Montse Ballesteros (asker) Mar 29, 2017:

Neil First of all, Neil, I think you have overseen the fact that this is a documentary, not a feature film, hence the speaker has made a spontaneous statement, which in this case includes a cultural reference.
To me, it makes total sense. If Baby's father (or whoever) didn't manage to put her in a corner, knowing that Rose (indeed Hartman) is such a determined (and sometimes aggressive) character, it is only normal that the speaker says that nobody will put her in a corner. I didn't get the reference at first because I haven't seen the film (as I disliked Patrick Swayze) and apparently the transcriber hadn't seen it either or didn't remember the character of Baby taking into account that he/she didn't capitalize the word "baby". As it happens with cultural references, some people will get them, others won't, either in their own language or in a foreign language.
In any case, thanks for your comments. I will close the question now and give the points to Patinba as he/she helped me identify the cultural reference, and that was what I needed.

Neil Ashby Mar 29, 2017:

Patinba,
Firstly, very right - my own lack of familiarity doesn't equate to obscurity, far from it and I shouldn't have said that. However, your observations do not address the fact that the apparent meaning of the expression ("a lack of attention but things turning out okay anyway") does not relate to the situation in the asker's question.
This aggressive Rose photographer seems to be the exact opposite of Baby, the shy, unassuming girl who cowers at a scowl from her father - it would've been very easy to put Baby in her place had it not been for the male lead grabbing her hand. While nobody put's Rose in her place. The author's analogy does not hold up, it's all so loosely strung together.

If, as you say, "the comment means that Rose (Hartman, apparently) is quite a character and cannot easily be ignored," (which I agree it probably does) then the opposite is true of Baby - who was shy, quite and easily ignored - so the author's comparison is foolhardy. En fin, I think your right with your interpretation but the author used the DD reference incorrectly and so if you continue using said reference in the translation it could be misleading. Rose and Baby are not similar characters.

patinba Mar 28, 2017:

@ Neil Things that you are not familiar with are not automatically obscure, and you need to be on firmer ground before suggesting that the author has misunderstood/misused the reference. What the comment means is only that Rose (Hartman, apparently) is quite a character and cannot easily be ignored.

Neil Ashby Mar 28, 2017:

"nobody puts Baby in the corner
Made famous in Dirty Dancing when Johnny gets Baby for the final dance. She's sitting in the corner with her parents, who were mad at her.

Now used when proper attention is not given to a situation but the situation turns out OK anyway. Plus, Fall Out Boy revived it's cult status with their song, "Nobody puts baby in the corner."
My ex and I were at the bar at the same time for at least 2 hours and he managed to talk to everyone there but me. Of course, I have a date with the hot bartender and my ex saw me give him my number. Nobody puts Baby in the corner!" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nobody puts B...

According to the above definition of the phrase it would bear no relation whatsoever to the context given in the asker's question. It has nothing to do with a lack of attention but things turning out okay anyway.... so either the asker's context doesn't refer to this quote from Dirty Dancing or the author has totally misunderstood/misused the meaning of said quote. Either way the relevance of the citation in this piece of text doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Montse Ballesteros (asker) Mar 28, 2017:

Es una frase de "Dirty Dancing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28A9Jgo92GQ