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The film opens up with a mother who watches her son fall into his troublesome friends’ path. She decides that it is best that her son, Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) to move with his strict father, Jason “Furious” Styles (Laurence Fishburne) in the hood of south central Los Angeles. Furious is an intelligent man who teaches his son about discipline, common sense, and how to be a man. As he grows up in this dangerous neighborhood, Tre builds a close relationship with two brothers, Doughboy (Ice Cube) who is a troublemaker and Ricky (Morris Chestnut) who is a football player. Shortly after, Doughboy and his friend Chris are arrested for shoplifting a convenience store. Seven years later, the boys went in different directions, Tre aspires to go to college, Ricky is a football star at his high school, and Doughboy is out of jail, drug dealing. Furious who grew up in the neighborhood knows how menacing unsuitable friends, drugs, and gangs can be because he seen it all so therefore he sets boundaries for Tre. As for Doughboy, he does not receive any support from his mother like Ricky does because he does not undertake in anything productive except for sitting on the front porch, drinking, and look for trouble. Gang members take their gangs seriously for example, Crips and Bloods. Throughout the movie, the director, John …show more content…
Singleton is constantly indicating how frightful the community is by showing the police searchlights from the helicopters, and how violence is a normal everyday thing. During a street racing, Ricky is confronted by Ferris, a member of the Bloods gang, Doughboy’s rivalry.
To prove who was bigger, Doughboy threatens them by waving his gun. From that point on, the conflict between the gangs went from “0 to 100 real quick”. The following day, Ricky gets into a heated altercation with Doughboy. To cool off, Tre and Ricky walks to the convenience store when they meet up with the Bloods and immediately to run to avoid them. Unfortunately, they separate and Ricky is shot dead by the Bloods. Tre and Doughboy is left to carry his bloody body home. Once again Doughboy is incriminated by his mother for Ricky’s
death. Tre goes home angry and locate a pistol to seek revenge but Furious knocked some sense into his head and eventually persuaded him to give up the gun. Even though Furious spoke with him, he found a way to sneak out the house and joined Doughboy. They drove around the city looking for the Bloods but Tre asked to get out of the vehicle and headed home because he realized that violence was not going to make the situation better. Doughboy drove around until he found the Bloods at a fast food restaurant then he directed Monster to start shooting. He stepped out of his car to make sure Ferris was completely dead for what he did to Ricky, he shot them once again. The next day Doughboy questions Tre about why he deserted. The conclusion was quite predictable, Doughboy died two weeks later and Tre attended college.
Another aspect of the film that depicts a positive image of family is the family’s support for Wayne. Although Wayne is serving an eight year prison sentence for armed robbery, Darryl, Sal, Tracey, Steve and Dale are still proud and supportive of him. Dale regularl...
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
To begin, Tre learns to display loyalty to his family from his father. Black men are stereotyped as not wanting to work and having an inability to care for their children or their families. However, Furious seeks to prove this as a myth. The film illustrates Furious’s dedication to raising his son to be a respectable young man and provide for him. Not only does he instill self-responsibility in Tre but also, communal responsibility. Tre learns
John Small, a fourteen year old boy in Uptown St. Paul, proceeds into the Suburban World Cinema, anxious to see Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant. He is equipped with a parental note, replete with the phone number where his parents can be reached to verify that they did indeed author the note should its authenticity be questioned. John pushes seven crumpled-up dollar bills and the folded note into the metal dugout under the box office window, only to be met with a tinny, disinterested voice booming through the round silver speaker mounted on the window: "No children under seventeen allowed! Sorry. This note isn't gonna cut it."
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,
Singleton begins the film by showing Tre, the protagonist, as a child. He is sent to live with his father, Furious, in “the hood” after acting out in school. There, he meets up with a group of friends and one day they journey to see a dead body. Singleton does this to show the children’s exposure to death at such a young age. It is not typical for a young child to see such things, so this symbolic gesture is effective at showing the viewer what kind of culture the children are being brought up in. Immediately after their encounter with the dead body the children are taunted by a group of gang members over a football. By setting this up immediately after the children’s encounter with death, Singleton has coupled gang violence and murder. This is an important to the cultural moment that Singleton is trying to encapsulate b...
