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Director: Writer: Producer: DP: Editor: Studio: Year: TRT: Language: Subtitles: Genre: Ratio: |
Menace II Society Allen Hughes Albert Hughes Tyger Williams Hughes Brothers Tyger Williams Darin Scott Lisa Rinzler Christopher Koefoed New Line 1993 104 min. English French English French Spanish Drama 1.85:1 |
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| Tyrin Turner Jada Pinkett Bill Duke Charles S. Dutton Larenz Tate Samuel L. Jackson |
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| Random violence and injustice abound and control the Los Angeles ghetto in which a group of african-american kids live. The violence sewed at the beginning of the film grows and corrupts throughout, and despite the best attempts of one young man to escape and forge a better life, is finally reaped. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Hughes brothers are often treated as black film-makers, and this does them an immense disservice. The disservice is primarily because most definitions of black filmmakers in comtemporary America stop with Spike Lee and John Singleton. To compare the Hughes brothers to these two filmmakers is to suggest that that is their peer group. It is not. Although Spike Lee has made some decent films with a dynamic style, his directing and writing is ham-fisted compared with the Hughes bros. Singleton has made movies with black people in them. The peer group the Hughes bros. should properly be compared with is the young auteurist movement in the seventies - Coppola and especially Scorsese. In fact, to catagorize the Hughes bros. as “black” film-makers is comparable to saying Scorsese is an “italian” film-maker. Their films are deeply affected by their culture, but their artistry and craftsmenship transcend any limiting definition. |
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