![]() ![]() #Straight out of compton movieWatching it, I was reminded of the Pope's much-publicized endorsement of Mel Gibson's hyper-violent messiah movie The Passion of the Christ: "It is as it was." But this movie demands a revision of John Paul II's pith. Scenes of the group being hassled by cops for doing nothing other than standing on a street looking the part of a "gangbanger" swell with a breathless tension. Their breakout 1988 debut studio album, also called Straight Outta Compton, was certified double-platinum, praised by Sinead O'Connor, and popularized the controversial genre of "gangsta rap." N.W.A.'s lyrics – "reality rap," it's often called in Straight Outta Compton, though I'd never in my life heard this term before seeing the movie – detailed the travails of black life in America in a way that still seems scarily, pathetically relevant circa 2015. launched the careers of its banner stars, and reinvented rap music. With their powers combined, and under the tutelage of manager Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti), N.W.A. Differently frustrated with the dreariness, tedium and limited prospects of their no- to low-income neighbourhood, these five urban Avengers form N.W.A. Also: MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) and DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) are there. Across town, superserious would-be street poet O'Shea (Ice Cube) Jackson (O'Shea Jackson Jr., the real Ice Cube's actual son, looking every inch the part) scrawls lyrics into one of those two-tone Mead notebooks people always scrawl things into in movies. Dre) Young (Corey Hawkins) is lying on the floor of his mom's house, arranged in a fanned-out pile of records in a way that people always seem to be when they listen to records in movies. ![]() Busting through the glass of a back window, narrowly evading the snatch of a snarling dog's jaws as he scales a chain-link fence, then skittering across Compton rooftops to relative safety, Eazy looks like a streetwise Spider-Man.Įlsewhere, the daydreaming Andre (Dr. In its precredits prologue, small-time hustler Eric (Eazy-E) Wright (Jason Mitchell, in a breakout role) lithely slips out of a drug house under siege by the police, armed with battering ram and all. biopic plays like a superhero origin story. ![]()
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