Chicago 10 (2008)
Directed by Brett Morgen
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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It’s a flashback structure reminiscent of the one the filmmaker adopted in The Social Network but also of an earlier film on this subject, Brett Morgen’s exhilarating agitprop documentary Chicago 10 , which tackled the same events with a mixture of archival footage set to modern rock and animated reenactments adapted from the court transcripts.
Morgen’s “Chicago 10” documentary filled that gap with a rotoscoped cast (including an inspired Hank Azaria as Hoffman) and wielded more cinematic ambition when it came to representing the events at hand.
The animated characters are graced with lifelike movement and detail in the vein of Richard Linklater's "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly," with a rotoscoped motion-capture technique in which artists paint over live footage with computers.
Working from stranger-than-fiction transcripts of the (sadly unphotographed) courtroom proceedings, writer/director Brett Morgan has assembled an all-star cast of character actors (Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, etc.) to portray that world-class cast of characters (including Abbie Hoffman and Black Panther Bobby Seale), animated in a rotoscoped style reminiscent of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.
If you don't--or if you, like me, weren't born yet--director Brett Morgan mixes archived footage with rotoscoping (the animation seen in "A Scanner Darkly") to take you back and recreate the trial of protestors like Abbie Hoffman (voiced by Hank Azaria) and Jerry Rubin (Mark Ruffalo), who formed the "Yippies" and became more like celebrities than hippies.