I love a movie with a dance sequence, particularly one of those impromptu dance sequences where a large group of people who are just sitting around suddenly get up and bust into a choreographed dance. Think of such great movies as Grease and Dirty Dancing and 13 Going on 30.
My dream is to be in a dance scene like that, in real life, even though I have no dance moves to speak of (other than the shopping cart and the sprinkler, of course) and things like that never happen in real life, unless you are talking about a line dance at a country bar, which obviously I am not.
In any event, (500) Days of Summer was a wonderfully delightful film with the added bonus of a dance sequence.
We need more dance sequences in our lives, I think. Especially ones with the so adorable Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
At the New York Times, Marc Webb, the director of "(500) Days of Summer," discusses the dance sequence from the film.
Ohhh my gosh. I saw this last Friday and just DIED when this scene began. It makes me so, so happy!
Posted by: Megan | September 02, 2009 at 11:02 AM
My brother (who is unlike in me in many, many ways) saw this before me - I have yet to see it.
Just last night he was telling me I should go see it, then showed me this on Youtube. And now I definitely must see it. I LOVE random dance scenes in movies. One of my faves is during the parade scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off when they all start dancing to Twist and Shout.
Posted by: Cait | September 02, 2009 at 02:33 PM
Holy crap I need to see this so so badly.
Posted by: Janssen | September 02, 2009 at 03:01 PM
I didn't love this movie as much as I wanted to...I wish that we could just randomly sing out loud much like random acts of dancing. Life would be so much happier if more people sang outloud!
Posted by: Leslie | September 02, 2009 at 06:16 PM
I absolutely loved this movie! (Especially the impromptu dance number - I, too, have a soft spot for movies that have musical elements.) This should definitely be incorporated into real life.
Posted by: Katharine | September 03, 2009 at 08:43 AM
That is a great dance sequence! I have watched it on You Tube twice now and haven't even seen the movie! Ha! :)
Posted by: Amber | September 03, 2009 at 01:15 PM
oh i want to see that even more now! how cute
Posted by: connie | September 03, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Loved that movie and loved that dance scene! (And how bizarre- my husband and I were just talking about it last night!!)
Posted by: melissa davis | September 03, 2009 at 07:08 PM
Awwwwww- that is fantastic. That boy is super-cute, too.
Posted by: Jen | September 07, 2009 at 07:22 PM
What a coincidence that you have this on your blog! First time visiting here....One of my co-workers told me to look up this dance sequence on YouTube tonight when I got home. Ha! You just saved me the trouble of looking it up! :)
(It was cute, and I think it'd be fun for something like that to happen spontaneously in real life, too!)
Posted by: Julie | September 26, 2009 at 07:27 PM