Boyz N The Hood Music Analysis

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

as rhythm, dynamics, harmony, tone, and color to shape the way that these groups of people were being portrayed.
The movies watched were from many different eras. Some were the early pre-sound films that had live music written for them, and some were based in the twenty-first century. Although the movies came from such various eras, each had connections because of how the films and music functioned together. The movies watched were Slumdog Millionaire, Singin’ in the Rain, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, Far from Heaven, In the Heat of the Night, and Boyz n the Hood. These movies had music examples that helped better understand the representation of African-Americans the culture in film and inclusion of representation of other groups of people and minorities.
Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, was a film based on the novel by Indian author, Vikas Swarup. The film was set and filmed in India, and flows around the area where the characters encounter a variety of experiences. The group of people portrayed in the film was of the Indian culture. The focus of music was very much different then what some the audience were used to, as it was evident by some of the reactions while watching the movie. The director’s approach to this film was unordinary as he composed modern music in the film such as modern hip-hop songs. The movie tells the story of Jamal Malik who is 18 years old and appears on the switched the mood of scenes. In the eyes of Hollywood, the Indian culture was viewed as very bad. The main character was on the game show hoping to win to help his family similar to the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The film increase the understanding and enjoyment of both music and film. Music concepts helped the audience better understand Indian culture. The film also allowed the audience to critically think and accumulate tools such as naming instruments being used, the effects of the music and how it related to certain scenes both positive and negative.
Singing' in the Rain was placed during a period where silent films were becoming obsolete, and sound to movies was the next best thing. The group of people showed in the film were middle aged people, within the acting business. Majority of the movies' plot was expressed via music and sound so that the audience could help capture the overall mood. There would be numerous moments within the songs where an individual instrument may stand out. The moments helped illustrate of the director was trying to amplify. For example, when the trumpet made loud blasts or a flute played lightly in the background in some of the scenes. With the distinct sounds, the audience can truly feel the mood of the overall movie because it will be consistent with the characters emotions. Just another general statement, without the music in this movie there would be no movie and the character would have seem as lively as they did. As this was one of the first movies watched during the course, it became a platform for us the students to know for the next movies how to understand perception in the films. This movie is considered a musical so most of the prominent moments in the movie are sung and not spoken. Musicals are very hard movies to make because the music must create and set the mood for every scene. In this movie, they did a great job of maintaining the mood and keeping a handle on it. Also, their placement of the music showed detail on what we should focus on.
Finally a film, by John Singleton's titled Boyz N the Hood, about three young black men growing up in the dangerous and harmful environment constrained with drug dealing and killing.

The young man dealt with reality of life in South Central, Los Angeles and survived by learning the streets. The group of people within the film it takes the audience unto a wild ride while embarking on an adventure through musical time. This journey is more pleasurable because it helps one to become familiar with some basic musical concepts. The African Americans in the film were low class living in the hood. Hollywood aspects of the movie made the movie seem very realistic as the film is still a classic now in 2017. The experiences in the film was related to old hip hop and rap but also containing real instruments in some parts. One of the main characters, Doughboy, is portrayed throughout the film as a gangster and in many scenes around loud up tempo music, and dancing music that often had some of the west coast rappers such as Snoop Dog, and Tupac. However, he was not the only one with this element many of the other characters also were tied into the same loop with the west coast music. One of the few scene examples without the hip-hop music and string instruments were used was after the police had harassed Cuban Gooding after they had just ate a an burger stop. When the actor got home, he was filled with raged and started swinging at the air the instruments enter the scene slowly but they made the scene have more of a real life feel. The music used all through the movie also allowed the film to move past the cutoff points of essentially linking a story. With the music in the film, Singleton also supplement basic conditions and demonstrate the many-sided quality’s between characters. With each tune played throughout the movie the determination of instruments and verses makes an energetic response by giving the audience more life and energy which gives the scene another element.

Often another instrument that was used throughout the movie was the groaning saxophone. A scene example when the saxophone is utilized was when a man breaks into Furious' home and when Ricky is shot. The saxophone is continually present when ruthlessness will happen. The other kind of instrumental music that is used is a sensitive, direct solid which makes a notion loosening up and delicacy. This kind of music is used in scenes like when Tre is getting a lesson from one of his people. The sensitive music played in the midst of these minutes demonstrates his parent's revering nature and the stress they both have over his future.
Summarily, these three movies Slumdog Millionaire, Singin’ in the Rain, and Boyz n the Hood all had music examples that helped better understand the representation of African-Americans, and other groups. Although cultures may be different with style, religion, foods, and so forth, one thing that connects them all is music. Hollywood uses this to their advantage because they take Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics and other ethnic groups and illustrates their lives through film. The music was the main essential to what made this possible as music elements such as rhythm, dynamics, harmony, tone, and color to shape the way that groups of people were being portrayed.