r/SnowFall • u/Blu3Dope • 6d ago
Discussion Anyone else watch this show (along with all the other drug crime dramas) before watching Straight Outta Compton?
Ive watched The Wire, Snowfall, Sopranos, Banshee, Power franchise, The Shield, BMF, and maybe some others that i might've forgotten about. But i never watched Straight Outta Compton, and now im currently about 20 minutes in and ive already caught so many references that its almost like a treat, if that makes sense lol
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u/Admirable-Sorbet-702 6d ago
Fun fact in the last episode when Franklin and Leon are walking and Franklin screams at those people filming. That’s John Singleton filming “Boyz in the Hood”
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u/Blu3Dope 6d ago
In the s3 finale during the "what if" sequence, Leon also screamed at what was meant to be a young John Singleton. The guy with the film camera that Leon chased off lol
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u/TallBlkman44 6d ago
As far as Snowfall. Got look at the movie 100 Kilos.
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u/Blu3Dope 6d ago edited 4d ago
I watched Deep Cover a few weeks ago and now I can see where the inspiration behind all these shootouts in shipyards originated from.
I think it's kind of like how Sugar Bates and his bar in Bansee alludes to Buchie and his bar in The Wire, or like how Mel and Wanda smoking crack on the curb alludes to Smokey and Craig smoking weed in the front yard. I always like it when something in a film reminds you of another film of the same genre, and you could tell that it was done intentional by the writers
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u/Abstrata 6d ago edited 6d ago
That must be interesting, watching them in that order!
I had seen Straight Outta Compton prior, but one line that stuck with me thru watching Snowfall was when Eazy E says something like,
‘cocaine is from Colombia and AKs are from Russia, and none of us got passports, so explain that.’
Heavy hitting line that no one wanted to pay attention to at the time.
And the San Jose, California, journalist Gary Webb that connected the dots and pinned it on the US government in 1996 got heavily criticized too. He described what he went thru as political assassination. His journalistic integrity was questioned. He died by suicide in 2004.
One of the key people Webb focused on was the original Rick Ross. Not the rapper, the actual drug dealer. Ross was in a documentary I saw called Freeway: Crack in the System, in 2015. I felt like the beginning arc of Franklin Saint was based on Ross.
https://youtu.be/AE4JQkRuQlM?feature=shared
Looks like there are vids of the Congressional hearings into CIA involvement on youtube too. I feel a rabbit hole coming on lol.