Gene Kelly vs. Fred Astaire

[Phat Mack]

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The level of skill needed to look good in a quick cut isn't high at all. The level of skill needed to do full-coverage head to toe shots for extended sequences without cutting takes an entirely different level of athlete.


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I don't know how much of their stuff is available on DVD, but for pure athleticism in extended, seemingly uncut, sequences, the Nicholas Brothers have to be a level above anybody yet mentioned.

[tek]

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As another side note, I would put Prince ahead of Michael Jackson.

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As a side note, I would put both of them out the back door and watch MC Hammer anytime. Word. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Blarg]

Yeah, he almost instantly vanished from the stage, but he had talent while he was there.

[Phat Mack]

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As another side note, I would put Prince ahead of Michael Jackson.

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As a side note, I would put both of them out the back door and watch MC Hammer anytime. Word. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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As we were discussing this thread at the poker table last night, somebody told me that Usher was better than both of them, but I've never seen him. True?

[Blarg]

People commonly say that whatever celebrity is the getting pimped around the media the most at any current time is always the best of all time.

Combine that tendency with most people's knowledge of any time period outside their own being minimal and you get: lots of silly claims.

[Jersey Nick]

Kelly. Left bruises on women after dancing with them.

That's hot.

Astaire was a great dancer, but nowhere near as cool as Kelly.

mj is a sideshow freak, not a dancer.

[M2d]

Matter of taste. Gene Kelly was more along the vaudville style solo dancing while Fred Astaire was better known for his ballroom dancing. Gene Kelly was also known for very inventive uses of props and scenery in his dances. imo, Astaire was more versatile, but Gene Kelly was more fun to watch.
Check out Gene Kelly's roller skate scene in "It's Always Fair Weather" for some mind blowing tapping.
other scenes of note (not the famous ones like the dancing with shadows one):
Fred: Astaire/Rodgers dance scene in the dance class studio in "Swing Time"
Astaire solo dance scene on the driving range

Gene: the aforementioned roller skate scene in "It's always Fair Weather"
Kelly, Kidd and Dailey's synchornized softshoe to The Time for Parting in Fair Weather
with Judy Garland in "For Me and My Gal" (movie and song of the same name)
almost all of "An American in Paris"

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

[youtalkfunny]

Kelly was the only male dancer I could watch. Nothing sissy about the guy. Also a very fine actor, could do drama and comedy if he never danced a step.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

I'm only familiar with Singin' in the Rain (by familiar I mean own it and have written papers on it) but I developed a serious man-crush for Kelly after watching it. That man can move.