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Menace II Society
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Menace II Society is a 1993 urban drama Hood Film directed by the Hughes Brothers (in their debut). Along with Boyz n the Hood, it is one of the defining films of the early '90s and helped popularize the urban crime drama and the Hood Film.The story centers around a street life thug named Caine (Tyrin Turner) and his friend O-Dog (Larenz Tate) living in the streets of Watts. Caine is a thug with a heart, and the opportunity to succeed, if the streets will let him. With a father (Samuel L. Jackson) that dealt heroin and a mother (Khandi Alexander) who was addicted to it, he had no chance as a child, and went to live with his grandparents. After graduating high school, a feat that none of his friends pulled off, he had choices to make, and although his heart was in the right place, he was stuck in the wrong time. Watch as he struggles with car jackings, murdered friends, taking care of a single mother (Jada Pinkett) and her son, and a question that burns in the back of his mind, asked by his grandfather: "Do you care whether you live or die?" That answer doesn't come until it's too late. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: Ilena's cousin responds to Caine beating the shit out of him by shooting him to death with his goons. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Including Caine. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The security tape of O-Dog killing the Korean store owners is clearly meant to invoke the security cam footage of Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old black girl killed by a Korean liquor store owner over a bottle of orange juice two years prior, one of the catalysts for the Los Angeles riots. Back in 1993, this was a hot topic of discussion and the allusion would definitely be understood by audiences. | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam | |
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Caine finally decides to give up his life in the 'hood to start anew with Ronnie and Anthony in Atlanta. Then Ilena's cousin murders him out of revenge. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: It's a film of Gangbangers and DirtyCops in a Crapsack World. What did you expect? The white morality is almost nonexistent here. | |
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Lunatic Loophole | |
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Lunatic Loophole: Almost every main character, sympathetic or not, dies by the end... except for O-Dog. Though at the least, he does get arrested, so that's something. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: O-Dog and A-Wax. The gangsters who killed Harold and wounded Caine. Caine's father as well. The two racist cops who beat up Caine and Sharif. The whole film does a good job of depicting an environment so wretched and hopeless for so long, it actively creates people like this. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: Caine is narrating the film beyond the grave, as a cautionary tale to others. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Bloodier and Gorier/Darker and Edgier/Spiritual Antithesis: This film is far more violent, dramatic, downbeat, darker and edgier than Boyz n the Hood. The film has almost no lighter moments, mainly for the ending. Everything in this film is Played for Drama. Both films chronicle the struggles of the ghetto. But while John Singleton's film followed Tre, a decent kid who ultimately stays straight and escapes the hood, Menace follows one of the many youths who succumb to the streets and don't make it out. The Hughes Brothers wanted their film to sort of be the reverse side of the coin that we saw in Boyz. | |
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The Stool Pigeon | |
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The Stool Pigeon: Chauncy. After getting pistol whipped by Caine for sexually harassing Ronnie, he decides to show the videotape of the Korean store robbery to the police, which ends up getting O-Dog arrested. | |
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Just a Gangster | |
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Downplayed with O-Dog, who pulls Caine off Illena's cousin after a brutal beatdown... not out of empathy for the victim – whom he continues to beat on afterwards – but because the sight was clearly disturbing his friend's grandfather. More broadly, O-Dog accepting Caine's retreat from the hood with nothing but a few sideways comments is a remarkably benign way for someone like him to take what he so clearly considers betrayal, as well as his rare show of raw emotion after the carnage that leaves his friends dead. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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The whole film does a good job of depicting an environment so wretched and hopeless for so long, it actively creates people like this. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Caine runs to another guy's car, gun in hand, to jack him for his rims and his radio..."and I'd like a double burger with cheese!" His victim is understandably confused. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The surveillance tape of the liquor store armed robbery eventually comes back to bite O-Dog when Chauncey releases the tape to the police as revenge against Caine—who escapes arrest only because he is murdered before it can happen. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Stacy, Sharif, and Caine are this often, at least compared with other gang members. Caine's grandparents as well. Sharif and Stacy seem far more reasonable than their friends. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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Ilena's cousin, who didn't even know who Caine was and had to ask, and waltzed into a rival 'hood with no weapon or backup. Cue the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Caine. | |
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Raised by Grandparents | |
