Wild Style
About Wild Style
Wild Style is the first hip hop motion picture released in 1983. Director Charlie Ahearn, which is also director of the feature films Deadly Art of Survival and Fear of Fiction, is introducing artist like Fab Five Freddy, the Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, Lee Quinones, Patti Astor, Sandra Fabara and Grandmaster Flash.
Main character of the movie, "Zoro", is played by the legendary New York graffiti artist "Lee" George Quinones.
An early version of the 'Wild Style' logo appeared in the Fall of 1981 when Charlie Ahearn hired graffiti legend Dondi to paint the 'window down' subway car piece that appears in the film (1). The Dondi piece was the inspiration for the animated title sequence designed by the artist Zephyr in 1982 (2). The 'Wild Style' logo was designed by Zephyr and painted as a huge 'burner' mural by Zephyr, Revolt, and Sharp in the Summer of 1983 (3). The film is unique in that many of the actors' roles were written to express their real-life personalities.
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