Style Wars

Style wars is a all encompassing battle of the world, through the hip hop culture. Who can get their tag highest and most visible. It visualizes a multiple battlefield of combatants, the community, the law, and warring graffiti artists.

First it examines the community verses the greffiti artists themselves, setting up the graffiti artists as villains.

then as it goes into the lives of the graffiti artists, it shows regular people making what they consider art, and just trying to get the most views of it. Using trains and walls as an almost propaganda for their own names.

Obviously, the police, and the people in power don't like it, so they use their own media campaign to rally the community against it. using posters, political press conferences, and commercials to sway opinion.

not only do the graffiti artists have to deal with the law, and public opinion, there is a modicum of in-fighting between crews, one in particular is the anarchist. "cap" is just covering up the already established artists work with his own tag.

the movie was meant to show an inside look at the graffiti world, but instead i think it shows a compelling look into 1980's culture as well.