Sandra Fabara (Lady Pink) as Rose Lady bug.Frederick Brathwaite (Fab 5 Freddy) as Phade.There are a series of encounters with graffiti artists, rappers and breakers, leading up to a giant rap-break concert in a Lower East Side band shell decorated by Raymond. Their graffiti murals attracted the attention of Virginia ( Patti Astor), a journalist, who brings the uptown hip-hop culture to the downtown art world. Raymond scorns a group of graffiti artists, known as the Union Crew, who have turned their talents to legitimate, commissioned murals on the walls of playgrounds and business establishments. Wild Style centers around a Bronx teenager named Raymond (Lee Quiñones), who under the pseudonym "Zoro" is a celebrated but anonymous graffiti artist. The Wild Style mural was painted by Zephyr, Revolt and Sharp in 1983. The Dondi piece was the inspiration for the animated title sequence designed by the artist, Zephyr and animated by Joey Ahlbum in 1982. Īn early version of the Wild Style logo appeared in 1981 when Ahearn hired graffiti writer Dondi to paint the "window down" subway car piece that appears in the film. Freddy eventually stepped back from co-writing and co-directing with Ahearn ("Freddy didn’t have the focus at that particular time to write or direct," Ahearn said), but he helped Chris Stein produce the soundtrack. The idea was a hybrid of narrative musical and documentary, having hip-hop pioneers play themselves in a loosely scripted story shot entirely in the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, and MTA subway yards. A 30th anniversary collector's edition was released on Blu-ray in 2012.įab Five Freddy (Fred Brathwaite) approached Ahearn about making a film focusing on what would become known as hip-hop culture and they began working together in late 1981. In 2007, it was released on DVD for the 25th anniversary. The film was later released on home video by Rhino Home Video in 1997. Wild Style was shot in 1981, completed in 1982, and released theatrically in 1983. Regarded as the first hip hop motion picture, it includes appearances by seminal figures such as Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, The Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Queen Lisa Lee of Zulu Nation, Grandmaster Flash and ZEPHYR. Wild Style is a 1983 American hip hop film directed and produced by Charlie Ahearn.
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