Vancouver Vagabond IIA Black eyed Beauty's Street people StoryA sweeping musical depiction of the 2010 Olympics and the 2011 Canucks Stanley Cup street parties with a structural emphasis on homelessness and the city's propensity for breeding various rebel social movements.Vancouver Vagabond is a feature documentary series revealing interlinked, interesting and dramatic stories in the years straddling the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.Semi-autobiographical, the features detail filmmaker Heath Tait's trials and adventures against the post modern social, political and cultural backdrop of his times, into the new Millennium.This second feature of the Vancouver Vagabond series has arisen in conjunction with the city's history over mainly the last 2 years, the 2010 Olympics and the 2011 Stanley Cup Final, while delving into the past to tell the comical back-story of how the city managed the big world event through the crash, and the ironic and painfully persistent issue of homelessness.The demographics of VVII are enormous whether for the 2010 Olympics or that of London 2012, or the following Winter Olympics 2014. Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins or otherwise, Pro Hockey has a fan base millions in its number.The 2011 riot's shocking violence reveals the perverse combined effects of pro sport patriotism, super-heated social media narcissism & mobbing, ironic urban anonymity and alcohol.At this time of economic upheaval and ongoing shock, the zany politics of Vancouver provide a framework within which these two large street spectacles take place. Poverty and homelessness was the key issue of the last two Vancouver elections. Occupy activism, having started as theory in Vancouver 2011, along with many other socio-political-economic movements over the years, will be resurging 2012 as the simmering enraged world reheats and reloads.Legendary D.O.A. frontrunner Joe "Shithead" Keithley and his "Hardcore" music permeate the movie, yet another Vancouver original.And for the Cannabis community mainly there is the ongoing story of "Prince of Pot" activist Marc Emery, extradited to the U.S. south and in prison shortly following the Olympics.Vancouver Vagabond II is for a mature audience as it contains coarse language, drug use and nudity, violence, lunatic drunks and wacky politicians.This second feature of the series harmonizes well with the other features, and though each feature is complete as it's own independent story, greater integrity and revealing intrigue inevitably is to be discovered when viewing all content side by side in the greater series.VancouverVagabond.com
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