Try to understand my point again. A mafia like film because it was based around a criminal organization and not a street gang like most Hood films. It was based in Harlem? So what? The hood of Harlem was just ONE aspect of the film. The film went BEYOND the hood and touched base on how Frank had connections in Southeast Asia, how he was extremely rich, how he had the Mafia families under his thumb, how even the authorities wanted him, and how he dominated Upper Manhattan with an iron fist. To me that's not just a hood film but something more in the fields of Scarface, Godfather or Carlitos Way. Those are what we call "Mob films".
Paid in Full, Boys in the Hood, Brooklyn's finest, Training Day, Juice, South Central, Waist Deep, Snow on Tha Bluff and heck even End Watch are what I consider TRUE hood films because the film mostly touches base on the life of the hood unlike with American Gangster. Just because the protagonist is black in a crime drama doesn't mean the film is automatically a hood film.
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Got an 89% RT rating breh.
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Where've you been breh that you missed this heat
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