A while back I posted several great dance compellations of old (and some new) clips from movies where the actors are dancing to some well-known song. Many times, it really feels as if they ARE dancing to that particular tune.
Here is another
https://youtu.be/944rXMY6bYM
Here's another, most from a bit more recent movies
https://youtu.be/kVJu9AMJJr4
And another great one to Crocodile Rock
https://youtu.be/wycyHMpNZic
https://youtu.be/HYqzGlXAY8I
https://youtu.be/5fFcfg5V2gg
Today's dancing has gone in a different direction :what:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueJ4-lTa1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKksQkM
My favorite from a movie though is still Travolta and Uma Thurman doing the twist from "Pulp Fiction"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5qXCzknxn8
Found a few new ones to add to this compilation
https://youtu.be/WjjArvo0kic
https://youtu.be/mqUORADCTBQ
Add another dancing the great Benny Goodman Sin, Sing Sing
https://youtu.be/odqatAZCi2w
Another, more fr om older movies, but just great.
Can't beat those Busby Berkley number s
https://youtu.be/7--cJk9_ZIM
and another goodie
https://youtu.be/V3W71KwsXrc
and another-for the ladies
https://youtu.be/29BSfMQGxb4
A couple more goodies
https://youtu.be/vfGr4YT7aHo
and a really good one
https://youtu.be/-RXruwuh7YI
I don't know if anyone is really interested in these great film compilations. I knew Jim loved them and he got me started on them. So if you're not interested fine, but maybe Jim is watching somewhere, so here are a few more
QuoteI don't know if anyone is really interested in these great film compilations. I knew Jim loved them and he got me started on them. So if you're not interested fine, but maybe Jim is watching somewhere, so here are a few more - Lenn
I like them Lenn. I haven't spent a lot of time on the board lately, but finally got around to watching them and it's a nice break from reality and fun to watch. Amazing what people can do with their bodies
Here's one that I always liked...so much energy, makes me tired just watching them:
And then there's Britney before she started "Dancing with Knives", LOL. Not a mashup, but she can dance
Jim and I were such huge fans of movies, especially those really old ones, that we relished in watching clips that featured assorted dancers et al. As I said, he got me started on these things, and we used to email them all the time, whenever we found a new one. Myself, overall, musicals weren't right at the top of my movie agenda, but watching short clips of long-ago stars, just gets me going. I love how they incorporate the newer movies into these also, although there are few musicals made today--but you can always find some people dancing away.
I enjoy the mashups Lenn. Particularly liked seeing Ann Margaret in her hey day. Didn't recognize a lot, but noticed Danny Kaye, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, etc. Whoever puts these things together must have watched thousands of movies and cut and spliced thousands of hours of work together. Who knows, maybe there's an easy way to do it with a computer...far beyond my capabilities
All I know is short clips of dancing for which I enjoy watching people who know how to dance. Few movies have good dance scenes. I can think of a couple
From "
Blast from the Past" (one of my favorite movies of all time - if you never saw it, see it)
Or the dance scene from "
True Lies"
Or Wednesday teaching Lurch how to dance in the old Addam's Family TV show....LMAO
Great clips Ric. Loved the Addams family scene.
I AM a movie person and I get a kick out of trying to identify some or any of the movies from the clips. Some are so short but many are memorable. You should be able to ID Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and several others who seem to be in many clips in these montages.
Funny thought, great clips like Travolta's Saturday Night Fever Dancing are mostly left out, with maybe a view here and there. He was a terrific dancer and he sort of got away from it in his later movies.
This dance scene alone did more for Disco than anyone or anything else ever did. So many people copied his moves and they sort of became synonymous with the Disco craze.
Another good montage that combines early and most later dance clips
A good selection of new vs old movies and dances
To just show one dancer was easy, the incomparable, gorgeous Rita Hayworth in Gilda
I actually knew just about every movie in the clips from the Mark Ronson "Uptown Funk" mashup. Surprised they didn't add the most watched dance clip of the last year, that many kids (and adults) are trying to copy from last year's movie, "M3GAN", the robot girl turned killer
Gosh. When I first watched the first video I thought it had to be CGI, but after watching the others, I didn't think a body could move like that. Surprised no football player isn't doing that in the end zone. (I had better not give them any ideas)
Another one of my all-time favorite movie dance routines, though may not be to every taste. I LOVE this movie. Don't ask me why, but I used to go to the midnight showings many, many, many years ago.
Since we are doing some great dance scenes, I felt it appropriate to put up a couple of great scenes from Fiddler on the Roof
I also found this mash-up of new and old. A good collection
Found some new ones, if anyone is really interested.
(good one)
Here's another for all us old timers
Found a couple on the different side of things for you Lenn...modern music...old dancers mashup
Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth rockin out to Led Zeppelin
Cut ups to the song "What is Love"...which actually used to be good dance song, but ruined for anyone who watched SNL's "Night at the Roxberry" and can't hear the song without thinking of that skit with Chris Katan, Will Ferrel, and Jim Carey. Hilarious skit (right up there with "livin in a van, down by the river" with Farley)...but it ruined the song forever. This video is saved by Sven Otten (the man with the black hat), who really can dance
Loved them, Ric. In fact, I just forwarded them to many of my friends. Great stuff.
I only knew about 1/2 the movies from the second clip but no mind, it all went together brilliantly.
