In the past two years, the quality of American dramas has been relatively low in general, and netflix has made excellent contributions time and time again. After "Breaking Bad", I once stated paranoid that there will be no American dramas after the "Breaking Bad", but after watching several high-quality products of Netflix, I can't help feeling that this company, which is a video rental service, is simply the conscience of the industry! There are only three words to describe it, right taste! In fact, as a layman, you can find that the subject matter that Netflix chooses to shoot is a bit non-traditional and non-mainstream, a bit like HBO before the fall. Review the world's best products contributed by Netflix in the past two years: "House of Cards", "Narcos", "Super Sense Hunting", "Stranger Things", "Making a Murderer", "Black Mirror" (preparing), "Orange Is the New Black". These high-quality popular dramas seem to have one thing in common, the characters are portrayed in three dimensions, the plot rhythm is tight enough, and the IQ of the characters is always online. Then I skipped to The Get Down, where I just watched an episode and couldn't help but want to write a small composition. When watching the introduction of this film, it is easy to think of the hit "Hip-Hop Empire" last year, and I really feel that The Get Down has killed the empire for several rounds. (empire fans don't hit me). There is no comparison, but there are still many differences between this one and the hip-hop empire. First of all, the environment and background of the story are completely different. The Get Down focuses on the black neighborhoods of the South Bronx in the 1970s. wiki described the series as "a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco". When it comes to the theme of "Youth Hip Hop Dream", I think it is an exaggeration to say that it is unprecedented. The United States is already a very mature genre in making music themes. There are many music movies depicting themes from the 60s to the 90s, and the quality is also uneven. The 70s is the most prosperous stage of American hippie culture and pop culture, and this era has also become a source of inspiration for many screenwriters and directors, such as Ang Lee's woodstock, oliver stone's the doors, Velvet Goldmine, I' m Not There, Factory Girl, Pink Floyd The Wall, No Direction Home, Vinyl. By the way, Martin Sykesese, who loves to shoot rock music in the 1970s, cannot be missing. But looking at these musical works, they all focus on white people in the 1970s. Sex, rock, drugs, and the Beat Generation were the main theme of American music culture in the 1970s. On the screen, blues and jazz seem to be the most mentioned themes related to black music, but perhaps because it belongs to sub-culture, the street culture ( including R& B, funk, graffiti, parkour, clan, ganster rap, hiphop DJ, MC, etc.) almost nobody cares. Finally, the appearance of The Get Down gives us the privilege to see how the black teenagers who lived and grew up in the slums of New York in the 1970s lived and grew up. Through a group of teenagers who pursued their musical dreams and peeped at the leopard, they were able to vividly show a group. of Ukiyo-e. Of course, this small society is turbulent, a chaotic community that draws guns at the first word of disagreement, and a group of people of color who wear pompous, mouthful, fuck, and have bad grammar with little education. This is definitely not the elegant and romantic Manhattan in the chick movie, but Bronx, a famous ghetto in New York City with one of the highest crime rates in the country. You can call it vulgar, but you can't deny it's cool to the core. I haven't been to the United States, I don't think I'm qualified to comment too much, but this drama really restores the appearance of my YY's 70s African-American community. It's cool, it's just the right taste, this drama, we have to follow it up. (But I think it should not be popular in China, because this form of music is already a subculture, and the background is too retro, it may have a sense of alienation and strangeness to the audience in China, and it cannot be well integrated into the plot) Finally, I once again confessed that netflix is really the conscience of the industry, and I will be worshipped by the little ones! Finally, I would like to share an interesting anecdote I saw: "Youth Hip Hop Dream" is stuck in 1977, and naturally it can't avoid mentioning the hegemony of disco. "Until 1979, disco was the number one thing, and even Frank Sinatra had a disco record," Luhrmann told Vogue. In the film, the director gave an imitation of the Studio 54-style scene - a gorgeous and stylish disco club Rubicon, blue and yellow light bulbs, full of party boxes and catwalks. On the other side, in the Bronx, was an underground party with only two turntables and no half a mirror ball. So what is this still hot "Studio 54"?
In the first episode, the club that the afro-headed brother rushed into to pick up the girl's appearance was modeled after the style of studio54.
It's a legendary nightclub that opened in 1977 on West 54th Street in Manhattan and has a strong history in art and fashion. One of the founders, Steve Rubell, is a public relations genius. From the "grandma" Elizabeth Taylor to the great writer Truman Capote, countless celebrities come and go here every day. Studio 54 throws the funniest parties almost every night, like Bianca Jagger riding a white horse around the field at her birthday party, and a Star Wars-themed drag party.
Left to right: Houston, Bianca Jagger, Jack Haley Jr., Lisa Minnelli and Andy Warhol Get an eye-catching look, find a club and let yourself go. Studio 54 also has such a group of guests, such as Eric Goode, the pajama fan, Rollerena, who is rollerblading in evening clothes, and Disco Sally, 70 years old. They use clothing to disguise their daily identities and communicate with each other through styling. After all, nightclubs are still very noisy. Easter eggs are here
You can also see the director's tribute to Kung Fu and Bruce Lee, and the routine of performing Kung Fu is also cool.
See who this is? Dangdangdang, the fried chicken brother from our favorite poison master plays a neurotic religious maniac this time. Of course, "Youth Hip Hop Dream" as a whole respects history very much, and can be regarded as the official history of hip hop, rather than romance and legend.
View more about The Get Down reviews
