Breakin', released as Breakdance: The Movie in some countries, is a 1984 breakdancing-themed film directed by Joel Silberg. The film setting was inspired by a German documentary entitled Breakin' and Enterin' set in the Los Angeles multi-racial hip hop club Radiotron, based out of Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. Many of the artists and dancers, including Ice-T (who makes his movie debut as a club MC) and Boogaloo Shrimp, went straight from Breakin' and Enterin' to star in Breakin'. Ice-T has stated he considers the film and his own performance in it to be "wack".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakin%27
I just viewed an old tape of "Breakin'" last night. It's been 17 years
since I first viewed it at the movies. However, I can't believe the
powerful effect it still has on me. Yes, admittedly, the plot is not
original, the screenplay is truly by-the-numbers, and the acting is
generally amateurish. Yet, in spite of these shortcomings, the movie is
still catchy, sincere, and engrossing. That's because of the talented
stars
who really love what they do, namely, breakdancing and "poppin' and
lockin'," along with the stimulating, get-on-your-feet dance
music.
This movie is like a time capsule of the 80s, with hints of the future.
Moreover, I still find it to be inspirational, motivational, and hypnotic.
Looking at these streetdancers and the jazz dancer go after their dreams
with sheer determination, talent, and grit makes me want to jump up and do
the same thing! Yes, I'm nearly fifty, but looking at this movie gave me
another shot of adrenalin to do what I need to do in my daily life.
"Ain't
no stoppin' us" is the endless musical mantra in "Breakin'"...nothing
stopped the dancers, and nothing's going to stop me, either. Watch
"Breakin'" for yourself, and you'll see what I mean. 9/10
Rating.
zach-27
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086998/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
now lovingly restored on DVD and it's a treat; amazing original
breakdancing scenes from Los Angeles, riotously colourful wardrobes, an
incredibly high quality 80s electro/freestyle soundtrack, and all played
out with such beautiful innocence and sincerity
William Bennett
http://williambennett.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fillmore-discos-69.html
There are going to be several street
dancing movies this summer and “Breakin’” is the first one, sweet and
high-spirited and with three dancers who are so good they deserve a
better screenplay. This is really two movies: A stiff and awkward story,
interrupted by dance sequences of astonishing grace and power.
The story, alas, is predictable from beginning to end. We meet Kelly, a young Los Angeles dancer (Lucinda Dickey)
who is the student of a hateful choreographer. Through a friend she
meets a couple of break-dancers on the boardwalk at Venice. They have a
concept of dancing that’s totally different from hers; while she
polishes technique, they turn up the volume on their ghetto blasters and
lose themselves in the joy of street dancing. She likes them, dances
with them, and they form a team.
The fact is, there’s a movie here somewhere. Dickey has a wonderfully
fresh presence and a level-headed likeability, and she can dance (we
will, I think, hear a lot more from her). Chambers and Quinones are two
of the more original movie characters in a long time. I’ll bet an
interesting documentary could have been made about how these three
performers met, how they learned to work together, how the street
dancers taught their moves to the traditionally trained Dickey, and how
they got along offscreen. Those subjects supply the fictional plot of
this movie – but the script is too amateurish and the direction too
clumsy to take advantage of the great material.
You like street dancing? This is a great movie, if you can manage to ignore about two-thirds of it.
Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/breakin-1984
In the movie Breakin‘, when Turbo’s moon walk sweeps the
sidewalk to Kraftwerk’s “Tour de France”, cinematic history was made.
That scene will be noted in the annals of time as the greatest two
minutes in cinema ever, forever, until the end of time.
Greatest two minutes of cinematic history, AKA Turbo broom scene:
Breakin‘ has everything a good movie should have; leather
gloves, moon walking, nice butts in tights, electro music, a guy with no
legs doing the windmill and Ice mutha fuckin T. Breakin’ literally
broke the mold when they came up with that insanely awesome movie
formula.
This is real break dancing -not this bullshit “so you think you can
dance” kinda break dancing that we see so much of in today’s society.
This is breakin’ back when it was more punk rock than punk rock, with
ripped T-shirts, leather, studs, spray paint and took place in the
streets. To sum it up I will quote the illustrious Bar-Kays it was a
“Freak show, baby, baby on the dance floor… They’re wearin’ miniskirts
and camisoles, tight leather pants or nothing at all… Guys with guys,
chicks with chicks, it really doesn’t matter they just do it for the
kicks”. Those are words to live by my friends.
Which brings me to my last point of proof that this is one of, if not
thee best movie of all time. The sound track is insanely good. I had
this 12′ growing up and it largely inspired my entire music making
process. The music in the movie is proper Electro, back when that term
was used to describe artist who made people dance to their unique brand
of electronic funk, not this new bastardization of that term by EDM
dicks with mouse masks; seriously, fuck those guys.
The soundtrack features amazing bands like the Bar-Kays, Kraftwerk,
The Art of Noise and Hot Streak. The jewel of the sound-track and the
movie is Ice-T and the Glove’s amazing 808 and 303 acid bass line,
hip-hop monster “Reckless”.
SINS
http://mishkanyc.com/bloglin/2013/05/21/pop-it-to-lock-it-break-it-to-make-it-breakin-1984/
Tuesday 4 February 2014
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