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  • Oui, Jean Luc... Oui! How do you say,"Okay" in French?

  • I remember studying this scene and movie in college. Great scene.

  • In art, there is no such thing as "stealing ideas." All art is borrowing, whether the artist consciously recognizes it or not. He or she incorporates everything they have ever experienced into their work. They might say otherwise with their words; they may have even tricked themselves into thinking they have not. But it's a lie.

  • what's the music name?

  • 17 people were busy sucking Monsieur Bieber whilst this was on

  • How can 16 people dislike this? It's pure unbridled joy. Dance like there's nobody watching, it's good for the soul.

  • what is this type of dance called??

  • @forest8998 it is called 'the madison' as far as I am aware.

  • @rockybalboa85 i really tryed to find it, but dont know even if exists. Do you know more information about the song?

  • GENIALE GODARD - in questo montaggio alternato (tra musica e voce fuoricampo) c'è narrazione, riflessione, ironia, autoironia, ritmo e grande senso delle potenzialità che ha la macchina-cinema quando a usarla è uno con tale inventiva). Il pezzetto finale, poi, è tutto da ridere!

  • to all the people that are saying that tarantino "steals idea's", isn't that the reason why tarantino is such a great director, he takes aspects of films and genres that he loves and montages them together in his own films. its sort of like a montage of many different influences. old kungfu movies, spaghetti westerns, Godard amongst many others! rather than stealing i would call it a homage to what he loves!

  • ESTO ES  ARTE

  • I can't wait to rent. So this is where Nouvelle Vague got the idea.

  • Say, do any of you guys know how to Madison?

  • @orophinellenese *muttering in confusation*

    Janet: *groans*

    :DD

  • it's very difficult to say why

    but this is my favorite scene to watch

    maybe not the best, but my favorite

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  • whats this songs name???

    

  • "Goddard later said that he would much rather Tarantino had just given him a lot of money instead."

    that was kind of a foolish thing to say, even if he really does feel that way.

  • @ec247006 : I think it was sarcastic : considering the latest movies Godard did, he clearly doesn't care about making money. Anyway, I think he kind of snapped at Tarantino because when they were both in Cannes for the festival, Tarantino made a ridiculous homage to Godard on French TV (kissing French cinema's ass and everything), and Godard doesn't care for phony praise like that.

  • this is so clarice lispector

  • 'il est grand temps de parler des empires qui s'écroulent...de la danse , de la France et du plaisir à ça ...

  • whats this songs name???

  • Say any of you gus know how to Madison is a line from Rocky Horror film 1975!

  • Anyone know if the song is available anywhere for download?

  • Say! Any of you guys know how to Madison?

  • Is there a point to this? besides totally sweet dance moves of course.

  • J'adore ! MERCI beaucoup !!!

    Beaucoup d'humour et d'élégance !!!

  • fucking hipsters

  • POP ART

  • alors on dance! 

  • ADORABLE. I'm going to make my boyfriend dance this and walk like that.

  • 14 people did not notice her breasts move as she danced.

  • Irripetibile.

    

  • In response to Monsieurkickyourderrier: Tarantino actually screened this scene for the actors, so that they would understand the natural effect he was after: uninhibited joy, without worrying too much about being a technically good mover. Also, the scene in Pulp Fiction, where Bruce Willis is being interviewed by Ving Rhames in the bar, and is shot from the back of Rhames' head, is taken from the opening sequence in Godard's Vivre Sa Vie, which is also shot from behind the protagonist's heads.

  • Me encanta la coordinación de los paso, por que ya no bailamos asi?????????

  • Maybe it's because I haven't seen this film, and I don't know the full context, but I can't see how people can say that Tarantino ripped this off. The only similarity (if you can call it that,) is that this takes place in a diner in the '60's, while Pulp's takes place in a restaurant made up like a '60's diner. Otherwise, this has three people, is random, and choreographed. Pulp, has two people, is not random, and it looks like they made the dance up on the spot.

  • the madison

  • "empires crumble my friend, republics founder and fools survive."

    can anyone mind enlightening me on that statement?

  • Song anyone?!?!?! Love this so much!

  • WHAT is that song during this scene ? Anybody Please !!!

  • My favorit scene of all time.

  • To back up what Mr. Blonde says, there's a saying in Hollywood that "everything's been done". I've even had professional screen writers tell me that.

