Detroit Rock City

This movie was very entertaining to watch. The first scene with the mother trying to relax with the wine was funny and made me jump because the music was loud and what she was not expecting that and she went crazy. Trip, Lex, Hawk and Jam had a day to remember. I like unexpected nights like that. Those nights are nights that you will remember for the rest of their lives especially Jam. Jam had a day to remember. From being dressed for school by his mom then getting called out in front of the whole school to watching his mother burn the tickets to see his favorite band that changed his life. Then he was sent to a very religious school who his friends helped him escape to getting caught by his mother again!!! Damn JAM. His mother was a pain in the ass. To later getting laid for the first in a church by his high school crush who thought he wouldn’t see each other again. Hawk got over his fear of being on stage buy dancing at the strip club but ends up losing. But in the middle of all the catches the eye of an older women who he ends up having sex with. Lex on the other hand was trying sneak his way into the concert but was kick out and ended up being around vicious dogs that later becomes his friends and uses them to retrieve his mother stolen car getting the girl that was sleeping in his car. Trip was the character that had the most entertaining and had the most unexacting story. He tried to steal a ticket  from a little kid but turns out that his big brother that was a track star and was buff was in the store then plans on robbing the store to get money but another man was robbing the store and he end up saving the cashier lady and getting a kiss. All four boys went their separate ways to find a ticket and experienced their own journeys came back empty handed and beat each other up. Jam getting the drum stick from kiss made me feel complete. 

The reading Cult Cinema and Music talks about how they like to promote cross movies. They like to create movies about already existing bands even though we saw KISS at the end of the movie Detroit Rock City but we experience two type of groups of teens views on the band. The teens that were die hard fans and the group that were haters and broke the Kiss tape out if hatred when the fight was about pizza. An interesting part of the reading was about how they gained african america audience. Black people made soundtrack for films. And how this movie was unavailable for 15 years before people got the chance to view it again. In the reading Classical Hollywood Cults talked 4 categories that make up a classical hollywood cult film and they are Nostalgia which is the recreation of the first time, intertextual which is the self conscious application of cliché and the invitation for the audience to make up interoperation of missing information in the films and Gaity which talks about how the term gay changed over time.

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  1. emmakarch's avataremmakarch

    Hey Yassa! Nice blog, enjoyed your summary of the film and reading. My favorite scene was when the boys beat the crap out of each other, and then Trip gets them into the concert by framing the kid and his gang of buff teens. That was pretty funny. Every actor and actress was top notch. The film deserved more love on opening night, but I guess that’s what makes it a cult classic nostalgia film.

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