For the movie Boyz n the Hood I analyzed the relationship between Tre and his father. When Tre goes to live with his father, at first their relationship doesn’t have much of a connection. Furious has to provoke Tre to greet him. However, their father-son relationship blooms in every scene later on. Furious understands he needs to be Tre’s father figure, the one to teach him “how to be a man”. A scene in the beginning of the movie I want to point out is when they’re by the bay with Tre skipping stones. Furious tries to get little Tre to understand the world: advising him to not join the military and what sex is. Though Furious is a single father and the neighborhood isn’t the greatest, he cares for his son. This scene demonstrates Furious setting Tre up to have high moral values.
In the middle of the movie, Furious takes Tre and Ricky out to a different neighborhood. Tre and Ricky are hesitant in following Furious up to the sign but they do trust him. He teaches them both about some facts of real life. When he’s teaching the boys, he is also teaching the neighborhood about whats really going on in life for black communities. Furious isn’t only a father figure to Tre but also to Ricky, and in this scene, to complete strangers. His advice and talk is valid to them, giving him credibility and securing his thoughts into the minds of others.
Towards the end of the movie, when Ricky is killed, Furious tries to stop Tre. He doesn’t want him to go down that path. He taught Tre to live a life outside of the ghetto murders. Though revenge is usually sweet, Furious steps in front of the door, challenging Tre to shoot him instead. This scene demonstrates the connection between Furious and Tre amazingly. In a way, Furious mocks Tre stating, “Oh you bad now huh? You gonna shoot somebody. Well here I am. Shoot me”. He goes on to say that Tre is his responsibility, that its not right to do. As we see, Tre runs out to Doughboy’s car anyway. But Furious’s words got to Tre. He repeats to Doughboy to let him out of the car. This is where we see how Tre and Furious’s relationship really blossom. Though Tre wants to avenge Ricky’s death, he respects his father’s words and does the morally good thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle4ilOHrXg -early relationship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BadSZDpvq-s -Tre and Ricky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fv8bPOwGk -Furious’s words on revenge
Adolescence in 1990s Films 
April 3rd, 2014 at 12:25 am
I agree, Tre and Furious have a very close relationship. Furious is always giving him advice and pushing him in the right direction and out of the hood. Like your examples of the skipping stones scene when they talk about sex and he tells Tre not to join the military and the scene in the different neighborhood. Tre follows what ever his dad says and never lies to him except for one time. During the scene when Furious is fixing Tre’s hair Tre jokes about having children and Furious starts to get mad and asks if Tre is using condoms. Tre tells his father a story about how he had sex without a condom with the hottest girl that rolled up on the street and Furious became well, furious. But we find out the next morning in the car with Ricky that he was lying and that Tre is a virgin. Tre admits that this was the first time he as ever lied to his dad about anything. This shows how close they really are, never breaking the trust they have over the 7 years they’ve lived together.
April 6th, 2014 at 11:48 pm
I agree that Tre and Furious had a close relationship, but considering the type of relationship that most children had with their fathers in this enviornment, Tre and Furious had an extremely close relationship. While Furious did share some of his bias opinions he was speaking the truth and he was only doing it so that he would be able to give Tre a better life. It was almost good for Tre that Furious lived in the hood so that Tre would be able to experience everything that was going on around him and he would always have Furious there to reel him in and teach him what was right. Such as with the scene where Tre was going for revenge, that was the one thing that would have turned Tre completely over to the hood but because of how close of a relationship him and his father had Furious was able to bring him back and better his life.