WoW Moviewatch: So that's where that dance came from!

Posted May 25th 2007 12:00PM by Krystalle Voecks
Filed under: Machinima, Humor, WoW Moviewatch

We've all seen the videos of different dances. We've had ones where they all dance together, ones where the original source is cited. We've even seen video of a guy dancing like a Night Elf Female. Now we have another dance movie. There's one thing about this one that sets it apart, however. This is the first one I've seen that does a really good job of putting the dances side-by-side with their inspirations.

As Bowzerblack on the WoW LJ said: "I didn't know that about ogres!" All I can say is that I didn't either. And yes, I know it's the Boomkin dance too, but you don't see a lot of (completely-bare) topless Boomkins running about. Which, now that I think about it, is probably a good thing.

Previously, on MovieWatch...

[via the WoW LJ community]

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

5-25-2007 @ 12:05PM

Nails said...

alizee

yumm

5-25-2007 @ 12:34PM

nav976 said...

Great Movie.

I just wish it showed more of the races, both male and female. I'm still lost as to where the female Draenei dance is from.

5-25-2007 @ 12:48PM

John said...

WOW....that really shows off how well Blizzard made those!!!

5-25-2007 @ 12:50PM

TV Genius is a Dumb ass said...

How can wow just rip everything off and not get sued?!?! Did they pay all of these ppl to use their dances?

5-25-2007 @ 12:52PM

Calgar said...

That French woman who does the night elf dance is SUPREMELY hot.

Oh, and the orc dance and Pb&J time are awesomeness too.

5-25-2007 @ 12:54PM

brent said...

@4 "all characters herein are fictional any similarities between real people and event are purely coincidental."

IM IN URE GAMEZ,
STEELINZ UR DANZE MOVES

5-25-2007 @ 1:05PM

Philo said...

What, no illustration of how the Male Tauren dance is from "Where the Hell is Matt"?

5-25-2007 @ 1:09PM

Sandtiger said...

pete and repeat walk into a bar....

5-25-2007 @ 1:11PM

pasta said...

Still missing the undead dance moves. :P

5-25-2007 @ 1:26PM

Vyasa said...

That was awesome! Thanks for making my WoW-day.

5-25-2007 @ 1:26PM

Mats said...

The Ogre movie is wrong, that dance is from Pulp Fiction.

5-25-2007 @ 1:30PM

Neowar said...

I wanna see the complete list of dances. Undead male and female human dances are easy to find. Troll and undead female are kinda harder to find I guess.
Oh yeah. What about the gnome dances? =)

5-25-2007 @ 1:40PM

Laukidh said...

Troll dance would just be a search for capoeira. Undead female... I dunno, bauhaus concert footage?

5-25-2007 @ 1:45PM

Tony said...

Btw, if you wanted to know the Draenei dance song it is Tunak Tunak Tun by Dahler Mendhi.

I have owned that song/video for like 4 years.

I think most people love when WoW steals there stuff. I mean Marvel should really sue for the Avenger's Shield Talent. Prot Pallys might as well just have a round shield with a Star in the middle.

5-25-2007 @ 4:18PM

jess said...

What a fun video, I liked how the costumes match up really well.

As for some of the unseen dances - Pretty sure the Female Troll is Shakira esque and Female Orc is your basic rump shaker. Female Tauren does the electric slide. Not sure about Dranei women do, it's sort of bollywood esque though.

As for future dances, it would be fun to see the Apache dance from Fresh Prince of Bell Air used, that's a fun one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQem5EplADo)

5-25-2007 @ 5:01PM

Argent said...

> The Ogre movie is wrong, that dance is from Pulp Fiction.

it's modeled on the chris farley SNL skit where he tries out to become a chippendale's dancer. the dev's said as much when the dance went in with the ogre model re-do (i think that was the patch that added dire maul -- 1.03?)

5-25-2007 @ 6:47PM

Jack Spicer said...

That video showing the girl dancing with the female blood elf, is that the source or just some girl imitating the blood elf dance?

5-25-2007 @ 6:51PM

Krystalle Voecks said...

To everyone asking about the French singer who does the Night Elf dance -- she did indeed pre-date the video, and her name is Alizee.

You're welcome. ;)

5-25-2007 @ 7:29PM

siorai said...

I love how people throw the term "steal" around. Blizzard isn't stealing, they're paying homage. Get it right.

5-26-2007 @ 3:54AM

Bobby Hansen said...

19. According the TBE:SE DVD, they just looked at a lot of Brittany Spears videos and took clips from them. I think the video just spliced some of the girl's moves into something that resembled the BE Dance.

I would also ask for a clarification of the Dranaei Female dance. It looks like a generic belly dance, but I'm not sure if they cribbed it from a specific sourced.

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