My Research on Boyz In The Hood and City Of God.

The Two films that I have chosen to research about are Boyz In The Hood and City Of God.
Boyz In The Hood:

Boyz In The Hood was first released in the summer of 1991 on 12th July. The film was directed and written by John Singleton. Boyz In The Hood actors and actresses both fitted and played their roles well. The cast were Rapper Ice Cube who played Darin 'Doughboy' Baker, Morris Chestnut who played 'Ricky Baker', Cuba Gooding Jr playing 'Tre Styles', Nia Long playing'Brandi' and Angela Bassett who played 'Reva Devereaux'.

The Storyline behind Boyz In The Hood is about a group of African- American childhood friends, who grow up in a ghetto hood located in South Central L.A. Throughout the film you see the struggle they go through to escape from the violence and drugs they are surrounded by in their everyday life. All three have different ambitions they want to pursue and achieve.

Boyz In The Hood has a hybrid genre as it is captured as a crime/urban drama/gangsta hood film genre. The film captures everyday issues that happen in Ghetto neighbourhoods involving gang rivals.



City Of God:


City Of God was first released on the 3rd January, 2003. The film was directed by Fernando Meirelles and his co-director Katia Lund. The film was written by by Braulio Mantovani. City Of God was adapted from the Novel written by Paulo Lin's.

The film City Of God has a large Cast of actors and actresses, naming a few:

• Leandro Firmino da Hora as Lil ZE


• Phellipe Haagensen as Benny


• Douglas Silva as Lil Dice


• Seu Jorge as Knockout Ned


• Alice Braga as Angelica


• Roberta Rodriguez as Bernice


• Alexandre Rodriguez as Rocket

Most of the actors and actresses in this film have never acted before and were in fact residents of City Of God itself in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

The storyline of City Of God:

City Of God is an intense and passionate film. The film is about two teenage boys living and growing up in a violent environment in Rio De Janeiro. They both take different paths as one goes to become a photographer and the other turns to the drug dealing business. Throughout the film there are flashbacks of the boys in their childhood seeing what they go through on a day to day basis and explains each characters role and why they became the person that they are now. The film captures drug abuse, violent crimes and a boy tyring to free himself from the slums strong hold.

The tag line for City Of God is ..."Fight and you'll never survive... Run and you'll never escape."