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Alot of these movies that people are mentioning on here really didn't portray NYC at its worst or dramatize but rather just described what life was like in the hood for most people back in the 80s and 90s... classic case, Juice.
Yo, what about that Movie "Fresh" back in '94, it was Forrest Whitaker's debut as a director. Good flick.
@ twist, drovers right... looked it up online but thats another good flick... Its just that I gotta special place for juice cause i was coming out of high school when it came out and kids are real impressionable at that age... Also that film showed the type of dude Tupac really was... That wasn't really acting. Dude could be a good guy one minute and then flip on you the next... I feel bad for him though cause word is he got killed cause he didn't want to join the Bloods and people always talk about how he was more of a thug artist than Biggy but I really don't know where they get that from... If you listen to his songs, most of it is just real talk about his life and the struggles he went through and the dude loves his mom...
For those interested some songs to check out
Keep ya head up
Dear Mama
Until the end of time
Ghetto Gospel
Pain- My favorite out of all of them... love the flow of that song, OGs part is okay but Pac shows you his life in that song...
Any old Andy Warhol movies. The Naked City (1948). West Side Story also takes you way back when. Bronx Tale. Coffy. Prince of the City. The Panic in Needle Park (stars Al Pacino).
One that I haven't seen, but have heard of: "The Night They Raided Minsky's" made in 1968, starring Britt Ekland as a 1920s stripper in the Lower East Side.
More recent stuff... Tupac Shakur movies Juice and Off the Rim. Paid In Full. Belly. A Bronx Tale.
Boaz Yakin would be a little surprised to hear that.
LOL, wow you're right, where the hell did I get Forrest Whitaker from? I have the movie on bootleg on top of that.
@ anon1, Juice was an ill movie. I love that era in hip hop (early 90's), and alot of people couldn't really understand where Pac was coming from, his mission was deeper than being a thug and he didn't glorify gangbanging whatsoever. "Above the Rim" was a good flick, but I don't think it showed the chaos of NY like that back then.
LOL, wow you're right, where the hell did I get Forrest Whitaker from? I have the movie on bootleg on top of that.
@ anon1, Juice was an ill movie. I love that era in hip hop (early 90's), and alot of people couldn't really understand where Pac was coming from, his mission was deeper than being a thug and he didn't glorify gangbanging whatsoever. "Above the Rim" was a good flick, but I don't think it showed the chaos of NY like that back then.
He got game made alot of people realize how hood Coney Island is, 25th hour was a good flick, loved it, but it didn't make NY look grimy like the other flicks. I like the Dumbo club thing though.
Sex and the City has my vote. It is like the TV cultural equivalent of the housing boom-and-bust. Most writers would need to work 20 years straight in NYC to have Carrie Bradshaw's shoe closet. I never even really liked the style of any of the characters on the show. I prefer beat-up vintage Converse slip-ons any day over a $600 pair of Lanvins I'd probably ruin in 2 hours but maybe that's just me. Carrie Bradshaw: "I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet." Me: "I like my money in the bank, where it can earn interest." I love NYC but I don't do pretentious, especially fake pretentious. That's my opinion of many of the wannabe transplants who move to NYC to live out their weird SATC fantasies. Hell, I was a transplant and they annoyed the crap out of me. I can't imagine how intolerable it must be as a native lol!
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