![]() Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) and DJ Yella (Neil Brown, Jr.) are having a wild party in their hotel room, filled with liquor and half-naked women, when a man interrupts asking for his girlfriend, Felicia. biopic, Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson, Jr.), Dr. ![]() In Straight Outta Compton, "Bye Felicia" is used a little differently and a bit more violently, though the general message remains the same. After Smokey turns her down, she turns to Craig, who responds simply with, "Bye Felicia," successfully dismissing the woman and sending her on her way. When he says no, she tries again, only this time asking to borrow a joint. The rapper delivered the line in a scene when Cube, as Craig Jones, and his buddy, Smokey (played by Chris Tucker), are accosted by local druggie and freeloader Felicia (Angela Means), who wants to borrow Smokey's car. 'Bye Felicia' (or Felisha, depending on your spelling preference) was just meant to be a throwaway line in Friday, Ice Cube's feature film breakout. ![]() But how does "Bye Felicia" in Compton compare to Friday ? Now, the phrase has a slightly new origin story thanks to Ice Cube's newest collaboration with Gray, Straight Outta Compton. The phrase has become inexplicably popular recently, but it actually originates from the 1995 movie Friday, starring Ice Cube and Chris Tucker and directed by F. It’s no overstatement to say that Gray’s whole career has building to Straight Outta Compton.Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year ( or you're Ryan Seacrest), you've probably heard the words "Bye Felicia." The catchphrase and internet meme has taken over the world, and is especially beloved as a quick way to shut down any haters. He also made Friday, with Ice Cube, the greatest ghetto comedy ever made. ![]() Jackson and Kevin Spacey, and The Italian Job, with Mark Wahlberg and bunch of Mini Coopers. Gary Gray, a veteran action filmmaker and an unsung pioneer as far as black directors go years ago, he made The Negotiator, with Samuel L. The fact that it’s good shouldn’t be surprising. In other words: The first few minutes of Straight Outta Compton are, unexpectedly, an action movie, and a really good one. It’s a violent scene that doesn’t valorize E’s gangster days. Then it goes wronger when the LAPD shows up and literally knocks down the door, sending Eric Wright scrambling out a window, over a few fences, and into his future as Eazy-E. It’s a deal between friends-the dialogue is distinctive, precise, even funny-and it goes wrong because of circumstance and desperation, not greed or machismo. This deal isn’t between a good guy and some evil thugs. ![]() But when genre movies work, it’s not necessarily because they break the mold it’s because they get the details right. The opening scene is one we’ve all watched a thousand times: The Drug Deal Gone Wrong. Not a good sign.Īnd yet, within minutes, Straight Outta Compton is way more visceral, way more thrilling, way better than its loaded deck would suggest. Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E-was produced in part by Dr. Those doubts go through the roof when the subjects of the movie are also its producers, and Straight Outta Compton-the story of N.W.A and the rise of Dr. That’s not a knock on the material, or the talent assembled-it’s just a reasonably skeptical prognosis based upon the history of a genre, the musical biopic, that has always tended toward treacle, oversimplification, and shameless hagiography. Straight Outta Compton has no business being a good movie. ![]()
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