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Wild Style is the greatest Hip-Hop movie of all time. It did not have a big budget, nor does it have professional actors or even much of a plot, so why is it so great? Well this movie had a script, but really it was a documentary. The objective of this film was to showcase as well as document the phenomenon know as Hip-Hop culture in the early 1980's. The reason it was presented as a scripted "movie" was to protect some of the protagonists, as what they are shown doing was illegal.

Lee Quinones plays himself, a graffiti artist who is broke and lost in the world yet at the same time is a legend in the five boroughs for his artwork. He has problems with his girlfriend (played by Sandra Fabara) the way a guy with no money would, and he is looking for a way to ensure he does not lose her. As for the plot, that is pretty much it, there is not much else. What this movie offers is a chance to see the work of all the old graffiti artists, the break dancing moves of Crazy Legs and the rest of the Rock Steady Crew, and most significant of all you see many of the legendary DJs and MCs of the time. You get to see the Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Flash, Busy Bee, Kool Moe Dee, and many others.

Watching this film today sparks two things to come to in mind. One, you get to see how Hip-Hop got started and how it was when it was a culture being lived by people and how it has changed as today it is nothing but a product of the American corporate machine. Two, there is great irony and much of the style in clothing, dancing, and music that today is considered hip and the latest thing on the street by young people can be seen in this movie, which is 22 years old.
[Edited 9/3/04 18:54pm]