Colors: The Movie That Caused Outrage At Theaters

Of the many gang movies coming out of Hollywood in the 80s and 90s, few have stirred and inflamed public opinion as much as Colors. So how come people were so scared of reactions to this film that police had to be deployed to the streets of several major cities in the US on the day that Colors premiered?
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[@gbear2253]

“I am a nightmare Walking…. Psychopath talking. King of my jungle just a gangsta Stalking”! 😂

[@hassanburton669]

Dennis Hopper was A F%CKIN’ Genius! RIP.

[@endtimesmilitia9840]

I joined a Blood gang at the age of 14...not because I wanted to bit because of where I was from I was being jumped and harrased by a crop set that was literally less the one mile from my house...I honestly had no intentions of joining a gang but I had to in order to stay safe...well bybthe age of 21 I wanted out...my own gang was becoming my enemies...I've learned how dirty and grimey gangs can truly be..I fought our OG one night and beat him badly..I broke his ankle to and embarrassed him in front of other members and females...3 days later I got shot at a BBQ with the gang because that OG couldn't handle his loss and so he tries to have me killed...I was standing at the end of a driveway and a couple members walked up to me actin all friendly and then fired to shots into my back and right buttcheek...I took off running and collapsed a fee houses down...Thank God I survived and I never told the police who shot me...the gang respected me for that..they even told me I could get a higher position in the set...but I just moved out of the state and never looked back..now I have a beautiful wife and 2 daughters..I work hard and I will never go back or suggest anyone join a gang...it will be your own kind that ends up killing you out of jealousy or hate or whatever stupid reason..but im.not fake gang member..in fact I'm truly embarrassed that I even joined that Blood set...but the past Is the past and that happened about 15 years ago...I have the gang tattooed all over my body..and I hate those tats...but it's my own history so just know i don't think I'm all hard or tough...I just think I was a product of my environment...smh...damn those foos were evil and liars...I could of lost my life over something so foolish and dumb...I'm just happy to be here...and kids please don't join a gang...and I am from the west coast and I am from a very well known Blood neighborhood

[@GREALER]

Where you from now homes 👌🏽

[@uchihadabba699]

Did they pull a train on you when you got jumped in?

[@victorlewis7635]

You dont sound convincing not one bit lmao, you were not in a gang. But yeah kids don’t join gangs.

[@endtimesmilitia9840]

@@uchihadabba699 I was jumped in but idk what u mean by pull a train..plus I had to put in work prior..it was about a month process to get to the jump I'm part

[@endtimesmilitia9840]

@@GREALER I moved to Arizona from LA

[@mikeywhispers1588]

That movie was dope ASF. Loved when he asked the kid tagging gang members names if he knew earl shibe and spray painted his face 😂

[@gone.golfing]

I never understood that Nutty Professor/Earl Scheib joke until literally this moment.

[@mikeywhispers1588]

@@gone.golfing same for me 🤣

[@davidperez5089]

Still dont get it! Who TF Is ES?

[@mikeywhispers1588]

@@davidperez5089 earl shibe was a popular paint company back in the day

[@jessihawkins9116]

@@mikeywhispers1588I’ve never heard of it 🤷‍♀️

[@doitynoid2790]

This movie changed the whole world honestly.

[@uchihadabba699]

No it did not. Stupid ass film.

[@davidperez5089]

DH really hit it out the park with this Flick. Loved him as feck, in rivers Edge. RIP -dennis

[@asimhusain8087]

The movie didn't change the whole world it didn't show the truth the street gangs are just a business trying to sell drugs ruining their neighborhoods.

[@witchcitytaxi202]

NO IT DIDNT.

[@MasterSpade]

That Ice-T song is as Old School as it gets!!!

[@robertlucas9970]

THAT BEAT GOES HARD💯💯💯

[@jdmstreetfilms9455]

I remember when this movie came out on VHS!!! You had to see it in that era to know what it felt like….I’ll never forget it…

[@josephsanchez5987]

Truthfully if you know anyone that has the original version there's scenes they took out where cops beat the crips up that movie is selling for like 20 grand depending on condition

[@josephsanchez5987]

KZbin don't even have that edit

[@matthewlohr2969]

Yeah I remember I recorded it on VHS Tape from HBO or Showtime It was probably one of my favorites I still dig this Movie to this day

[@westcoastmike4158]

Look at me Pac-Man.yhis is me to man.

[@ZapRowsdower47]

True, late 80s and 90s was gang infested even across the country like a wildfire, I had the directors cut, the red n black tape.

