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Mood:
- CleverStylized
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Plot:
- Fighting the SystemRebelliousnessAmericanaPolitical UnrestCampaignRebellionSocietyState Affairs more...
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Genres:
- Documentary
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Time/Period:
- 60s
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Place:
- ChicagoUSACourtroom
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedOriginal
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Style:
- All Star CastArchive Footage
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Score:
- Pop
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Chicago 10, 2007
English
USA
Profile of Chicago 10
The mood of Chicago 10 is clever and stylized. The plot centers around campaign, rebelliousness, and Americana. It is a documentary movie. Stylistically, Chicago 10 features an all-star cast and archive footage. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Chicago 10 takes place, at least partly, in a courtroom. The setting is Chicago. It happens in the 1960s. The musical score of Chicago 10 is pop. It is originally a true story. The movie is known for being original and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Chicago 10
Brett Morgen follows up his dazzling THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE with another daring, inventive work of nonfiction. CHICAGO 10 tells the raucous story of the trial that resulted after the tumultuous Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968. During the convention, a group of Yippies and other confrontationists pulled off a series of sit-ins and pranks that led to an eruption of violence. The result was a trial that simultaneously amused, thrilled, and challenged the nation and our notions of freedom. The supposed leaders of these insurrections became defendants, who used their position in the spotlight to further provoke the powers-that-be. They included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner.
In addition to providing a solid historical context using stock footage of actual events, Morgen takes Rubin's claim that the trial was a cartoon to a literal level by recreating the trial's most infamous moments in full-blown animation. Famous voices (Hank Azaria, Nick Nolte, Dylan Baker, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schrieber) provide the energetic dialogue that brings these scenes to electrifying life. Morgen also uses a sonic onslaught of aggressive modern pop music (Eminem, Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine) to remind younger viewers that at the time, these were the voices of genuine anti-authority. CHICAGO 10 works as an invigorating history lesson that aims to wake viewers up and remind them of their ability to help determine where American society is headed.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 18 January 2007 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
Cast and Crew
as Abbie Hoffman / Allen Ginsberg
as David Dellinger / David Stahl
as Thomas Foran
as Jerry Rubin
as Judge Julius Hoffman
as William Kunstler
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- 17.September.2009
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- by: skimaine
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