F. Gary Gray is the director the Straight Outta Compton movie. It took him four years to capture the essence of what the movie suppose to be. Gary wanted to make the movie real by finding the actors, who can play the members from NWA, and making everything in the movie look like the late 80s. He wanted the setting to be in the same neighborhood, hangouts the group grew up. From the descriptions of what the members from NWA look like has black Raider gear, Jerry Curl hairstyles and attitude. Gray also has his experience with music videos and also appear in two movie as a cameo; Friday along with Straight Outta Compton. Gary directed other movies like Set It Off, Friday, The Negotiator, other movies. Also Gray was presented with The Ivan Dixon Award …show more content…
Building this scene was however became a struggle. F Gary Gray wanted to be as real as the actually event that took place, when NWA had a concert in Detroit. This scene shows the N.W.A performing on stage, with the song Fuck the Police. Eventually the policemen stop the concert, which causes the crowd to start rioting. According to F Gary Gray the policemen form riot Detroit concert scene were real LAPD, but in the movie they’re Detroit police officers. Even when the Fuck the Police song, the LAPD officers understood the event that actually happened with the NWA concert in Detroit, so they went with it without taking offenses to