In a key scene in 2014's top-grossing movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt's character Peter Quill tells the interstellar assassin and wallflower Gamora (Zoe Saldana) of a legend on Earth called Footloose, in which "a great hero named Kevin Bacon teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butts that dancing" is "the greatest thing there is." Director James Gunn, 44, says he and Pratt came up with the conceit that Quill, who is abducted by aliens at a young age, would have a lasting but faded memory of the popular movie and, thus, Gunn notes, "a strange vision of what is cool."
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