MEMO
To: ENC1102
From: Khairi Clark
Date: November 17, 2014
Re: MOVIE: "FRIDAY"
The
movie Friday is a great example of a movie that displays hip hop culture at its
finest. This movie is about a man name Craig who lives with his parents. He
lost his job because he was accused of stealing boxes. He has a friend named
Smokey who he is always hanging out with. Smokey is more of the negative
influence because he is into the drug game. Craig and Smokey end up facing a
big problem when Smokey didn’t have his boss money for selling his weed. Smokey’s
boss said that he will end up killing Craig and Smokey if they don’t come up
with his money by 10pm. Craig had no part in the money that Smokey owed his
boss. Craig’s name was brought along by Smokey because Smokey didn’t want to be
left alone in the situation he was facing.
The language that was
involved in this movie represents hip hop culture because hip hop expresses a
lot of anger and feelings. Craig uses a lot of fouled language throughout the
movie meaning that there is different emotions involved in how he feels. In
this movie, fouled language is being used by a lot of African American descents
which is a key factor in hip hop culture because there is a lot of African
Americans that partake in rap which uses alot of bad language.
Throughout this movie
there was a lot of violence shown in different scenes. One fight that happened
involved Craig and Debo. This fight happened because Debo hit Dana in the face
in front of a crowd of people. Craig supposedly had a big crush on the Dana so
as a result of that, Craig stepped up as a man and defended her honor. Craig
ended up winning the fight. Another act of violence that occurred was when Craig
and Smokey started to get shot at. Craig and Smokey were ordered to be shot at
because they didn’t come up with Big Worm’s money which was 200 dollars. These
acts of violence could relate to hip hop culture because fights and drugs are
usually involved with rap lifestyles.
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