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« on: September 29, 2006, 09:51:47 PM » |
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Now first a plea: Please dont flame me. I understand what I'm going to say will be highly controversial, but lets try to keep it civil.
I watched District B13 today and it got me thinking. David Belle, the star of the film, does his stuff, but never once mentions parkour. This put some bad thoughts into my head. As the title says, I am beggining to think that Belle kinda sold his skill in order to star in a movie. He starts out as the creater of parkour, then turns into a movie star. I havent completely organized my thoughts on the subject, but i was wondering if anyone else felt this way, or had anything to say on the subject.
Again, lets keep the flaming to a low.
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« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2006, 10:43:47 PM » |
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He didn't mention Parkour because it's not Parkour in the movie. To use the name Parkour when it doesn't apply is selling out. To sell Parkour as ANY "extreme movement" is selling out. Look at Urban Freeflow. Now look at David Belle. See the difference? One sells Parkour as a commodity. The other made an entertaining movie using skills developed through Parkour yet in no way markets Parkour itself.
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« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2006, 11:18:41 PM » |
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No one is going to flame you man, you could believe that david belle will be acomponied by fred flinstone and race the horesmen of the apocolypse for all we care, so long as there isnt a thread about it already and/or you present a resonable argument justifing it.
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« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2006, 03:55:46 AM » |
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in the "making of" section of the movie they talk about parkour. and i truely believe Belle has the interest of Parkour at heart in every decision he makes....its his baby  |
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« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2006, 08:44:53 AM » |
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The movie was written for his art. they talk alot about it in the special features. now when we have vaults called the Belle kong with a Cyril twist then he would have sold out
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« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2006, 10:01:46 AM » |
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rofl dude,,, for example take arnold swartchnigger or what ever his name is, he was freaking huge , and some movie maker saw him and asked him to be in movie, and he agreed, so same thing with devid,,, sold him self out? , listen dude he worked very hard to get to that level, so maybe some guy saw him doing this stuff and told him you can make money, so why not, if you gonna do pk nothing else how you going to live?
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« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2006, 11:16:10 AM » |
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personally, I think he did the write thing by not talking about it in the movie, cause that would have made the movie a "parkour movie" which would be selling out parkour in a way.
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« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2006, 12:42:29 PM » |
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in the "making of" section of the movie they talk about parkour. and i truely believe Belle has the interest of Parkour at heart in every decision he makes....its his baby Should point out that we mean that it's not directly referenced in the movie. It's obvious where the inspiration came from and of course they're going to talk about it in the "Making of" sections. The point is that it wasn't packaging and producing Parkour itself as a commodity to be sold. |
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« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2006, 02:05:57 PM » |
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alright. thank you. i think i may have been looking at the movie the wrong way. i think i was kinda expecting some sort of documentary-esque type movie about pk. and then when i saw him as an actual actor, it wasnt exactly what i was expecting.
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« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2006, 02:10:05 PM » |
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No worries, mate.
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« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2006, 03:56:05 PM » |
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He is an actor. Obviously if you are making an action movie you want to make it with the best possible people right?
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« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2006, 05:30:13 PM » |
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Yea sorry (all of us right  ) if we sounded mean -anyway doen't he (belle) have another movie coming out soon? I thought we had a thread about it but i cant find it |
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« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2006, 04:07:54 PM » |
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SHUT UP HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS  why do we fight like this? anyway, hes in a new movie? i cant wait....if this is true |
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« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2006, 07:37:57 PM » |
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SHUT UP HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS why do we fight like this? anyway, hes in a new movie? i cant wait....if this is true That was so random... We settled this. There was no fighting involved. At all. |
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« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2006, 03:58:40 AM » |
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i was being sarcastic, but i still wanna know about the movie
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