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This is such a wonderful video! I'm no dancer, but I love this movie, and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to see it through the eyes of someone who really knows the ins and outs of that world. I'm so happy to hear it's just as enjoyable to a professional ballroom dancer as it is to a layperson! It gives me fresh appreciation for the effort Baz Luhrmann put into the movie.

I own episodes of the Colgate Comedy Hour on VHS!

Tim and I are about the same age, and grew up around the Detroit area on the same TV stations. I grew up without cable, but also spent a lot of time with my grandparents, so I definitely grew up aware of the Colgate Comedy Hour. That's especially true if you were a kid who liked comedy or wanted to do comedy. I can't remember what affiliate re-ran episodes, but it was definitely something he probably would have seen as a kid if he was around older people.

Glad I came across your video. When I was competitively ice skating, I mentioned to a friend that I was thinking about skating a tango or flamenco, she had mentioned this movie. I watched it and fell in love with it! I love your assessment. It's very through.

Paul bufano?! How hard is that.

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El señor que lleva la boina tiene más acento español que el otro señor cuando habla inglés, pero a ambos se les agrada escuchar. 😊 So glad their message comes across in both languages.

You answered a question that I've always had. I know that, in France, dance classes teach the paso doble, but demonstrations I've seen on French TV don't look anything like the dance in the movie. But that's probably because it was a paso doble that the general public would do , not the competitlve dance.

My favourite film.

My Spanish friend from Manzanares, Ciudad Real , had dark hair and green / hazel eyes.

Love this movie and the story

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Thank you for your thoughts on my favorite ballroom dance movie.

RE: the scene when Scott slides in--From what I remember hearing at one time, he slide in on a skateboard for most of that shot.

What struck me most in the film was how Baz Luhrmann made fun of the extreme (and absolutely frozen and artificial) smiling of everyone on the scene. Seems also quite accurate for ballroom dancing at that time…

If you ever felt like a deep dive in a Fred Astaire movie, with technical details, I’d certainly watch and subscribe. 😊

Fantastic review, and spot on regarding the movie's intended audience. The lack of traditional main characters in favour of a collective protagonist of Japan's people working together, and the allegories to the tragedies Japan has suffered in its history, is wonderful and chilling, especially with that soundtrack.

The sound like Puerto Ricans

Deep. Sad. Real.

Paul Bufano! Paul Bufano!

Gracias por tanto Nacho estes donde estés. Aun recuerdo tus consejos en el instituto.

Maybe that would be you in that situation, but you skip a lot. Remember he blew up the Death Star after saving the princess. That made the front page of every paper in the galaxy. Then went on to Turning Darth Vader to the light and defeat the Emperor when the second Death Star was blown up. He is on his own with this Old Religion which he must rebuild. Again all this front page stuff. People are naming kids after him, even Elementry schools now bear his name. He is the new emperior of the galaxy. He didnt run away, he needed those texts. Thats why he was going to exagal too. You go on to mention what he might of went through when he realized he killed hundreds of thousands. Really, what are you talking about some clones or orphans etc... vs what a death star or two, or the finicial wizard who paid for them plus a hidden fleet...pretty easy moral to weigh. Remember this was good vs evil, the innocent can pay.

Me when I'm talking about something I know nothing about

Well I certainly learned some new things! Fun fact: Sonia Kruger who played Tina Sparkle was an Australian champion in ballroom dancing.

Oh Gosh…. So on the money x There were definitely people in the Dance scene that Baz directly, absolutely, based his characters on from Sydney…And so great that you mentioned Blackpool ❤

Not a sax, but Dizzy Gillespie played a trumpet with a kink in it.

I've had this movie a long time now and I love it. For some reason I braced myself for some negative reviews from you, a professional ballroom dancer. Thank you for not bursting my bubble! It was very interesting hearing all of the different points you made and glad you confirmed the facts.

This guy look remarkably like British actor Rupert Penny-Jones - Silk, Whitechapel etc

I like this movie a lot. Another dance movie I love that I bet you have seen is Carlos Saura's Carmen. Have you seen it? Do you like it? I love it!

