![]() ![]() ![]() Steven Spielberg told the writer/director later that that moment was one of the most powerful he’d ever seen on film. The scene - graphic, authentic, aching, and profoundly sad- encompasses the heart of the Singleton's Oscar-nominated movie. ![]() Ricky was the “good” son, and Ricky’s half-brother, Doughboy, is the one who "should’ve" suffered this fate - at least that how the scene reads when Brenda begins attacking a stunned Doughboy, as tortured cries leave her lips. Ricky’s been shot, and his mother Brenda, played brilliantly by Tyra Ferrell, can’t fathom the loss. There’s a haunting moment in John Singleton’s Boyz n The Hood when a blood-soaked Doughboy ( Ice Cube) and Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.) drag the lifeless body of Ricky (Morris Chestnut) into his mama’s living room.
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