Duration: 27:15
Quality: HD
Format: TS
Video Codec: MPEG2
Audio Codec: AC3
Video: MPEG2 Video 1920x1080 29.97fps 18000kbps
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This is a short film to celebrate the 25 year anniversary of the popular song "Fight For Your Right".
So how does a lifetime of Buddhist study lead one to produce a foul-mouthed adolescent film like Fight for Your Right (Revisited)? For one, this is no ordinary sequel to the original song’s uneasy parody of frat bro culture. It is instead an ironic self-portrait of that parody, a vessel with which Adam could not only satirize the people they used to be, but also reflect on why this hedonistic lifestyle was so tempting in the first place.
Released 25 years after the original music video for Fight for Your Right (To Party!), Fight for Your Right (Revisited) follows the Beastie Boys (played by Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood, and Danny McBride) as they spend the day terrorizing their fellow New Yorkers. They improvise their way through a variety of confrontations, capturing the carefree vibe the Beastie Boys were famous for. The music itself plays in fits and starts until the B-Boys are stopped by a DeLorean filled with their elder doppelgangers. These older, pudgier Beastie Boys have come to challenge them to a “super fresh old school throwdown dance contest from the future to determine who the real B-Boys are.” This vision of “License to Ill Future” presents them with a gift of seeing who they’ll become if they continue down this path: as juvenile as ever without the beauty of youth to make it all look cool.
Adam’s direction allows the film to indulge the fantasy of the B-Boy lifestyle while satirizing and ultimately walking away from everything it has come to symbolize. It’s fitting then that Adam saddles MCA with the biggest, dumbest stunts, as he throws garbage cans through windows and gets hit by a car and sent flying down the street as a ragdoll. The self-reflection is mirrored again and again, not only through Yauch directing Danny McBride as MCA and Jack Black as MCA the Elder, but also through a cameo by Nathanial Hornblower (Adam’s alter-ego film director, a Swiss gentleman permanently clad in lederhosen) and Adam Yauch himself armed with a billy club and a badge.
