His fate becomes unknown after this, but Cain admits that Doc notified them of Chauncey's actions and suspects that O-Dog will kill him if the police doesn't get to him first. Chauncey shows up at the gang's cookout party in the park and later attends Ronnie's house party, where he drunkenly makes sexual advances towards Ronnie and was pistol whipped by Cain as a result.Īfterwards, Chauncey tells Doc that he plans to show the police the video tape of Cain and O-Dog's liquor store assault in retaliation. This was the world, country, and town into which Andrew Carnegie was. He sends Cain, O-Dog, and A-Wax on a failed mission to attain the vehicle. Such were the conditions of the new industrial society, characterized by glorious advances in technology and mass production, overcrowding, squalor, and an acute sense of mortalityfor the working class, a bleak, Dickensian place that held out little hope to their children. When the insurance man comes over to show the picture of the car, Chauncey simply taunts and bullies the caucasian man throughout their meeting. He is portrayed by the actor Clifton Powell.Ĭhauncey first appeared when O-Dog shows the tape of the liquor store assault, where he cheers at the latter's performance.
He was a former friend and business partner to Cain and O-Dog, until the night a Ronnie's going away party, where he effectively becomes an enemy to them.
N.F.Gang-Banger Chauncey is a supporting character turned secondary antagonist of the movie Menace to Society. Despite his understanding of right and wrong (values passed on by a good friend, his kind grandparents, a caring teacher), his life and its entrapments are too much to overcome.
His is a world where respect comes from intimidation, power from violence. As a very young boy, Caine witnesses his dad murdered over something inconsequential, and his mom OD. Life as portrayed here-and no doubt accurately so-is both figuratively and literally narrow. They are so credible-occasionally frighteningly so-that the repressive universe of violent ghetto life is captured effectively. Similar territory was covered in the equally commanding Boyz N the Hood, but what makes this cautionary tale stand out is not only the Hughes brothers' forceful story, (written with their friend, Tyger Williams) and direction, but the naturalness of then-newcomer leads Turner as Caine, Larenz Tate as O-Dog, and Jada Pinkett as Ronnie. Menace II Society Synopsis: This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA. The film, from the brother writer-director team of Allen and Albert Hughes, chronicles life in the Los Angeles 'hood. Tyrin Turner may not have broken out into stardom as was initially expected, but his work in Menace II Society is one of the more powerful cinematic debuts.
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