The story begins in a small town in America. The Fowler family is faced with the burden, frustration and pain of having to bury their twenty-one year old son, Frank. The inward struggle faced by Matt Fowler, his wife, and family drives him to murder Richard Strout, Frank's killer, in order to avenge his son's murder and bring peace to himself and his family. Matt faced a life-time struggle to be a good father and protect his children from danger throughout their childhood. Dubus describes Matt's inner ...
Ponyboy has two brothers who live together when their parents died (Hinton 13). The oldest brother Darrell gave up college to work on roofs so that he will be able to take care of his brothers Ponyboy and Sodapop. Sodapop works at a gas station so he can also help his brother Darrell take care of Ponyboy and provide everything they need. The other gang members are Ponyboy and his brothers and friends. Johnny who lives with his so called parents abuses him or ignore him because of the mood they are in sometimes (Hinton 78).
The characters of this movie are: Derrick Reynald (Chennile’s brother), Chennile Reynald (Derrick’s sister), Niki (Chennile’s friend), Malachi (Derrick’s homeboy), Roy (Sarah’s dad), Momma D (Derrick and Chennile’s grandmother), Kenny (Chile’s boyfriend), Snookie (a wannabe thug), and last but definitely...
One of the more prevalent themes of this movie is racism, and how prejudicial mindsets ultimately lead to one’s own demise. The movie outlines how racism, among other things, can adversely affect someone’s judgment. After the father died, we see how the family gradually deteriorates financially as well as emotionally after Derek (the older brother played by Edward Norton) turns to a neo Nazi gang for an outlet, which eventually influences his younger brother Danny (played by Edward Furlong) to follow down ...
Big Daddy is a 1999 American comedy film that revolves around Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler), a 30-year-old layabout who does not take his responsibilities as an adult seriously. Though he graduated with a degree in law, Sonny works as a tollbooth collector and mostly relies on the $200,000 he received after winning a lawsuit from a car accident. All is well until Sonny’s girlfriend, Vanessa (Kristy Swanson), gets fed up with Sonny’s attitude. She then tells Sonny she will end their relationship unless he can prove that he can be a responsible adult. Just after, a 5-year-old boy, Julian (Cole Sprouse/Dylan Sprouse), showed up at their Manhattan loft claiming to be Kevin’s (Jon Stewart), Sonny’s roommate and best friend from law school, biological son. Kevin denies,
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
In the beginning of the video The boys father (Don Cheadle) finds male pornography hidden in his room and is later found in bed with another boy (Nolan Gould) by that young man's father. When watching the video, one can clearly see that his father does not approve of his sons sexuality and is also targeted at school by his fellow classmates. This makes him lose interest in his school activities and leads to suicidal thoughts and even puts a gun to his head. Towards the end of the video he is comforted by his track coach who realizes that he has been slacking in school and has not been himself lately. The couch contacts the young boys father and at the end of the video we see that the boy calls the suicide hotline and did not kill himself but instead got married and even had a son with his father by his side.This video has helped many of the youth that struggle with their sexulity and feel like they are alone. The video portrays a realistic situation where someone may be experiencing the same- if not similar- feelings that Coy Stewarts character has
DiCaprio started to make his transition from television to film with his role as the stepson of an evil landlord in Critters 3.After the film Leonardo was cast into Growing Pains as a semi- regular which allowed him to gain much attention. He played Luke Brower, a homeless boy, who was taken in by the Seaver family. In 1992, DiCaprio had his breakthrough in the film This Boy’s Life by starring as the lead role after being handpicked by Robert De Niro. The film allows audiences to see DiCaprio’s acting ability as it explores the relationship between a boy and his abusive stepfather. This film started DiCaprio’s chain of attention grapping performances.