International Day of Happiness: Here's every Christopher Walken dance scene
Video celebrates 37 years of Walken cutting shapes
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Your support makes all the difference.Today has been arbitrarily declared International Happiness Day by the great PR gods in the sky, and by complete coincidence that most happy of things, Christopher Walken dancing, has been celebrated in a glorious supercut.
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You are probably familiar with the actor's silky moves in Fat Boy Slim's Weapon of Choice video, but Walken has been sashaying his way through cinema for more than 30 years now, having started out as a musical theatre dancer before moving into acting
This montage makes use of 57 of his movies, taking in everything from Batman Returns and Man on Fire to America's Sweethearts and Sleep Hollow.
The video is set to C+C Music Factory's unstoppable Everybody Dance Now, with the full list of films featured, courtesy of HuffPo, below:
“Roseland” (1977)
“The Deer Hunter” (1978)
“Brainstorm” (1983)
“Pennies from Heaven” (1981)
“The Dead Zone” (1983)
“A View To A Kill” (1985)
“At Close Range” (1986)
“Puss in Boots” (1988)
“Homeboy” (1988)
“Communion” (1989)
“King of New York” (1990)
“The Comfort of Strangers” (1990)
“Sarah, Plain and Tall” (1991)
“All-American Murder” (1991)
“Batman Returns” (1992)
“Skylark” (1993)
“True Romance” (1993)
“Wayne’s World 2″ (1993)
“A Business Affair” (1994)
“Pulp Fiction” (1994)
“The Prophecy” (1995)
“Search and Destroy” (1995)
“Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead” (1995)
“The Funeral” (1996)
“Suicide Kings” (1997)
“Mousehunt” (1997)
“New Rose Hotel” (1998)
“Blast from the Past” (1999)
“Sleepy Hollow” (1999)
“The Opportunists” (2000)
“Scotland, Pa.” (2001)
“Joe Dirt” (2001)
“America’s Sweethearts” (2001)
“The Affair of the Necklace” (2001)
“Poolhall Junkies” (2002)
“The Country Bears” (2002)
“Undertaking Betty” (2002)
“Catch Me If You Can” (2002)
“Gigli” (2003)
“The Rundown” (2003)
“Man on Fire” (2004)
“Envy” (2004)
“The Stepford Wives” (2004)
“Around the Bend” (2004)
“Wedding Crashers” (2005)
“Romance & Cigarettes” (2005)
“Domino” (2005)
“Click” (2006)
“Fade to Black” (2006)
“Man of the Year” (2006)
“Hairspray” (2007)
“Balls of Fury” (2007)
“$5 a Day” (2008)
“The Maiden Heist” (2009)
“Stand Up Guys” (2012)
“A Late Quartet” (2012)
“The Power of Few” (2013)
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