{"id":68151,"date":"2011-09-26T04:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T11:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=68151"},"modified":"2011-09-25T20:05:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T03:05:47","slug":"thunder-soul-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/09\/26\/thunder-soul-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Soul Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Thunder Soul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Mark Landsman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The glut of studies &#8212; seemingly released almost weekly &#8212; showing the slippage and relatively poor international ranking of American high school students in core academic subjects like math, science and history\u00a0is troubling, certainly, and indicative of a need to redouble efforts in those areas. But as anyone who still has a honest connection to their adolescence will admit, the role of extracurriculars and artistic electives is often integral to a teenager&#8217;s sense of engagement and self-worth, and certainly\u00a0the type of\u00a0well-roundedness that helps produce open-minded\u00a0individuals who can work well with others. Not everyone has the aptitude to be a professional singer, musician, artist or athlete, after all, but studying and taking part in these disciplines, and working within the confines of a team or group, helps teach leadership and life lessons that are broadly applicable, and also gives one a healthy lens through which to view the world.<\/p>\n<p>This moral is on rich display in &#8220;Thunder Soul,&#8221; a new documentary about the music director at a predominantly African-American high school who, beginning in the late 1960s,\u00a0transformed a mediocre jazz band into a dynamic, full-fledged funk powerhouse, empowering a generation-plus of kids along the way. When Conrad Johnson, widely known as &#8220;Prof&#8221; to his students, took over Houston&#8217;s Kashmere High, band was an often awkward clash of old musical standards and lax devotion. Instilling a sense of take-no-mess discipline while also encouraging his students to embrace their own inimitable style, Johnson grew an admirable technical proficiency through demanding practices, and then indulged and cultivated his students&#8217; exuberance and burgeoning sense of showmanship.<\/p>\n<p>The result was something special. Johnson&#8217;s talents as a composer &#8212; he wrote more than 50 original compositions, ladling funk on top of a jazz base &#8212; led to his students recording a series of hit records under the moniker The Kashmere Stage Band, with tunes like &#8220;Thunder Soul&#8221; and &#8220;Head Wiggle&#8221; blowing\u00a0away the competition\u00a0at heretofore staid stage band contests. Importantly, the band&#8217;s success and the community&#8217;s pride in it also worked as a sort of positive viral infection; Kashmere&#8217;s ROTC, hoops, football and debate teams all fielded winning squads, and the school was awarded more student college scholarships than any other Houston high school.<\/p>\n<p>Executive-produced by Jamie Foxx, &#8220;Thunder Soul&#8221; is built around a 2008 reunion which finds more than 30 former stage band members spanning all sorts of different graduating classes &#8212; now all in their 50s, and many not having touched their instruments\u00a0in decades &#8212; reuniting to play a special tribute concert for their beloved former teacher and mentor. An easygoing and heartwarming tale of emotional uplift, the movie\u00a0is a\u00a0bonafide crowd-pleaser, as evidenced by its Audience Award victories at the South By Southwest and Los Angeles Film Festivals, as well as a special &#8220;Crystal Heart Award&#8221; at the Heartland Film Festival and numerous other festival circuit plaudits.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-two years of age at the time of filming, Johnson is not necessarily in the condition to provide entirely accurate reminiscences, but director Mark Landsman does a good job of blending interview material that pays respect to his subject as both a unique musical talent and a man and teacher who knew how to get the most out of his students. If there&#8217;s a failing, it&#8217;s that while &#8220;Thunder Soul&#8221; is\u00a0undeniably involving, Landsman also misses some key opportunities to tie in the Kashmere alumni to the school&#8217;s present day students, which could have proven quite interesting and added a whole other emotional level to the movie. That said, the film is still a compelling snapshot of how and why good teachers matter, as well as a case for the value of the continued study of the arts in high school curricula.\u00a0For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ThunderSoulMovie.com\">www.ThunderSoulMovie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/thunder-soul-movie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/thunder-soul-movie.jpg\" alt=\"Thunder Soul\" title=\"Thunder Soul\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-68555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/thunder-soul-movie.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/thunder-soul-movie-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Thunder Soul Director: Mark Landsman The glut of studies &#8212; seemingly released almost weekly &#8212; showing the slippage and relatively poor international ranking of American high school students in core academic subjects like math, science and history\u00a0is troubling, certainly, and indicative of a need to redouble efforts in those areas. 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