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Raised by Grandparents: Caine was raised by his grandparents after his father (a drug dealer) was shot to death and his mother (a crack fiend) died of an overdose. It's clear that they can't keep him from getting involved in the thug life, and Caine's grandfather eventually evicts him from their home. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Assuming the baby is really his, Ilena's child will grow up without its father, Caine. Anthony's father, Pernell, is in jail for life, and as of the end of the film, his new father figure, Caine, is dead. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: O-Dog. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: The quietly terrifying detective played by Bill Duke. Chauncy is this to Nick, the guy who gives him info on the car that he hires Caine and O-Dog to steal. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Even A-Wax is stunned by O-Dog's sociopathy when O-Dog shoots the crack addict for offering sexual favors in exchange for drugs, then offers the dead man's food bag to his friends. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: More so than in Boyz n the Hood, with a whopping 300 uses of "fuck" (tying Goodfellas. Casino would later outdo Menace by 122 f-bombs.) | |
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Name of Cain | |
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Name of Cain: The main character is a young man from the 'hood, given the nickname "Caine". Notably, he seems to hate it as a kid, but embraces it into his adulthood. While he's not as bad as his Ax-Crazy friend O-Dog, he still can't escape the culture of violence. The facial scars he gets as the film progresses also allude to the mark of Cain. | |
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Pistol-Whipping | |
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Pistol-Whipping: Caine does this to beat a drunken Chauncey for sexually harassing Ronnie. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: Illena's cousin's mission to confront Caine ends in him getting the ever-living crap beat out of him. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Being shot in the lungs is not a nice way to go. Caine discovers this the hard way when Ilena's cousin and his friends use his chest as a shooting range, and leaves Caine laying on the ground, gasping for air and choking on his own blood in the most excruciating way possible. Caine during the interrogation scene without a lawyer present or even asking to speak to lawyer and the detective is able to brown-beat and take him apart with ease. Although it’s justified on Caine’s part because this was his first arrest and nobody ever taught him how to conduct himself in that type of situation. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: If Caine hadn't been killed, he would've had his plans with Ronnie ruined anyway, as a quick clip in the ending montage shows O-Dog being arrested for the murder of the Korean store owners. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: By the end, Caine wishes to straighten his life and start anew by going to Atlanta. However, he gets into a fight with Ilena's cousin, which reaches back to his grandparents, who promptly kick him out of the house. On the day he's meant to leave, the cousin gathers a bunch of cronies and do a drive by, promptly killing Caine—as well as Sharif. The latter was going to Kansas himself and spent most of the film preaching about the Muslim religion in an effort to turn his friends' lives around. Things don't seem to turn out any better for the other characters either, with a quick flash forward showing O-Dog being arrested, presumably for murdering the Korean couple, and Ronnie losing the man she loved and moving to Atlanta with her son Anthony, unsure whether or not she can support him by herself. | |
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Hollywood California | |
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Hollywood California: Specifically, Watts. | |
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Profiling | |
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Profiling: The opening scene features Caine and O-Dog stopping by a convenience store to get some beer. The Korean store owner and his wife treat them with such suspicion and rudeness that O-Dog snaps and murders them both. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Revenge is a recurring theme in the film, and it's never pretty. Caine's cousin Harold gets shot and killed by some thugs. Caine decides to get revenge once he's discharged from the hospital. He's never killed anyone before but is fully prepared to do so now. When he actually does the deed, he's not as satisfied as he initially thought, and it keeps him up at night. Caine beats up Chauncey for sexually harassing Ronnie in a drunken stupor. Chauncey responds by selling out Caine and O-Dog to the police using the Korean store murder-robbery tape that O-Dog stupidly sold to him. The cousin of Ilena, a girl Caine had a one-night stand with, comes to Caine's hood to confront him over ditching Ilena and his possible child. Caine beats the shit out of him, which encourages the cousin to grab some goons and come to Ronnie's house, resulting in Caine and Sharif being murdered, and Anthony possibly being scarred for life. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Caine's mentor Pernell approves of him leaving with Ronnie. Considering Pernell is serving life without parole, there isn't much he can do for her and their child. | |
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Did You Just Have Sex? | |
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Did You Just Have Sex?: Happens in this scene during a domino game in which Stacy asks about what happened between Caine and Ronnie: | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: O-Dog, who could accurately be described as a black, slightly more trigger-happy version of Tommy DeVito. After killing the Korean shopkeeper couple, he steals the surveillance tape and proudly plays it for his friends on numerous occasions, much to Caine's chagrin. Caine's father is this as well, shooting a man who owes him money when the man comes up short and insults him. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He might be a sociopathic murderer, but O-Dog clearly has great affection for his friends and is moved to tears when he surveys their corpses at the end. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Caine does at least manage to save Anthony during the drive-by shooting. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: O-Dog constantly shows the videotape of him robbing the liquor store to his friends for entertainment. This ends up getting him arrested at the end, thanks to Chauncy showing the tape to the police. Caine told him to stop showing that tape. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Besides the above Police Brutality incident, many characters are thrilled by the tape of O-Dog killing the Korean shopkeeper, and O-Dog himself is a homophobe who kills a beggar offering food for money when he asks for sexual favors as payment. | |
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Police Brutality | |
