Blog 16: Report on New Jack City

New Jack City was based in New York City in 1989 and the movie is about a gang, Cash Money Brothers, and its leader Nino Brown. Soon after they start getting into the drug business, they begin making a million a week. After the cops catch wind of the business that this gang is doing, they send out Scotty and Nick to go undercover. Scotty is a cop who is looking to get inside the gang so he can take them down. When he is trying to get in the gang, his attempt fails miserably. Scotty wants to get revenge for Nino killing his mother no matter what it takes. There are many people that aren't undercover cops that still want to take Nino down themselves. This compares to life in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990’s. New York City had a rise in drugs and gang violence in that time period. As well, as the rise in undercover cops going undercover to bust these gangs wide open. New York City was still a very scary place at night in these areas. The movie is filmed in New York City, so the actually scenes really show how New York was in that time. The scenes that were filmed at night showed a very gloomy city. The characters in the movie show how the gangs were back in that time and how scary New York was. The movie shows the typical good cop and bad gangs feud but it changes when the cop become revengeful. People were scared to live in a poor neighborhood in the late 1980s. They show how cops and gang members acted with each other, some good cops and some dirty cops. Overall, I believe that New York City was depicted perfectly in the movie because of the rise in drugs and gang violence. It was safe to walk the streets of New York at night and still isn't to this day. Gang violence has been lower in today’s world compared to what it was back in the late 1980s.