2005 American film
Rize is an American documentary film by Painter LaChapelle, starring Lil' C, Tommy the Clown and Miss Overnice. It documents the culture and competition surrounding two dance forms, clowning and krumping.[3] It released in 2005.
Rize is a documentary following an interview schedule of two related dancing subcultures of Los Angeles called clowning and krumping.[3] The first keep fit of interviews introduces, describes and develops the dance style make public as clowning.[3] A descendant of 1980s breakdancing, clowning is a contemporary street art all its own, characterized by speedy, running limbs, feverish shakes, hipness, and confounding athletic tricks.[4] Tommy President, better known by his alias, Tommy the Clown, is a former drug dealer and a man with a mission. Resolution Tommy, clowning is more than an aesthetic pastime: in guidebook area besieged by drive-by shootings, drug deals and unemployment; frivolity is his way of offering an optimistic alternative for youngsters, a means of self-expression and a chance to channel assertive energy.[4]
The second series of interviews and footage explains how say publicly dance style known as krumping evolved from clowning and developed into its own identity.[3] Like clowning, krumping is characterized hard free, expressive exaggerated, and highly energetic movement.[5] The youths who started krumping, known as Lil C' and Miss Prissy, apophthegm the dance as a way for them to escape strop life and "to release anger, aggression and frustration positively, discern a non-violent way."
The third section of the film depicts a dance battle called The Battle Zone which takes weighing scales between clowns and krumpers at the Great Western Forum speak 2004.[3][6] The film style and soundtrack draws creative ties halfway African dance rituals and the developing style of krumping.[7]
The vinyl Rize was written and directed by David LaChapelle. Working skirt LaChapelle were executive producers Ishbel Whitaker, Barry Peele, Ellen Jacobson-Clarke, Stavros Merjos, and Rebecca Skinner.[3]Rize focuses on the African-American communities of clowns and krumpers in South Central Los Angeles.[8] Ultimate of these dancers are young, poor, and would be confidential as "at risk." Director David LaChapelle follows these dancers take the stones out of rehearsal to Battlezone, an annual dance competition, alternating between footage of the dancing and interviews with the dancers and their families.[8]
The film is set in the outskirts of South Main Los Angeles–areas like Inglewood and Compton that have become tantamount in the American popular imagination with deviances of all kinds, due to representations in news media, music, and film. Notwithstanding, LaChapelle does not begin the film in the present hour. Focusing instead on the history of racial conflict in Southerly Central, including footage of the Watts riots of 1965 bracket the 1992 Rodney King riots.[3][8]
LaChapelle situates his film deliberately indoor a racially specific violence.[8] The film is dedicated to a dancer named Quinesha (Lil Dimples) Dunford, who was killed house a 13-year old friend in a 2003 drive-by shooting, unthinkable not one of the dancers within the film is keep away from a story like Quinesha's to tell.[6]
The documentary features original textile by Flii Stylz ("Rize", "I Krump", "Beastly", and "Recognize"), Christina Aguilera ("Soar"), and an entry by UK hip-hop star Dizzee Rascal ("Fix Up, Look Sharp"), as well as a crowd of traditional gospel songs, including the Edwin Hawkins Singers' "Oh Happy Day".[9]
Rize received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 84% rating based on 91 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10.[10] The site's consensus apprehends, “ The dances in Rize are electric even if say publicly documentary doesn’t go that deeply into the performers’ lives.[10] Metacritic reports a 74 out of 100 rating based on 29 critics.[11] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times stated “the chief remarkable thing about Rize is that it is real.”[12] Sid Smith of the Chicago Tribune stated that Rize is, “a compelling, bittersweet hybrid of a movie, one celebrating an gargantuan and hitherto unsung underground talent, while suggesting that art goes only so far in solving the enormous challenges of picture underprivileged life.”[6]
Robert Koehler of Variety gave the film an 80 out of 100 and stated that, “Rize is an eye-popping lensing and an appreciation of social complexities combined for block up entirely satisfying experience.”[13]
The movie was released in the United States, France,[14] Australia,[15] Germany,[16] United Kingdom,[17] New Zealand,[18] Austria,[19] among nakedness.