Straight Outta Compton Director Defends Movies Accuracy!!!
According to the Straight Outta Compton Director, F. Gary Gray, he defends the movies accuracy despite Erin Bria Wright (Eazy-E’s daughter) weighing In On Straight Outta Compton.
Earlier this week, F. Gary Gray says he’s “very happy with the accuracy” of the movie that depicts the creation and eventual breakup of influential rap group N.W.A. However, F did reveal at the movie’s premiere last Monday night that most notable moments from N.W.A.’s history aren’t in the film.
Gray says he relied on accounts from surviving members of the Southern California group, including credited producers Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, for key details and scenes in the film.
CelebNMusic247.com has this report:
Gray said:
“Obviously you can only do so much when you have two hours and 10 years and five guys in one movie, but I’m very happy with the accuracy, especially given that I got it from the members of N.W.A.”
“If it was something that I just Googled or got it from Wikipedia then it would maybe be a little bit questionable. But Ice Cube was there every day. Dr. Dre was there every day. It doesn’t get any better than that.”
Early reviews have been largely positive. But “Compton” has faced criticism online for failing to directly address the group’s sometimes-misogynist lyrics and Dr. Dre’s 1991 attack on journalist Dee Barnes at a Hollywood nightclub. Gray said he was aware of the incident and the publicity it generated, but “this movie is about N.W.A.”
Cube, Dre and Gray have a long history that started back in the day when Ice Cube recruited F. Gary Gray and up and coming director to film his first project – the video “Today Was A Good Day” by Ice Cube.
Gray posted a Throwback photo of the two of them on set, writing:
“Waaaay back! @icecube leaves #NWA and goes solo. @fgarygray #Directing on the set of “Today was a good day”. One of my first music videos. Now directing #StraightOuttaCompton. Full circle!”
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F added:
“It’s about the group, the rise of the group and the subsequent following of the group and you can make five N.W.A. movies with all the information that is out there.”
“The first cut came in three hours and 30 minutes long. So we cut over an hour out of the movie so it was hard to cast the movie and it was hard to cut the movie. We couldn’t get everything in.”
Rapper MC Ren, who along with DJ Yella is credited as an “N.W.A. consultant” on the movie, said he had no complaints about the film’s content.
Ren said, referring to Eazy-E, who died of complications from AIDS in 1995.
“They could have put me more in the trailers you know but the movie is good. If E was here, he would like it so it’s cool.”
The film’s premiere Monday night coincided with renewed protests and conflict in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. MC Ren said he stands behind the group’s incendiary 1988 song “F— tha Police,” which is featured in the film.
Ren concluded, saying:
“It’s never going to change. … As long as you have people that think they are better than other people and they still look at us as slaves, it ain’t going to change.”
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