About

The Dance of Freedom. The Death Bells. is a phrasal template and copypasta based on a tweet praising a scene from the 2019 comic book film Joker (similar to This Shot Is Brilliant).

Origin

On October 17th, 2019, Twitter user @vintagefetish tweeted a clip of Joker dancing on the Joker Stairs. The tweet received more than 13 million views, 170,000 likes and 60,000 retweets in about one week (shown below).

I will never shut up about this scene pic.twitter.com/sOTAcOcE8y

— 𝕳𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖆𝖍*̥˚✧ (@vintagefetish) October 17, 2019

The following day, Twitter user @sherlwatson shared the video with the caption, "the dance of freedom. the death bells. the rising of the joker. one of the most magnificent, sublime, monumental, extraordinary scenes in cinema history." The tweet received more than 58,000 likes and 14,000 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

the dance of freedom. the death bells. the rising of the joker.

one of the most magnificent, sublime, monumental, extraordinary scenes in cinema history pic.twitter.com/uczsga2AZQ

— gabriela (@sherlwatson) October 18, 2019

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On October 19th, 2019, Twitter user @waynesbats parodied the post, replacing the clip from Joker with a clip from Shazam (shown below).

the dance of freedom. the death bells. the rising of the shazam family.

one of the most magnificent, sublime, monumental, extraordinary scenes in cinema history pic.twitter.com/bmA2sQP22L

— annika (@waynesbats) October 19, 2019

On October 20th, comedian Heather Anne Campbell tweeted, "he begins this magnificent sequence by throwing away his cigarette and ends this sublime, extraordinary scene by having it suddenly appear in his mouth again." The tweet received more than 17,000 likes and 1,300 retweets in four days (shown below).

he begins this magnificent sequence by throwing away his cigarette and ends this sublime, extraordinary scene by having it suddenly appear in his mouth again https://t.co/IsEY5qzMu9

— Heather Anne Campbell (@heathercampbell) October 21, 2019

The following day, Twitter user @iamkatesbush used the caption and applied to a dance from the film Ma. The tweet received more than 1,700 likes and 445 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

the dance of freedom. the death bells. the rising of the ma.

one of the most magnificent, sublime, monumental, extraordinary scenes in cinema history pic.twitter.com/MNB7myTH92

— kate’s bush (@iamkatesbush) October 21, 2019

On October 22nd, Twitter user @platinumjones used the caption for a clip from the reality television series The Jersey Shore. The tweet received more than 2.3 million views, 160,000 likes and 32,000 retweets in two days (shown below).

the dance of freedom. the death bells. the rising of the joker.

one of the most magnificent, sublime, monumental, extraordinary scenes in cinema history pic.twitter.com/Q1PisvC8F2

— Conor Behan (@platinumjones) October 22, 2019

Various Examples

the dance of freedom. the death bells. the rising of the joker. pic.twitter.com/LF1RI0ZKGz

— hamood habibi (@mothsore) October 21, 2019

the dance of freedom. the death bells. the rising of the joker.

one of the most magnificent, sublime, monumental, extraordinary scenes in cinema history pic.twitter.com/YMLrAZshi5

— Lidia García 🌈the queer cañí bot💃 (@thequeercanibot) October 23, 2019

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