I am of the opinion that every dance move Michael Jackson ever made can be seen in the Snake in the Grass sequence of The Little Prince. Even an early version on the moonwalk. MJ's early 80's costumes are directly descended from The Snake - down to the glittery socks.
I completely agree. Plus, his Fosse's dancing is full of disturbing innuendo (especially seeing this is geared towards a child). Snake in the Grass is eerily reminiscent of Michael Jackson's moves.
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The Snake dance was something. It did remind me of MJ's moves...
but what's really funny is at first I thought he was Ringo. hee hee...;)
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Seriously? Granted Fosse was usually behind the camera later in his career, but he looks nothing like Ringo Starr.
As a matter of fact, as soon as he started dancing, you should have realized it wasn't Ringo. Ringo can't dance (watch the video for Your Mother Should Know... how the drummer manages to be off-step really makes you wonder) and that's why he was usually sitting behind that drum set... of course, he can't really write music either, but I digress.
That is exactly what I thought when I watched this movie this week! I am glad I'm not alone. This must have been one of MJ's favorite movies!!!!!!!! So many weird connections.
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Also noticed the MJ dance style when I saw Fosse... but Fosse was doing it like 10 years before MJ... And the socks too.
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Someone agrees!!!!!!!! My friends and I thought we were the only ones who saw it. We're also of the opinion that The Little Prince is MJ's favorite movie and that everything he's ever DONE is inspired directly by it.
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That's exactly what I've been thinking for a few years now. I mean, come on, his sons are named Prince I and Prince II.
It's so nice there's people out there who agree. When I try to tell my friends about it they all think I'm crazy, or something...XD
I also believe Michael Jackson was inspired by Bob Fosse, as Fosse was inspired by Fred Astair
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All dancers are influenced by someone or another. Look at Usher, who exudes more then just a shade of Ben Vereen in his routines. MJ is a brilliant dancer, and he couldn't have chosen a better person to emulate. Fosse is king, if I could dance, I always be Fossying it up :)
shareAnd I came here to start a thread about this. LOL However I think MJ does it better.
shareYeah we watched this film in our senior french class n 2005 (because we were reading the french version of this book)and everyone was like. "whoa what the hell those are michael jackson's moves...but this was 74...jackson wasn't a huge hit until the 80's!"
share^ Michael was the Jackson 5 since 1969, so by the time of 1974 he was doing things like 'Dancing Machine'.
If you want to be technical, Jeffrey Daniel did the 'moonwalk' before Michael as well. So did all the other street dancers of that time, it even may go back as far as Bill Bailey. MJ never claimed to have invented it. Each version from the generation after is a little different, with Michael's being the best, in terms of speed, smooth transition and overall execution. So theres no real one person who created it. On the Oprah interview in 1993, MJ explained where he first saw the moonwalk from (kids he saw in the ghetto). Michael always gives credit when its due (James Brown, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Wilson, Diana Ross, so on and so forth).
The attire is just menswear. lol Its not copying anything. Slacks, short pants, socks, loafers, suits, fedoras...thats formal clothes for men.
Usher only credits Michael Jackson and Bobby Brown as his influences, as far I know from his mouth.
That's exactly what I've been thinking for a few years now. I mean, come on, his sons are named Prince I and Prince II.
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Saw The Little Prince last night and thought that the Snake in The Grass dance moves as excecuted by the brilliant Bob Fosse were extremely simular to what Michael Jackson was doing in the late 1970s and 1980s. Fosse was a powerful figure in the world of dance, theatre and film and no doubt Jackson was very aware of him. That said, I also love Michael's dancing as he has taken many established dance moves and made them his own. In fact in my opinion Jackson is the single greatest influence on music and dance after 1980. I see him in everyone these days from Britney, Christina, Justin, Beyonce, Usher, etc.
shareMJ may very well be "the single greatest influence on [mainstream] music and dance after 1980." But that doesn't speak very well of the current state of [mainstream] music and dance, which - with rare exception - has become a rather stale, generic display of lowest-common-denominator appeal.
shareI'm happy other people saw this. I just watched the movie tonight and commented several times about how much like Michael Jackson those moves seemed.
shareI came on here to see if other people noticed this to. It seemed to me like just about every dance move Fosse does in this movie Michael Jackson copied.
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