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Police Brutality: Apart from the archival footage of the Watts riots in the beginning, a pair of cops randomly arrest Caine and Sharif, beat them in their car, and drop them off in a Latino neighborhood so the Latino gangs can rough them up more. Luckily, the gang that finds them just takes Caine and Sharif to the hospital. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Do you care whether you live or die?" Several characters ask Caine this question (or a variation thereof), and he's honestly not sure. When he finally decides he does, it's already too late. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerk Ass Has A Point: The Korean store owners were proven to be right to be suspicious of O-Dogg, unfortunately at the costs of their own lives. Even though his motive for doing so is kind of questionable, Chauncey did the right thing by turning the robbery footage over to police. O-Dog was a sociopathic monster, and needed to be off the streets. | |
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Vengeance Feels Empty | |
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Vengeance Feels Empty: Caine feels this way after getting revenge on the carjackers that murdered his cousin. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: See the quote below. This is all the excuse O-Dog needs to murder the convenience store owner and his wife. The first moment (of several) showing O-Dog is a completely murderous psychopath who will kill anyone, anytime over anything at all. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: O-Dog and A-Wax. Caine also counts to a certain extent. | |
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time | |
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Caine doesn't live to see it bear out, but if he was trying to escape street life, Atlanta would make very little sense as a destination. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Downplayed, or averted entirely. Caine, up to a certain point, had some sort of violent consequence coming for him, especially with the way he callously gave into the criminal lifestyle. But near the end of the film, he starts to realize that this life is wrong and genuinely attempts to start anew with Ronnie and Anthony,living in Atlanta. Unfortunately, his actions catch up to him fast when Ilena's cousin comes back for revenge in the worst way possible, shooting and killing him before he got the chance to do so. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: O-Dog, who is arrested in the end of the film due to the videotape he kept. Chauncey getting the living crap beat out of him by Caine was something he had coming for a while. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: O-Dog himself could be, because during the film, he gets several Kick the Dog moments. | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe | |
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Ilena, distraught over an apparent pregnancy, claims that Caine is the only person she's been sexually active with. He contests this, and moreover insists that protection was used; however, neither is a sure bet: while Ilena has a reputation, a condom doesn't always ensure safe sex. The truth never comes out. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: "What the fuck did you say about my mama?!" | |
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Protagonist Journey to Villain | |
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Protagonist Journey to Villain: Caine starts out as a young child, raised around and intrigued by the criminal lifestyle. As he grows up, he actively indulges in it and doesn't get his wake-up call until it's too late. | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
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Gender-Blender Name: Stacy. | |
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Malcolm Xerox | |
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Malcolm Xerox: Sharif, though he's not depicted badly - he's just disregarded by his troubled criminal friends. Although there's a lot of cynicism that can be picked up from the way he is written, especially how other characters treat him (even his dad!). | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Caine is a bloody mess, literally gasping out his final breaths, as Stacy holds him helplessly, urging him not to go. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Ilena's cousin and his gang who shot Caine and one of his friends, Sharif in a drive-by at the end of the film. A-Wax also counts. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Caine's grandparents try to set him on the right path, but the audience is left with the impression that their vague evangelising is a poor tactic; it certainly rings hollow for him. Ultimately, it's Ronnie who convinces him to walk away from the life with her. Averted with Sharif's father, who gives some rare good advice and wants both his son and Caine to move far away from the hood. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: The Korean store owner after O-Dog confronts him for saying he felt sorry for his mother. His voice is full of panic and worry when he says “I don’t want any trouble” just before O-Dog shoots him. When the detective catches Caine changing his story during the interrogation and tells him "You know you fucked up now. You know that, right?" The look on Caine’s face says it all. | |
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Stupid Evil | |
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Stupid Evil: O-Dog keeping and replaying the tape of his homicide/robbery was absolutely idiotic, but for him it was a badge of honour. In the end, it comes back to bite him. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
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Bottomless Magazines: During the scene in which Caine's father Tad murders the man stiffing him on paying him the money he's owed, he fires a total of eight shots into the guy's chest, despite him holding what appears to be a six-shot revolver. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The Korean store clerk, who feels the need to insult O-Dog's mother, which gets him (and his wife) killed. No one could predict O-Dog would murder them for a comment, but O-Dog was already on edge from the owner's wife treating them like shoplifters, and comments like that just add fuel to the flame. The man that owed Tat money, who felt the need to disrespect him (even at gunpoint). Harold, who tries to reach for a gun while being held at gunpoint by two carjackers. Ilena's cousin, who didn't even know who Caine was and had to ask, and waltzed into a rival 'hood with no weapon or backup. Cue the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Caine. Caine becomes this at the end when he tries to shield Anthony from the gunfire of Ilena's cousin and his gang, despite the fact that they weren't even shooting at Anthony in the first place. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: O-Dog might have spared the Korean shop owners (keyword being might) if he hadn't said he felt sorry for O-Dog's mother. | |
