miami vice preview

thursday, july 2 7, 2006

What I got out of the movie was that thru Michael Mann's journey in film making, when he made HEAT he made a statement. He didn't say it, he showed it. Law Enforcement had evolved, just as criminal activity had evolved. The tactics have become completely integrated. There was this synergy between ground forces and air forces, between motion detection and infer-red surveillance, between communications breaking and code breaking, you name it, they were doin' it. All at the same time. This was all less pronounced in the original Miami Vice.

There also was the understanding of how fast things move. Sonny Crocket met the girl and asked her out on a date to Cuba. He took her on a date to Cuba in the same boat the dope got run in. These boats are so small they don't attract attention on radar. There could be four boats running side by side and they would look like one small radar boring signature.

Mann's statement that the world has changed was was echoed in the fact that they went to Cuba, which has been off limits to the west for years and years. The country was shown as a beautiful, cultured place.

Meanwhile the characters got smaller. Crocket was like this white trash Alabama kinda guy, and Tubbs was your typical East Side sharp black guy. You know. But not to sharp that it was about the suits because the suit is out. You don't go to clubs in a suit anymore, you know. You don't hang out in a suit.

Anyway this movie reality was just bigger. Even on the international end things changed. Italians are out, Russians are in. And the Russian mob is running dope and prostitutes by submarine, you know. The kicker is that the KGB or secret police or whatever is running the russian mafia. It's a totally different world.

Let's take a look at the lieutenant. Some people object to the stereo type of the fat lieutenant screaming at you. This guy didn't scream, he said "Do it or get the fuck out". He wasn't in the back talking about what you can't do. He's telling you just fuckin' do it. He killed as many people as everybody else did.

This movie was a different thing. I don't think that was Crocket and Tubbs, and I don't think he intended this to be Crocket and Tubbs. But I think he intended to say "This is what Miami Vice is now. He was not making a retro statement.

Some people may get upset because they expected a tribute with a lot of beautiful people that were larger than life. I have to disagree with them, this was a different world. I mean come on, I don't know what to say other than, the man went to Cuba for lunch. That's another world.

Another thing is that the Miami Vice of old maybe never existed because it was blown up fantasy. Michael Mann is saying that the fantasy of that can't match the reality of this. I got that.

Smoke (the wrestler) our host for the event, and his beautiful lady friend.

Paris Cullins promoting the gritz n gravy project.

Paris Cullins with the CW Promo Crew. the Miami Vice Preview is part of promo campain to raise awareness about the new network.

UPN a CBS Corp. subsidiary changed its name to CW, a combination of (UPN, now defunct) CBS and (The WB, now defunct) Warner Brothers.

It would seem that both networks had the same owners/investors and on paper it made good financial sense to consolidate the two. On paper more viewers would be reached with less resources.
We 'll have to wait and see if this new creation is better for the market it serves.

Nero owner of Blackknght Art

Also in attendance was Nero the driving force behind Blackknight Art which specializes in airbrush art. If an object can be airbrushed Nero has probably done it.

The work that he is renowned for though is airbrushing costumes onto models. Many artists can paint on flat inanimate objects quickly but can't paint people. Fewer still can paint quick enough on women to make the experience fun and enjoyable.