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Hip
Hop Music also know as rap music has come a long way through
the years from Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Eric B and Rakim
to Run Dmc and now Wu Tang Clan, Buster Rhymes, and Biggie
Smalls. We also saw movies about the music and people like
Krush Grove, Breakin, and House party. Movies about hip-hop
and life on the street called Beat Street. They was a whale
ago time changes so music the area of rap music has climb
to an outstanding level but some of the music is not want
was meant to be now we have gangster rap. So in the time of
this we need a movie to tell the story of rap now days and
here it’s comes Black & White, which is the new film from
director James Toback, he also wrote the screenplay.
Black
and White" stars (in alphabetical order) Scott Caan, Robert
Downey Jr., Stacy Edwards, Gaby Hoffmann, Allan Houston (of
the New York Knicks), Jared Leto, Marla Maples, Method Man,
Joe Pantoliano, Bijou Phillips, Claudia Schiffer, William
Lee Scott, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Eddie Kaye Thomas
and Elijah Wood, as well as Power and Raekwon of the popular
hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. In addition, "Black and White"
features appearances by Mike Tyson and "Rush Hour" director
Brett Ratner as themselves the story is about an high school
hipster Charlie (Bijou Phillips) and her friends start hanging
out with Harlem's aspiring rap artist Rich Bower (Power) and
his group, the American Cream Team, each faction starts to
ponder the other's true motivation. Fascinated by this collision
of cultures, documentary filmmaker and former rich girl herself
Sam Donager (Brooke Shields) attempts to capture the phenomenon
on camera with the help of her intriguingly unhinged husband
Terry (Robert Downey Jr.).
Meanwhile,
NYPD detective Mark Clear (Ben Stiller) wants revenge on his
heartless ex-girlfriend Greta (Claudia Schiffer), who dumped
him for Dean (Allan Houston), a black star basketball player
and friend of Rich Bower. Before long, everyone wants something
from someone else. As the chain of casual acquaintance comes
full circle, worlds collide -- black and white, wealthy and
wanting, uptown and downtown -- until it becomes clear that
nobody is really who they seem to be. In life everyone is
judge by their color of their skin or how much money people
have and everyone is out to hurt everyone else which is a
shame if you ask me.
Black
& White has a lot of issues which need to be address we know
we heard it before but maybe the way the director showed it
maybe it will change some people thinking and acting. Some
of the basic issue that is associate with hip hop music are
drugs, violence, sex and money which is destroying the hip-hop
world. This movie will make you see that this world we all
live in is really mess up and we all need to change. The old
saying goes can we all just get along we all will be here
for a long time and everyone please loves each other not hate
each other.
This
was a great film the cast was outstanding and the story was
hard hitting and came right to the point don’t miss this film
it’s one of the best this year
©
Paul Perkins
The
King's Room
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