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hangingfire (hangingfire) wrote in otf_wank,
@ 2006-10-05 10:22:00

Minor musicwank on YouTube: Nouvelle Vague and Godard
(Wasn't sure if this belonged in FW or OTFW; posted it here to be on the safe side.)

Someone posts a video on YouTube that pairs Nouvelle Vague's cover of "Dance With Me" with the dance sequence from Jean-Luc Godard's movie Bande à part (from which the latest NV album takes its title). (As far as I can tell, it's a fan mashup.)

The comments start out blandly enough, but it's not long before people start getting into it.

My film-peen is bigger than yours:

petev1975: While Godard did bring the human/intimate side back to films. There is a price you pay for the unpolish Non-Studio productions. HIS FILMS ARE BORING!

Like the VBlog on youtube. While it is certainly "real" is also really boring.

I'll never understand film students' facination with French New Wave. Since it began in the 1950s is it still NEW?

chastash: Perhaps you will be surprised to learn that there are those of us who find standard filmmaking BORING, and people like Godard still refreshingly iconoclastic forty plus years later.</i>

This sucks and you are all stupid:

seattlegoods: Moron. Way to ruin another great scene by reediting your own music to it. And that goes to all you idiots. They are never as good as the original. Get a life and do you own shit.

Suertsje: Well, all the new "shit" and all the original "shit" is based on other "shit", so get your act together, stop hating, start appreciating :D

seattlegoods: This is garbage. You reedited the Audio and then posted it hoping people would like your point personal touch. You didn't ruin this scene because you're incapable of doing that. You just look like every narcissistic moron who does this in hopes of people saying " oh whoa what movie is this?" "you're cool" And when they pop the original in they will see how you ruined it and get a bad taste in their mouth every time they think of what you did to that clip.

(This one goes back and forth for quite a few comments.)

Short and to the point:

bustersword24: This is gayer then michael jackson at the kids gap

Fappery aside, I now want a plaid skirt and hat like the one worn by the actress in the film. Except since I'm not French, I'd never look anywhere near as good as she does.

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	entrenous88 2006-10-05 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	You might be in luck if you're Danish (Anna Karina was born in Denmark). Can't look at the vid yet (darn work!) but I adore that sequence when they're dancing the Madison. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 03:50 pm UTC (link)
	Alas, not Danish either. ^_^ It really is one of the great film scenes of all time. Hal Hartley's "Simple Men" has an amusing tribute to it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	apoplexia 2006-10-06 08:47 am UTC (link)
	I still know all the moves to that one! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2006-10-05 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, so that is the Madison! I thought it reminded me of that scene in Hairspray. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	entrenous88 2006-10-05 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	Yes! Those were the days of the cool line-dances. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-05 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	If there's one thing I regret about not having been born into my parents' generation, it's that they were the last group of teenagers who actually learned to dance. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	There's a bunch of high schoolers who go to the weekly swing dance where I used to teach. So maybe there's hope for the future. Well, in a tiny pocket of Austin, anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-05 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	OMG, I love swing dance! My ex-boyfriend's cousin took me to one once in Boston, and it was the most legal fun I've ever had with my clothes on. (All the more so since I got to hang out with some of the sceners and hear the Lindy Hoppers talk smack about the West Coast swing dancers. Hee.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 07:22 pm UTC (link)
	...I used to know a bunch of swing dancers in Boston. Both lindy hoppers and West Coast Swing. Goddamn, this is a tiny world. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-05 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	You didn't know one named Natalia, by any chance? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	Doesn't ring a bell, but it's been a few years, and I didn't keep in touch with most people after I dropped out of the scene. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-05 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	She was originally from Belarus and has long curly light-brown hair, if that helps. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	Alas, no. Although I wouldn't be surprised if there were friends or FOAFs of mine who did. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	exdee 2006-10-05 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	One of my best friends from high school is a senior member of a large and busy swing club at Lawrence, from the way she tells it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	drhenryjekyll 2006-10-05 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	There's a pretty active swing group here in Dallas, according to my friend. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-06 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Yes indeed. I know quite a few people who are or were heavily involved in it, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eilan 2006-10-06 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	I learned classical dancing, just as almost all of my friends. But maybe that's a German thing. I even did two exams in it and now have shiny silver and bronze needles :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-06 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	o_O Needles? What for? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darkeyes 2006-10-05 04:26 pm UTC (link)
	If it's one thing I've learnt, while feeding my spiraling Bleach addiction* viewing assorted vids on YouTube, is: Never read the comments, that way lies madness. is so jonesing for episode 99 (Reply to this)

