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I hope Ice Cube was TRYING to be funny........

posted 16 years ago by KungFuVooDoo
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Was it me, or did Ice Cube seem almost desperate to convince the audience that he is truly "Straight Outta Compton"? We get it Ice Cube, you're a gangsta who made it big and even though you're in Hollywood, you would cap my ass at the drop of a hat 'cause that's how you roll in the Hood.

Early on in the film, listening to him spit a few tired, cliches at the camera, I thought he was TRYING to be funny and over the top. It was only after a bit did I realize that this was his version of acting.

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[–] Stink_Face 16 years ago

Cube is NOT gangster - He just plays at being one. I think he might have even gone to college, not very "Hood" or "street" or "gangster" is it? Anyhow, he's not a gangbanger, at all or ever was I am sure of that.

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[–] Schwinghammer 16 years ago

Being a gangbanger isn't the same thing as "being gangsta". Gangsta in the hip-hop culture sense is a "state of mind" or whatever - a machisimo of sorts. If you think about it, it's not really that much different than how, say, Italian-American mafiosos are stereotyped as behaving.

Growing up in Compton would probably mean developing that sort of machisimo is almost required just to fit in - if you don't, you'd probably become a target. (Speculation of course, I'm no sociologist/psychologist.) Given the dangerous nature of Compton, I wouldn't be surprised if Cube's youth included violence.

While he may have went to a trade school, I'm not sure that he finished before his music took off. Either way I don't see how that really affects his "cred" or whatever.

[–] rza42o 15 years ago

I know what you mean, but I think Ice Cube made it work here

Im not sure if it was intentionally over the top, and thats what Carpenter wanted, but it seemed to fit

[–] da_doc2099 15 years ago

he founded NWA here hes just ice cube being ice cube

[–] Ghombie 15 years ago

I liked him in this. I remember his flashback of when he arrived in the town and he had a shotgun and was ready to jump out and rob everyone. He had a devilish look on his face that just looked like he was having fun in the role and so was I watching him in this space western horror thing... Then he jumps out and no ones there and the story goes on....

EDIT: OOOOOPS. I mean he jumps out and theres a bunch of headless hanging bodies there and the story goes on. Sorry.
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