Strictly Ballroom | 'Paso Doble' (HD) - A Baz Luhrmann Film | MIRAMAX

[@blakehewitt237]

Most underrated film of all time. It’s utterly brilliant.

[@annacorcoran6523]

Best ever

[@timeliebe]

I love this scene, especially since you can see Scott sees in the old man dancing what he's been looking for all along.

[@wesleywayne303]

Realness

[@Harry2k0]

I watched this movie at least 15 years ago and I NEVER forgot this scene. Simple and powerful.

[@charlessmith263]

I watched the Toledo dancer's way of moving his arms. This is called "braceo" in flamenco. For instance, at the start of his flamenco/paso, he raises his arms in what I call "banderillas", as if he is a banderillero on a horse in the bullfight arena ready to stab the bull with 2 sticks just before the matador does the final stab to it and the fight ends......

[@heatherninneman558]

Agree

[@davedove67]

What was great about this scene and what followed is that he wasn't all prideful, but instead he used it as a learning opportunity and gained the family's respect.

[@mcc271]

Fransica's father really nailed this scene! Bravo to the actor. You can tell that he's not a tall guy from the scene but when he danced, he was so attractive by his strong face and steps!

[@Gallinnster]

He's not her father but her uncle. And the actor is the spanishman and professional flamenco dancer Antonio Vargas.

[@anacb8303]

No filme ele é father dela sim kkkkk

[@VoklstWestie]

But the father is "Tall in Stature" !!! Just like my dad was!

[@lucindaarmour7422]

He is a highly respected flamenco dancer and teacher in Sydney. Has a successful dance school. Excellent casting. He is great in this role for a non actor.

[@CorneliusHDybdahl]

One detail I really like is that Fran's father isn't laughing. He doesn't like Scott's Paso Doble and there's perhaps a trace of amusement visible on his face, but he is a refined man with manners and doesn't laugh.

[@chooseyourpoison5105]

You're right. If anything, it's like Rico feels a bit sorry for Scott, because he's making a fool of himself and doesn't realise it - and there's also a touch of irritated pride, because Scott has unknowingly taken Rico's cultural traditions and basically pissed on them. Then there's the resolute "You want to dance paso doble? THIS is how you do paso doble!"

[@stephenfermoyle1498]

Cause he knows WHY he does not know the dance its all about soul so he teaches him

[@TD-qg1bu]

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[@TD-qg1bu]

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[@TD-qg1bu]

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[@deadstar44]

I love how Scott gets humbled in this scene from hot shot to limp peacock out of his element. But instead of humiliating him, Fran's father teaches him and Scott accepts to learn from someone better than him that his arrogant self would have probably dismissed if it wasn't for Fran since he's prone to judge a book by its cover and his entitled head is stuck in his bubble. Fran first told Scott that he refused to teach her because he looked down on her as a beginner and was afraid she might become great and outshine him. Now the tables turn and Scott is the beginner eager to learn but Fran's grandma and her dad are not afraid to show him how to dance real Paso Doblé that comes from the heart.

[@victorialawhon2251]

He is a world class flamenco dancer and it shows. Plus he's really handsome!

[@Markph7]

The great Antonio Vargas makes this scene with his intensity, Scott is humbled for the first time and can now grow as a man and not as the puppet of his mother

[@bradleycollison1769]

A good answer!!no longer a puppet to his mother!!

[@kingmany1]

The look on Scott’s face says it all. “Why was I not taught this!!!!”

[@johnsergei]

"It's not Strictly Ballroom" growls Bill Hunter.

[@lukasvandewiel860]

Everybody dancer who changes from years of dancing at al old dance school and moving to a younger school.

[@chriswilson3126]

Scott didn't have the intensity at first. He treated paso doble like a ballroom step, but he finds out it's different. I love this film.

[@Yuzo_SaseboJapan]

I love this scene, too. Fran's father is very cool. "Paso Doble" looks a very hard dance, but it is very beautiful.

