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but did the kid get paid? that’d be about $65,000 in todays dollars
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And it would have worked, too, if it hadn’t been for that meddling teen.
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“Tell me, my friend, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?”
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Agreed. Also, being barn dances, they were likely to have been more secular in nature (which could have frustrated him more)?
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Sounds like a good sequel for Footloose
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Old joke: Why do fundamentalists forbid married couples from having sex while standing up? It could lead to dancing.
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Q - Why do Methodists skulk around darkened doorways late at night?
A - They don’t want to be seen dancing.
ETA: I know the joke is subtle, but when it hits you, I think it’s pretty funny.
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This is a good movie. Pretty much everyone plays against type.
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Origin story of why the devil went down to Georgia.
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Based on the novel written by Claud Cockburn which later lent its name to Cockburn fils’ column in The Nation.
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I just want to know how he figured out how to “manifest in the middle of the dance floor with fire streaming from eyes, mouth and tail”…
(figure that could get me out of some unnecessary meetings…)
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I was trying to figure this out too, because it sounds like he had a promising career as a magician otherwise 
