Style Wars

Style wars a movie created in 1983. It was filmed in the Bronx. During the time of the making of the film a lot of the Bronx was being burned down and destroyed because the poverty level was extremely high. People would burn down their houses for money from insurance, and before burning their houses they would sell whatever they could that people would want to buy. Also during that time they were blowing up a lot of the Bronx as well to make the Cross Bronx Expressway. This movie basically was showing that a lot of society thought that graffiti was vandalism and to most that did graffiti on public property was just "tags". But to a lot of people who do graffiti its a passion and its something they love to do that has a lot of meaning for them. It also showed us how these kids and adults got their names around everywhere putting their names on train stations so that everyone could see. It also showed us how their dance influenced graffiti and how dance was part of their everyday lives.