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Wild Style

  • 19821982
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  • 1h 22m
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7.1/10
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Patti Astor, Lady Pink, Fab 5 Freddy, Lee Quiñones, Andrew Witten, and Busy Bee in Wild Style (1982)
South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
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South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
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    • Charlie Ahearn
    • Charlie Ahearn(original concept)
    • Fab 5 Freddy(original concept)
  • Stars
    • Lee Quiñones
    • Lady Pink
    • Fab 5 Freddy
    • Charlie Ahearn
    • Charlie Ahearn(original concept)
    • Fab 5 Freddy(original concept)
  • Stars
    • Lee Quiñones
    • Lady Pink
    • Fab 5 Freddy
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    • 21User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Lady Pink and Lee Quiñones in Wild Style (1982)
    Patti Astor and Crazy Legs in Wild Style (1982)
    Lee Quiñones in Wild Style (1982)
    Charlie Chase, Grandmaster Caz, J.D.L., Easy A.D., and Almighty K.G. in Wild Style (1982)
    Wild Style (1982)
    Patti Astor, Lady Pink, Fab 5 Freddy, Lee Quiñones, and Andrew Witten in Wild Style (1982)
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    Lee Quiñones
    Lee Quiñones
    • Raymond 'Zoro'
    • (as 'Lee' George Quinones)
    Lady Pink
    • Rose 'Lady Bug'
    • (as Sandra 'Pink' Fabara)
    Fab 5 Freddy
    Fab 5 Freddy
    • 'Phade'
    • (as Frederick Braithwaite)
    Patti Astor
    • Virginia
    Andrew Witten
    • Z-Roc
    • (as Zephyr)
    Busy Bee
    • Chief Rocker
    Carlos Morales
    • Hector
    Alfredo Valez
    • Chico
    Niva Kislac
    • Niva
    Glenn O'Brien
    • Museum Curator
    Johnny 'Crash' Matos
    • Union Crew
    Daze
    • Union Crew
    • (as Chris 'Daze' Ellis)
    Fred 'Caz' Glover
    • Union Crew
    Edwin 'Obe' Ortez
    • Union Crew
    Lisa Lee
    • Fly Girl
    Henrietta Henry
    • Fly Girl
    Pamela Smith
    • Fly Girl
    Diane Parker
    • Fly Girl
      • Charlie Ahearn
      • Charlie Ahearn(original concept)
      • Fab 5 Freddy(original concept)
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    • Trivia
      The stick-up guys were cast when Charlie Ahearn saw them hanging around the location. Ahearn offered them a prop gun but they insisted on using their real sawed-off shotgun. All of their lines were improvised.
    • Goofs
      At 6:18 Hector tells Raymond 'Zoro' to take off his do-rag. Then Ray's hair pops back and forth between being flat from the do-rag to a picked out Afro during their conversation.
    • Quotes

      'Phade': Scooby Doo!

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      Edited into And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      South Bronx Subway Rap
      Composed by Fab 5 Freddy and Chris Stein

      Performed by Grandmaster Caz

    User reviews21

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    10/10
    Never exaggerating if I say this is a true Hip Hop Classic..
    If you think you are a true Hip Hop fan and when I talk about Wild Style and you are asking me "What?", then something must be wrong...

    Wild Style is the first and true Hip Hop documentary/film about a culture that remained one of the strongest of the past few decades. Never has there been an artform of music that was just basically made of other music styles, but has managed to grow and evolve on its own.

    If you want to understand the basic elements of Hip Hop (Rappin', DJin', Breakdancin' & Grafitti) then don't look any further, here's what you need.

    As one of the top titles wanted on my "Please-Release-It-On-DVD-List", this movie is not a movie in its real form. Because it was pretty much lowbudget, it has a feel of documentary, but it certainly has a story. Not very much, but the knowledge that almost everyone of the cast was/is someone in the Hip Hop Community 1982, makes this title very interesting to see what they contribute to this movie, and Hip Hop in general.

    You've probably read the plot outlines in other reviews, so I won't tell you anything you've already read in those reviews. All I can say is, if you wanna know what the TRUE meaning is of Hip Hop, instead of the BLING-BLING type o' Hip Hop which is totally (well, almost totally) commercialised, see if you can get a copy of this movie and "take a trip down memory lane", like my man Nas said in his 1994 DJ Premier produced cut "Memory Lane (Sitting In Da Park)", another Hip Hop Gem..

    RECOMMENDED!!
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    • Ernasto
    • Jun 3, 2002

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      • October 8, 1983 (Japan)
      • United States
      • English
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    • 1 hour 22 minutes
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