![]() ![]() Dre wouldn't want to include the dark spots of their histories, it's a bit more difficult to figure out why critics didn't bring it up in their reviews. While it's easy to see why Ice Cube and Dr. ![]() Dre's apology is a reminder to critics of what they missed The concern is that they - as with anyone producing his own biopic - won't be or can't be objective when presenting themselves and their history. Not acknowledging Dre's violence is attributed to the fact that Dre and Ice Cube are producers on the film. "If they start from where they start from, I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up," she said. Michel'le (Michelle Touissant), a singer and Dre's former fiancée, told hip-hop site VladTV that she didn't expect to be in the movie or for it to acknowledge her abusive relationship with Dre. Rather, she writes, she expected and wanted to see some acknowledgment of Dre's history of violence against women.īarnes isn't the only woman Dre has assaulted. Barnes explains she didn't think there would be a reenactment of her abuse that might be too difficult and graphic for a film to handle delicately. In court, Dre pleaded no contest to the assault, and Barnes's civil suit was settled.īarnes came forward and wrote the essay because her abuse wasn't depicted in the movie. Dre straddled me and beat me mercilessly on the floor of the women’s restroom at the Po Na Na Souk nightclub in 1991. When I saw the footage of California Highway Patrol officer Daniel Andrew straddling and viciously punching Marlene Pinnock in broad daylight on the side of a busy freeway last year, I cringed. That knee did not belong to a police officer, but Andre Young, the producer/rapper who goes by Dr. Three years later - in 1991 - I would experience something similar, only this time, I was on my back, and the knee was in my chest. She wrote about an incident in 1991 when Dre beat her: The Tuesday after its premiere - August 18 - rapper and former TV host Dee Barnes wrote an essay for Gawker explaining that the movie left out Dre's history of physically abusing women, including herself. Compton flew under the radar, until it raked in $60 million on its opening weekend. This summer was the year of the blockbuster - Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, and Minions were released, and Batman v Superman was originally supposed to join the fray (it will open in March 2016 instead). The actual incidents of violence against women that Straight Outta Compton left outĬompton's success is a bit of surprise. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives." On Friday, Dre gave an apology to the women he abused, telling the New York Times: "I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. ![]() It's ignited broader questions about why the film omitted this horrible chunk of history. The omission has sparked a new examination of his life, his songs, and his lyrics. Dre's history of violence against women, which the film doesn't touch upon. Compton's success is as much a testament to the talent of N.W.A as it is a celebration of overcoming the struggle of life in the inner city.īut one story that Compton didn't tell is getting almost as much attention as the film's success. Instead, it treats racism as it is - an inescapable force that haunts black men and women in America. It makes no attempt to explain the origins of institutionalized racism or how we arrived to the time we're in. At its heart, the film is about black survival in America. It means that Compton has defied the expectations of an industry.Ĭompton is a success story about a survival story. It means that people are listening to Dr. It means that people in suburban America are seeing this film. Dre, Eazy-E, and Ice Cube are learning about them for the very first time. It means that people who are unfamiliar with Dr. ![]() To get to the $100 million mark means the N.W.A bio-drama has crossed demographics and transcended its genre - it's not just rap aficionados watching the movie. It's made an estimated $111 million since it opened August 14. For the second week in a row, Straight Outta Compton was the most-watched movie in America. ![]()
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