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Seeing Colors
Spike Lee’s controversial new film, Chi-Raq shines a spotlight on the out of control gang violence in Chicago. In 1988, Dennis Hopper similarly pointed a camera at the gang violence in his own Los Angeles backyard. Hopper’s film Colors was a gritty-for-the-time cop drama starring Robert Duvall and Sean Penn, but its most important contribution [...]
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Tagged 1988, Bloods, Chicago, Colors, Crips, Dennis Hopper, film, gangs, Los Angeles, Robert Duvall, Sean Penn
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