F. Gary Gray Q&A: The Hard Life Lessons That Led To &#;Straight Outta Compton&#;
EXCLUSIVE: Studio execs who thought of F. Gary Gray as a go-to guy for taut thrillers like The Italian Job, The Negotiator, Law Abiding Citizen and Be Cool already are reassessing as Straight Outta Compton opens tomorrow with rave reviews and strong box office expectations. The film chronicles the fast rise and fall of N.W.A and the birth of streetwise poets who reflected the poverty, gangs, drugs, guns and heavy-handed law enforcement that was part and parcel of living in the Los Angeles ghetto. The film is very personal for Gray, who is around the same age and grew up in South Central Los Angeles just miles from N.W.A members Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella. There is a Social Network atom-splitting depiction of the birth of an important cultural movement in Straight Outta Compton, and an underdog story of the struggle of young men from the &#;hood to say something important, and then handle the money and women when fame came their way. There is also an unexpected timeliness to &#;80s N.W.A songs like &#;F*ck Tha Police&#; that somehow seem relevant after incide
F. Gary Gray was only 23 when he directed the fantastically literal video for Ice Cube&#;s &#;It Was a Good Day&#; in Its sun-kissed, deadpan style transferred beautifully to his debut feature Friday (), which Cube cowrote and starred in as the straight(er) foil to Chris Tucker&#;s more animated pot dealer. Friday quickly achieved cult-classic status, and Gray spent the next two decades racking up an impressive body of action cinema, from bank-heist thriller Set It Off () to the surprisingly fun remake of The Italian Job (), and the brutal vigilante flick Law Abiding Citizen ().
Gray&#;s latest project is Straight Outta Compton, a biopic of N.W.A, the controversial LA rap outfit comprising Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren, and DJ Yella. It traces the group&#;s origins in the late 80s, their early successes—which became turbulent and fraught with drama thanks to the financial duplicity of manager Jerry Heller—and concludes with the premature death of Eazy-E in
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The movie is mostly a delight. It&#;s a sweeping, incident-packed drama that traffics in humor, emotional force, and sociopolitical insight, even if its charms sadly don&#;t exten
Release Date - Aug 13, | Run Time - min. | Countries - United States of America | MPAA Rating - R
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Straight Outta Compton is a American biographical drama film that tells the story of hip-hop group N.W.A's rise and fall under manager Jerry Heller. The film, directed by F. Gary Gray, stars O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E, respectively. Released in August , the film received critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing over $ million worldwide. Straight Outta Compton earned several awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a win for Outstanding Motion Picture at the 47th NAACP Image Awards.
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Filming Location: Los Angeles
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F. Gary Gray's Straight Outta Compton starts out strong, with Eazy E. (Jason Mitchell) attempting a transaction in a horrorshow crackhouse complete with shotgun-wielding gang moll and a police tank (captured by helicopter-mounted camera flying overhead in a tremendous WTF moment) literally crashing the party.
It later settles down to the familiar rhythms of the standard-issue musical artist biopic, introducing the rest of the group (Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre; O'Shea Jackson Jr. (looking remarkably like his father) as Ice Cube; Neil Brown Jr. and Aldis Hodge in supporting roles as DJ Yella and MC Ren respectively) and chronicling the moment when they cut their first significant single, "Boyz N' Tha Hood." Gray does manage to capture the understated thrill of people unwittingly acting out a historic moment: the scene is played with little fuss, a lot of textural realism, a funny minor detail (the original rappers leave because of a dispute over the lyrics and Eazy, drafted into doing the vocals, has to be schooled on attitude). So far so fairly well made.
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