Yes, I talk a lot about the damnability of the Internet’s inbuilt capacity for destructive distraction, but damn, sometimes the whole thing is hugely useful for circulating a dose of pure fun. And if this mashup of nearly 70 movies featuring a vigorously dancing Christopher Walken, set to a very familiar and appropriate song, isn’t pure fun, then I don’t know what is. It also integrates a smattering of archetypal Walkenisms — various verbal intonations, facial expressions, and bits of body language — that any consumer of movie and media culture in the past 40 years will find familiar. (Note: Beware a few faint, fleeting moments of NSFW imagery.)
Kudos to Ben Craw, video editor at The Huffington Post, for this wonderfully conceived and created slice of entertainment. You can see a full list of the movies he used here.
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It sure is some kind of wonderful when you can let go and watch Christopher Walken dance for five minutes and know your time was well spent. Ken Burns & PBS should start something with this, a compilation of dancing stars edited for amusement. However ludicrous it may seem, you know it’s somehow profitable.
In the words of Walken, “It’s what yeuw– gotta –duuuew, ^yeah.” …insert inflection where necessary (*and analogies of mice, a bucket, and cream).
Thx for sharing.
Glad you dig it, Candy! I see that HuffPo has now taken down the video. I wonder if there were copyright/licensing problems? What a shame. I’ve found an alternative link to keep the video live here, but I expect it to go dead at any moment. Ah, well. It was fun while it lasted.
🙂 indeed