tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post3134940978385883296..comments2023-11-05T04:31:48.615-05:00Comments on Elusive Lucidity: Your Audience Is OneZChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-61142505663870431502011-11-02T13:42:38.849-04:002011-11-02T13:42:38.849-04:00Wonderful video, I would like to have the chance o...Wonderful video, I would like to have the chance of make a good audience ... thanks for sharingxl pharmacyhttp://www.reviewxlpharmacy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-67483273838607243122008-10-18T04:54:00.000-04:002008-10-18T04:54:00.000-04:00I go often to screenings.I recently saw Death Race...I go often to screenings.<BR/><BR/>I recently saw <I>Death Race</I>. It was about all prisons in the future run by free enterprise, and making moneu with to the death auto racing pay per view. <I>Eagle Eye</I> was about a computer programed to overthrow the US government, if it curtails constitutional rights. The more radical themes may be in action adventure.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-29656259882771531972008-10-14T23:28:00.000-04:002008-10-14T23:28:00.000-04:00When I was a tender 21, I wrote a (mercifully unpu...When I was a tender 21, I wrote a (mercifully unpublished) ideological slam of TIMES SQUARE !! 'Untrue to punk', or something other, I angrily claimed at the time! Boy, do I need to revisit this film. Moyle is an intriguing figure. You know that he makes his living as an often uncredited Script Doctor, flown in to 'save' films during shooting? One very Moylesque teen/music film he contributed to in a big way is Bogdanovich's 1993 THE THING CALLED LOVE (with a very doomed River Phoenix and a very perky Samantha Mathis). He once 'told all' about his secret, lucrative career at a Screenwriting conference here in Melbourne. Such 'salvage jobs' obviously help fund his own teen movies: it's a genre he really has 'held the line' on for many decades.<BR/><BR/>BEAT STREET is a great film, by the way! Very political teen film, about the 'politics of mourning'. Ah, those were the days!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-63831169074049974632008-10-14T22:49:00.000-04:002008-10-14T22:49:00.000-04:00Nathan, thanks for your comments. I haven't seen ...Nathan, thanks for your comments. I haven't seen <I>Step Up 2</I>. But the first one is definitely a case of a certain gesture towards "social consciousness" that is, as you say, a huge con job. To a certain very limited extent that film is about misconceptions and stereotypes: I remember one scene where, IIRC, a "regular" black kid makes a comment about how he's surprised that some other, "cool" hip-hop students go to the local arts magnet school--and one of those students gets gently righteous on him ("What's someone who went to art school supposed to act like? Mos Def went to art school," etc.) At the same time the whole is about a primary white couple crossing class lines and a secondary black couple (both well-off I think), and of course money & class aren't so much political issues as they are narrative obstacles to be overcome by "understanding."<BR/><BR/><I>Beat Street</I> and the <I>Boogaloo</I> movies, on the other hand, still seem to me fairly indicative of their times: '80s teen movies were better about representing lives which knew & <I>felt</I> lack, and teenagers whose lives were not necessarily directed into either the 'extracurricular' or the consumerist.ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-90738917051284728042008-10-12T18:18:00.000-04:002008-10-12T18:18:00.000-04:00I'm far from an expert on the subject (my little s...I'm far from an expert on the subject (my little sister is better than me at this) but you might want to look at dance films as a sub-division of teen-age films that's more in touch with some aspects of reality, and more violently out of touch with some others.<BR/> My experience is limited to Step up 2: the Streets, which I intensely disliked as a film but has a few very good dance scenes which are actually not badly filmed, at least compared to ones from other films my sister has shown me.<BR/> But what's interesting is that because of the context (black urban culture, namely hip-hop and break-dancing) the films have to face a certain extent of social consciousness, but this one at least became a huge con job: essentially, it's made to reassure little white girls on the account that they can be ghetto, while justifying the fear that lower-class hip-hop groups are, in the end, dangerous criminals even if they don't start out that way.<BR/> Just thought I'd point it out. If you're interested in the recycling of lower-class culture by the upper classes that end up excluding the originators of the movement from their own creations, then what little I know of those dance films serves as a very interesting laboratory for it.<BR/> Anyway, good post, thx.<BR/>Best, nathanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com