The Step Up movies have done such great business, producers now want a new series with the word “step” in it, and the recent resignations of Attorney General Eric Holder and Secret Service head Julia Pierson have suggested an idea and title for the series: Step Down.
So the Step Down movies will be about dancers who also are government bureaucrats, and when they get into positions of great responsibility, the pressure and stress of their job gets to them, and they have to go dancing to let off steam. Oh, but their love of dancing gets the better of them, and the more they step up to dance, the less they step up to meet their responsibilities and perform their bureaucratic functions, and so everything falls apart at their job and, as a result, the department they are in charge of cannot function, and bad things happen. And the more things go wrong at work, the more our heroes are forced to lie, cheat and cover things up, leading to further disasters. And so ultimately the hero characters are forced to engage in a literal representation of the movie series title as they: Step Down.
The Step Down movie series would be non-partisan in all, but each entry would focus on one party, with Republicans dancing ballroom dancing at cotillions, Democrats dancing the more contemporary popular hip-hop and street dancing styles, and Independents slam dancing and doing the pogo to punk rock and (of course) independent, while the Tea Party engages in line dancing to country music, and the Green Party dances to activist anthems. And the more dancing saturates politics, the more it saturates the political spectrum, with new political parties being formed out of a love for certain types of music and dance, like the Goth Party, the Club Kids Party, the House Party, the Break Beat Party, the Trip Hop Party, the Emo Party, the Electronica Party, etc. And each party gets its own movie. (And the series would be extra inspirational, despite the failure of the main characters, because third party candidates would actually win the presidency. It’s also how you can tell it’s fictional.)
Just think of it: great dancing, incompetent and corrupt bureaucracy, the drama of oversight committee grillings and evasive testimony, the partisanship of news agencies aiding in covering up incompetence and malfeasance, and the pathos of crushing rejection and the resignation of their own resignation. It’s all the dancing drama you can handle, it’s: Step Down, the all-dancing political musical movie series for everyone of all political stripes!
The movies would be titled as follows:
Step Down: Into the Country Club Ballroom (Republican feature)
Step Down 2: The Streets (Democrat feature)
Step Down, You Punk (Independent feature)
Step Down, for the Country (Tea Party feature)
Step Down, for the Environment (Green Party feature)
Step Down, for the Greater Good (Socialist feature)