	YouTube is a mine of unplumbed sparkling wit. zealot 2006-10-05 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	This is gayer then michael jackson at the kids gap. Ba-zing! I can only aspire to such nonsensical attempts at topical humor. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: YouTube is a mine of unplumbed sparkling wit. oxydosic 2006-10-06 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Oh my God I am deeply in love with your icon. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dark_puck 2006-10-05 05:42 pm UTC (link)
	I tried to look at the wank, but I got distracted by the New Numa. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-10-05 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	I like it, but then again, I've never seen the original. I might watch the movie some time, if only for the lovely man in the suit. Oh, dashing men in suits, you are my weakness. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-05 06:49 pm UTC (link)
	What you said, mousie. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2006-10-05 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	Except since I'm not French, I'd never look anywhere near as good as she does. I spent a year there, and I still don't know how they do it. They must be born with it. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	It's amazing, isn't it? I consider myself fairly well-dressed on average, but I may be going to France soonish, and I'm terrified, because I suspect that no matter what, I'll still look like a schlubby American. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-05 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	The key seems to be that they prefer style over comfort, regardless of the weather, time of day, or situation. Oh, and black. Lots of black. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	Of course, as I've discovered recently (somewhat to my pocketbook's despair), if you're willing to shell out for the style, it ends up being surprisingly comfortable. Which basically means taking the less-is-more approach to one's wardrobe, I guess. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-05 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	That could be true, but I always did wonder how those girls at the Fac could walk in those platform heels. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	avari 2006-10-05 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Platform shoes are completely out of fashion this winter in Paris, thank God for small mercies. I loathe the damned things, even if orthopedists made a fortune with them. Give me ballerines* and escarpins, damn it! don't know the names in English, sorry. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shaysdays 2006-10-05 10:14 pm UTC (link)
	Probably ballerina flats and strappy heels. :) (Google image search.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	avari 2006-10-05 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you for the translation. At last I know haw to say these two crucial things. Forget business English, I need shoes vocabulary! :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2006-10-06 12:06 am UTC (link)
	Would ballerines be anything like ballet flats? They have those in the States, and I <3 them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	avari 2006-10-06 12:23 am UTC (link)
	Yes, they are the same. I currently own four pairs of them, and plan to add more to my collection. Muahaha! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2006-10-06 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Good times. I own a few pairs myself, and they are my dress shoe of choice. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	semirecluse 2006-10-06 03:43 am UTC (link)
	Ballerines = ballet flats, escarpins = high heels or stilettos. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semirecluse 2006-10-06 03:43 am UTC (link)
	Aaaaand y'all beat me to it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2006-10-05 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Where's that wonderful Baroque-style icon of yours from? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 07:41 pm UTC (link)
	Made by cinnap over at LiveJournal, from the film 1776. By way of this comm. ^_^ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-10-05 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	John Adams mousy LOVE, btw. I have a few over on my LJ account. ...homicide! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-05 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	"For I have crossed the Rubicon / Let the bridge be burned behind me / Come what may, come what may / Commitment!" ...seriously, that song practically makes me cry every time, no matter how many times I hear it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	drhenryjekyll 2006-10-05 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	Is anybody there? Can anyone see what I see? I do, Mr. Adams. (God, I LOOOOOVE that show!) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	stella_polaris 2006-10-05 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	Awesome! Thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	avari 2006-10-05 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	I went with a good friend to a Godard retrospective in Saint-Germain, in Paris, aka the intellectual neighborhoud. I don't like much his movies - except "Pierrot le Fou" and "Breathless" - but it was worth it because people were shocked as hell when we entered the projection room with our popcorn! Blasphemny! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	semirecluse 2006-10-06 03:45 am UTC (link)
	Hee. French cinema does not tend to produce popcorn movies. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pinkgundam 2006-10-06 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	I have nothing to say, just wanted to use my icon. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2006-10-06 01:03 pm UTC (link)
	Mad icon adoration! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pinkgundam 2006-10-06 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	dances (Reply to this)(Parent)

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