'Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo' Director on Boogaloo Extremists: "A Surrealistic Situation"
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hollywoodreporter.comA few days ago, Sam Firstenberg, the Israel-born movie director behind the '80s cult classics Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo and American Ninja, was scanning a newspaper when he couldn't believe his eyes. "It's almost bizarre — a surrealistic situation," says Firstenberg, 70.
He read about a domestic, anti-U.S. government extremist movement that had sprouted in the dark recesses of the internet and, amid recent protests over coronavirus lockdowns and George Floyd's killing, has sprung terrifyingly to life.
And the movement named itself after one of his movies. The boogaloo movement has exploded into the mainstream in recent days after it came to light that Staff Sgt.
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