Line #6 YMMV/RiskyBusiness


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** Music/BobSeger. "Old Time Rock and Roll." If you got the hardwood floor, you may strip to your underwear, socks and pink business button-shirt, [[RiskyBusinessDance and proceed to dance]].
3	** The soundtrack by Music/TangerineDream. Especially a signature track "[[https://youtu.be/gjPGmSqadxM Love On a Real Train.]]"
4	** Best use of Music/MuddyWaters' "Mannish Boy"... well outside of ''Film/GoodFellas''.
5	*** or ''Film/BetterOffDead.''
6	** Mixed in are songs from that time period by Music/{{Journey\|Band}}, Music/{{Prince}}, and oh yeah Music/PhilCollins' "In the Air Tonight" which was required by law to be on every soundtrack between 1982 to 1987.
7	--->'''Joel's Dad:''' A preponderance of bass, perhaps?
8	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The movie is remembered for two things: The RiskyBusinessDance, and Creator/RebeccaDeMornay's sex scenes with Creator/TomCruise. (Well, men who were teens when the movie came out remember them fondly. They may seem a little tame by today's standards.)
9	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
10	** When the Princeton interviewer is going over Joel's school records, Lana is standing nearby listening to all of the things Joel's done to get his chance at a good college. The look on her face suggests [[spoiler:she's seriously falling in love with Joel.]]
11	** The following scene where she offers to take Joel to the city's Elevated train so they can "make love on a real train" [[spoiler:when Joel is upset that he failed getting into Princeton.]] And the way the scene is filmed makes it seem less about sex and more like actual love-making.
12	** When Joel's father approaches him at movie's end [[spoiler:to let Joel know he made it into Princeton, and that he's genuinely proud of his son.]]
13	* JustHereForGodzilla: Most will go into this movie only having seen the iconic "Old Time Rock and Roll" dance, so they watch the movie for this scene, and expect the movie to have that similar upbeat tone, but that scene occurs early in the movie and everything that follows fits more into the Crime/Drama genre than it does '80s Comedy.
14	* MandelaEffect: Everyone knows about the iconic scene in Risky Business where Joel dances around the house in a shirt, socks and sunglasses. Except he wasn't actually wearing sunglasses in the scene. He's also wearing a pink shirt in the scene, while parodies almost always have the person wearing a white shirt.
15	* SignatureScene:
16	** Creator/TomCruise dancing, in socks, underwear, and business shirt, to "Old Time Rock and Roll", so much so that it has its own [[RiskyBusinessDance trope]].
17	** The "love on a real train" sex scene is a solid runner-up, particularly due to Music/TangerineDream's score.
18	* TearJerker: Lana’s backstory: She ran away because her stepfather was sexually harassing her, and she left a little brother behind. She seems to believe that sex work is the only thing she can do, as she’s not even trying to go back to school or do anything for the future.
19	* TechnologyMarchesOn: Barry's invention, the "Memo-Minder", was rendered obsolete on January 1, 1984, when the original AT&T [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System monopoly was shattered]], and customers could begin purchasing and installing their own telephone equipment, including affordable and easy-to-use ''[[https://recordinghistory.org/technology/answering-machines/the-1980s-answering-machines-take-off-and-then-crashes/ answering machines]]''.
20	** Then, by 2004, answering machines themselves would be shelved in favor of a cell phone's voicemail, which would in turn see a serious decline by 2014 with the rise of instant messaging (IM). In three decades, we leaped from hand-written memos, to answering machines, to voicemail, to IM.
21	* ValuesDissonance[=/=]STDImmunity: Unprotected sex with hookers = harmless fun[=/=][[SexAsRiteOfPassage male rite of passage]]. The movie came out just before the [=HIV=]/[=AIDS=] scare went nationwide.

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