  • i see that twelve people deserve to die. slowly.

  • I'm willing to bet that Anna Karena was the subject of many a boys' wet dreams, especially in Band of Outsiders. The only thing sexier than a woman in a fedora is Anna Karena in a fedora.

  • Ai Jean-Luc, ai Jean-Luc, vull entendre-ho però no puc... : )

  • Otra memorable escena de baile. Es curioso el recurso de silenciar la música, aunque no el ritmo y los pasos de los bailarines, para dejar paso a la voz del narrador sabedor de los penamientos de los personajes en ese preciso momento.

    Otra cosa curiosa es que el personaje interpretado por Anna Karina haya sucumbido a la seducción del chico feo con jersey a rombos.

  • it's one "d".

    not GodDard

    but Godard.

    please spell the name of the one you ADMIRE correctly.

  • it's one "d".

    not GodDard

    but Godard.

    please spell the name of the one you ADMIRE correctly.

  • je t'aime!

  • quelqu'un sait-il où je peux trouver la chanson o le nom ? somebody knows where I can find out this song or the name?

  • j' adore Goddard!:)

  • I adore Goddard!:)

  • no maxiol! ...po prostu.MAXIOL!

  • Does anyone know what the title of the amazing tune is,and who it was by?

  • I can't think of one movie that is not "inspired" by some other movie(s). So if Tarantino is stealing ideas than so is everyone else.

  • All the more impressive because I believe they shot the scene first and then put music to it later. Incidentally, I don't blame Tarantino for nicking the idea of a dance scene because it's not like this is the only dance scene in a movie before Pulp Fiction.

  • This is as classic a scene as ever there was. It's been referenced in everything from Tarantino to Rocky Horror. As for the choreography, it's a really repetitive Madison, I believe.

  • Does anyone knows how the "choreography" goes? i cant get it from this...

  • at 2:25 the narrator should have been like "But they are all thinking why do i know their thoughts"

  • @Sarah112356

    Really?

  • pure magic

  • yeah i can't believe the copyright owners of this allowed  it to be cheapened by appearing in some commercial. Bill hicks was right advertisers will hang a dollar sign on anything won't they. makes you sick.

  • @TheLoneShooter Yes coz when you see the original it's great and shouldn't be re-done, the only good thing about the diesel ad is that it brought me to this upload which is fantastic so there has been some good in the commercial..but I haven't rushed out to buy diesel hahahah

  • @mitsymagicful i'll say the same 2 u, move on, evrything in the future gets copied by sumthin from the past, move on and get shagged, sorted!!!! that diesel advert was sick!!!

  • @superfrickensexy Inspired maybe but not copied. Are you original? you don't sound as if you are.

  • @TheLoneShooter look dude go fuck urself, the diesel advert was evry bit as awesum as this and u need 2 move on and get laid pal.

  • I only found this video through watching the Diesel ad.... lol!

  • Sami Frey...♥

  • Godard's intervention with his comments is quite a very good idea, I like it a lot.

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  • Does anyone think that what Franz is thinking ("everything and nothing, Uncertain if reality is becoming dream or dream reality") is so romantic? Or maybe is because I like him better than arthur....

  • This is a really sweet part of the movie, out of the humdrum of their situation there's nothing like a good random dance routine :) it put's a smile on people's face :)

  • Smooooth, Hip, I haaaave to get those steps down. Austin Powers eat you heart out...Yeah baybeeeee!

  • Cooooooooooooooool

  • 60's cool and pure magic. Lifts me up every time I watch it. Good film too.

  • i dunno. if you get it, you just get i think

  • Love me some Jean Luc Godard

  • genius

  • The music is R&B or soul music composed for the film by Michel Legrand, but Anna Karina said the actors called it "the Madison dance."[from wikipedia]

  • whats the name though?, cause that means pretty much nothing....Im thinking this was never realesed...just a little song legrand wrote for the film, spur of the moment.

  • What the devil is the song in this?

  • Been asking the same question for a long time. I even tried to use Track ID to find it.

  • there's some words lost in this translated version of the film - arthur's uncle, mr. sigalet, says drunken gibberish to franz, who replies with something along the lines of "great furniture, mr. sigalet!" (franz is messing with the man - a play on words: sigalet was a famous furniture company during the time the film was shot)

  • great scene! always makes me laugh!

