Mission Impossible: Ground Breaking Hip-Hop Group N. W. A.

The movie was a serious success at 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Utah. It not only won the festival’s Grand Jury Prize; picked up an “Audience Award”; settled a record-breaking $17.5 million distribution deal with Fox Searchlight; but it even kick-started the early 2017 Oscar buzz.

The 80’s were a scary time in America with rising tentions within minority communities, the destabilaztion of the economy, and the aids epidemic. The movie “Straight Outta Compton” was a significant cinematic production in many ways by having actors that portrayed their characters almost to perfection, a historical accurate story line, and a film crew that did an amazing job for every scene shot. F.Gary Gary masterfully captures the emotions of a generation by using; talented actors, a poient soundtrack, a complex interpersonal plot, and dark cinematography.

The movie was released in 2016, this movie shocked its audience because it made the audience very aware that there was a problem in our communities with gang violence. The main actors in this movie are Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson, Nicki Minaj and Common who is a Chicago rapper. And was directed by Malcolm D. Lee to the sequel in 2004. This

From Appendix 1, it has been determined that the PV of Driving Miss Daisy, Dead Poets Society and Batman are $95.42M, $41.27M and $27.21M respectively. The large magnitude of the PV of these 3 film sequels undermine the relatively smaller $4.96M we calculated earlier.

(page 14) There is also a demand on black films because it shows different themes of racialize subjects. This new idea helps focus of both urban and rural families that may be upper, middle, or lower class. “…-namely, the frequent degrading language associated with women and the homophobic jokes that emanate from rigid notions of masculinity” (page 2, chapter 2, Hip Hop in American Cinema) I find this quote to go really well with Straight Outta Compton because the men try to act as manly as possibly and use profound language to describe women and themselves. Both films achieve a common goal, which shows real issues within the Black community. It can be debated whether or not scenes in each movie actually happen but American cinema is moving forward to explore a more positive side of a Black community. It remains though that lights, music, clothing, and even dialog portray a character in a scene. Using these it gives the audience ideas and helps relate them to

White people might not take it very well and possibly get the impression that minorities will never amount to anything, nor be a large portion of the population. In the late 1970’s, the hit-movie Roots took the country by storm serving as an icebreaker for minorities getting into the movie industry. It showed the world that a movie consisting of all black actors could still be a very popular movie. Even though it revolved around the concept of slavery, once Roots came out, minorities started to show up more and more in films.

icebreaker for minorities getting into the movie industry. It showed the world that a movie

Directed by F. Gary Gray (Friday, Be Cool), the N.W.A bio-pic, Straight Outta Compton, stars O’Shae Jackson, Jr. as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, and Jason Mitchell as Eazy E – the three most prominent members of N.W.A. The film depicts the early days of the group’s foundation, including instances where Ice Cube and Dr. Dre unleash their talents on stage for the first time, along with the moment when Dr. Dre convinces a reluctant Eazy E to step into the recording booth, himself.

This well written movie contains multiple different genres for instance: history, music, drama, biography, as well as making it into a documentary. Straight Outta Compton being classified as a history film makes it appealing because it allows younger generations that were not aware of the police brutality and the music industry that happened in the late 80s and early 90s. This move allows the audience to see what it was like back then to be a minority. Straight Outta Compton has a unique part to it considering how the movie is about N.W.A.’s music production, yet the movie also has intense background music. This music allows the audience to feel more connected do to the fact music can be suspenseful, sad, or up beat to tie the emotions of the audience to the actors in the film. Music draws in the audience members attention to make them more intrigued and involved. This puts them in a “now moment”, and places them almost as if they are watching the scene unfold in real life. The producers of Straight Outta Compton Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Tomica Wright, Matt Alvarez, and Scott Bernstein did a fantastic job picking the actors in this film to make the documentary more realistic. The actors provided a very realistic perspective of the five young men in their earlier years. Having this many genres it makes Straight Outta Compton appealing

The audience can tell a lot just by looking at the images and the actors’ name on the poster. Tyler Perry Temptation brought in a total of over 51 million dollars (IMDB). It made 22.3 million in opening weekend (huffington post). Out of all the other movies, he has created this one is ranked in the top ten.

The film ‘Gladiator’ was released in 2000. A thrilling action film, it was a huge success, scooping five Oscars and earning over $427 million dollars. Sir Ridley Scott- who directed the film-already had many great films to his name, such as ‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘American Gangster’, so it was no surprise when this film became one of the highest earners of the year 2000.

Born on August 11, 1973 in Bronx, Hip Hop was the main gateway for the voice of African Americans to be heard and recognized. The art of Hip Hop wasn’t only limited to DJ’ing and rapping; the term hip-hop refers to a complex culture, which consist of four basic ingredients: deejaying, or “turntabling”; rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; graffiti painting; and breakdancing or “breaking”.

The movie focused on a supernatural entitiy that lives in the dark. According to reports, the audicence’s expectations were fully met. Which is why the $5 million budgeted film soared to a $20 million hit on its first opening weekend.

With a weekend in the cinema behind it, it made a mark at the box office, setting a record for biggest August debut with $135 million take. Similar to Batman v Superman, the film dropped sharply from Friday to Saturday, losing more than almost half its percent of its box-office momentum. That brings the film’s long-term earning potential into question, and the bad reviews don’t help. With one behind-the-scenes source claiming it needed to make at least $750 million just to break even, it faces a long struggle— especially since it’s likely to be shut out of release in asia, which is becoming a major financial factor for blockbuster

Fast Five was a financial success that broke box office records for the opening weekend in April of 2011. The movie was so popular that is overpassed the Fast And Furious action movie series. In the flourishing stages of the film, Universal studios veered away from street racing and wanted to pull off an action packed heist involving fast cars. They took this route to attract an even larger crowd than the Fast and Furious series already did. Fast Five is considered the transitional film for the series where it includes only one racing scene and more action packed scenes such as gunfights, melee, and a $100 million bank heist. The production company had a tactic that included advertising through social media and NASCAR itself. Fast Five made over $626.1 million in sales in the United States Box Office. It made 66 on the list for the all time worldwide list for highest grossing movie sales.