Sunday, March 22, 2009

planet b-boy at the drive in, by david s. danis


Picture yourself sitting in a chair, in an outside theater site filled with hundreds of people. A titanic screen ahead of you with a stage in front of it and flipping men competing for attention from the crowd. Soft rain pellets pinching your face.

My initial impression of Planet B-Boy (Directed by Benson Lee) before watching it was that it was going to be just another hip-hop themed dance movie. But it was not. It was so much more. Basically the film revolves around the art of b-boying, which means to dance “funky”. By this I mean dance from the heart and soul. The main protagonists were dance groups that came from all over the world, who wanted to battle in Germany. The beginning of the film focuses on the history of b-boying and then goes on to the different groups who want to settle the score.

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