[@tinotrivino]

its not hard if you are from spain, its like doing karate for japanese. Its all about the culture!

[@vilwarin5635]

@@tinotrivino People from Spain don´t learn pasodoble unless they go to dancing classes. Plus, there are other traditional dances apart from pasodoble

[@StarWarsMoments]

That's what it looks like when the dance floor catches fire.

[@viennawaits4u36]

This scene is like, the Spaghetti Western of Musical Romantic Comedies. Genius!

[@jons.6216]

Cracks me up when her working class father pulls off his jacket to reveal his blousy shirt and perfect dancer's tushy! Haha!

[@teheyepatch]

Every tense scene in life needs a Spanish guy strumming away on his guitar XD

[@paytonruss55]

After all these years her dad is still a legend to this very day. This part of the movie never gets old.

[@SandraNelson063]

The Paso is about tightly controlled power, iron self confidence, PERSONALITY, dominance, the claiming of territory. It isn't the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog. It isn't a pretty fancy stepped tea dance. It's the rage of the bull, the matador's swing of the cape, the stabbing of the sword. It's blood on the sand, either the bull's or the matador's. Or both. Prancing and arm swinging? No.

[@adriennefriederich8061]

Sandra Nelson Wonderful description! I agree with you entirely.

[@charlessmith263]

@@adriennefriederich8061 Ditto for me. I have learned and studied paso doble dancing for years--the Walter Laird way (ISTD technique in International Latin paso doble dancing). Not easy to get that theatricality and character of this Spanish dance spot on, but I try my best to do that...

[@miniquek-t5837]

Wow this description!

[@nikkigallagher163]

That description was amazing - and you can feel all of it in Fran’s father as he dances too

[@eboli7146]

What I don’t get is why Fran goes to some shitty dance school when her own father is a legendary dancer 😂 Love this movie ❤️

[@johnsergei]

The story goes. He loves her, but they are distant. Antonio is superb.

[@octaviasternenfarben]

which daughter is really asking a father that life seems to have broken? To have an ability and a talent doesn't mean you live it. But she shares the dream to be a dancer. A woman can not learn the dance from a man,, she can learn to dance the paso doble with a man, but not from him, as the emotions expressed are different. you see a family that sits there and enjoys from time to time the coming together and very seldomly the dance. They know how the dance feels, but they are far off from "home" and therefore also from their roots. She wants to revive things, she seeks something she feels is still there, and therefore she is doing the same as he (the male dancer) - trying to find the dance and the own expression.

[@dennisszabo4185]

Cause her father dance for the passion. -Not competition.

[@4EyedAnimation]

Father was overprotective after the mother died...its all implied...when Fran dances well in practice dad says with real sincerity "muy bien Fran..." amazing moment

[@tinotrivino]

If you ask that, than you never watch it really the movie!

[@daniellesorensen4622]

I love how Scott watches Fran's Father's steps and the rhythm of the dance

[@Thejampacker]

Love how threatening yet suggestive it is when he says ‘show meeee yo’ Pasa Doble!’!

[@Katie-q1m]

Best part of the film. At least they got new steps!

[@aspirecan4829]

I started watching this movie part way through around 10-15 years ago. I couldn't remember the title, but I remembered the movie all this time, which is no small feat for me, as I have memory issues. BUT, it also shows the impact this movie has. I'm so thankful to have found it again AND the title of the movie, so I can find it and watch the whole movie. Thank you to the person who posted this video for making my day and a few years of my life trying to remember the name of this movie and looking at the description of every dance movie shown on TV trying to find it. Now, at last, EUREKA!, I have found it.

[@kathrynmolesa1641]

Now THAT was a Paso Doble! Scott is drinking it all in.

[@nancyanderson5310]

What was great for me is that his majestic stance called his wife to him to partner his power. The hell of cosmetic tyranny fell away and pure human DANCE ruled all hearts. The Spirit is EVERYTHING!

[@lisastillwagon425]

That older woman is his mother in law, not his wife.

