Post by tgo on Jun 18, 2008 12:57:55 GMT -5
I went to a screening of the Adam Yauch’s aka MCA of the beastie boys (who went to my high school- st anns in Brooklyn) documentary “Gunnin for that #1 Spot” last night, thought it would be of interest to hoyatalkers. Yauch was there to answer questions after the movie, none of the players were there, closest thing was the younger brother of Brandon Jennings sitting behind me.
www.gunninmovie.com/
It focuses on the first annual “Elite 24” HS all star game from sept 1, 2006. the movie profiles 8 of the players in the game, Jerryd Bayless, Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans, Donte Greene, Brandon Jennings, Kevin Love, Kyle Singler, and Lance Stephenson.
You get to know each guy and their family and then you go with them to nyc and parts of the game which was played at Rucker Park. there is also some stuff about the history of Rucker as well.
i actually liked donte green, although I didn’t want to. a lot of interesting stuff about each of the players, I feel bad for any teacher or coach who ever had to deal with Michael Beasley. The work ethic of Love and Bayless was impressive/inspiring and I am really rooting for tyreke evans to succeed since he seems like a great down to earth kid. they were all very likable in their own ways.
It was interesting cinematography, he used a lot of slow mo and different camera’s. anybody who is into hoops will like it and I think people into film will find it worth seeing since he had some fun with the different camera’s but it also left a lot to be desired. The climax of the movie is the big game which was really hard to follow the way he shot it- it was very hard to tell who each player was, some are easier than others particularly the guards and the white guys can be picked out but with the black forwards –all roughly the same size (especially since a lot of footage was taken from low to the ground angles) and it wasn’t easy to see their faces and they didn’t have names on their jersey’s so they often melted together for the audience.
he used a lot of old footage of the players when he was profiling each of them and a lot of it was taken off of youtube and the quality was low and for clips that weren’t low quality he purposely made them all grainy and low quality since he liked the look of them, I would have to disagree since it made the clips almost un watchable especially after the first couple of players and again you had a hard time figuring out who was who in those and I know some of those clips are available in much higher quality than what he used so some of it was definitely on purpose.
the soundtrack and usage of music was awesome. Yauch said he doubts he could ever get the rights to all these tunes to do a soundtrack but he would love to be able to. another highlight was the court-side announcer for the game who was constantly giving out nicknames to the players.
There is no agenda to this film, he isn’t trying to make any statements about basketball or the recruiting process or to point out any one kid as good or bad.
if anyone else see's it i would be interested in what you think.
www.gunninmovie.com/
It focuses on the first annual “Elite 24” HS all star game from sept 1, 2006. the movie profiles 8 of the players in the game, Jerryd Bayless, Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans, Donte Greene, Brandon Jennings, Kevin Love, Kyle Singler, and Lance Stephenson.
You get to know each guy and their family and then you go with them to nyc and parts of the game which was played at Rucker Park. there is also some stuff about the history of Rucker as well.
i actually liked donte green, although I didn’t want to. a lot of interesting stuff about each of the players, I feel bad for any teacher or coach who ever had to deal with Michael Beasley. The work ethic of Love and Bayless was impressive/inspiring and I am really rooting for tyreke evans to succeed since he seems like a great down to earth kid. they were all very likable in their own ways.
It was interesting cinematography, he used a lot of slow mo and different camera’s. anybody who is into hoops will like it and I think people into film will find it worth seeing since he had some fun with the different camera’s but it also left a lot to be desired. The climax of the movie is the big game which was really hard to follow the way he shot it- it was very hard to tell who each player was, some are easier than others particularly the guards and the white guys can be picked out but with the black forwards –all roughly the same size (especially since a lot of footage was taken from low to the ground angles) and it wasn’t easy to see their faces and they didn’t have names on their jersey’s so they often melted together for the audience.
he used a lot of old footage of the players when he was profiling each of them and a lot of it was taken off of youtube and the quality was low and for clips that weren’t low quality he purposely made them all grainy and low quality since he liked the look of them, I would have to disagree since it made the clips almost un watchable especially after the first couple of players and again you had a hard time figuring out who was who in those and I know some of those clips are available in much higher quality than what he used so some of it was definitely on purpose.
the soundtrack and usage of music was awesome. Yauch said he doubts he could ever get the rights to all these tunes to do a soundtrack but he would love to be able to. another highlight was the court-side announcer for the game who was constantly giving out nicknames to the players.
There is no agenda to this film, he isn’t trying to make any statements about basketball or the recruiting process or to point out any one kid as good or bad.
if anyone else see's it i would be interested in what you think.
