Get Down Thesis
Title: Boogie Nights: Music,Youth, and Joy in Netflix’s The Get Down
While The Get Down second season premieres this Friday via streaming service Netflix. I am ecstatic for it and it was one of my favorite shows of last year. I’m not a person to binge watch shows but The Get Down was one of those shows. A hero’s journey told through the eyes of a love sick boy in the Bronx, named Zeke. The Get Down is one part musical drama ,comic narrative, and coming of age story packed into a 6 episode season.The Getdown is nothing you never have seen before;at it’s core telling the story of a group of friends with the backdrop of 70s Bronx. In the coming of age story that centers Joy of color is necessary in the time of political turmoil.
The Get Down is an American musical drama television series set in the of the South Bronx in year 1977. Created by film director Baz Luhrmann and playwright Stephen Adly …show more content…
The biggest glue keeping them all together is music, disco,gospel,and a new genre called hip hop. Without giving too much away their dreams bring them un forseen circumstances as they meet a mysterious young man named Shaolin Fantastic (portrayed by Shameik Moore). The getdown is the dramatic retelling of hip hop as told by our beloved crew, it’s gritty at times showcasing the gang violence and corrupt politics of that time. There’s even hip hop icons who are in the show who appear,including the elements of hip hop: breaking, mcing, tagging,and djing; we see the crew learn the basis of the four elements.The Getdown stylistically is fast ,colorful, and bombastic very reminiscent of comics of that era. In terms of the sound, there’s so much music from funk rock,breakbeat,and disco; the soundscapes are eclectic from the party scenes to the
While The Get Down second season premieres this Friday via streaming service Netflix. I am ecstatic for it and it was one of my favorite shows of last year. I’m not a person to binge watch shows but The Get Down was one of those shows. A hero’s journey told through the eyes of a love sick boy in the Bronx, named Zeke. The Get Down is one part musical drama ,comic narrative, and coming of age story packed into a 6 episode season.The Getdown is nothing you never have seen before;at it’s core telling the story of a group of friends with the backdrop of 70s Bronx. In the coming of age story that centers Joy of color is necessary in the time of political turmoil.
The Get Down is an American musical drama television series set in the of the South Bronx in year 1977. Created by film director Baz Luhrmann and playwright Stephen Adly …show more content…
The biggest glue keeping them all together is music, disco,gospel,and a new genre called hip hop. Without giving too much away their dreams bring them un forseen circumstances as they meet a mysterious young man named Shaolin Fantastic (portrayed by Shameik Moore). The getdown is the dramatic retelling of hip hop as told by our beloved crew, it’s gritty at times showcasing the gang violence and corrupt politics of that time. There’s even hip hop icons who are in the show who appear,including the elements of hip hop: breaking, mcing, tagging,and djing; we see the crew learn the basis of the four elements.The Getdown stylistically is fast ,colorful, and bombastic very reminiscent of comics of that era. In terms of the sound, there’s so much music from funk rock,breakbeat,and disco; the soundscapes are eclectic from the party scenes to the