#puertorican film

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[murcielagatito]

i just think its really fucking hilarious that the one lore we have as puertoricans that ppl actually know about they think its mexican 😭

like yall know nothing about our gods our tribe our history and nobody EVER bothers to look up anything about our culture. so we end up with multiple instances of all our shit being labelled mexican and the film industry just fucking calls it a day.* we r then also reduced to the stereotype of owning hella pr flags and they think thats enough

pop quiz time: do you know the reason why we are known for always having our flag? if so, what is it? (si eres boriqua ur not allowed to answer)

*recent examples: bad bunny in bullet train, luis guzmán in wednesday and now chupacabra in chupa (dumb fucking name for the movie btw)

[afrcnam]

Continued from previous comment...

You always had R&B music artist incorporate a little Latin sound like Reasons by Earth Wind & Fire 1975...with a Cuban style, or Running on the 1977 All N All album. Also Herman Kelly with the 1978 song dance to the drummer beat. 

Tito Puente of Puerto Rican background was a musician who played on certain SugarHill rap records.

Carlos Mendez not only cofounded the Cold Crush Brothers circa 1977, but also established the first know hiphop gathering or convention, circa 1979-80. At least 2 members of the fearless 4 were of Puerto Rican background in the latter 70s- early 80s. Also a lesser known Mean Machine 1980.

Better known by his stage name Pumpkin, 70s-80s HipHop drummer Errol Eduardo Bedward played on many songs of the genre.

His overall appearance was of a typical African American, but was of Costa Rican and Panamanian background. He spoke fluent Spanish.

Artist he played for include...(1979 to 1984),   Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Spoonie Gee, Treacherous Three, Funky Four, Grandmaster Caz, the Fearless Four, and Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, and several more obscure names. His 1983 single "King of the Beat", Pumpkin and the Profile All-Stars' "Here Comes the Beat" (Profile, 1984).

Puerto Ricans bros like Ken Swift, Crazy Legs, Mr Wiggles, and even Trac 2 (when he was younger and humble😄), said they saw mostly African American youth breaking before like 75-77. Trac is in a 1978 photo with Spy (African American and Spanish). Also Rene and Boss same year. They just won a breaking competition. Crazy legs said Spy was the first person he ever seen do this dance as a 9 year old in 76. Spy was in his early teens. In rare photos from an original RSC (Rock Steady Crew) website, Legs is in 1979-81 photos with forgotten African American members like Ski, Kippy D, Lil Craze, and their 1977 cofounder Jimmy Dee (with PuertoRican friend Lee). I say this so you can see the dance was both African American and Puerto Rican at the same time. You kind of sense that in the old photos (many youth added moves to it that became popular).

In a 2013 gathering celebrating hiphop, Crazy Legs introduced their 1977 African American cofounder, Jimmy Dee, to the crowd. Many never seen him because being a couple of years older (upper teens), he went off to college by time the 80s came around. In a modern Ytb livesteam interview, he says in like 78 this 12 year old, exuberant about the dance dormant in Bronx and Harlem at the time, asked him if they can start a new chapter of RSC before moving to Manhattan. We know this enthusiastic dancer as Crazy Legs

In the 1974 movie "Education of Sonny Carson", coincidently about a African American gang in New York City, the one teen that likes to dance is up-rocking into James Brown like splits (Staten Island boat scene and parade scene). It reminds me when Ken Swift describes old style breaking (before 1976/77) as looking more like FrostyFreeze style ( African American teen in Flashdance who jumps on his back. Movie was filmed in 1981 and released in 83)

In the outtakes of StyleWars, filmed in 81 and released in 83, Kippy D of old Rock Steady Crew informs us that they just incorporated Poplocking from the West coast. This componant lumped into breakin was absolutely African American. A derivative of 1969 locking, created by Don Campbell, POPPIN was introrduced to L.A. youth by African American Boogaloo Sam and his brother Poppin Pete (African American) of Fresno, CA, circa 1976. So it's like it came full circle back to L.A - stemming from lockin). Debuted on SoulTrain in 1978 by Jeff Danials and his crew, it became a popular dance of young people and performers at the time (1978 thru 83-ish).

Another interesting detail in StyleWars (filmed in 81...important to emphasize that here), Frosty Freeze tells the interviewer that the dance started in Bronx as well as parts of Harlem.

