Why we hate this type of crap........
I watched five minutes of this and heard was some of the worst dialogue ever from a movie. My question is why was it that the Black cop who was the ex-writer, and his whole excuse, or reason for writing was: his block was so bad and drug infested that you were limited in your options either smoking crack, or be a graffiti writer, and then why did he apologize to the white cop for being a writer for, what was he guilty of? Why couldn’t he proud of the fact that we wrote graffiti, and say I wrote graffiti, loved doing it and I made frriends got me laid all the time because the girls on my block loved seeing their names on the side of trains- I'll tell you why I personally wrote,- I got Fame, or Skeme says in Wild Style, “all-city” and it was fun, a whole lot better than hanging out on my dead block, With graph we had adventure – and for the black cop to say that he was forced into the dilemma of writing or duing drugs from neighborhood pressures that would make him a sucker,- because no one can make you do drugs, and who would adnmit to that - I would match rather have my partner think I was a writer than a sucker.
Another comment about that conversation why would he think the white cop would be so out of touch with the graffiti scene being that he lived NYC. I know plenty of ex-writer who became cops, first off can I say this, graffiti has no color or class, there were just as many white kids doing it, the great Zephyr was white and from the upper west side, Seen is Italian, Cap was Dutch, Tracy 168 was Irish, and why would the black cop finally tell him this on a stake out , oh by the way I was a writer,- that whole exchange was terrible, - just reinforced stereotypes, the street wise African America cop and the racist Giuliani supporting white cop, you saw the Giuliani commentary coming a mile away,- If the white cop would have said that he was from Rockland County or Long Island, I could belive then that he would be that out of touch and shocked of his partners past exploits in dity world of graffiti but most white guys are not that square, sure the city looked like *beep* in 70's and 80's and some of was that some neighorhoods were totally bombed, but there were also whole group of corrupt cops taking bribes and punching in the clock and going home or to the bar, or calling up escort services, Cops would't dare do that now, it is a totally different world than it was thrity years ago and don't most cops now hate Giullani because he made them work harder?
And this killed it for me when I saw when I saw the characters "motion tagging" and then tagging on a seat of the train with crayola markers, I know the movie is a misrepresentation of graffiti and the people who made this movie should apologize. First off let me say this, graffiti is our culture, and it is very important to us and how writers are portrayed and it is important to us as well and like any group of people we want to protect our culture from people who well feel are exploiting for their persona gain. Back to the motion tagging scene this really offended me No real writer would tag on the seat of the train that would be the toyish thing to do, because we respected the people who rode this trains and we wouldn’t want to see our mothers clothes ruined, clothes are expensive. Also motion tagging with cheap stationary markers is consider the lowest form of bombing, and you could never get any respect from you fellow writers, you would branded a toy- and they would know that