The Dance of Freedom. The Death Bells.

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).

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).

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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).

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).

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).

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).

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