The South Bronx was the rotten side of the Big Apple in the seventies. However, crime rates in the city of New York not overshadowed completely the life of those who dreamed progress amid the dark panorama
The director Baz Luhrmann, famous for films Romeo + Juliet Moulin Rouge and the great Gatsby , spent more than a decade building the team that would allow him to tell those stories of young people who survived a chaotic city through art. That was how the filmmaker found on Netflix the ideal venture with its first project on television platform. The Get Down
the musical drama that premiered today explores the artistic changes that arose between 1977 and 1979, time when hip hop started crawling and disco to die
. a group of boys in the south Bronx plays with his talents and It combines dance, painting, music and poetry. Yet christen the movement, but we all feel in their bodies and in the streets, the favorite scenario of the rising genre
<. / span> the adolescent poet Ezekiel “Books” Figuero, played by Justice Smith ( paper Towns ), weaves the story. The young man is the impetus to become an artist when it coincides with DJ Shaolin Fantastic (Shameik Moore), with whom he shared dreams of greatness
. next to it is also Mylene Cruz (Herizen Guardiola), his girlfriend. Like him, the girl wants to race but in the world of disco music, a situation that will take different paths and will jeopardize the relationship
friends of the protagonist will be their strength in difficult times. Dizzee is one of them. The young man played by Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith) represents another facet of the emerging hip hop culture: graffiti
. the band Ezekiel full Ronald “Ra-Ra” Kipling (Skylan Brooks) and Miles “Boo Boo” Kipling (Tremaine Brown Jr.), both brothers on the show.
The plot that mixes reality and fiction, uses archival footage, original music and covers of old classics to tell the history. The series consists of 12 episodes that will air in two installments: June 1 chapters which opens today and the other in 2017
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most of the cast is made up of players aged between 15 and 22 years old. All honed their skills with recognized professionals from the entertainment industry, such as Rich brothers and Tone Talauega, choreographers who have worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Usher and Gwen Stefani, among other artists.
the exteriors were filmed in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn. The other scenes were filmed in the studios of Glendale, Queens, where important places of the era recreated in a space of 14,000 square meters
. the main theme of the Get down “Rule the World”, was composed by rapper Nas, who was also responsible for create original music for all episodes. Today was released the official soundtrack of the series, produced by RCA Records
. This is most ambitious project to date Netflix. About 120 million dollars were invested in the dream that Luhrmann decided to start with Netflix to feel that was the most appropriate distributor
. “I was asked if I would put my personal brand to this work and said yes. I recognized that you can find limitations in the film industry in language, scope and narrative resources and budgets have certain deadlines. Netflix actively encourages risk taking. Cultural relevance, ie, converting a production on a topic of public debate, it is essential for me, “he said the creator
120 million, approximately invested Netflix in achieving the Get Down , far more ambitious your project
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