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The last MAJOR one out of NYC was Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing(1989)
To some extent, but it was mostly one community against a business based in that community, not the big panaroma that was the Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, and Crash. Those were pretty amazingly wide scopes (though I wasn't big on Crash). I'm wracking my brain for films of as broad a view based almost wholly in NYC/tri-state area.
To some extent, but it was mostly one community against a business based in that community, not the big panaroma that was the Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, and Crash. Those were pretty amazingly wide scopes (though I wasn't big on Crash). I'm wracking my brain for films of as broad a view based almost wholly in NYC/tri-state area.
L.A. also has several terrific films about "the industry" itself, the best of which was The Player.
The beach movie has been dead for a while, but at its peak in the early 60's, it was a hugely popular sub-genre.
LA has been particularly big on the celebrity culture of itself and I don't think it's altogether a good trend. There are so many parts of LA that could be compelling mythologizing which NYC does, but LA except in recent years has seemed to neglect. This was essentially the premise of Los Angeles Plays Itself and part of why 500 Days of Summer was such a refreshing change. LA subcultura is fantastic and in many respects I find it more interesting than what is currently going on NYC, but unfortunately little of that actually gets exported internationally or domestically. The weird anarchist library and community in down and out Downey is one of those. The completely wasted bits of the Inland Empire and around the Salton Sea (maybe a bit too far from LA to count as part of LA) are some of it. The parts of the OC that are so ripe for lampooning directly and the vibrant bicultural east asian and mexican communities are also great fodder (movies are made about those two, but almost entirely independents).
LA has been particularly big on the celebrity culture of itself and I don't think it's altogether a good trend. There are so many parts of LA that could be compelling mythologizing which NYC does, but LA except in recent years has seemed to neglect. This was essentially the premise of Los Angeles Plays Itself and part of why 500 Days of Summer was such a refreshing change. LA subcultura is fantastic and in many respects I find it more interesting than what is currently going on NYC, but unfortunately little of that actually gets exported internationally or domestically. The weird anarchist library and community in down and out Downey is one of those. The completely wasted bits of the Inland Empire and around the Salton Sea (maybe a bit too far from LA to count as part of LA) are some of it. The parts of the OC that are so ripe for lampooning directly and the vibrant bicultural east asian and mexican communities are also great fodder (movies are made about those two, but almost entirely independents).
Agreed. LA's subcultures make for a very interesting scripts, alot of them don't seem to be put on the big screen as much. They should have films about the gang-violence in South Central among Samoan and other Pacific Islander Mormons, and their struggles between gang-banging, maintaining their culture, and their religion. There was a story about a Samoan American football player from LA, who played for Colorado University, and I think he was fleeing police for some crime(can't remember), it turned out his father was one of the founders of the Samoan Crips gang in Los Angeles. That'd make for a VERY interesting film.
The last MAJOR one out of NYC was Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing(1989)
Kids came after Do The Right Thing and it was a pretty good depiction of teenage life in lower Manhattan. Especially the skating subculture in lower Manhattan.
There are others too, Basketball Diaries is the only one that pops into my head instantly.
Hard to say. Seems like they go hand in hand. When I am abroad, most everyone has these ridiculously romantic and unrealistic ideas of New York and LA that, in my mind, originate in movies. But also, I'm not sure how you measure culture. Is it by number of Yankees hats? If that's the case, then NY wins.
Kids came after Do The Right Thing and it was a pretty good depiction of teenage life in lower Manhattan. Especially the skating subculture in lower Manhattan.
There are others too, Basketball Diaries is the only one that pops into my head instantly.
I've seen kids. It didn't cover too many diffirent socio-economic levels of NYC, or diffirent boroughs at once, in the same sense that me and Oy were talking about. It uncovered the underground skate culture of Manhattan, but it didn't go too far beyond those kids surroundings in Manhattan. Good movie though.
These are both highly influential and there are a few other highly influential areas due to their cultural exports with DC, the Bay Area, Chicago, Boston, and Miami (though restricted to the Caribbean and Latin America).
Yeah I would agree with those same cities. They have strong cultural ties abroad.
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