Rock dance is not the base of up rock commonly used in breaking. You have a Puerto Rican Rock dancer of 70s Brooklyn saying he seen breaking in the Bronx circa 1975 and it looked nothing like what they did. It appears that rocking was feet shuffling while uprocking was more jumping and arm swinging movements. Even Brooklyn Rock Dance, with it's mysterious origin, shows more affinity to African American style than Latino.

In the 1950s African American teens created their own form of Mambo. (Look up Brooklyn Mambo, 1950s). It's very close to RockDance. Even in some of the footage Spirit Moves between the 1920s -50s, similarities show up here and there. So far we can't find videos of Latin dance in this manner concurrent to that 50s era. Uprockin for breakin comes from Spade Dance (Black Spades, 60s - early 70s Bronx gang). Just like C-walking  (Crip Walk 1970s), people just forgot over time the African American street culture these styles are based on. In the history of Melbourne Shuffle, no one seems to mention or allude to the fact they're C-Walking with a little 80s New Jack Swing...sped up. This is the same scenario in not recognizing Uprock being originally Spade Dance. In a 1990, hiphop doc, PeeWee Dance, an original ZuluKing member,  hangs with RSC as he demonstrates the raw essence of what they did in the early 70s. He is SpadeDancing/Uprockin/BronxBurning/Going Off (video should be on Ytb...YOU GET THE SENCE OF WHY THEY CALLED IT GOING OFF)

Graffiti art was born in 60s NYC and included many races of people. Black, Hispanic, Italian, and even firsthand accounts of Asian. There's no definitive evidence that it came from Philly of the 60s

God bless (see Biblical Salvation

[stresshyperdeath]

Livin' in PR! Its weird here, because colorism is definitely a thing but its not the same kinda whiteness that manifests over in the Upper 48.

Over here, we've (from my limited experience btw), have managed to maintain our unique hallmarks as a culture, but we basically constantly are in flux with the influx of USian media.

That said! Although we get loooooooaaaaaads of USian film and tv and so on, we see our own PR folk all the time, discuss all the works od Puertoricans and so on.

However! I am not so well versed in the Colorism discussion here, and that deserves its own post.

this is probably something white people don't think about, though i'm pretty confident other people of color will agree with me here, but like:

*everyone* who lives in a majority white country understands the white mind, except maybe some of those who have white minds. this is because we attend your schools, we watch your TV, and films, we read your books, we see the news filtered through your view. the vast majority of western media is about exploring the white mind, mostly unconsciously, because that's what happens the majority of NYT Best Sellers are written by white people (you know the books that get the most press) and the majority of shows are written by white people and produced by white people and reviewed by white people and - I could go on.

My purpose in saying this is because, if you're white you may think that in the same way you have to actively learn about other races and ethnicities and the works and arts produced by people of color, people of color have to go out of our way to learn about you.

we don't.

many of us learn as much about the culture of whiteness as we learn about our own cultures. someone of us more about whiteness than our own culture, depending on how much a family may have had to try and assimilate.

I welcome and incite genuine discussion and conversation - but genuinely and truly, the last thing anyone who identifies as a person of color generally needs is to be explained the white point of view. Trust me, we've understood it.

[koschei-the-ginger]

Scott Bakula's filmography pt2

Color of night (1994) - did nobody tell him this was supposed to be a "serious" erotic thriller or was he intentionally acting silly bc he'd known it would be dogshit?

A passion to kill (1994) - literally THREE MONTHS LATER they released almost the SAME MOVIE but this time it wasn't Bruce Willis but him and his real life gf who got to film all those painstainkigly long sex scenes. Literally what??

Dream On (1994) - idk what show is this but I hate it

Nowhere to Hide (1994) - lmao cheap tv movies really have the best plot twists *chefs kiss*

Mi familia (1995) - who else could play a catholic priest that fucks

Lord of Illusions (1995) - is it good? hmmm. but is it absolutely cuckoo bananas? yes.

The Invaders (1995) - I have visions and I know what the aliens are up to - it's because of your autism. -is it because of my autism?

Murphy Brown (1993-1996) - oh god he has a permed mullet

Here Comes the Son (1996) - well, he paid himself and his wife to hang out

Mr & Mrs Smith (1996-1997) - young timothy olymphant???

Major league - back to the minors (1998) - where's charlie sheen

Netforce (1999) - I miss old scifi shows where the biggest threat is someone blowing up the internet

Mean Streak (1999) - "I'm not a racist, I'm dating you, a puertorican" and "I don't hate black people, just puertoricans" and "I hate black people, there's too many of them" and ....

