July 12, 1991 –
John Singleton directorial debut, Boyz N the Hood, starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Larry Fishburne, Nia Long, Regina King, and Angela Bassett, went into general release on this date. (John Singleton’s Oscar nomination for Best Director at the age of 24 made him the youngest director to ever receive such an accolade, beating Orson Welles by a good two years.)
Part of Writer and Director John Singleton’s inspiration to making this movie came when an executive from Orion Pictures came to talk to his class at USC’s film school. Singleton told the executives that he didn’t like that the movie Colors wasn’t about South Central Los Angeles at all, but was about “two white cops“. When the executive defensively said that Ice-T wrote the music for the movie, Singleton said to a lot of applause “Well, Ice-T didn’t write the fucking script!” Singleton also cited New Jack City as a movie that he didn’t like, and wanted to make this movie as different from it as possible.
The Haus of Dcaligari 