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Boyz n the hood film analysis
Boyz n the hood film analysis
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Group #: 2 Student Name: Jackie Rivera Film Title: Boyz n the Hood Summary Boyz n the Hood (directed by John Singleton) is about a young man named Trey Styles who originally starts off living with his mother until he gets in trouble at school, so she forces him to live with his father in the inner city. The movie then fast forwards seven years later, Tre’s father (Furious) teaches Trey how to be a man as well as instilling in him how not to be a part of the vicious cycle of violence. In the movie Tre and his best friend Ricky are portrayed to be very clean cut (academically focused) while Ricky’s half brother, Doughboy and his friends are trouble makers. One night Tre and Ricky decide to go to a popular hangout spot, while they were standing around a gang walked by and bumped Ricky. Ricky yelled at Ferris (the guy that pushed him) and …show more content…
In response to Ferris, Doughboy flashes his gun to the group to scare them off, but shortly after, Ferris and his crew then fired a round making everyone flee the scene in panic. The next day, Ricky and Doughboy get into a fight causing Ricky to leave with Tre to the store, on their way back Tre and Ricky spot Ferris and his crew and decide it would be best to split up. As they were fleeing in opposite directions, Ferris sees Ricky and shoots him just seconds after Doughboy arrived on scene. Feeling revengeful, Tre, Doughboy, and his crew decide to seek out Ferris to murder him, as they were on hunt for Ferris, Tre realizes that he is contributing to the cycle and decides to get out of the car and goes home. That evening, Doughboy and his crew find Ferris and murder him, Doughboy later realizes that he
...g the various reports concerning his father’s suicide, he is drinking, sweating and crying. The full impact of what his father had done to him finally hits him. “What the hell do you mean there were no others involved? I screamed. What were we, chorizo con huevos? No, the sneering voice in my poisoned mind explained, you were chorizo without huevos.” (78 ) Ricky cries out that he was left with his mother and sisters to raise him and he believes he was raised as a weak man. “…and because of your stupid, dramatic abandonment I’ve become a drunken, drug-abusing misfit.” (78 )
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) is a 1 hour and 40 minute documentary that observes the black power movement in American history. This film is directed by Swedish director Goran Hugo Olson and has detailed footage that was shot during the 1960s and 1970s by Swedish journalists. The footage largely focuses on the black power movements. The film allows viewers to not only grasp a better understanding of this movement but allows us to understand why this movement appealed to Swedish journalists. The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 includes vintage interviews with Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, and other prominent leaders during the Black Power Movement. The documentary also contains contemporary audio interviews and commentaries from various entertainers, artists, activists, and scholars, including but not limited to: Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, Melvin Van Peebles, Erykah Badu, Abiodun Oyewele, and Questlove from The Roots.
Although Boyz n the Hood helps to resist the stereotypes of young black men, and shed light on the real, lived experiences and institutional oppression of black people and young black men in particular, the film also reinscribes a stereotypical narrative that all black people are impoverished and become incriminated in gang activity. Not all black people experience poverty and gang activity. One could see this film as perpetuating the single black experience as if all black people are exactly alike and have exactly the same
The movie starts with a slow shot of a gas station. A car drives up, and the cashier working there is shoved in the store as three gunshots ring out. It then goes to a shot of Rico and Joe in a diner talking about a successful gangster named Pete Montana. They decide to move to the city. There, Rico wants to be like Pete, and Joe wants find a girl he loves and be a dancer after his time with the gang. Rico doesn’t like this idea of Joe’s and dismisses it saying tit wasn’t important.
“You Was Right” by Lil Uzi Vert is fairly easy to understand lyrically. The essence of the song deals with unfaithfulness in a relationship as well as the aftermath. Lil Uzi Vert spends a large portion of the song admitting his mistakes to his presumed girlfriend in hopes of making things right between them. The song starts off with the hook, which rests upon the premise of how Lil Uzi Vert should have stayed loyal rather than taking another girl home with him. For example, he says, “You was right, I was wrong” (6) in an attempt to console his girlfriend and apologize. Following the hook, the first verse centers on Lil Uzi Vert’s riches due to his success as a rapper. He ties that in to his relationship by expressing how he wants to share his wealth with his girlfriend. At this stage in the song, Lil Uzi Vert is attempting to win his girlfriend back with his money and general success as a rapper. The hook then repeats itself to indicate that the argument between Lil Uzi Vert and his girlfriend is still continuing. The second verse signifies an escalation in their conflict, as he says, “You just locked the door, so I gotta text you” (42). His girlfriend is refusing to even listen
Boyz N the Hood was a film created to convey an anti-gang message as well as to provide societal members an in-depth look at life in “the hood” so he or she can expand their culturally awareness of identifying societal issues (Stevenson, 1991). Upon the debut of “Boyz N the Hood” violence erupted at theaters across the nation, resulting in multiple shows pulling the film from scheduled showings to alleviate future violent behaviors (Stevenson, 1991). The film profoundly illustrates the realty of the events revealed within the storyline that frequently occur on a daily basis within every impoverish community; however, is overlooked by the individuals who are not directly involved and or affected (Leon-Guerrero, 2016) Children of lower socioeconomic status often are raised in ghetto neighborhoods where they often witness, crime, violence, gang activity, abuse, and drugs (Leon-Guerrero, 2016). Ghetto communities envelop tumultuous cycles of violence and substance abuse creating a pervasive occurrence within the residents of the community. This is prevalent in lower developed communities that unfortunately many children and the youth populace indirectly inherit and sadly conform to, as there are no other means to an end for them (Leon-Guerrero,
In the movie “Boyz in the Hood” director John Singleton, paints a clear image of the problems that happen very often in the African American communities. The movie deals with issues such as: the importance of a father in a young man’s life, the ongoing violence of black on black crime, and how black people are put in situations where they are put to fail and not succeed in life.