[@krisherman3513]

Actually that isn't his wife. It's Fran's grandmother. In a later scene, she talks about how proud Fran's mother would be if she were alive, leading me to believe it is her maternal grandmother. So he danced with this mother in law.

[@nancyanderson5310]

@@krisherman3513 wow, that’s even better! As a great grandmother, this makes me feel part of the story too.

[@janhughes7786]

This is my all time favourite scene from a movie

[@TralfazConstruction]

All that tells me is that you have good taste and a discerning eye. Scott's introduction to Fran's extended family is key scene in the character's development. I like that it doesn't totally demolish Scott's ambitions but rather gives him a good sense of what he has yet to learn.

[@Pheonix704]

Dance will always calm the Nerves, Especially when you master the Dance We all have to start from the beginning Amazing music , Amazing Film 2022

[@СветЛана-э9м1е]

Танец из глубины сердца- истинный танец👍🌞🤗

[@dominiquefelder1809]

That's the best Pasa Doble I ever seen!

[@iamkhonsu]

I was forced to watch this in High School. I never knew I’d love it.

[@johnsergei]

"What! how to be a disobedient dancer?" (say with surprise)

[@RunningManNewbie]

even me, i want to Fourways High School

[@ruffianoo]

If you have a chance: “A Bird of the Air” is a unique movie too. Something about this movie reminds me of it. Idk. Rhythms maybe. Also: here everyone has a plan, but their pjans are changed...blissfully so (even the toupee tyrant has to step back and rest and he’s going to like that...in time. “A Bird...Air” is about people who don’t dare to plan, don’t know how, and....no spoiler.. the story evolves rhythmically. (No dancing in this movie though most parrots do bop-bop-bop VERY well.)

[@lindenly22]

I am a very quick music and dance study person. Even in Spanish. Antonio says to Scott as Antonio trys to kick him out...... "Largate...Fuera de aqui!" (Get away! Out of here!). Then his grandmother acted by Armonia Benedito says "Tu bailas el paso doble?" (Do you dance the double step?). Antonio then says..."Enseigneme" (Teach me). When Fran and Scott are about to dance, Antonio says "Alle!" (Come on! Get on with it!). When Antonio dances the flamenco tapping paso himself, he calls for the guitarist something like "A las compas!"--"to the rhythm--strict distinct rhythm", as a "llamada" (or "call"), one of the terms common to flamenco. Before that, the Toledo flamenco guitarist does a improvised gypsy singing flourish that I probably call a "sad-singing Roma-enhanced lament", before the exciting tap action begins. Antonio finishes the tapping with I call "los tres golpes" - strong tap accents, leading to a grand stop - or "el paradon" - ending the flamenco-paso dance.

[@Aberjan]

I just want to add on to what you said. Antonio says: ¿queremos ver este paso doble, verdad? And then someone replies Si! Vamos a verlo. Then Antonio says enseñame. Ahhh this reminds me of living in Spain....in the beginning Antonio actually calls Scott a canalla (like...a hoodlum, punk). Haha. I wonder if that was in the script.

[@anon17472]

I love this scene, the look between the old fella and the young upstart

[@kimquinn7728]

He isn't an 'upstart'. That's the whole point. He doesn't disparage the dance he learned but he wants MORE. He is a hungry for more artist. That is why he will constantly change, improve, create. Not stagnate as so many do.

[@TralfazConstruction]

My appreciation of this scene stems from the grandmother's pronunciation of "show".

[@thousandwater]

I loved this movie... Just came back from Spain, a nation full of passion, that is where it is shown also in their dances...

[@1969cmp]

I like war and historical flicks primarily....but this is one of my favourites.

