Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! On the show we take two disparate films and discuss what they say about each other, the audience, and the culture at large.
In this episode award-winning filmmakers Sean Mannion and Nicole Solomon discuss David Kellogg's Cool as Ice, Robert Wise's West Side Story, and Steven Spielberg's West Side Story with very special guest Shawn Setaro.
The show starts with an overview of the films and the hosts' personal opinions of the films before diving into the broader discussion of what they reflect about each other and our culture.
Links for this episode:
The (Mostly) True Story of Vanilla Ice, Hip-Hop, and the American Dream - Jeff Weiss, The Ringer
https://www.theringer.com/2020/10/06/music/vanilla-ice-to-the-extreme-ice-ice-baby-history-30th-anniversary
West Side Story Review - Alan Ng, Film Threat https://filmthreat.com/reviews/west-side-story-2021/2/
Vanilla Ice Visits Arsenio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C39MIzv-HjY
Jim Carrey as Vanilla Ice on In Living Color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtKBe7sM48
"Like Everybody Else" and other songs cut from West Side Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8nIck-Ydx4
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"Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"