drumline

i caught the movie drumline this afternoon. here's something new from the highschools of america, apart from the jerk and loser stereotypes, blondes, cheerleaders and the whole courtship-love thing. yes, it's another competition-type movie but its focus is on one of the more unpopular, or might i say loser, classes in american high school: band. almost all i movies i saw had hte losers being members of the band class. in this case, the schools were black, with a few - i think, only one - white member. the admin and faculty were also black, at least from what i was able to see. so, whatever could be interesting about band? competitions have been going on for years among schools and the school who started all this has in their ranks a great drummer though he couldn't read notes/music, which was a very negative blow on his part. anyway, the differences between him and the band leader and between him and the coach/teacher were soon resolved, and he along with the rest of the team amazed a football stadium-full crowd and won the championship. aside from music-playing duties, the instrumentalists also have choreographies of their own, whether moving from side to side, around, bobbing up and down, along with some dancers. the drummers are the stars because they do lots more stuff and are easily the most noticeable because they have choreographies with their sticks and feet and with their drums. when there was a tie, only the drummers performed for the tiebreaker. there were good beats, some fusion of old and new. the teacher initially wanted the band to play cultured music even during football games so i heard a full brass section of flight of the bumblebee. how about that?

there's nothing different with the storyline. you'll just have to let yourself delight in the sights and sounds of the band with a new face. no i'm really wondering if this is the case in america.