Word: hipping
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Initially, Berlinger seems to understand that his best course of action is to straddle the thin line of hip irony and ride it until it breaks. The early scenes of BW2 are entirely self-aware and play like a wicked little horror satire, from the inspired opening montage to, even better, a group of awestruck foreign tourists that stare at the trees with wide-eyed wonder while babbling about Coffin Rock and little stick figures. These are the glimmers of the film I dearly wish Berlinger decided to pursue. Instead, he has his troupe camp out in the woods...
...What is hip-hop montage...
...Hip-hop montage comes from growing up in the '80s in Brooklyn with hip-hop culture. There was hip-hop art, hip-hop music, rap, dance, break. And there were films about hip-hop, but there wasn't really hip-hop techniques used in filmmaking. I wanted to try and apply that to narrative filmmaking, to sample images with sounds, and with that you could advance the story very quickly. It really works well in Requiem, because it's detailing something that's obsessive, an addiction, and it's repetitive...
Sharpton's summit will seek to examine the correlation between the hip-hop industry and violence...
Sharpton said he hopes that the image of hip-hop will be recreated as "socially responsible." He claims that hip-hop, "an urban artform and artstyle," is just trying become established as a viable part of American culture...