Interesting (long) article on the film Kids and Harold Hunter

[ticklefingers]

http://narrative.ly/keep-calm-and-carry-on/legends-never-die/

Good read about Harold being the best dude ever, the making of the film, NYC now vs then, where some of the people are, etc. Thought it was worth sharing

[theloniousmonk]

If only all of the internet was as good as that...

Thanks for posting!

[steve]

word up, kid! that's a great read. thank you.

that movie is wild. you know, watching it growing up we were always like "hell yeah. that's what's up," smoking blunts in our shitty little city, trying to get laid, trying to be as down as those cats in the movie. It was definitely an influence on everyone I skated with, but i think that, to an extent, the attitude of the movie is intrinsic to something that skateboarding always had, or at least did when I was a kid in the early 2000s. It's a big, beautiful, fuck you, you know what I'm saying?

either way, thanks again for posting.

[Laban Fetus]

This movie still packs a punch and is relatable in too many ways (minus the de-virginzing). There was actually a skate park in the city over from my town that everyone went too and it kinda captured the same essence of that scene. Just a bunch of degenerate kids all tied together by their skateboards. The longing and memories the actors talk about in the article also hits close to home. I definitely had a few Caspers in my crew and some of them are long gone at this point.

[neko]

that was really good.

i saw Kids when it came out, and it scared the shit out of me?i was 15, grew up sheltered in the suburbs, exposed to nothing like that. but it intrigued me, too. and now, looking back after 18 years of living and skating in big cities, it seems pretty relatable, aside from the Hollywood shit Harmony added. dirtbag skate rats treating the city as their playground...sounds about right. sounds like a good time.

also really good to see that aside from Harold and Justin, everyone else from the film went on to really awesome things.

[Matze]

thanks alot for sharing that article, kids is still one of my favourit movies. didn't know that keenan was so close to the zoo crew.

[nylin]

Amazing read. Thanks for posting. Cool to see everyones thoughts on the movie and their lives in general almost 20 years later.

[darkslideoftheforce]

That was a good read. Thanx OP!

I remember watching Kids as a kid a few years after it came out, and was totally blown away, and so was everyone else that watched it, skaters or not. Everyone wanted to skate and smoke weed at the park after watching this, haha.

[darkslideoftheforce]

Also, it made me a little bummed that Zoo is so lame now. Oh, the things that could've been..

edit: does it excist any Justin Pierce footage, other than his line in this?

[A MAN]

Mike Hernandez reveals himself to be skateboarding's wise man in that article. Check this amazing reflection on the past:

"Granted, there's going to be causalities," Mike continues. "I know this. But obviously, there's nothing that we could have done to prevent it. We weren't supposed to be each other's guidance counselors or social workers. We were there for each other, through skateboarding, but we kind of had to muddle through our own issues and demons on our own. We were in the water together swimming. But there wasn't a life raft. So, eventually, we kind of had to learn to swim well, breaststroke, sidestroke, or whatever, to try to get to the mainland. Try to find a ship, whatever the case may be. Some niggas didn't realize how they could swim so they just fucking drowned. Some niggas found land, some niggas found a ship."

[OldieButFrenchie]

Bici is a fireman now? Didn't expect that.
Anyways, good read definitely. That movie really resonated with my crew when it came out. I remember there were big posters in the metro and we felt like it was us on the wall. you hardly ever saw skateboards in the mainstream media at the time, especially out in France.

[Babby]

"They vollied over fallen trashcans" haha.  That was a great read.

[Dark Knight]

This is amazing!!!

[CatchMyFADE]

amazing, thanks for sharing

[JB]

that was a great article. i own the movie and have honestly only watched it once because its not the type of movie that leaves you feeling good at the end. until now i had no idea that all those kids were actually friends. i just thought harold somehow scored a movie part and that was the only reason he was in it. its really cool to know the history behind that movie and the kids lives after it. i might have to re watch it this weekend.

[KoRnholio8]

Great read. Growing up isn't easy and having so much fun skateboarding certainly doesn't give you any initiative to be quick about it. I wonder what the Zoo York team would look like now if Harold hadn't passed away.

[nutsack nipples]

dope read...thanks for posting that

[joebudden]

If only all of the internet was as good as that...

Thanks for posting!

[blankbutbranded]

"If you made that movie a year before or after it was made, it wouldn�t be the same movie. Everything just clicked in a very kind of natural way.�

This movie is a magic work of Art.

[tom]

harold was obviously the shit but kids is an awful, awful movie. yeah, its fun watching harold's scenes and seeing 90s skate rats at tompkins square but over all that movie is poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly acted. the way the kid who played telly delivers his lines has to be some of worst acting ever committed to film.

[Seamus_McShamebag]

harold was obviously the shit but kids is an awful, awful movie. yeah, its fun watching harold's scenes and seeing 90s skate rats at tompkins square but over all that movie is poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly acted. the way the kid who played telly delivers his lines has to be some of worst acting ever committed to film.

When I first saw the movie I was actually pretty inspired by Telly.  I figured if that awkward dude with an ill-fitting retainer could pull some wool then I had no excuse not to be swimming in labia. A new era was dawning and it time to graduate from the lingerie section of the Sears Catalog.

[CatchMyFADE]

harold was obviously the shit but kids is an awful, awful movie. yeah, its fun watching harold's scenes and seeing 90s skate rats at tompkins washington square but over all that movie is poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly acted. the way the kid who played telly delivers his lines has to be some of worst acting ever committed to film.

[carbonite]

Also, it made me a little bummed that Zoo is so lame now. Oh, the things that could've been..

edit: does it excist any Justin Pierce footage, other than his line in this?

he has a couple tricks in L.A. County

[Iceman]

harold was obviously the shit but kids is an awful, awful movie. yeah, its fun watching harold's scenes and seeing 90s skate rats at tompkins square but over all that movie is poorly written, poorly edited, and poorly acted. the way the kid who played telly delivers his lines has to be some of worst acting ever committed to film.

You don't like it because you don't know enough about it. Aside from the obvious error of naming the wrong park, the main thing you seem to not be aware of is that they weren't acting. That is how they were IRL. That is how they talked. For the most part, that was the real OG Zoo crew. Minus the sensational bits (virgin chasing & HIV), it is an accurate depiction of how shit was in the early 90's NYC skate scene. And it was Korine and Clark's first film. They didn't go around looking to make a movie, but rather they realized a movie should be made about that crew, so they went for it. Kids is about as true to life as any movie can be.

[banksandledges]

^^^^  Exactly.  I heard from a few heads that were in it that the only thing they really even spent money on making the film was the scene at the tunnel and getting a board with a rubber truck for the beatdown scene.  Otherwise theres really zero acting or written script involved.

[69]

yeah tom you idiot!

[Rasmus]

That was a really great read... it was that scene that attracted me towards skateboarding but I kind of started right around the time everything started to blow up. But as a teenager there was definitely a lot of stuff in there I could relate to.

[Joel Wilson]

The film & that article are both rad, made me re-watch it as soon as I'd finished the article. Cheers man.