"We had the idea since we were 15 years old. "The script came about through us being frustrated about not seeing what we wanted to see in that particular lifestyle, being portrayed the right way," Allen Hughes tells Margaret Pomeranz. riots but, as the creators explained to the SBS Movie Show back in the day, they first conceived of their film at age 15, as a direct response to the lack of accuracy in the films they were seeing about their own neighbourhoods. Menace II Society opened two years after John Singleton's Boyz n The Hood, and in the immediate aftermath of the Rodney King incident and the subsequent L.A. Their provocative anti-violence gang story was one of the early defining films of the '90s genre of quote-unquote "hood movies", focusing on family, friendships and crime, within South-Central and Compton in Los Angeles. The Hughes Brothers, Allen and Albert, were two film buffs barely in their 20s, when they unleashed Menace II Society on, well, society. "Being a black man in America isn't easy.
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