Band of Outsiders (1964) on Netflix
Odile tells her classmate Franz about the money Mr. Stolz keeps unlocked in the Joinville villa where she lives. Franz tells Arthur, and the two plan a robbery.
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Plot summary
Odile meets Franz in an English class, and she has told him of the money that Mr. Stolz keeps unlocked in the Joinville villa where she lives with her aunt Victoria. Franz brings the news to Arthur, whose uncle is pressing him for money, and the two decide to steal it. Franz and Arthur sit in on the class, where Arthur questions Odile about the cash, and she finds the notes in Stolz's room. The pair copy the mannerisms of American movie tough guys.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Band of Outsiders (1964)
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- The Madison dance scene influenced the dance scene with Uma Thurman and John Travolta in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), and also scenes in Hal Hartley's Simple Men (1992) and Martin Hynes' The Go-Getter (2007).
- Quentin Tarantino named his film production company "A Band Apart" in tribute to the film, and it was also his favorite Godard film.
- The entire dance scene was used as the music video for Nouvelle Vague's song "Dance with Me" from their album Bande à Part (2006), and the group took their name from a scene where Arthur and Odile pass an emporium with "Nouvelle Vague" over the door.
- Anna Karina said the actors called the film's music "the Madison dance", alluding to a novelty dance of the time.
- The Louvre scene is referenced in Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 film The Dreamers, in which its characters break the Louvre record.
- Jude Law and a group of dancers performed the Madison dance in a 2014 Johnnie Walker short, while Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, and Rome Kanda performed it in an episode of Netflix's Maniac.
