Zoot Suit Synopsis

Zoot Suit is a Chicano drama and musical film where we see a running time of 1 hour and 43 minutes. Zoot Suit was released in August 2, 1981 in the United States, directed by Luis Valdez and Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero where the music composed. This film had a breaking box office record of $3.256 million USD; also had theatrical version in Broadway and Daniel Valdez was the director on the theatrical play on Broadway like in the film. We can see a great cast that create a good film atmosphere, they are Daniel Valdez plays (Henry Reyna), Edward James Olmos (El Pachuco), Rose Portillo (Della), Lupe Ontiveros (Dolores), Abel Franco (Enrique), Tyne Daly (Alice Bloomfield), Charles Aidman (George Shearer), John Anderson (Judge FW. Charles),

Referring to the article, “Gran Jury to act in Zoot Suit war” Zoot suit was based on a true story were it involves the real life events of the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Zoot Suit riots that it took places in 1942 in Los Angeles during the World War II. The synopsis of this film is that it starts with a musical scene party, were we see this group of Pachucos dancing with their lady’s, and we see this particular character Edward James Olmos the “Pachuco” he is singing and dancing with the other ones. El Pachuco he is a type of fantasy figure who is the conscience of Henry Reyna the protagonist of the film. We can see in this scene a little confrontation between Reyna and a man who is part of another gang; also we can see El Pachuco and he stop the time and talk to Reyna, it is an interesting thing on the film in how he portrait the good and the bad side of Henry Reyna. After that scene, we can see how Reyna’s and his family are eating and spending time together in the kitchen, while they are waiting to get ready to go to another dance of pachuco’s party. Henry and his friends arrive to the party; we can see how El

Those scenes were we see these two characters they shows a unique atmosphere with variation of styles. This film create a different filling on how we can catch the story telling by their musical scenes, in that moment we can see El pachuco and the guys dancing and singing showing a interesting twist of happiness on the film. The movie it reveals a great strong story between the fiction of El Pachuco and the true event of the Zoot Suit Riot and the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. On the other hand I can say it didn’t show any weak point or weaknesses, based on the fact that it was a great movie, were it shows strong story outline, camera work, good transition between scenes, good musical connection with the characters and the story. For this reason I think it was a great film, Zoot Suit it shows a connection to be part a Chicano film, because this film it illustrate a variation of connection between of Pachucos era and the Mexican American people in the time of World War II. One of the foundations that help to identify a Chicano’s film on Zoot Suit they are “The Demystification of film” which refer to the type of expression of the character on the film based on what really happen in that time for example on the Zoot Suit riot. Also “A Chicano