Newcastle dance

[@westcountrypastygalloper8747]

I love Newcastle' as a tune which is why I'm sat learning it on mandolin..

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

This is the best dance scene in any historical movie.

[@ambidextra_ambidextra]

I recently bought the soundtrack album after seeing the movie again on TV. The music was all nice but this scene decided me on getting it. However hearing this track on the album I was sure it had been much better (and longer) in the film, came on youtube to check it out and I was right. Album version is 38 seconds and just strings, arranged very formally. Wish they'd included the version heard here instead, it's so much more thrilling and alive,.Just magical! Thanks for posting😍

[@mellyreedMR]

I think you may be missing the point. It's a beautiful story. Taken from the novel Restoration by Rose Tremain. Setting the scene up, Merivel, a 17th-century English physician, (RDJ) has been exiled from the court and the King and has gone to serve with his Puritan friend at the asylum and hospital he and his friends run. Merivel has just had an epiphany about how to cure the demented and the mentally ill that no one has thought of: restore their joy - and so he proposes that the next day they lead them in dancing. The scene is about the restoration of their joy.

[@Pauline6247]

Melanie Reed It is very beautiful and quite moving.

[@fandci]

I once called at a dance in a modern equivalent of a Bedlam and it was redolent of this scene minus the costumes and the mud. I had to abandon any idea of getting the dancers to conform to the 32 bar dance that I was intending. The oboe player looks like Paul Sartin.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Occupational therapy.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Ambrose : *I AM THE SENATE!!!* Robert: *And I AM Iron Man !* **FINGER-SNAP**

[@chrisstrijbosch9318]

young iron man only and the end you understand

[@Amantedegoticas2469]

Eu amo o incrível ator Robert Downey Jr, tenho a maioria dos filmes dele. ❤

[@christophmahler]

Thanks for the upload.

[@maidros85]

When the Senate tells you to dance, you dance!

[@chrisstrijbosch9318]

he is the senate mister stark

[@chrisstrijbosch9318]

do it!!!!!

[@alicegrace2310]

Ha I clicked on this by chance, only to find out that iron man and Remus lupin were in the same movie! Small world

[@TheLightPurple]

@Jessyca Zander Don't forget Elrond :-)

[@TheLightPurple]

@Jessyca Zander Ooops, sorry, my bad. I somehow confused Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill . . . Obviously Elrond was played by Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill was the one who was in "Restoration". It's just too hot outside for my brain to work properly, I guess. Sorry for the confusion.

[@guppisumati16]

professor lupin meets tonks of a medieval era(without the coloured hair) with the help of iron man. mulitiverse ;-)

[@archerdark7524]

Professor Lupin meets with the Senate....

[@foundationofBritain]

It would be of a early modern era... not of a medieval era, the medieval era was long gone by the start of the 17th.c, let alone the mid to late.

[@andywertzberger]

No, but it should say in the end credits of the film...

[@SethimusMaximus]

No chance you have any idea who played oboe and violin on this track?

[@annhinchliffe8314]

oboeist looked like the late and much lamented Paul Sartin, a creative and brilliant musician.

[@imliteralyjust3405]

tony and palpatine in the same place

[@whitewolfaudios]

And Anastasia.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

And Remus Lupin

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

It's an amazing fact that Robert Downey Jr can actually act. This was before he dedicated himself to garbage like Iron Man or Tungsten Platinum Man or whatever cr*p Hollyweird is currently producing. It's a waste of a talent really.

[@morevaseret]

The only part of Newcastle that was authentic was the music. What the "so called" dancers were doing is anyones guess, it certainly wasn't Newcastle

[@timdewit6088]

Like I told Arthur Kingsland, these 'dancers' are inhabitants of a mad house within the context of this film. This 'dance' was intended as a treatment. It wouldn't have made sense for them to break out into a choreographed performance.

[@morevaseret]

Then it should not have been called Newcastle, but a dance to the tune of Newcastle.

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

That's just being pedantic, really, isn't it?

[@Euphoftoday]

I suspect that although the tune was known, the dance was not. This is a question I've had about Playford's dances, did everyone really know them or (as I suspect) only certain echelons of society knew and could read or write. Those that couldn't, would make up their own dance if they had the time. A lot of people would have been too exhausted after a hard days work and too busy to dance.

[@vonvildenschwert3045]

Yes. It's good to know the context of scene. Newcastle is also little bit more complicated to dance as you surely know.