boyz n the hood

Boyz n the Hood
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Singleton
Written by	John Singleton
Produced by	Steve Nicolaides
Starring	Cuba Gooding Jr. Ice Cube Morris Chestnut Larry Fishburne
Cinematography	Charles Mills
Edited by	Bruce Cannon
Music by	Stanley Clarke
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates Bạn đang xem: boyz n the hood	July 2, 1991 (Los Angeles) July 12, 1991 (United States)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6.5 million[1]
Box office	$57.5 million (North America)[1]

Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American coming-of-age hood crime drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his feature directorial debut.^[2] It stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Tyra Ferrell, Laurence Fishburne, Regina King, and Angela Bassett. Boyz n the Hood follows Tre Styles (Gooding Jr.), who is sent to tướng live with his father Furious Styles (Fishburne) in South Central Los Angeles, surrounded by the neighborhood's booming gang culture. The film's title is a reference to tướng the 1987 Eazy-E rap tuy vậy of the same name, written by Ice Cube.

Singleton initially developed the film as a requirement for his application to tướng film school in 1986 and sold the script to tướng Columbia Pictures upon graduation in 1990. During writing, he drew inspiration from his own life and from the lives of people he knew and insisted he direct the project. Principal photography began in September 1990 and was filmed on location from October to tướng November 1990. The film features breakout roles for Ice Cube, Gooding Jr., Chestnut, and Long.

Boyz n the Hood was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.^[3] It premiered in Los Angeles on July 2, 1991, and was theatrically released in the United States ten days later. The film became a critical and commercial success, grossing $57.5 million in North America and earning nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 64th Academy Awards. Singleton became the youngest person and the first African American to tướng be nominated for Best Director. In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.^[4][5]

Plot[edit]

In 1984, ten-year-old Jason "Tre" Styles III lives with his single mother, Reva Devereaux, in Inglewood, California. After Tre gets into a fight at school, his teacher calls Reva and says that although Tre is intelligent, he is immature and lacks respect. Frightened about Tre's future, Reva sends him to tướng live in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South Central with his father, Jason "Furious" Styles Jr., from whom she hopes Tre will learn life lessons. Furious is strict and assigns Tre chores, but he is also a caring and attentive father. In Crenshaw, Tre reunites with his childhood friends Darrin "Doughboy" Baker, Doughboy's half-brother Ricky, and their friend Chris. That night, Tre hears Furious shooting at a burglar. Furious calls the LAPD, and two officers arrive an hour later. The white officer is civil and professional, while the Đen officer is hostile and demonstrates self-hatred. The next day, Tre and Furious return from a fishing trip to tướng see Doughboy and Chris being arrested for theft.

Seven years later, a welcome trang chủ tiệc nhỏ is held for Doughboy, now a Rollin 60s Crips thành viên, following his recent release from prison hoping to tướng stay out. At the tiệc nhỏ are Chris, now paraplegic due to tướng a gunshot wound, and new friends and fellow Crip members Dookie and Monster. Ricky is now a star running back at Crenshaw High School who hopes to tướng earn a university scholarship. He lives with his mother Brenda, girlfriend Shanice, and their toddler son. A USC recruiter visits him and informs him he must score a 700 on the SAT to tướng qualify. Meanwhile, Tre has grown into a mature and responsible teenager who hopes to tướng attend college with his girlfriend, Brandi. Their relationship is troubled over Tre's desire to tướng have sex, while Brandi, a traditional Catholic, wants to tướng wait until after marriage.

Later, during a street gathering on Crenshaw Blvd, Ricky is provoked by Ferris, a Crenshaw Mafia Bloods thành viên. In Ricky's defense, everybody comes to tướng his defense, before Doughboy confronts Ferris and brandishes his handgun, leading to tướng an argument between the gangs. Cooler heads prevail until Ferris fires an automatic Mac-10 in the air, with everybody scattering the from area.

