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Boyz n the Hood : Saxophones Play While Someone Breaks In

Furious (Laurence Fishburne) tries to shoot someone after they break in while Furious and Tre (Desi Arnez Hines II) are sleeping. Officer Coffey (Jessie Lawrence Ferguson) and Officer Graham (Kirk Kinder) show up an hour after shots are fired.

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ambient sound , close-up, dolly out, dolly shot, eyeline match, handheld camera, medium close-up, medium shot, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, musical theme , overhead shot, pan, reaction shot, shot/reverse shot, slow motion, sound mixing, suspense, tilt, tracking shot, zoom-in

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White: White American

"Saxophones Play While Someone Breaks In" in Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3933

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Sid Bell

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