Straight Outta Compton was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2015 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film was also a box office success, making over $201 million on a production budget of $28–$50 million. Released on August 14, 2015, Straight Outta Compton received positive reviews from critics with praise for its performances (particularly Jackson's and Mitchell's), direction, screenplay and musical sequences, though many criticized the historical inaccuracies. The film is dedicated to Eazy-E who died from HIV in 1995, twenty years before the release of the film. The production faced several controversies, including casting call issues and several acts of violence on set. Much of the cast signed on in June 2014 and principal photography began that August, taking place around Los Angeles and Compton, California. Several directors were approached including Craig Brewer, Peter Berg, and John Singleton before Gray was eventually confirmed in April 2012. Talks of an N.W.A biopic began in 2010 by New Line Cinema. Paul Giamatti stars as N.W.A's manager Jerry Heller. ![]() Dre, Jason Mitchell is Eazy-E, Neil Brown Jr. Ice Cube is played by his real-life son, O'Shea Jackson Jr. ![]() MC Ren and DJ Yella served as creative consultants. Dre as producers, as was Eazy-E's widow, Tomica Woods-Wright. Members of N.W.A were involved in the production of the film, including Ice Cube and Dr. Gary Gray, depicting the rise and fall of the hip hop group N.W.A and its members Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Thankfully, the music sounds as fresh as the message.Straight Outta Compton is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by F. It's a fun ride, clear, colourful and quite revealing, with some oddball humour depressingly, its truth-telling about the LAPD in the '80s resonates loud and clear today, and not just confined to the cops in Los Angeles. this is the Authorised NWA story, after all, and for a lot of those years, bitches weren't the main event, they were more like dessert. It's hard to mention any female performances because I can't remember any oh yeah, Dr. Eugene Landy in Love and Mercy he's dependably great, perhaps even a little better than his normal excellent self. Paul Giamatti plays the band's manager Jerry Heller in a companion piece to his Dr. Dre but the role, as written, is the least interesting (and the most saintly, which makes it the least interesting). Corey Hawkins makes the least impression as Dr. Watch Boyz N The Hood on a monitor alongside this (once it's on VOD) and get your wha? on. is, well, born to play his dad and it's uncanny and kind of spooky. With the best role and displaying the most acting chops, Jason Mitchell steals the show as Eazy-E, and I'm betting right now five large he'll get an Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (five large is fifty bucks, right?) Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr. Of course none of it would work without believable performances and the film's got 'em. Dre are full-blown producers on the film. On a personal level, something happens to Eazy-E, which explains why his interests on the film are represented by his family, while Ice Cube and Dr. A lot of the second half of the film is taken up with contract disputes, but, given those involve Suge Knight of Death Row Records, they're more interesting than they sound. Once riches are achieved (and riches are achieved incredibly quickly: Straight Outta Compton, the only album the whole original group worked on together, was an instant megahit), the boyz fracture and fight. It's rags-to-riches, told with punch, gusto and not a little anger (and where in the world would an NWA pic be without some righteous anger?) The concert sequences are superb, supposedly extremely faithful to the original events - check out the clarity of the extras casting, with the stadium only getting black once the boyz get to Detroit they may have been straight outta Compton, but their fans were straight outta the suburbs as much as any 'hood. You've been watching Ice Cube work on his solo album for two and a half minutes? Let's see what Dre's up to for two and a half minutes! Dre, and those three get what I reckon may be contractually fulfilling exact equality of screen time. This is the story of Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Dr. Not that, even in this NWA fun-land, you'll get a full blast of the boyz: Arabian Prince is written out completely and DJ Yella and MC Ren are essentially human props, acknowledged then forgotten. ![]() Any perceived oversights, white-washings and re-writings of history can be relegated to the internet, while up on the silver screen jazzy images, fine performances and awesome music can be smugly devoured. Rename this flick Straight Outta Compton: The Authorised Biopic of NWA, and you'll have no problem slurping up its many pleasures.
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