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The owners, a Korean American couple, are already a little antsy, demanding that the pair вЂњhurry up and buyвЂќ and upsetting O-Dog with their blatant racial profiling. The pitilessness is immediately established in the opening sequence, where the two main characters, Caine (Tyrin Turner) and O-Dog (Larenz Tate, making an audacious feature-film debut), enter a convenience store to buy a couple of forties (read: forty-ounce bottles of malt liquor). (To help make sure everything was authentic, the brothers conducted interviews with South Central gang members before filming.)

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(One of their videos, for 2PacвЂ™s вЂњIf My Homie Calls,вЂќ features a cameo from Singleton.) While Singleton created an inner-city Los Angeles full of brown-skinned folk who know right from wrong (Ice CubeвЂ™s Doughboy may have a gun tucked in his waistband, but he never pops that thang unless he has to), most of MenaceвЂ™s LA setting is populated by remorseless killers, nihilistic outlaws who donвЂ™t lose a wink of sleep after taking someoneвЂ™s life.

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For its part, Menace came on the scene with a rude, snarling, fuck-you attitude about the truths it was aiming to tell-not unlike that of its two young directors.Д¬oming out of the gate as straight-up enfants terribles, with several hip-hop videos and a 1990 student short called The Drive ByВ (a black-and-white drama about gang violence in Los Angeles that was a test run for Menace) under their belts, the Hughes boys-just breaking into their twenties-made a movie that aimed to be the antithesis of SingletonвЂ™s hopeful film. DickersonвЂ™s Juice, Matty RichвЂ™s Straight Out of Brooklyn, and John SingletonвЂ™s Boyz n the Hood-which became the most financially successful and acclaimed (earning two Oscar nominations) out of all of them. In the two years before Menace, multiplexes had already been bombarded with such in-the-ghetto dramas as Mario Van PeeblesвЂ™s New Jack City, Ernest R. It was quite the jarring, exhilarating addition to the hood-movie genre, a genre that was otherwise already beginning to show signs of been there, done that. Released in late spring 1993, Menace, the Hughes brothersвЂ™ debut feature, was made on a $3.4 million budget and ended up grossing nearly $30 million, becoming one of the more surprising hits of that year. Especially if they are as brutal, blunt, and, yes, Black as Menace. As has been proved in American cinema history time and time again, if studios release films made by African Americans, about African Americans, and starring African Americans, African Americans will go see them. Will sang the movieвЂ™s praises in a Washington Post op-ed whose headline called it вЂњviolence therapyвЂќ), Black people saw it and dug it anyway. While some white people got the message (George F. In several interviews, Albert has mentioned how he and his brother made the movie to letВ white folk know what was really going on in the inner city. These are the words of Albert Hughes, who codirected the movie with his twin brother, Allen. First and foremost, Menace II Society is a movie for white people.

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