All of the dark and hard-to-watch truths involving women were just as much part of the story as the enticing party scenes. That would’ve made the biopic one step closer to reality, and would further legitimize the flashy sex scenes and nude female bodies as integral to the plot. The women should’ve been given more of a voice or at least complete narratives. The scene with Dre’s attack on Barnes should’ve been kept in. If the director and actual rappers behind the film didn’t want to sugarcoat what happened, they failed in some ways by not illuminating the whole truth. This goes hand-in-hand with Barnes’ point about the revisionist history. It seems pointless, disconnected and even confusing for the film to introduce these narratives without resolution. We never find out if Eazy-E’s pregnant wife also has HIV, and she’s out of the picture once he is. Dre’s mother was so concerned about his wellbeing in the beginning, but we don’t see her reaction to his fame. ![]() For example, we don’t know what happens to Dre’s ex girlfriend and child after she confronts him in the car. But there are some noticeable plot holes involving the women in their lives. members, and the film succeeds at showing this through their tumultuous ups and downs. It’s understandable that the emphasis rested on the relationships between the N.W.A. In addition, more central women’s storylines were erased. So the film glossed over the violence toward women during the N.W.A.’s time in the limelight. ![]() While she wouldn’t have wanted to see that scene played out and believes it to be “too ugly for a general audience,” she states, “Like many of the women that knew and worked with N.W.A., I found myself a casualty of Straight Outta Compton’s revisionist history.” Barnes wrote an article about the attack and noted that it was excluded from the film. He pleaded no contest to the charges back when it happened, but people are calling him out again and this led to his recent apology. Dre’s abuse of women, most notably in relation to journalist Dee Barnes in 1991, has resurfaced in the media. The problem is the expurgation of certain uncomfortable truths. The problem isn’t the explicit pool party loaded with topless women or the hotel group sex scenes with the cruel play on “Bye Felicia” - that’s all supposed to be fun and enticing for the viewer. But there is an inconsistency with the film’s choice of what type of misogyny to include. The movie would have been dishonest if the members of the group were shown to be respectful or ambivalent toward women that just wouldn’t be accurate. The delineation of misogyny can be seen as a necessary evil rather than glorification. So in that case, it’s even more crucial that it preserve the reality of the rise and fall of N.W.A.’s gangster rap legacy. Straight Outta Compton is a biopic, not a work of complete fiction. The key is to stray from stereotypes but create moral complexity. It’s necessary to have characters who are flawed and, more importantly, real. The constant dilemma for him is being conscientious and respectful of demographics to which he doesn’t belong when he’s writing characters - but as a storyteller, he realizes drama thrives on conflict and human fallacy. ![]() His current work examines the populations in Cincinnati’s Price Hill, an economically depressed and racially mixed neighborhood. As a screenwriter, he has to think about portrayals of reality every day. But my friend dispelled that pretty quickly. I didn’t want to support something that glorified sexism. So when my friend brought this up, I immediately lost some interest in the movie. Dre, Eazy-E and Ice Cube.) While I am aware of the weight of intersectionality in dealing with oppression, I wasn’t even thinking about the obvious misogyny in the group’s lyricism and members’ lives. stands for ‘Niggaz Wit Attitudes,’ and is the group portrayed in the film, featuring mostly Dr. The Black Lives Matter movement is gaining traction in an unprecedented way and the recent murder of black Cincinnatian Samuel Dubose by a white officer, and the officer’s subsequent indictment, hit close to home. I was excited about the film because it felt significant and timely. I went to see Straight Outta Compton with my friend who’s a screenwriter he mentioned beforehand how he had read a few scathing reviews about its sexism.
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