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Synopsis: follows four generations
of Jewish-American musicians as each painfully seeks fame through
changing musical eras with hard-luck protagonists suffering through
clichéd drug addiction, death, and alienation. Starting
at the turn of the century with a piano-playing immigrant in New
York, the film moves swiftly, following his offspring through
such movements as Gershwin-era pop, jazz, folk music, '60s psychedelia,
and punk--and only pauses for elaborate, energized musical numbers
designed to showcase the work of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington,
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Sex Pistols, Lou Reed, the Jefferson
Airplane, and numerous others. use of rotoscoping (tracing animation
from live action) makes for fluid and often eye-popping visuals.
The differences in atmosphere and feel in the different periods
of time shown in the film - through the 20's, 40's, 50's, 60's
and 70's - are fascinating and very creative.
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This film features the history of pop music with some good Rock
and Roll and Lindy Hop Rotoscope Animation. Rotoscope basically
means the use of real film, real people, animated over to look
like an animation. The Lindy Hop scenes are actual legendary Lindy
Hoppers.
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