Zoot Suit

[@sisterwendybeckett1983]

I love ZOOT SUIT so much... Such truthfulness, ugliness, intensity and, of course, all of those magnificent costumes, colors and the dancing!! Oh, the dancing... in those costumes!! Breath-taking! So glad a movie was made of this play, even though it was shot so quickly, so basically unceremosniously as a low budget musical for Universal Studios, it was barely released into theatres and screened to almost fully empty houses for the very briefest of theatrical screenings in quite limited number of theatres, even while concurrently other, far lesser entries in the same cinematic genre continued showing for longer periods and to substantially larger crowds of gullible audiences, who instead caught up with such cinematic mediocrities as XANADU, CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC, THE APPLE, THE JAZZ SINGER (remake with Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier?!?!), PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, SHOCK TREATMENT (ROCKY HORROR's pseudo-sequel), TIMES SQUARE, POPEYE, THE BLUES BROTHERS and GREASE 2!! ZOOT SUIT, in comparison with any of those other musicals, by far outshines as well as completely outclasses them by miles, even if the picture is more or less an historical expose of government wrong-doing set to a backdrop of fabulous dance numbers with no appreciable musical (singing) content, unlike all those others, regardless, at the end of the day, the film still neatly fits into the musical/dance theatre strategen beyond a doubt, and frankly, (along with Richard Elfman's opposite-end-of-the-musical-film spectrum, low-rent, oppositionally toned campy sci-fi jr. high school musical-quality classic, FORBIDDEN ZONE) represents likely the very highest watermarks of any other musical films from the 1980-82 theatrical scene. And of course, Edward James Olmos was exceptionally wonderful as the Devilish spectre and narrator of the unfortunate proceedings. "Don't try to out-pachuko me, ese! Puest!"

[@alovesupreme8603]

Okaaaaaay!!! This is SO BIZARRRE! How does the phone read my mind??? I was about theee hours ago looking for a cool name to label my new playlist in my NOTES on my new IPhone… and I had been compiling tunes , one being Baby Give it Up by one of my favs from back in the day!! 70’s & 80’s my teen scene 🛼💗🫶🏻🙌💃🕺🏻🥳and I was thinking of fun names to title my new playlist and ZOOT SUIT ( boogie) lol came to mind!!!! Then…after dinner not ever uttering a word as I live alone in a vintage cottage by the lake with my pupster Jango and four razzamazzazin felines: Rogie ( rogue) Sabrina Archimedes & Sprocket!! Lo n behold I’m enjoying interviews with my ultimate Supreme Being and best writer in America, maybe even the globe ;) David Milch & my beloved Deadwood series et al ( Swearengen) being my fav! & as I scrolled down I see ….. Edward Almos and the words…. ZOOT SUIT!!!! Wowzer!!!!! Smh😂!!!! ❤

[@jessethelopez]

This is a fantastic video essay. Great work. I recently purchased Zoot Suit on Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber and thoroughly enjoyed the film.

[@alexshatner3907]

Orale Carnal

[@danielduran7829]

The original Zoot Suit play at the Mark Taper Forum with Olmos was "Fantastic" I was lucky enough to have met some of the actors after the play since there was a collaboration with the Chicano Studies Dept. at ELAC of which I was a part of. It was a night to remember. Olomo's big break came from this part, and he was super. The movie in no way compares with the first play or the second production.

[@UlookGone]

Never understood the magnitude of this movie first watched it when I was 11 give or take by the grace of God I am almost 37 now and now it hits me like a ton of bricks

[@brodycole2796]

This musical that something you never be seen before

[@leeanadiaz8463]

OMG!! HOW DO I TAP THIS A BILLION TIMES!!!! Love you for this!! “Aye the watcho”…lol

[@azothamenti3378]

I love being mexican No white person can do anything ti make me feel bad about that no matter what they try to do . I always feel blessed to be chicano!

[@singmenow4u]

Always be Proud of who you are.

[@eustace8520]

Bruh, those times are over. Mexicans/Latinos are now the majority in the US, no longer the minority.

[@charlesrazo7246]

You don’t have a choice

[@georgepavich8266]

My dad wore the zoot suit back in the 40s I wore khakis in 70s we been lowriding since the beginning

[@misshelloareyouthere]

LEAVING SOMETHING OUT of your narrative! It wasn't just Mexican getting beat up . Black and Filipino men dress in zoot suit were beat up too.

[@sherglovier3393]

Everyone who wore the Zoot Suit got beat up as the war progressed. They were accused of wasting material that was in short supply, even if the suits were made pre-war. A lot of the Zoot suits were remade into other garments, which is why it’s hard for costumers to find authentic ones easily.

[@singmenow4u]

The movie epic. Olmos off the chart.

[@azothamenti3378]

There should be a remake of this.

[@angelchavez458]

TO THE PERSON DOING THIS MY RESPECT AND BLESSINGS WHERE CAN I PURCHASE THIS MY FAMILIA GRE W UP IN THIS AND ME THE THIRD GENERATION GRACIAS POR TODO 🙏

[@LocoMenteClaraOne]

Zoot Suit and the Capeman are two great plays about Raza. One is about Chicanos and the other about Nuyoricans Both were controversial, for obvious reasons Sidenote... We LATINOS / HISPANICS DON'T LIKE, USE, NOR APPRECIATE the White-CREATED and HIGHLY DISRESPECTFUL AND OFFENSIVE to our cultura and Spanish language term "Latinx"!!! PLEASE STOP using it!!!

[@nancysantamarialatica1141]

I remember the zoot suit play movie .

[@1087shotwell]

I love the song track

[@Californiansurfer]

❤2023 book. Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara. 1947 Japanese Americans are released from camps and sent to Chicago and return to little Tokyo to find bronzville a black community. The Jewish folk moved out, the mob, the KKK, the 100/442 Japanese American soldiers “Go for Broke” and Zoot Sutier. Hammer Japanese American 😢

[@nicolewhite5608]

Stop with the hate. This was before I was born I'm in my seventies now. This country USA need to stand together now.

[@unclejoeoakland]

Pretending it never happened is not going to create unity. It will create festering resentment.

[@hrwatchinpuff6551]

It started with Black Culture but always treated like a footnote.

[@gustavocardenas6044]

A very inspiring play/movie!!!

[@sherglovier3393]

“Zoot Suit” should be part of every Civics curriculum. Kids need to know how badly our justice system has been abused in the past, if for nothing else, context about what can happen now.

[@dnavid]

recuerdo... the old line in the Popeye ( the sailor man) song "I hate those palookas that think they're pachucas...".

[@maureencora1]

1981 E.J.O. Should Had Won the Oscar for "Zoot Suit"

[@brodycole2796]

This movie is very popular today

[@arthurherrera9880]

like they say you don't deserve it. but you going to get it any way!

[@jenniecosio3654]

Because Americans Indian were here frist years ago and people are not paying attention we were here you try to erase Americans Indian but you can't 🎉

[@RickMaloch]

History is History. You can't change it, you can't 'whiten' it. You can't clean it up. It is what it is. But to bash it in hindsight is ... well, we all know about hindsight. I get what you're saying but removing monuments from a bygone error and remove books that NOW offend isn't the answer.

[@charlesrazo7246]

The Pachuco

[@nicolewhite5608]

About my uncle Hank leyvas

[@seansherrod8725]

❤😢❤😢❤😢

[@claytonthomas495]

💍

[@Aaron-pw1zt]

Thank you for this 👏👏. You are late to the party = Promo-SM !

[@edsonnavarrus7379]

Great film 👍

[@damned_1]

I grew up with this in mi familia… and proud, y que? 🫶🏽