I really didn't give a damn if the protagonist of Menace died, he just didn't have much charisma.
Also, I thought Boyz had better actors all around, and I cared more about the characters. Boyz N tha Hood has rare moments of violence, and they resonated more for it. The violence began to pile up to the point that it diluted the impact and became almost an action flick. Little moments like when Furious realizes Tre jumped out the window of his bedroom to go on a drive-by, embraces Tre's girlfriend and shows fear for the first time in the movie, those stick out in my memory.īy contrast, Menace had a lot of memorable scenes as well, but none of them really affected me on that level.
packed a heavier emotional punch than anything in Menace. Scenes like the cops harassing and threatening Tre with a gun, the childhood prologue, the death of Doughboy's brother (and its immediate aftermath), etc. There, in the shadow of the riots of 1965 and. Both of them were first-time filmmakers, right?īut Boyz was a more powerful movie overall for me. Directors Albert and Allen Hughes and screenwriter Tyger Williams were barely into their twenties when they sent shock waves through American cinema and hip-hop culture with this fatalistic, unflinching vision of life and death on the streets of Watts, Los Angeles, in the 1990s. had a better grip on the language of cinema than Singleton at that point in their careers. There are a lot of virtuoso scenes, like the steadycam shot that goes from the curb through a house party and out into the backyard. Menace II Society is the name of the official soundtrack for the movie of the same name. Menace was the more assured movie from a filmmaking standpoint.
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