After they leave, Tre and Ricky are pulled over by an LAPD patrol; the lead officer, Coffey, is the Đen officer who responded to tướng the burglary years earlier. Coffey holds his gun at Tre's throat, threatening him. Distraught, Tre goes to tướng Brandi's house, where he has a breakdown. After she comforts him, they have sex for the first time.

The next afternoon, Ricky has a fight with Doughboy, with Brenda taking Ricky's side, and berating Doughboy. Afterward, Brenda asks Ricky to tướng lập cập an errand and Tre accompanies him to tướng a nearby drugstore. After they depart, a letter is delivered with Ricky's SAT results. After leaving the store, Ricky and Tre see Ferris and the Bloods driving around and cut through back alleys to tướng avoid them before splitting up. As they walk in separate directions, the Bloods drive close to tướng Ricky and one of them fatally guns him down. Doughboy, who realized Tre and Ricky were in trouble when he saw the xế hộp circling the block, is distraught over Ricky's death. Doughboy helps Tre carry Ricky's bloodied corpse trang chủ. After feeling devastated, Brenda and Shanice break into tears, with the women blaming Doughboy for causing the shooting, while he tries to tướng unsuccessfully comfort both of them. Later, Brenda sobs over Ricky's test results - Ricky scored a 710, enough to tướng qualify for the scholarship he sought.

Angered, the remaining boys vow vengeance on the Bloods. Furious finds Tre preparing to tướng take his gun but seemingly convinces him to tướng abandon his plans for revenge. Moments later, Brandi and Furious catch Tre sneaking out to tướng join Doughboy. Later, as the gang drive around the đô thị, Tre asks to tướng be let out of the xế hộp and returns trang chủ. Doughboy finds the Bloods at a fast-food restaurant. Monster guns the Bloods down as they flee. Doughboy gets out of his xế hộp and shoots Ferris and another wounded gang thành viên dead. Later that evening, after coming trang chủ, Furious waits for Tre. The two stare at each other with no words exchanged and walk into their bedrooms for the night.

The next morning, Doughboy visits Tre, understanding Tre's reasons for abandoning the gang. Doughboy knows he will face retaliation for killing Ferris and accepts the consequences of his crime-ridden life. He questions why American truyền thông media "don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood." He says that he has no brothers after Ricky's death, but Tre embraces him, saying he has "still got one brother left."

The epilogue text reveals that Ricky was buried the next day, Doughboy was murdered two weeks later, and Tre later goes to tướng college with Brandi in Atlanta.

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Cast[edit]

• Cuba Gooding Jr. as Jason "Tre" Styles III (age 17)
  • Desi Arnez Hines II as Tre (age 10)
• Angela Bassett as Reva Devereaux
• Laurence Fishburne as Jason "Furious" Styles Jr.
• Ice Cube as Darrin "Doughboy" Baker (age 18)
  • Baha Jackson as Doughboy (age 11)
• Morris Chestnut as Ricky Baker (age 17)
  • Donovan McCrary as Ricky (age 10)
• Nia Long as Brandi (age 17)
  • Nicole Brown as Brandi (age 10)
• Tyra Ferrell as Brenda Baker
• Redge Green as Chris "Little Chris" (age 17)
  • Kenneth A. Brown as Chris (age 10)
• Whitman Mayo as the old man
• John Singleton as the mailman
• Dedrick D. Gobert as "Dooky"
• Baldwin C. Sykes as "Monster"
• Tracey Lewis-Sinclair as Shaniqua
• Alysia Rogers as Shanice
• Regina King as Shalika
• Lexie Bigham as "Mad Dog"
• Raymond Turner as Ferris
• Lloyd Avery II as Knucklehead #2
• Kirk Kinder as Officer Graham
• Jessie Lawrence Ferguson as Officer Coffey^[6]

Production[edit]