[@karenamy2117]

That WAS war, just waged in a very different way… 😊 💃

[@charlessmith263]

I am a self-proclaimed scholar of flamenco dancing, and ballroom dancing/Latin dancing too. I used to dance the paso doble with my former French girlfriend, and France is one of the countries involved in the Latin dance called the Paso Doble--not just Spain. You hear the Spanish term, "Vamos, vamos Compas!" (or "go, go, rhythm!")---that means it is like "subida" (or "rising up") in flamenco dancing--both mean "to speed up the tempo." The tremolos that happen when the Toledo dancer does his flamenco is called "rasgueado", and that vocalise by the singer that happens under the rasgueado is an example of Romany-related music focusing on the Phrygian scale. (No wonder flamenco definitely has an affinity to Arabia!) Paso Doble itself adores flamenco dancing very much, and in the paso dance, there is a school step called "flamenco taps" at the gold level. It is a dance that animal activists usually will not like because it involves the theatrical depiction on the dance floor of the matador trying to slaughter the bull in combat in a closed corrida, which is usually the man. The lady in the paso doble can represent the cape or the bull or even the matador's shadow. In competition, if you do not show the utmost expression and theatricality in this dance, you lose points--and even worse--you may not make the cut to a further Latin dance heat. It means "double step", and it is used as a military march introduction just before the matador enters the corrida. In French, it means "redoubled step" (pas redouble). That is why Paso Doble has some dance moves that are in French, such as the coup de pique (or "sting blow"), or deplacement (getting off place), or "chasse cape" (chased cape), or "la passe" (or "the pass"--so in this case, the bull pass by the matador). The fregolina is another paso move--where the matador makes a circle around the bull passing that person focusing only on the cape to avoid the matador ending up gored or worse.

[@paulrisson3780]

That was a fantastic and interesting explanation. Thank you sir

[@zeevanatashazazhinne3136]

be really nice since you mentioned Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio), Fran (Tara Morice) if you mentioned the STAR of this scene--the great Antonio Vargas!

[@marcarnall1980]

Never mind, you did it. However, it would have been really nice if you had done it in a nicer fashion.

[@chooseyourpoison5105]

OK, I went and looked up Antonio Vargas, and I see he is an award-winning flamenco dancer and choreographer. I don't think anyone was trying to be disrespectful to him - it's just that he played a minor role (and yes, he played it very well) and as such, gets billed below the leading man and leading lady.

[@stephenfermoyle1498]

YES HE IS

[@lareinadiondra6027]

Antonio Vargas was also the name of the actor who played Huggy Bear on Starsky & Hutch.

[@klaraorsolya]

Vargas Antonio Gades mellett a világ legnagyobb flamenco táncosa. Nem csak a technika, hanem a tartás is felűlmúlhatatlan.

[@max-cs9ko]

I just love this movie

[@YokoshimaSTAR]

DUDE ON FIREEEEEEEEEEEEE! I just knew about Paso Doble and now this human being is my inspiration for the dance. I shall commence learning the dance using his power~

[@davewarwicker2512]

I first watch this film under duress in the name of keeping an open mind. Now it is my most favourite film - and I reckon if you are reading this you know what I mean.

[@brookebarnes9517]

'SHOOOWWW me your Pasa Doble!!!' XDDDD Goodness i love this film XDD

[@56ava43]

the maestro of flamenco....Vargas

[@MadameChristie]

I was today years old when I realized the shitty dance moves are exactly the same ones Ken does with Tina Sparkle during final competition sequence XD

[@katalintoth2787]

BEAUTIFUL MOVIE !!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🇭🇺

[@theresemartin7930]

Ever since seeing this movie, I've hated competition dancing. They take beautiful dances and make mockeries of them. This movie made me love the traditional Paso Doble.

[@Topaz_Soul]

He's like 'That's how it's done...' love it 🙄

[@seiji.kitada.375]

パソドブレ？　パソドブレ⁉️ このシーン忘れられない すごいね、動の中に静が有るて感じ

[@user-tarara]

movie＋で見てから　何十年も題名がわかりませんでした。とうとうみつけました

[@SirEsau]

Amo esta película, y esta escena con los hispanos es sumamente emblemática.

