13423820, Triple A+ answer Posted by Bambino Grande, Fri Feb-12-21 03:09 PM
>way too many different pockets with different vibes and their >own internal cultures. I don't think there's been one move >that you could say has captured LA. > >you got your hood movies, like Boyz, Menace, Baby Boy > >East LA stuff like American Me, Blood in Bood out, Boulevard >Nights > >More centered stuff like The Wood, and Dope (Ingewood, Ladera) >or Mi Vida Loca, and Quinenera and brush on Gentrification of >Echo Park a bit > >Drive around crime stuff like Training Day or Harsh Times, End >of Watch.. > >Swingers captured the experience pretty good of a sizable >swath of people who came to LA to work in Hollywood > >Boogie Nights covered the valley porn scene > >Lords of Dogwtown tried to capture the grittiness of 70s >venice but failed to match the documentary. > >then you got your LA Noir stuff (La Confidential >Leboswki,China Town) > >then you got try too hard movies that think they break down LA >(Crash, Grand Canyon) and i guess for some it feels dead on. >Short Cuts did a pretty good job though. > >Ikemoses mentioned They Live once as a pretty good commentary >on the divide of los angeles > >Shit, i remember watching the party in Super Bad and thought >how dead on it was of a Vallley party. but even in the valley >you could break it down to who knows how many parts > >So yeah.. White Men Can't Jump. I'm going with that lol
|