Singleton wrote the film based on his own life and that of people he knew.^[7] When applying for film school, one of the questions on the application size was to tướng describe "three ideas for films". One of the ideas Singleton composed was titled Summer of 84, which later evolved into Boyz n the Hood.^[7] During writing, Singleton was influenced by the 1986 film Stand by Me, which inspired both an early scene where four young boys take a trip to tướng see a dead body toàn thân and the closing fade-out of main character Doughboy.^[7]

Upon completion, Singleton was protective of his script, insisting that he be the one to tướng direct the project, later explaining at a retrospective screening of the film "I wasn't going to tướng have somebody from Idaho or Encino direct this movie."^[2] He sold the script to tướng Columbia Pictures in 1990, who greenlit the film immediately out of interest in making a film similar to tướng the comedy-drama film Do the Right Thing (1989).

The role of Doughboy was written specially for Ice Cube, whom Singleton met while working as an intern at The Arsenio Hall Show.^[7] Singleton also noted the studio was unaware of Ice Cube's standing as a thành viên of rap group N.W.A.^[7] Singleton claims Gooding and Chestnut were cast because they were the first ones who showed up to tướng auditions,^[7] while Fishburne was cast after Singleton met him on the phối of Pee-wee's Playhouse, where Singleton worked as a production assistant and security guard.^[8]

Long grew up in the area the film depicts and has said, "It was important as a young actor to tướng bầm that this feels real because I knew what it was lượt thích go trang chủ from school and hear gunshots at night." Bassett referred to tướng Singleton as her "little brother" on phối. "I'd been in LA for about three years and I was trying, trying, trying to tướng tự films," she said. "We talked, I auditioned and he gave bầm a shot. I've been waiting to tướng work with him ever since."^[2]

The film was shot in sequence, with Singleton later noting that as the film goes on, the camera work gets better as Singleton was finding his foothold as a director.^[2] He has a cameo in the film, appearing as a mailman handing over mail to tướng Brenda as Doughboy and Ricky are having a scuffle in the front yard.

Reception and legacy[edit]

Critical response[edit]

Review aggregation trang web Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 96% based on 69 reviews and an average score of 8.40/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Well-acted and thematically rich, Boyz n the Hood observes urban America with far more depth and compassion than vãn many of the like-minded films its success inspired."^[9] At Metacritic, the film received an average score of 76 out of 100 based on đôi mươi reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".^[10]

Cultural impact[edit]

Boyz n the Hood launched the acting careers of Gooding, Chestnut, and Long, who were relatively unknown before it. It also launched the Hollywood acting career of Ice Cube and was the first significant film roles for both Angela Bassett and Regina King.^[2]

Accolades[edit]

In 2007, Boyz n the Hood was selected as one of the 50 Films To See in your lifetime by Channel 4.

American Film Institute Lists

• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated

In popular culture[edit]

Australian alternative rock band TISM released a live VHS called Boyz n the Hoods in 1992, whose cover artwork is presented as a parody of the film's original VHS box, albeit with a nhái disclaimer printed on the cover stating that due to tướng a manufacturing error, the non-existent film was replaced with TISM's concert.

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Characters and scenes from Boyz n the Hood are parodied in the 1996 crime comedy parody film, Don't Be a Menace to tướng South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

In the năm ngoái comedy film Get Hard, Kevin Hart's character Darnell is asked to tướng talk about the reason for his fabricated incarceration years earlier. Fumbling for a story, he describes the final scene of Boyz n the Hood, passing it off as his own experience to tướng Will Ferrell's character.

In the series finale of the show Snowfall, which Singleton co-wrote, co-created, co-executive produced and directed, the main characters Leon and Franklin walk by someone filming a movie on the street that looks very much lượt thích a scene with the young boys from John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood as a homage to tướng the creator.

Soundtrack[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of hood films

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Boyz n the Hood at IMDb
• Boyz n the Hood at the TCM Movie Database
• Boyz n the Hood at AllMovie
• Boyz n the Hood at Box Office Mojo
• Boyz n the Hood at Rotten Tomatoes
• Boyz n the Hood at Metacritic
• Boyz in the Hood essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to tướng the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages [1]