Tuesday, April 13, 2004
You Got Whaaa???
A few weeks ago, Marah picked up a sweet bootleg of You Got Served while downtown (through a shaky hand-held no resolution lens is really the perfect way to watch it). It's not a hard movie to understand. There are competing dance crews. The main guy falls in love with his best friend's sister who doesn't love him but then does. Best friend gets shot, so the crew has to challenge another crew in a big Karate Kid-esque dance competition (but make no mistake, this movie is no KK, Nick Cannon is no Daniel Larusso, and the rival white crew should absolutely under no circumstances be compared to Cobra Kai).
Now contrary to popular opinion, I ain't black. So maybe that explains it. But the movie felt like the vision of a white studio executive who knows that black people like to dance, that gangs are a thing, and that sometimes love is hard. And I still don't know what it means to get served. Nevertheless, here are some off the top of my head theories:
You got...
-danced better than
-embarrassed
-a work out
-cast in a awtrocious movie
That's all I got. If anyone knows, please inform me. And then tell the screenwriter. He's confused.
A few weeks ago, Marah picked up a sweet bootleg of You Got Served while downtown (through a shaky hand-held no resolution lens is really the perfect way to watch it). It's not a hard movie to understand. There are competing dance crews. The main guy falls in love with his best friend's sister who doesn't love him but then does. Best friend gets shot, so the crew has to challenge another crew in a big Karate Kid-esque dance competition (but make no mistake, this movie is no KK, Nick Cannon is no Daniel Larusso, and the rival white crew should absolutely under no circumstances be compared to Cobra Kai).
Now contrary to popular opinion, I ain't black. So maybe that explains it. But the movie felt like the vision of a white studio executive who knows that black people like to dance, that gangs are a thing, and that sometimes love is hard. And I still don't know what it means to get served. Nevertheless, here are some off the top of my head theories:
You got...
-danced better than
-embarrassed
-a work out
-cast in a awtrocious movie
That's all I got. If anyone knows, please inform me. And then tell the screenwriter. He's confused.