One night before dinner, Evan is told that Roger has been accused of wrecking a boy's bike, and the boy's mother is questioning him. He heads to the house, intent on defusing the situation, but when the father of one of the other boys tries to pin the blame on Roger, Evan loses his temper. The unpleasant conversation escalates to a shouting match, then a physical struggle. Afterwards,
This ridiculous song by Drake that keeps coming up in my English repertoire works WAY too coincidentally well with Two Feathers and Turkey Boy. I mean, just a quick overview of the song already solidifies that this is the modern thug version of the story. Going into a deeper analysis reveals more and more. I imagine that this would be from Two Feathers’ perspective after his triumph over the sorcerer. When he and Turkey Boy reached the village, he started from the bottom, then was given a chance by New Wife. After his victory, he had his whole team behind him every step of the way back to their homeland.
This is a movie based on three poverty stricken black males living in the lower class neighbourhood of South Central Los Angeles. Tre has a responsible father who is there to give him guidance while he is trying to further himself by going to college and a good student. Ricky a high school student is a great athlete using football to earn a scholarship as a way out while his brother Doughboy a gangster member, through symbolic interactions meets people, while dealing drugs, and indulging in criminal and violent behaviour including indulging in alcohol. This type of behaviour is learned through association by either communication or interacting in groups. There were opportunities that would have allowed all three boys to become deviant such
This track was the hardest one only because I couldn't remember a song that represents my family. Instead I pick a song that only represent my mother. In 2008, on Mother's Day me and my niece was going through songs that we should sing to my mother and came across a very sweet popular song. It is called "Mama by Boyz II Men". I pick that specific song because it explains everything. For example, the first verse is "You taught me everything and everything you're given me" and "You were there for me to love and care for me when skies were grey". Those versus is true because my mom did taught me everything I needed to know and she also love and care for me no matter what was the circumstances. She even took risks for me me.
Georgie looked down and hit the tree house with his fist causing a hole. His eyes searched the graveyard of a playground and when he saw Lennie riding the red shiney bike, he knew he had to take matters to his own hands before Curley did. Curley had also spotted Lennie and took off after him.
The course music and movies has shown the development of music in films as a total art work, and studies how the music impact stories and perception within films. The directors of these movies showed how knowing music history can change the effect of a movie. As seen throughout the course, the role of music in a movie sets the tone, such as creating an emotional factor. Music serves several purposes that are important on the emotional side of the movie and help to enhance the storytelling. Each movie viewed throughout the course had similar features with music and how they portrayed African-Americans and other groups of people through the Hollywood film maker’s eyes. The directors of each movie portrayed traits by using music elements such
“Beautiful black women but I bet that chick look better red,” those were lyrics stated by rapper Lil Wayne in the year 2010.Wayne used those lyrics as a response to the My Black is Beautiful Movement. The My Black is Beautiful event was made to celebrate and uplift black women of all skin tones and to show us that we are all beautiful and just because our skin may contain a little more melanin doesn’t mean we are any less beautiful. In the black community, there are different skin tones: light skinned, caramel, and dark skinned. A “Red” woman is considered to be light skinned, and is the ideal woman for black men. The dark skinned woman, on the other hand is thought of as the most unattractive, prime example Lil Wayne’s lyrics. He basically
One day he reaches his boiling point at the hands of a girl in his classroom, as she continues to ridicule his overweight mother, he does what he thinks is the right thing and defends his mother by hitting the girl. The girls face is then cut open and James runs out of his class but his teacher attempts to stop him but gets pushed over in the process. Before James can get home and tell his mother what had happened, he finds that she had passed away in her armchair by overdosing on prescription medication and alcahol. James is sent to Nebraska Home, since his stepfather and the father of his sister Lauren, doesn't want him. James joins a group of guys known for causing trouble and gets found stealing a case of beer from a petrol station. He spends the night in the lockup but when he wakes up in the morning he’s in a completely different place and has no idea were he is and how he got there.