Straight Outta Compton is self-important in the way of many biopics, pausing frequently to celebrate the genius of N.W.A.’s most famous founders: Eazy-E ( Jason Mitchell), Ice Cube ( O’Shea Jackson Jr.), and especially Dr. (The fact that it’s still essentially the only one is a troubling issue for another time.) channel their frustration with the police into song, and seeing those songs celebrated by a studio film, is probably Hollywood’s most significant response yet to the Black Lives Matter movement. The fact that our heroes are young black men in baggy clothes gives Straight Outta Compton significant power watching N.W.A. Gary Gray gives the rebels from Compton a seat in movie history right alongside Johnny Cash, Tina Turner, Ray Charles, and every other musician deemed important enough for the biopic treatment. in the comfortable clothes of the biopic, F. We savvy viewers can roll all our eyes when one clearly doomed character makes a promise to another, or the camera dollies up and focuses on a face as it utters historic words, but these tricks of storytelling have built modern cinema, and there’s not always a good reason to throw them away.īy dressing up the story of incendiary rap group N.W.A.
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