[@doctorfmac8469]

"Just try and keep up..." HAHAHAHA

[@johnstamatiadis6234]

Love this scene. Met Paul. Nice guy.

[@icereaper1]

Excellent Movie, highly recommend to everyone.

[@twinkle2679]

OMG, Fran’s dad’s confidence and dancing are so sexy! I love this scene!

[@AlexSmith-fs6ro]

This is to me the best part of the film. No les parece?

[@johnsergei]

Their home made dance is a crack up. I got the joke before the first laugh. You know, I think they're trying to fly?

[@ferenckoszorus6958]

I love this movie ♥️♥️♥️

[@anzacforever832]

Always wanted to find a version on the strumming with the guy yolloring when the dad dances

[@susanroethemeyer8730]

Scot is not too proud to learn a dance step he never saw before. It reminds me of Bow Wow in that skating movie when his friends all made fun of a guy who was skating in a ballet style, and he was learning the step!😊😊😊

[@giovanipugliese9780]

This movie is so camp but very entertaining in the same time. I mean you know that in the real world things wouldn't happen that way but you still like to believe they would. That's what made 80s and 90s movies so great.

[@dominiquefelder1809]

Yes the dad Pasa Doble was classic!

[@janhughes7786]

My favourite film scene ever

[@PG-xi9jc]

Is that Fran's dad? Love when he dances

[@ffi1001]

When I was a kid I thought the parents looked so old and crusty. But now I’m looking just like them 😂😅

[@mcleanedwards7748]

You took it all well enough

[@michellecoscolluela8418]

Best movie ...danceable! I love SPANISH DANCE

[@gdon12987]

It's an Australian movie, so they should have used: "Paso doble? That isn't paso doble. THIS is paso doble!" And that guy would have made a great Jedi master in the Star Wars franchise.

[@SennisWorld]

in the moment he begins to dance the "small man" seems 2 meters taller than Scott ever was..

[@auroresafe1946]

Certaines personnes m identifieront comme l actrice, une femme de ménage affreuse qui apprend à danser ! A connaître la vie autrement dit !Respect aux gens qui pensent cela de moi-même ! Sauf que c est un film et que je ne danse jamais, vu que je ne sors pas! Sans jugement ! Au passage, tout le monde n a pas la chance d être belle ,chacun brille à sa manière ! Très bon film!

[@rosesivam2742]

the amazing Antonio Vargas, wonderful then and still.

[@lizczepiel7254]

This is where I believe Scott started his real lessons.

[@tkx86]

When you master alpha male status you become like Frans father.

[@Diana-Dee]

One of the best movies ever!

[@susieenglish302]

Antonio- the man of my heart

[@tforaodg]

this movie, this part. after watching that, I started dancing.

[@dannyblackshaw82]

"Paso Doble? .. ha.. Paso Doble" 💃

[@zapagog]

When the younger rooster gets schooled by the older rooster...

[@frandyson6133]

One of my favourite movies

[@AnaMaria-qs4br]

I loved❤

[@mcleanedwards7748]

Beautiful

[@stephenfermoyle1498]

LOVE THE PARENTS

[@PlateletRichGel]

that's the grandma the mother died obviously

[@anacristinaaraujoaraujo9793]

Essa é a melhor cena desse filme...

[@rodrigovaldivia6327]

YOU GOT SERVED!!!!!

[@opsimathics]

"¿Tu bailas paso doble?... chow! chow!!"

[@rhodasnyder4176]

scene stealing Grandma

[@iammumawaldi]

I've been saying "Shooow me your pasa doble" for 30 years? My god.

[@cincocincoseis]

I like the part where they say Paso Doble

[@annatrzpis6410]

Love it

[@vorgveum7703]

Like for the Paso Doble.

[@rocknrollheart67]

Wow didn't know Dudley more could dance like that!

[@JohnDoe-et8th]

"New and Unusual Steps"

[@johnsergei]

The funniest part of the movie. Paul wanted their dance to be really idiotical. It looks like they're trying to fly.Not even close to Paso Doble (nor close to getting airborne, for that matter).

