The guy tries to get rid of A-Wax, who throws him to the ground.Īfter Caine's interrogation, the black screen has actually been a bit longer.īefore the scene in the school, a black screen is again a bit longer in the 4K UHD. Meanwhile, the drug addict is being probed by A-Wax for money he still owes him. Note: This also means that the off-commentary above the follow-up scene in the 4K Blu-ray starts slightly delayed.Īt the end of the scene, there is a small brawl. So this spot is apparently an original theatrical/DC deviation that has now been reconstructed in a slightly different way for the UHD premiere. Note: The shot of Caine and O-Dog was previously seen in the Theatrical Version as an alternative to the shots of A-Wax. Quasi a first sign that the Director's Cut has been reconstructed here and is not 1:1 as on previous US releases.Īfter A-Wax shoots the guy lying on the ground again, the follow up shot of Caine and O-Dog starts a moment earlier on the 4K Blu-ray. Not really noticeable: Just one frame is missing as the DC's plot expansion kicks in since DVD days. Cos it's so different.Additional logo from Criterion for the film release on the 4K Blu-ray. We waited a few months and then I was like, nah, let's do it. We just waited and waited and waited and Boys N The Hood came out and I was like, 'Nah, let's not do it now because people think that's what its really like and they'll think that we're trying to write off that'. "We had the idea since we were 15 years old. "The script came about through us being frustrated about not seeing what we wanted to see in that particular lifestyle, being portrayed the right way," Allen Hughes tells Margaret Pomeranz. riots but, as the creators explained to the SBS Movie Show back in the day, they first conceived of their film at age 15, as a direct response to the lack of accuracy in the films they were seeing about their own neighbourhoods. Menace II Society opened two years after John Singleton's Boyz n The Hood, and in the immediate aftermath of the Rodney King incident and the subsequent L.A.
Their provocative anti-violence gang story was one of the early defining films of the '90s genre of quote-unquote "hood movies", focusing on family, friendships and crime, within South-Central and Compton in Los Angeles. The Hughes Brothers, Allen and Albert, were two film buffs barely in their 20s, when they unleashed Menace II Society on, well, society.
"Being a black man in America isn't easy.
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