![]() ![]() The movie is quintessentially 1993 - across its soundtrack, fashion and dialogue (the movie also holds the record for one of the highest “fuck” per minute rates, at 3.07 times per minute) – but still poses important questions 20 years later. Menace II Society brought an unprecedented rawness and truth about South Central Los Angeles, a year after the LA Riots, holding no reservations about the brutality, violence and nihilism surrounding the ‘hood. ![]() ![]() The half Armenian, half African-American brothers gained instant notoriety for their reckless attitude towards filmmaking, the media, and even other young artists (notably their beef with Tupac Shakur, originally slated to star in Menace). Allen and Albert Hughes, aka The Hughes Brothers, sit in the Guinness Book of World Records as the ‘Youngest Filmmakers to Ever Direct a Major Hollywood Motion Picture in History.’ Creating short films in LA from the age of 12, and then directing music videos as teenagers, the fraternal twins made their major directorial debut at 21 with their 1993 breakout, Menace II Society.
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