  • when I watch this clip, I say to myself, why not people that come to France nowadays learn from the beautiful french culture, and be open-minded to new ideas. This is 21 st Century and its OK to accept new ideas instead of living in the past !!!

  • Now WHY can't this song be available for purchase? Almost half a century old and no ones doin' anything about it!

  • wonderful, wonderful!!!

  • This scene i pure magic

  • The closest you'll come to this is maybe something tarantino does, he's great at those little moments like this, in my humble opinion.

  • Well, he DID name his production company after this film, so I'd say the comparison is fair :)

    Though as you say "coming close to" is the key phrase here. This has to be one of the defining scenes in modern cinema!

  • Parody or not, they still looked great...  It's the kind of aesthetic one doesn't much of anymore.. *sigh*

  • The epitome of 60's "cool...." Thus teaching us that "cool" is eternal.

  • This film is a comedy, and a parody of mainstream "cool". The three are faire bande å part, which is no longer considered cool.

  • this epitomises cool :)

  • such a great movie :D

  • toooooo coooool! i can  watch this all day!

  • ...where were you in 1964? ...I was in my twenties...

  • ahahahaha Damn!

  • What's the name of this song?

  • It's not even close to the same tune.

  • ....no....it isn't

    Someone put Nouvelle vague over this and uploaded it. Does not mean it's in the original. And this sounds NOTHING like nouvelle vague

  • nouvelle vague is also the name of the french film movement of the fifties and sixties pioneered by goddard

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  • A huge amount of movies have a scene that intercuts between two people on a phone or a scene where people have a conversation in a moving car, this is not considered plagiarism.

    Two movies have a naturalistic dance scene, this is considered plagiarism by some.

    Strange no?

  • This movie was a work of art. Frey has not changed one bit. Any idea what the tune playing might be called?

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  • extracto de la película "Bande à part" (1964) Jean-Luc Godard

  • This is one of the best scenes I've seen that doesn't make much sense. They way Frey moves makes me laugh, they're beautiful.

  • Is Frey the one in the suit? If so, he's so captivating to watch. A beautiful dancer.

  • Yes he is! And I agree with you completely.

  • Tarantino's style is actually very similar with Godard. They both do a lot of homages. Godard makes literature, music, poetry, painting and movie etc. .homages in his every movie. Tarantino does movie homages in his every movie. Their way to tell a story is reconstructing the usual way of making movies. Their movies have elements from everywhere, and they are thematically unique. A lot of homages, but it's not stealing. It's art.

  • @s0olid i completely agree except for the last 20 years of godard's career - he's using this truly unusual cinematic language that seems to make sense only to him! but his early nouvelle vague stuff kicks ass as does most of tarantino's output

  • @s0olid Tarantino is a hack, though.

  • @NostalgicInsomniac You are so right. Thank you for saying it.

  • @s0olid Tarantino also shows his homage, through his production company named A band Apart

  • ya but who did the very first filmmakers steal from?

  • We've been telling stories since the beginning of time.

  • actors as muses

  • Hard to grasp just how cool this scene is

  • I can only but agree with you. The coolest scene of 1960's french cinema.

  • Some people even say the greatest dance scene in French Cinema. And not because the dance number is huge and fantastic, which it isn't, but because of what it projects. And all done in one take lasting 4 1/2 mins. A joy to watch every time. VERY cool!

  • Band of Outsiders has to be one of only two or three watchable Goddard movies. Goddard occasionally makes incredible movies, but often they're unwatchable.

  • kinda pathetic when people note that a director steals ideas. Every director's work can be traced back to works that have influenced them. There's no denying tarantino's a great storyteller.

  • Addressing a French audience, Tarrantino once said: "My biggest fear is that somebody asks me to tell a story. Luckily americans are too stupid to realize all I ever do is steal from several sources. I wouldn't have a career at all if Americans figured out how to read and watch movies at the same time."

  • except for the guys who made the first films.... who did they steal from? Here's a question. Who invented the dissolve, the fade in and fade out, the dolly move?

  • @MrBlonde6110 agreed, but he kinda dropped the ball in inglourious basterds..

  • @MrBlonde6110 "everything's been done".

  • *as well as Godard, who is also a great storyteller.

  • Genius!

  • Such an incredible scene!

