In high school they moved to the mostly-white L.A. Scorsese flicks were a major influence on the teenage Allen and Albert, as they recreated scenes from movies like Goodfellas in their mother's house. The Hughes Brothers were transplants to Pomona, CA from Detroit and they'd developed the movie bug early.
Both protagonists grow up with an almost cavalier attitude towards hustling and killing, though the strains of their lifestyles eventually push them near a breaking point. In Menace., little Kaydee sees drugs and violence around him regularly he even witnesses his father murder a man in their living room during a card game. His working class family earns a meager living, so teenaged Henry becomes infatuated with the wiseguys down the street. Hill is bred into a life of crime at a relative early age, nudged towards criminality by both poverty and environment. In Kaydee "Caine" Lawson, the Hughes brothers crafted a Black teenage antihero a la Henry Hill in Goodfellas. The parallel relevance of the two movies feels obvious. both feature noteworthy Hip-Hop stars in prominent roles both arrived against the backdrop of racial unrest in Cali - Boyz. hit theaters just two months after the Rodney King beating while Menace. started shooting just after the 1992 L.A. for obvious reasons: both feature "growin' up in the hood" narratives set in early 90s L.A. A look at the life of a young Black male growing up in the Watts section of Los Angeles, the movie was one of the most critically-acclaimed Black films of the early 90s and a standard-bearer for then-popular "hood movies" that had begun to proliferate to theaters post- Boyz N The Hood. The film was the brainchild of two ambitious brothers who would go on to sit amongst the most distinct filmmakers of their generation.Īllen and Albert Hughes were only 21-year olds when they made their directorial debut with 1993s evocative Menace II Society. The gritty story of 18-year old Watts native Caine (played by then-newcomer Tyrin Turner) was both familiar and shocking to moviegoers here was a movie that somehow managed to convey the universal naïveté and recklessness of youth but also the specific dangers of growing up in a violent environment.
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