[Reader-list] Urban desperation in the movies

[Menso Heus]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:39:54AM -0800, Rana Dasgupta wrote:
> point taken, menso (that we have already seen films
> like Boyz in the Hood); but i don't think these
> phenomena are the same.  "inner city blacks" have long
> been part of the self-definition-by-contrast of
> mainstream american society.  "gangs of new york" is
> about the violent history of that same mainstream. 
> compare and contrast scorsese's own "age of innocence"
> set at the same time as his new one, in which the
> origins of the city he has spent most of his career
> making violent films about are extremely genteel.  

Well, I haven't seen Gangs of New York yet, so I guess
now I'll just have to :) 

> in this sense i don't know if i can link it to the rio
> film.  maybe someone else can.

Well, this is why I replied stating that movies showing
urban violence linked with gang activity and poverty are
not something new, since I didn't see this link either :)


bye,

Menso
 
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