  • I'm going to learn this dance and do it at a Waffle House. Oh yeah.

  • Once you learn the dance teach us! Post a vid here!

  • I love this scene!! Thank you for posting!

  • <3 Anna Karina

  • I'm glad she ended up with F ranz. I didn't like Arthur. :/

  • So great to see this again. And Anna Karina! You can't see her well in this clip but she is for all time.

  • Hmm... this AINT the Madison... but it is pretty cool.

  • What is it then?

  • Hmm... I suspect a mixture of dances - or one made specially for this 1964 film. I suspect, because of the layout of the 'dance area' the latter is more of a possibility. 4 Wall dances in 1964 were non existent. There are a number of 'tube vids of The Madison.

  • It also inspired the dance scene between Travolta and Thurman in Pulp Fiction.

  • Was this ripped off a Criteriod DVD? I just watched the Criterion and the subtitles are different than this. But translation can be interpreted in different ways...

  • THIS IS SO C FOR COOOOOOOL!!!!!!!

  • well I was thinking that reality is turning into reality and a dream is also a dream but what a sweater (never looked at my feet however)

  • faaaantastic

  • What's the name of the song?

    Anyone know of some place i could download the soundtrack!?

    I WANT IT SOOOO BAD! :D

  • look in wikipedia "bande a part" jean luc godard

  • thats why Quentin named the production company Band Apart.

  • The translation into English isn't that great. Haaaaa.

  • you're right, but when are they ever?

  • this name is madison(the dance)

  • This, "Taxi Driver", and "The Graduate" are what I wrote about in one of my Undergraduate papers about Anti-Heroes in film.

  • Good choice.

  • You sure went out of your way

  • She is/was so so sexy..!!

  • An interesting thing about this dance sequence is that they obviously shot it without any music and then added the music afterwards. That's why the three actors keep clicking their fingers - so that they don't lose the time.

    The three actors are Claude Brasseur (he's the one in the terrifying sweater), Anna Karina and Sami Frey, btw.

  • but the clicking makes the dancing more beautiful ,easy and cute

    love it

  • Do you think that the dance i real time?

  • Don't understand the question, sorry. All I meant was that by clicking their fingers in roughly the right tempo, the actors were able to keep in more or less the right rhythm so that the music would seem right when they overdubbed it later. Also, as Renchiping points out, the clicking makes the dancing look cuter.

  • I don't think the music is overdubbed... that would be unnecessarily complicated. Instead you could just have a guy who presses start and stop on the tape at the right times.

  • I am not a gambling man, but I will bet you money that they overdubbed the music. It is actually far easier to overdub it than to have some guy on the set with a tape machine - for one thing, the tape machine has to be individually hooked up to the audio track, and then you have to trust that the tape player will work when he presses the button, and the music will start at exactly the right instant...and all that has to be done live to camera. Much easier to overdub it afterwards.

  • It's the 60's not freaking cretaceous. Finding a reliable tape recorder shouldn't be the problem.

    How are you going to have them keep the rhythm? Have a band record it to the footage? A metronome on the set you would have heard.

    Every other option seems unnecessarily complicated to me. You can't just shoot the scene and cross your fingers that it will sync up in post production.

    Plus the audio sounds like it was recorded in a room and not overdubbed directly.

  • Maybe you should watch the video again, but the actors aren't exactly in sync to the music. They are perfectly in sync to each other, which you would expect if they had danced to just their own clicking fingers as cues. But with regard to the music, sometimes they are in perfect sync and sometimes they are way off. I take this to be coincidence.

    I think the actors worked out the sequence, danced it, and then they overdubbed music in post production to come in at more or less the right moment.

  • "Maybe you should watch the video again."

    I did. They're always on the 2. When there's a silent passage and the music starts again, they will correct.

    If it were just random, you would expect them to be on the 2, +4, 1, 3+... but they're always on the 2 more or less.

    You're a musician... record yourself clapping to your favourite song, and then see how it syncs up... you'll be all over the place, not just slightly off.

  • I'm not convinced. They don't seem to me to be nearly as in sync with the music as they are with each other.

  • I had this clip on my myspace and I accidentally deleted it. I didn't know where it was from or what it was called or anything. I'm so glade I found it.

  • Coolest thing ever. I would love to live in France 1960... and to have a french gal. They're all so wonderful.

  • Anna Karina is Danish.