I haven't experienced the era of breakdancing, so I don't understand the role of this film in the childhood of the 70s and 80s.
But I will judge it from the perspective of a hip-hop enthusiast.
Nowadays, the mainstream dance types of street dance are roughly divided into breakin (formerly break dance), poppin, lockin, and hiphop. But 30 years ago, in the era of filming, all dance species had almost the same roots and influenced each other.
As a result, you can see the shadows of all mainstream hip-hop dances in the protagonist of the film. It's not so much that the protagonist dances breakdancing, it is more of a freestyle, which is a kind of street dance that gathers the talents of various families. Watching the dancing clips of the protagonists can make people feel in a trance, as if they have witnessed the beginning of history, and everything goes back to the origin. This kind of movie watching experience is quite amazing.
In the era of filming, the hip-hop culture was like an ancient god sleeping in chaos, vague and shapeless. It mixes with other hip-hop cultures to form a chaotic but dazzling street culture. Today, 30 years later, dancers in the early years would never have imagined that street dance can spread out and grow like this. And the immature attitude of this young "culture" is perfectly recorded by this movie.
The word "fried" is often used in street dance competitions to describe a dancer's state to the extreme. The dance moves and the melody of the music are integrated. The word also applies to all the actors in the film. The characters in the film jumped mesmerizingly, and the audience felt the same. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why this film can set off a wave of breakdancing among young people in the 1980s.
Classic movies can often affect a generation, and "breakdancing" has done it. It affects a generation's perception of street dance culture. Let the hip-hop culture take root in China.
Today's dancers recall this history, in addition to yearning, more grateful.
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