I love this scene from the 2011 Best Picture winner The Artist because, to me, it perfectly captures both the wonder of film and the beauty of dance. If watching Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo dance doesn’t make you happy, then there is no hope for you.
Hi everyone!
Starting today, I am officially on vacation!
However, though I’ll be away for two weeks, I’m not going to let that stop me from sharing my thoughts here on the Shattered Lens. What can I say? I love film, I love this site, and, most importantly, I love our readers.
Now, if you know me, you know that I also love to dance.
So, I figured, why not combine my greatest loves? For then next two weeks, I will be sharing a special set of scenes that I love. These are some of my favorite dance scenes.
I’d like to start things off by sharing a scene from my favorite film of 2012. This deliriously romantic dance scene comes from Joe Wright’s brilliant adaptation of Anna Karenina and features Keira Knightley and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Enjoy!
So, what did you do on Sunday night?
Myself, I watched The Adventures of Robin Hood on TCM. There I was, watching the film and posting comments on twitter about how superior Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood was to Russell Crowe’s when suddenly I realized that a lot of very strange tweets were appearing on my timeline.
One person tweeted, “WHAT THE FUCK, GAME OF THRONES!?”
Another tweeted: “OMG! #GoT”
And my personal favorite: “no, no, no, no, no #GameOfThrones.”
Later, I discovered that these people were reacting to the Red Wedding on Game Of Thrones. I have been using twitter since 2009 and I have never before seen so much anger and sadness as I did last night after the Starks were massacred on HBO.
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy Game Of Thrones and I DVR every episode but, at that moment, I was really happy to be watching The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Whenever I watch The Adventures of Robin Hood, I think about one of my favorite Monty Python skits, the story of Dennis Moore, the highwayman who attempts to steal from the rich and give to the poor and discovers that the redistribution of wealth isn’t as easy as he originally figured.
Or, as the Dennis Moore theme song puts it: “He steals from the poor and gives to the rich … Stupid bitch!”
In honor of The Adventures of Robin Hood, I figured why not share this classic skit? If nothing else, maybe a little absurdist comedy is just what the doctor ordered for those of you who still haven’t recovered from the Red Wedding…
We live in confusing times. Thankfully, we can always count on reruns of King of the Hill to provide some comfort…
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