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Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal | |
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Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Caine beating the tar out of Chauncey compels the latter to show O-Dog's robbery tape to the police. | |
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Hood Film | |
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Hood Film: The story centers around a gangster named Caine and his friend O-Dog living in the streets of Watts. Caine's father was a drug-dealer and his mother was a Junkie Parent, so he was sent to live with his grandparents at a young age. Caine's the only one of his friends to graduate high school, but he still ends up on the criminal path. | |
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Sour Supporter | |
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Sour Supporter: O-Dog disapproves of Caine leaving the hood and even calls him a sellout. He still helps him move, but wants to be paid for the hassle. | |
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Gangland Drive-By | |
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Gangland Drive-By: The main character is killed in a drive-by shooting at the end. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: Even by the standards of an urban drama, the violence is extremely graphic. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: A lot given the setting. O-Dog stands out as the most psychotic, sadistic and unlikable of the bunch. He's a toxic friend to Caine who doesn't respect his desire to leave the ghetto behind and start anew, embraces his own violent side and actively brings out the worst in Caine. He also has no morals or common sense to hold him back from being a horrible person. He really drives this point further when he kills an innocent Korean store owner and his wife for making an off-hand comment about his mother and then shows the surveillance tape to his friends for means of entertainment. He later kills a drug addict for harassing him and steals his food. Chauncey might not be as sociopathic or sadistic as O-Dog, but he certainly lacks in terms of loyalty and competence. He is a complete prick to everyone around him and a lazy, irresponsible and unambitious moron whose deliberately botched plan to hijack a car has both Caine and O-Dog arrested. He later harasses Ronnie in front of her child and boyfriend which gets him beaten up and as means of getting back at his friends, he sends the videotape of O-Dog whacking the Korean store owner to the police. It's no wonder why none of his friends really like him. Caine's father is this as well for his terrible upbringing on Caine and being a trigger-happy sociopath who kills people in poker for little to no provocation. Needless to say, he was not a good role model. The rival gang members after brutally killing Caine's cousin for no reason after stealing his car. Later, they are seen bullying and harassing a female hot dog stall worker. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: All of the gangsters are remorseless when it comes to living their criminal life, but O-Dog and A-Wax stand out as the biggest of them all. Chauncey probably takes home the blue ribbon here. He's unpopular (and barely tolerated) by his associates; lazy; gets Caine and O-Dog arrested with a sloppy car theft plot; sexually harasses Ronnie (in front of her child and her boyfriend), and finally seals O-Dog's fate by sending the videotape to the police. In other words, he's an absolute bastard. You can see that even the police that are around in Watts are not nice guys, which only further drives home what kind of place Watts is. Caine's father fits the bill. | |
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Letters 2 Numbers | |
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Letters 2 Numbers: Obvious. | |
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TheSeventies | |
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The '70s: Only taking place in Caine's flashback at the beginning of the movie. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: "Streiht Up Menace" by MC Eiht appears in two versions: the high-tempo remix that plays in the car of the guy at the drive-thru Caine robs, and the slow, melancholic original version that plays over the credits. The song is basically a summary of the film and Caine's life, so it's only fitting that in the moment, it's more of a "banger", demonstrating Caine's status as a successful criminal, while in the end, it's a sad recounting of the tragedy that is Caine's life. | |
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Empathy Doll Shot | |
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Empathy Doll Shot: We see Anthony's big wheel upside down at the end, implying he was shot but it turned out Caine shielded him. | |
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Dying Dream | |
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Dying Dream: At the end of the film, Caine himself is thinking about his life as he lies there dying, and it's at this point that we realize (if you consider this interpretation of the film) that the entire film we've just seen has been Caine's life passing before his eyes, as he lies dying. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: The Latino gang that finds Caine and Sharif lying on the ground after being beaten up by some cops drive them to the hospital instead of finishing them off like the cops expected. Downplayed with O-Dog, who pulls Caine off Illena's cousin after a brutal beatdown... not out of empathy for the victim – whom he continues to beat on afterwards – but because the sight was clearly disturbing his friend's grandfather. More broadly, O-Dog accepting Caine's retreat from the hood with nothing but a few sideways comments is a remarkably benign way for someone like him to take what he so clearly considers betrayal, as well as his rare show of raw emotion after the carnage that leaves his friends dead. | |
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