Straight Outta Conversations: A Brief Analysis

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For this week’s journal I chose the film, Straight Outta Compton starring Jason Mitchell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, and Paul Giamtti. This film was released in 2015 and was written by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff. The screenplay in this film holds true to the three act structure, without trying to give away too much details, at the beginning you meet every character and get a sense of what they are going through in their everyday lives such as Ice Cube being harassed by the police on his way home, Dr. Dre’s trouble at home with this mother and baby mama drama or Eazy-E almost getting killed during a drug deal. It gives the background of the character’s lives before they became mega stars and how they got together to take the music world by storm. …show more content…

Dre who is a disc jockey along with DJ Yella at an outdated club, tries to encourage Eazy-E to trade in his drug dealing occupation to get into the music business, after playing a tract that it disapproved by the club owner, they get fired. This leads to the second act when Eazy-E records a record written by Ice Cube which became known as one of the biggest west coast rap hits over all time, Boyz N Tha Hood. This is something that takes Eazy-E’s career to brand new heights and in turn takes the rest of the characters with him. The act two comes when Ice Cube, who is no longer happy with the management, leaves the group and goes on to become a solo artist which ultimately inspires Dr. Dre to do the same. Act three comes when Dr. Dre leave Death Row and Eazy-Z mends his relationship with Ice Cube after finding out that the concerns that Ice Cube and Dr. Dre were having had been