American Beauty (1999) - oh I totally forgot he was in this

ok part 3 will be the last one I'm only gonna get to Start trek and then go watch something actually good for once

[iconlolita]

Photographing Puertorican NewYork with a “Sympathetic Eye” by Bolivar Arellano, 1977

[tropicaliris]

Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.

[murcielagatito]

YES soy boricua and even though ill see our actors on screen most of the time they get assigned culture that isnt ours or when they arent, people dont even realize that theyre puerto rican because oh its just another ambiguous latino character or dont even know and its extreme ass because we are so ethnically diverse

ive done a bit of research on the topic ie: latinos playing different ethnicities, and it sucks every single time when we dont get to represent ourselves on screen. also rep for us hasnt improved within the past 16 years [research article link] and that is genuinely one of the most depressing things when we [latinos] make up nearly 20 percent of the usam population

and when i see the argument of "well go watch shows from your country then" i would love to! pero livin on la isla means you either get puerto rico vive, vive al medio dia etc etc which are all news/live entertainment tv and the shows we DO get are dubbed over in a spanish that isnt even our own dialect or from other latino countries

and now that we got MILES FUCKING MORALES the coolest spiderman out there people STILL ignore the fact that hes puertorican. his main theme is by some white dude when we coulda had any of the many reguetóneros to be on the soundtrack of his life yet two films in n where is the reguetón? la representación? clearly everybody loves our shit or bad bunny wouldnt b worldwide

we have always been here sharing the screen but how can it mean anything if who we are is all but stripped away and given to someone else? you can as a matter of fact see our culture all over usam media but wouldnt know it bc its not with the label of puerto rican on it. weve been turned into a fantasy and only useful for a background (you know who invented barbacoa {barbecue}? tainos) or background music gasolina despacito daddy yankee ivy queen luis fonsi don omar ect ect. yall know our music! but do you know us? did yall know puerto ricans helped influence hip hop?

speaking of backgrounds, nobody would even know that black panther: wakanda forever, blue beetle, suicide squad, the losers, fast five, princess protection program, both teen beach movies, captain america:civil war, potc: on stranger tides, the other pirate thing, and many many more movies and shows were filmed on OUR island. pero donde estamos nosotros?

we do have a movie im thrilled for coming out this month! 23 horas its scifi AND cultura so im extremely excited about that. yall should check out the trailer!

statistically speaking alone there should be latinos everywhere on television and it hurts that we are so often erased and ignored. im so sorry this got so long op

I ask this because I remember reading the book Criers' War (I ended up DNF'ing bc the writing style was not for me). But I do remember the 2 leads being described with non-white physical features but the author never added anything else to show that they were non-white so I had a hard time imagining them as being so.

And that reminded me of The Jasmine Throne where the characters are also described as non-white but because this is an Indian based fantasy world and you get to see nods to that culture through things like the language, foods, dress, etc. I had no time seeing these women as Indian women.

But I am also reminded of Sydney Adamu from The Bear and how on screen, her culture isn't really being shown. But because I can see that she is Black woman, I can also see the layers added to her character and her story of trying to gain respect from running and eventually opening a restaurant. Even though those layers are not explicitly said on screen.

Anyways I hope this makes sense. Please feel free to reblog for more results!

Also I know that some white person is gonna ask: yes y'all can reblog but don't be adding shit. I do not care about your opinion on POC representation.

[golden-barnes]

Puertoricans suck. Like we really do bc why is our newscasters saying wakanda forever is a Puertorican movie YALL BE FUCKING FOR REAAAALLL

[millie-coqui]

Made these pins with inkjet plastic shrink film.  They turned out a hell of a lot sturdier than I expected!  These are all art made by me, (flor de maga skull, puertorican amazon parrot and an icey piragua) 

You can find my pins at my Etsy!

Flower crown Skull Pin Puertorican Parrots Pin Piragua Pin

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[afrcnam]

Continued from previous comment...

You always had R&B music artist incorporate a little Latin sound like Reasons by Earth Wind & Fire 1975...with a Cuban style, or Running on the 1977 All N All album. Also Herman Kelly with the 1978 song dance to the drummer beat. 

Tito Puente of Puerto Rican background was a musician who played on certain SugarHill rap records.

Carlos Mendez not only cofounded the Cold Crush Brothers circa 1977, but also established the first know hiphop gathering or convention, circa 1979-80.

Better known by his stage name Pumpkin, 70s-80s HipHop drummer Errol Eduardo Bedward played on many songs of the genre.