[@laurarossi8678]

The chics father is right!!! For once putting those ballroom dancers into place!! 😆

[@tadd8210]

What sort of dance you dance so late at night..💀

[@PlateletRichGel]

we dance the electric slide and fran twerks on my bone.

[@randomcontent7735]

A f*ckin lapdance for my paycheck bro............at 6am the paso doble

[@califinn]

When the España kicks in...

[@RayZooMay]

The first time I camped out with friends and not family was when I was fifteen. We marched out into a wood one May evening behind a small man-made pond on vacant property, maybe half a mile from the road that ran through our neighborhood, which itself was surrounded by essentially farmland and the occasional creek or oak hummock alongside a grid of dirt roads. We brought firewood, a radio powered by a photo-flash battery I stole from Dad, and some bagged instant oatmeal for men. I didn't have a tent, and I had made a cocoon out of coat hanger wires and plastic sheeting that mostly kept the dew off me and didn't accomplish much else except possibly confuse raccoons who were unaccustomed to trash that snored. Waking up that morning at 4:30am wasn't like anything I had experienced before. 38-degree pre-dawn on hard ground (no sleeping bag, just a throw) made for a dreamless night, and I woke up with an ear flat on the dirt, thinking at first that a thunderstorm was coming. Not because it was meatlocker cold, and not because the dew looked particularly like rainfall. What woke me was a noise I was unaccustomed to, something like my eardrum popping. Once at first, again, and then many times over, in increasing frequency and then, just as it turned into a queer buzz -- silence. It wasn't really a sound so much as a tremor in my inner ear, or at least that's what I thought. But then it repeated itself a few times and I sat up so quickly that I blew my plastic cocoon apart with my forehead. In the gray mist, while I fumbled for my eyeglasses, the pattern repeated, not echoing, but trembling the ground. Thump, thump-thump. ThuuuummammummamUMMMP! Silence. Sitting up, I could feel it this time jarring the palms of my hands as they held me up, spread flat on the earth. The crescendo was a buzz that made my elbows squeak. It was otherworldly. And felt like it was all around us. It did come up later in the day, after we'd packed our stuff and hiked out, with the radio's batteries dead and the oatmeal uneaten because the fire wasn't keen on restarting when it was doused with dew. What I felt tremoring up from the ground was a herd of thirty-odd bison a full mile away, on the grounds of the nature preserve across the tracks from our county park. Buffalo. Before dawn, they were stampeding, but not like in the movies. It sounded almost like they were ... dancing. I guess they did it every morning. Looking back at how I used to think of these animals as either two dimensional images from television, or motionless subjects of glossy National Geographic spreads, spiritless and intangible, I don't think I was really ever the same. Very little that I was to see ever since, would even approach such an absolute, gorgeous and genuine mystery. As a hopelessly hubristic adult with only so many moments to think back on, I can say I miss that visceral blast of innocent, mortal fear most of all, and now have to seek it each day with every sense I have left.

[@rowan7782]

I understand your meaning here ... the dance is drawn from the sound you heard. Lovely analogy

[@anzacforever832]

Am glad they left in the mum saying.. show, show

[@lisastillwagon425]

Mun is really Fran’s Grandma!

[@karensoto8265]

That's a very fierce dancer😀

[@raquelalves1274]

my father is like fran's father hahahahhahah

[@lindenly22]

What was that "Espana Cani" that Toledo guitarist was doing? I knew that eventually as they danced the paso, and Antonio displayed his flamenco foot tapping skills, the rhythm I heard was Espana-Cani inspired.

[@jennygreen3994]

he is good looking ang a true classic Paso doble dancer

[@hanks2567000]

yes, Zeeva! the Greatest! Antonio Vargas!

[@yevrahhipstar3902]

Paso doble? Huh! Paso doble.

[@lappo2534]

Now there's a fukin Paso Doble!!!