Glad you liked them, Lenn. I, too, like to watch dancing. When I was a younger man, I loved to dance and was always the first one to drag a woman to the dance floor. Not that I was any good, but I had a few moves and didn't embarrass myself (I don't think anyway). I remember back in the early 90's and I was really impressed by this woman who was in our ski club. She was silky smooth with dance moves, so I asked her how she learned to dance. She told me she started lessons at 3-years-old in Philadelphia and never stopped taking lessons. She was in perfect shape, about 35 yrs old, 5'8" 115-120 lbs, and told me she was a professional dancer. She dragged me to the dance floor and I was worried sick because I thought I'd look stupid as her partner on the floor (she drew a lot of attention, not only from me, but the whole crowd). Anyway, she insisted and told me she'd make me look good...and that she did. It was like driving power steering for the first time in my life. Any move I made, she countered in a way that looked like I planned it. She spun, dipped with my hand on her back and she felt like she weighed nothing. I was mesmerized by her...still am if truth be told
Anyway, in that first clip, I fell in love with Rita Hayworth. I always thought she was just another sexy, pretty actress that was before my time, like Anne Margaret or Audrey Hepburn. Heard her name off and on, but really knew nothing of her. Well she blew me away with her dancing and I think she outdanced Astaire. Flawless, smooth, perfect timing...and in a dress and high heels. All I could think was she reminded me of that girl I danced with who was a professional...only better. She's incredible #:-S Made me think she'd be a good golfer because she held her head motionless while her body did crazy things and that is the key to being a good golfer - keeping your head completely still as your body turns, twists, whips, etc
You probably know more than half the people in the second clip. The woman who wants to hear music in the beginning is Rosario Dawson (the hottie in MIB II, Sin City, and about a hundred other movies), Tom Cruise of course, Jennifer Lopez in the red dress, Carmen Diaz in kid's underpants bending over and again later in the clip. And of course, Will Ferrel and Chris Kattan...never cared much for Ferrel's acting (overacting) and you probably wouldn't know Kattan unless you watched a lot of Saturday Night Live back in the 90's. Then there's Brad Pitt, Hugh Grant, Jason Strahan banging his head against the seat ahead of him, Jim Carey (who is actually a superb dancer...and an overactor), Rowan Atkinson (aka Mr. Bean who has one of the highest IQs in the world if you can believe that - 178), Rob Schneider, Ben Stiller, Kate Hudson (Goldie Hawn's daughter) was the girl on the left with two girls dancing in the living room, Will Smith, Jamie Lee Curtis falling in front of Arnold Schwarzenegger in "True Lies, Sven Otten (professional dancer), Catherine O'Hara (the mother in "Home Alone" and "Up Schitts Creek"), Shawn William Scott in "Road Trip" (hilarious movie), "American Pie" (aka Stiffler), "Old School", etc., , Nicolas Cage as a dancing priest, Jennifer Aniston, etc. The dance scene from "Pulp Fiction" with Uma Thurman and Travolta are both professional dancers. There's even a rock song about dancing like Uma Thurman...with a riff stolen from the Munster's tv show
But man-o-man, Rita Hayworth blows me away #:-S I think I'm in love
I identified a few more people in the 2nd video. The girl in the beginning with big glasses and curly blonde hair is Malin Ackerman playing her part in Tom Cruise's "Rock of Ages". She was better known as the nightmare wife who married Ben Stiller in "Heartbreak Kid". She also played Katherine Heigl's younger sister who was getting married in "27 Dresses", and Ryan Reynald's ex-girlfriend in "The Proposal". The guy dressed like a mechanic sashaying down the checkerboard floor is Jeff Bridges from "The Big Lebowski". The woman with the yellow python wrapped around her is Selma Hayek in "From Dust to Dawn". The guy with the funky white hair, a leopard wrap, and a baton is Chris Tucker in Bruce Willis' movie, "The Fifth Element". The girl dancing with Jim Carrey is Téa Leoni in the film, "Fun With Dick and Jane". She was also in "Jurassic Park", and the dream girl in "Switch" with Ellen Barkin, etc. And the guy walking on the sidewalk with a girl wearing ear pods is Mark Ruffalo, who was recently in the movie "Poor Things"
Don't know who the guy was who was stepping out of the elevator. I think the guy jiving at a pool side is Mathew Fox who played Doc Jack Shepard in the series "Lost"
I am also a HUGE fan of Rita Hayworth. Just like you, no matter how good people think Mr. Astaire is, she made him look better. She was glamorous, sexy, and at times just like the girl next door.
Add to that her amazing character Gilda. She was supposed to have had a 40 year relationship with Glen Ford, whom she met in the film Gilda
Never tire of watching her dance.
Nice!
Not to take anything away from Astaire, as he's smooth and precise. She's precise also, but her facial expressions with her smile glows.
I googled her on YouTube the other day and I saw this one. Kind of fuzzy, but it was a cute skit where she bumps the lead dancer and steals the show. A little boring once she starts singing, but the dance routine, along with the despair in the producers, makes for a charming premise
Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on March 30, 2024, 12:28:53 PMNice!
Not to take anything away from Astaire, as he's smooth and precise. She's precise also, but her facial expressions with her smile glows.
I googled her on YouTube the other day and I saw this one. Kind of fuzzy, but it was a cute skit where she bumps the lead dancer and steals the show. A little boring once she starts singing, but the dance routine, along with the despair in the producers, makes for a charming premise
That red hair---and those moves----just great.