Stomp the Yard

[LuckyCharm85]

Hello to all my fellow SisterFriends and members of Alpha Kappa Alpha,

This is Najaylee and I recently came across GC a few weeks ago. Anyway, Ne-Yo was on TRL today to promote his new movie "Stomp The Yard". Several websites gave this scenario:

"After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition."

The release is set for January 2007. They also showed a clip of the trailer and coming from an avid Howard University Homecoming Step show attendee it seems like it might be pretty good. I did notice the inclusion of several if not all BGLOs. My question is:

Do you think that the art of stepping and its link to BGLOs will be well represented or will it be deemed just another "media-flick"?

You can visit MTV.com to see the entire trailer.

[2Tuff2Quit]

I just saw the trailer for it...it looks like it is going to be pretty good. I may have to go check it out!

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/s...ard/index.html

[mulattogyrl]

I usually don't like dance movies, but this looks pretty good, I guess because it includes 'us'.

[ScholarOn]

My brother sent me an e-mail with a llink to the trailer, I'm so looking forward to seeing this when it comes out, I just hope Clifton Commons gets to show it.

[2Tuff2Quit]

Yeah, at first when I heard about it I just thought there were going to be more about the dancing and not so much about the stepping, but it looks as if they have incorporated the two quite nicely. I will most definately be seeing it when it comes out. I hope that it gets the marketing that it needs.

[f8nacn]

Originally Posted by 2Tuff2Quit

I hope that it gets the marketing that it needs.

That's where we come in...as a people!!!! It lookz good...

[southernelle25]

Originally Posted by LuckyCharm85

Do you think that the art of stepping and its link to BGLOs will be well represented or will it be deemed just another "media-flick"?

I hope the film is deep enough to convey what these org and the "art" represent for our community. I doubt it, and that is why I am always somewhat disturbed by films that attempt to depict black culture.

[Choo-ChooAKA]

I realize that everyone brings his/her own talent or ability to the membership table, but has anyone ever heard of a frat/sorority courting anyone for his/her dancing ability? I haven't, but since I'm in California and I attended a predominately white university, I may just be out of the loop. Hence, this question is not rhetorical. Have you ever heard of or seen this?

Originally Posted by Choo-ChooAKA

I realize that everyone brings his/her own talent or ability to the membership table, but has anyone ever heard of a frat/sorority courting anyone for his/her dancing ability? I haven't, but since I'm in California and I attended a predominately white university, I may just be out of the loop. Hence, this question is not rhetorical. Have you ever heard of or seen this?

I thought the same thing when I saw the trailer... "Do greek orgs. really seek people simply for their dancing/stepping skills?" I've never seen that happen before, but who am I to say. I also attended a predominately white college, but I am not a member of a greek org. either.

[Choo-ChooAKA]

Originally Posted by kissy324

I thought the same thing when I saw the trailer... "Do greek orgs. really seek people simply for their dancing/stepping skills?" I've never seen that happen before, but who am I to say. I also attended a predominately white college, but I am not a member of a greek org. either.

Thanks for your response. I'm thinking that other people may get the same idea--that we recruit people for their dancing skills. Maybe I'm old.

In reply to Camryn: it's great to hear they have a talented dancer in the lead role; he's cute, too.

[EyesOnThePrize]

Hello All,

I actually got to see a rough edit of the movie. It was pretty good and well received by the test audience. There is an effort made in the movie the educate Columbus Short's character about the overall significance of BGLOs and the history of stepping. Based on some responses from the test audiences some scenes are in re-shoots and there are new edits going on to clarify some confusion that audience members had. But overall the casting was great and the film was interesting, not deep, but interesting!

[AKA2D '91]

http://www.aka1908.com/news/stomptheyard/

[Luckie1922]

I will wait on the DVD, $1.00 Redbox rental

[SummerChild]

Um, I just watched a trailer at http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movie...ml?v_id=358333

and all of the guys in black (or brown, can't tell) are in Theta Nu Theta (or something - couldn't tell) letters BUT IT APPEARS THAT THE SOME OF THE WOMEN WEARING COLORS THAT APPEAR TO BE RED AND WHITE ARE WEARING DELTA SIGMA THETA LETTERS AND NEAR THE END, THERE IS SHOWN A PICTURE OF WOMEN OF DELTA SIGMA THETA THROWING UP THE HANDSIGN.

This is just ridiculous. What are the writers doing?

SC

[Dynamite-AHA]

I don't know if anyone else has seen it, but in the trailer, the part where he tries to run through the Mu Gamma lines, and they push him, if you PAUSE it, the sigma letters on the Deltas are backwards. I don't know if that's a camera glitch or not, and it seems to happen on the gamma letter as well.

Might just be something that happened in editting for the trailer.