Drumline the movie

[G'townPIT]

So I pretty much hate this movie. I guess it's just a different style of marching band but I just hate how they stand in a block and dance around like a bunch of flopping fish. plus, who can stand nick cannon? Their are some cool parts and everything but I just hope that all the non-band people that watch it, don't get the wrong idea of what marching band is about. Another thing that I don't like about the movie, is how at the end they get p-diddy or somebody like that to come in and sing/rap/yell with the band. how can he do that if he's not a member of the band? oh well, band is just given a bad image at the movies.

[springbassliner26]

  G said:

band is just given a bad image at the movies

and that's what gets people from the stands to say "Hey, why don't you ever play stuff from Drumline?"

[euro_euph06]

  G said:

So I pretty much hate this movie. I guess it's just a different style of marching band but I just hate how they stand in a block and dance around like a bunch of flopping fish. plus, who can stand nick cannon?  Their are some cool parts and everything but I just hope that all the non-band people that watch it, don't get the wrong idea of what marching band is about. Another thing that I don't like about the movie, is how at the end they get p-diddy or somebody like that to come in and sing/rap/yell with the band. how can he do that if he's not a member of the band? oh well, band is just given a bad image at the movies.

It is amazing that Westfield 2002 has not been mentioned. I saw them twice that year (once on the field waiting to go on next and the other being in the stands). But anyways, at my school we play "Shout it Out" (I forget which part of the movie it is from) as a stand tune to pump up the crowd. That is what the movie is too. It is to please the general public, not the marching band community. Plus we all know that most of the drumlines in Texas are way better than that ! And band is not given a bad name in the movies at all. Have you ever seen Mr. Holland's Opus? That is one heck of a movie. You should see it.

[G'townPIT]

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Have you ever seen Mr. Holland's Opus? That is one heck of a movie. You should see it.

 

nope, i've never seen or heard of it. i was really just making a reference towards american pie and other more main stream movies than anything else. But yeah i'll have to check that out sometime. Is it like something you can rent from blockbuster?

[Xenon]

  G said:

Is it like something you can rent from blockbuster?

It came out in 1995 and was very well received by the non-pop-teenager crowd; so, yes, I would expect it to be available in at least VHS at Blockbuster.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113862/

[euro_euph06]

  G said:

i was really just making a reference towards american pie and other more main stream movies than anything else.

Hahahahaha------I laughed the first time I saw the trumpet scene. But then I realized, it was pretty disgusting. A man playing a trumpet that was just shoved up someone's bum. Yuck!

[Keyboard_Countessa]

Saw Drumline. Didn't like it. For most of it I was willing to go along because I don't know anything about show bands and thus didn't know what would be considered "normal" for that kind of band. But the part where Nick Cannon's character can't read music... TOTALLY UNREALISTIC!! You expect me to believe that this so-called awesome drummer went throughout his entire musical career unable to read sheet music? I learned how to read music in 6th grade! I know there might be circumstances where someone could be a good musician without being able to read sheet music, but that ruined the movie for me.

 

As for American Pie... "This one time, at band camp, someone started saying this movie quote, and we beat him senselessly to the ground."

[Danpod]

  Keyboard_Countessa said:

Saw Drumline. Didn't like it. For most of it I was willing to go along because I don't know anything about show bands and thus didn't know what would be considered "normal" for that kind of band. But the part where Nick Cannon's character can't read music... TOTALLY UNREALISTIC!! You expect me to believe that this so-called awesome drummer went throughout his entire musical career unable to read sheet music? I learned how to read music in 6th grade! I know there might be circumstances where someone could be a good musician without being able to read sheet music, but that ruined the movie for me.

 

As for American Pie... "This one time, at band camp, someone started saying this movie quote, and we beat him senselessly to the ground."

Right on, girl.

It's hard for people like you and I to relate to the movie Drumline because we're not playing Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits for UIL Contest

[TRtrumpet]

I didnt like drumline too much either.

 

Mr. Hollands Opus is great though!

[thesnareguy]

Drumline.............no

It gave everyone the idea that all you do in drumline is play beats. I would die if thats all we did. Its boring when we go to the middle schools and try to get more middle schoolers to join band. Lets play boring beats!!!!!!!!!!!!

[euro_euph06]

But as a movie (regardless of technique and so forth of the band--marching band) you have to admit it is a good movie. Yes it shows the drumline as a hip-hop rap beat section, but some of the concepts (like "One Band, One Sound") ring true. We as musicians know that music is much more than just playing. The movie portrayed a stereotype of a main-stream drumbeats (influenced by hip/hop/rap). We can speculate what Hollywood's motives were for making the movie, but most likely we will never know. If we wanted to, a future producer or director or writer could make a movie about marching band. But as long as we have our identity as a marching band culture (and I have mine), America's stereotypical idea of marching band (and drumline) can shove it.

[TX Suh-nare]

If you guys went to the DCI countdown, you might have noticed something about the style done in the movie Drumline...

 

It's exactly the same thing as the 1970s drum corps.

 

Same music (in fact, one of their pieces was in the Bridgemen show), same marching, same crappy drill. Where our style of band ("corps" style) and drum corps has been ever-changing, their style ("traditional" style) hasn't changed much at all...except the drumming has gotten simpler (instead of lots of chop-busting-sixteen-count rolls and backsticking, it's now beats, fewer rolls, and more backsticking).

[EODrillDesigner98]

  Keyboard_Countessa said:

Saw Drumline. Didn't like it. For most of it I was willing to go along because I don't know anything about show bands and thus didn't know what would be considered "normal" for that kind of band. But the part where Nick Cannon's character can't read music... TOTALLY UNREALISTIC!! You expect me to believe that this so-called awesome drummer went throughout his entire musical career unable to read sheet music? I learned how to read music in 6th grade! I know there might be circumstances where someone could be a good musician without being able to read sheet music, but that ruined the movie for me.

 

As for American Pie... "This one time, at band camp, someone started saying this movie quote, and we beat him senselessly to the ground."

 

 

I actually met musicians that can go through the all high school career and cant read music but still be the best musician out on the field. I had someone at a high school I taught last year.

[Keyboard_Countessa]

  EODrillDesigner98 said:

 

 

I actually met musicians that can go through the all high school career and cant read music but still be the best musician out on the field. I had someone at a high school I taught last year.

I'm not denying that it's possible. I just think it's completely unrealistic that this particular fact about Nick Cannon's character would go unnoticed for such a long time.