A really excellent review of one of my favourite Aussie movies.

I love the grandmother. There is a very subtle item in the script that is only noticeable to a Spanish speaker. When she asked “¿Tú bailes Paso Doble?” First she uses the informal tú form with someone she has just met, which is bit insulting. Second she uses the subjunctive mode in saying “bailes” rather than the indicative mode which would be “bailas”. The subjunctive mode indicates doubt. So she is really saying “I don’t believe that you dance the paso doble”

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Great video! Love this movie 😊 I did the Jazz/ballet/tap thing through my childhood, teenage and young adult years and many of the things you talk about are extremely accurate for those dance studios, communities and eisteddfods (competitions) as well 😅

most of it is a "tribute"

What an insightful summary of one of my favorite movies! Thank you! I first saw this film when subscribed to NETFLIX and was surprised that I had never heard of it in the USA. I can certainly understand how popular it was in Australia!

Me encanta.

Love 20 seconds in, the pero yes

Genial! Que no se pierda esto!

Garrett, thank you SO MUCH! "Strictly Ballroom" is a favorite of mine, but I know little about the ballroom dance scene. The context you provide is awesome!

you are incredible 👏👏👏👏

Puerto Ricans be like…

Your observations on Strictly Ballroom are spot on!!! 👏👏👏 Excellent and many aspects are very similar in the West Coast Swing dance world! One last comment, although Scott and Fran’s Paso Doble dance scene was not accurate…it certainly was cinematically fantastic…one of my favorite movie dance scene’s ever!! Thank You!🙏

I have read that Scott/Paul was a professional Latin dancer, not ballroom. You can see he clearly is more skilled and comfortable with the Latin dances. Great video and analysis of one of my favorite films too!

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That's not a language, it's a mix, you must know one language and a little bit of vocabulary from the other and you will understand all most everithing. Like if you move yo an other region that has it's own dialect. At thé begining it's hard, but you understand, and with contact you get used to. That border dialect evolves with the evolution of the other two languages and becomes more and more standard English, or standard Spanish. It hasn't It's omen evolution. It's a clare case of diglosia, one language has prestige and the other hasn't. Because of that when the speaker don't know how to say something in one language he copy-pastes the other, yo continiu speaking the language socialy conected to the situation. With time everibody understands that expresions in the region. The words from other languages aren't realy from the contact betwen cultures, but because of the contact with main languages. French has no contact with nauatl, the language of aztekas, and they say "chocolat", but they take that word from Spanish "chocolate", that was toke from nauatl "chocotl", not directly. So, I accept that's interesting and that it's conected to history. But in constant conexion with the main languages It will stay always as a dialect, and in that standardisation moment, it will become more and more standard. It's not losing, It's the last step in the Spanish desapearing proces in that region, not an independent language with it's own grammar. That's interesting also, but we must not bé romantic with "that desapearing language made from mixing cultures". It's a conflict betwen English and Spanish speakers and the community betwen is diferent from both sides, but the reality is that they are aculturizated people that doesn't fit completly in that English world, neither in the Spanish one. But there's no so much original stuff, everithing is a take from one language or the other. Stoping taking from one side to take it from the other is only a new step to total assimilation.

Such a frightening degenerative sado-maso.

Yanito komo idioma awe ta maduro i sabí komo idioma i pa evolushoná senpre preservá i no biba e sombra di spaño i ingles, yanito mester kasa ku novial, interlingua, eurolango i intergalico i interlingue tin afinidat total ku e idiomanan aki i no mester disparsé. Yanito pa gana mundo mester stop di ta un mero espangles y bira un idioma internacional bunita cu e ta, impone su mes siendo usa pa e spaño y británico fuera di e area ingles of Spaño di habla. Mi ta respeta yanito komo un idioma separá for di ingles i spaño i un idioma ku su mes personalidat. ♾️💙🙏🥂🫂💎✈️🌟🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