Wild style [videorecording] / Rhino ; Charlie Ahearn presents ; directed, produced, and written by Charlie Ahearn ; original concept, Fred Brathwaite, Charlie Ahearn ; Wild Style Productions, Ltd.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
30th anniversary ed.
Publisher:
Wild Style ProductionsLtd. :
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
2 videodiscs (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([46] p. : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Title from web page. "Lee" George Quinones, Sandra "Pink" Fabara, Frederick Brathwaite, Patti Astor; Rap [by] Busy Bee, Double Trouble, Fantastic Freaks, Cold Crush Bros., Grandmaster Flash; Breaks [by] Rock Steady Crew, Pop-O-Matics, Electric Force. Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1983. "Digitally remastered." Special features: Commentary with director Charlie Ahearn and Fred Brathwaite (Feb 5 Freddy) [audio feature]; Wild Style 25th anniversary reunion 2007 [featurette] (7 min.); Wild Style 20th Amphitheater jam 2002 [featurette] (6 min.); Interviews with Wild Style players 2006 [featurette] (10 min.); Bongo barbershop 2005 [featurette] (8 min.); Busy on the beach 2006 [featurette] (4 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Outtakes [featurette] (5 min.); Wild Style subway rap [featurette] (4 min.); Photo gallery [slide show].
Contents:
Disc 1: Feature film: Zoro enters yard -- Titles -- Subway montage -- Painting the Dixie -- Dixie battle -- Limo rap -- Virginia comes to the Bronx -- Dixie/Fantastic and Cold Crush -- Stick-up -- Union clubhouse -- Ray on subway -- Painting the amphitheater -- Amphitheater jam -- End credits -- Disc 2: Bonus material.
Summary:
The slender story line of "Wild Style" features red-hot graffiti artist Zoro. He's got girl and family trouble, but is discovered by a reporter, and thus embarks on a journey from outsider to gallery artist. This low-budget art movie is almost documentary in that it includes a who's who of early hip-hop, which was a creative movement played out in Bronx basements, kitchens, dingy bars, and on stoops, one of many things to do on Saturday night. The film is a panoply of the war-zone streets that birthed hip-hop, freestyle MCs, break dancing, and beautifully, meticulously tagged subway trains from the days when hip-hop was more than just music--it was a small, self-selecting, micro youth culture as specific to New York as the Statue of Liberty. The film is a fascinating time capsule for anyone interested in the cultural roots of hip-hop, practically anthropological, not so much old skool as pre-school.
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