His overall appearance was of a typical African American, but was of Costa Rican and Panamanian background. He spoke fluent Spanish.

Artist he played for include...(1979 to 1984),   Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Spoonie Gee, Treacherous Three, Funky Four, Grandmaster Caz, the Fearless Four, and Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, and several more obscure names. His 1983 single "King of the Beat", Pumpkin and the Profile All-Stars' "Here Comes the Beat" (Profile, 1984).

Puerto Ricans bros like Ken Swift, Crazy Legs, Mr Wiggles, and even Trac 2 (when he was younger and humble😄), said they saw mostly African American youth breaking before like 75-77. Trac is in a 1978 photo with Spy (African American and Spanish). Also Rene and Boss same year. They just won a breaking competition. Crazy legs said Spy was the first person he ever seen do this dance as a 9 year old in 76. Spy was in his early teens. In rare photos from an original RSC (Rock Steady Crew) website, Legs is in 1979-81 photos with forgotten African American members like Ski, Kippy D, Lil Craze, and their 1977 cofounder Jimmy Dee (with PuertoRican friend Lee). I say this so you can see the dance was both African American and Puerto Rican at the same time. You kind of sense that in the old photos (many youth added moves to it that became popular).

In a 2013 gathering celebrating hiphop, Crazy Legs introduced their 1977 African American cofounder, Jimmy Dee, to the crowd. Many never seen him because being a couple of years older (upper teens), he went off to college by time the 80s came around. In a modern Ytb livesteam interview, he says in like 78 this 12 year old, exuberant about the dance dormant in Bronx and Harlem at the time, asked him if they can start a new chapter of RSC before moving to Manhattan. We know this enthusiastic dancer as Crazy Legs

In the 1974 movie "Education of Sonny Carson", coincidently about a African American gang in New York City, the one teen that likes to dance is up-rocking into James Brown like splits (Staten Island boat scene and parade scene). It reminds me when Ken Swift describes old style breaking (before 1976/77) as looking more like FrostyFreeze style ( African American teen in Flashdance who jumps on his back. Movie was filmed in 1981 and released in 83)

In the outtakes of StyleWars, filmed in 81 and released in 83, Kippy D of old Rock Steady Crew informs us that they just incorporated Poplocking from the West coast. This componant lumped into breakin was absolutely African American. A derivative of 1969 locking, created by Don Campbell, POPPIN was introrduced to L.A. youth by African American Boogaloo Sam and his brother Poppin Pete (African American) of Fresno, CA, circa 1976. So it's like it came full circle back to L.A - stemming from lockin). Debuted on SoulTrain in 1978 by Jeff Danials and his crew, it became a popular dance of young people and performers at the time (1978 thru 83-ish).

Another interesting detail in StyleWars (filmed in 81...important to emphasize that here), Frosty Freeze tells the interviewer that the dance started in Bronx as well as parts of Harlem.

Rock dance is not the base of up rock commonly used in breaking. You have a Puerto Rican Rock dancer of 70s Brooklyn saying he seen breaking in the Bronx circa 1975 and it looked nothing like what they did. It appears that rocking was feet shuffling while uprocking was more jumping and arm swinging movements. Even Brooklyn Rock Dance, with it's mysterious origin, shows more affinity to African American style than Latino.

In the 1950s African American teens created their own form of Mambo. (Look up Brooklyn Mambo, 1950s). It's very close to RockDance. Even in some of the footage Spirit Moves between the 1920s -50s, similarities show up here and there. So far we can't find videos of Latin dance in this manner concurrent to that 50s era. Uprockin for breakin comes from Spade Dance (Black Spades, 60s - early 70s Bronx gang). Just like C-walking  (Crip Walk 1970s), people just forgot over time the African American street culture these styles are based on. In the history of Melbourne Shuffle, no one seems to mention or allude to the fact they're C-Walking with a little 80s New Jack Swing...sped up. This is the same scenario in not recognizing Uprock being originally Spade Dance. In a 1990, hiphop doc, PeeWee Dance, an original ZuluKing member,  hangs with RSC as he demonstrates the raw essence of what they did in the early 70s. He is SpadeDancing/Uprockin/BronxBurning/Going Off (video should be on Ytb...YOU GET THE SENCE OF WHY THEY CALLED IT GOING OFF)

Graffiti art was born in 60s NYC and included many races of people. Bleach, Hispanic, Italian, and even firsthand reports of Asian. There's no definitive evidence that it came from Philly of the 60s

God bless (see Biblical Salvation)

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