[@jvc7244]

Let's not forget the fact that Herbie Hancock did a great job making music featured in the movie soundtrack. IMO, it truly reflected the late 80s sound. Early Ice-T's tracks were included in the movie as well

[@TripleDDDD]

The Colors Soundtrack was the first rap album i ever owned.

[@Sbamabelle]

the 80's were wild and gang violence was off the dang charts.

[@tylercampbell6365]

80s and 90s was the realest time for gangs..They weren't playing back then. It's intriguing and sad at the senseless loss of life ..Saludo a esos verdaderos soldados

[@CBlixk6300]

LA yeah Chicago Never stopped really since the 60s

[@ck2969]

​@@CBlixk6300La still same tho

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

How old were the gangs member when the film was shot?.I bet the elders were born during Watts riots and the juniors in the first half of the seventies.

[@hatednyc]

I remember my dad buying this on vhs from discounted movies at a pharmacy in the early 90’s. I’ve loved it ever since.

[@jessihawkins9116]

how much was it?🤔

[@BigNoCapybara]

When this movie came to San Antonio, Tx it brought in a whole new way of gang banging. SA was already bad but the gangs were more hoods vs other hoods. This movie introduced Bloods and Crips and drive by’s..San Antonio had a higher percentage of drive by’s than LA after this movie came out

[@SoCal90sKid]

San Antonio… is just like Compton

[@dariusp422]

@@SoCal90sKid and you know that Oakland!

[@dariusp422]

Yea that’s cause during that time the crack epidemic was causing the crips and bloods to expand and make more money and also expand there gang and make them more powerful.

[@beachboi6196]

How do no they had more drives then la mybe lot for yo city but I don't more then la

[@BigNoCapybara]

@@beachboi6196 statistics made between the two cities during the years studied..simple applied science

[@necrophagiakc]

In 88' in NYC we watched the movie in the theater in peace 😅😅

[@jayernesto8891]

Sean Penn Robert Duvall Don Cheadle Damon Wayans Leon Rico Suave AC Slater from Saved by the Bell & OG Bobby Johnson were in the movie! That's classic enough!

[@asimhusain8087]

You forgot Maria Conchita Alonso

[@krlm2280]

How u forgot two of the main characters Grand L bush(looney tunes) And the late great Trinidad Silva(frog)

[@jayernesto8891]

@@krlm2280 I'm not familiar with those two

[@jayernesto8891]

@@asimhusain8087 Oh, right. The lady who got mad for no reason 😂

[@tomsoto1417]

Courtney Gaines from Children of the Corn and Can't buy me Love

[@myrecordcollection5602]

I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking 💪

[@awalton9024]

...Donut munching, chocolate chip crunching, king of Dunkin Donuts, I can eat half a dozen.😄

[@user-rl8ji]

@@awalton9024 Bars

[@MistaCUNextTuesday]

​@@awalton9024 🔥 🔥

[@krlm2280]

Dennis Hopper was a real one not only did he make this classic movie he actually went to these neighborhoods to hire real Bloods and Crips to act. Glenn Plummer tells a story how a lot of the Crips didn't like Don Cheadle because he was an actor but he was playing the crip role to the T to the point they thought he was really a Crip

[@seanmcmillon7512]

Actually the crips liked don cheadle the OG crip j bone wanted to jump don cheadle in the set but don cheadle said no

[@Wh4L205]

Don Cheadle became a crip. Method Acting. Just like Sean Penn became a real cop in that movie

[@D33Lux]

@@Wh4L205 Sean Penn acted like an gashole to many on set, even Glenn Plummer said how he and Sean didn't get along with each other.

[@allbiznessboxing]

I grew up in San Diego, I was 15 at the time of Colors. Most of the city at the time was oblivious to crips bloods cholos or any type of gang activity. Colors caused chaos at theaters around the city. Theaters started to only have daytime showings of the film as well having armed security inside during showings.

[@dabunnyrabbit2620]

"The whole movie was wrong" Hence, it's a movie....

[@saj8]

I was in high school when Colors came out. That was a pro-LAPD movie. When I saw that scene when that dude got shot for reaching for his pants, I knew what it was back then.

[@jamiepritchard3829]

One of my favourite films. Never realised Hopper directed it

[@cynthianaslim]

Same.

[@aarons2632]

You can’t put movies out with bloods and crips in it and expect it to be all good. That’s exactly why they didn’t name specific gangs in Menace II Society. However if you pay attention you can tell Kane, A Wax etc were crips. Same thing with Boyz N The Hood. Dough Boy and his crew were crips but they were not called crips. They never specified. You had to pay attention to the colors.

[@jaybriggs2430]

Yup. And them niggas that killed Ricky that doeboy and nem ended up killing was bloods

[@wearefitnow]

The bad guys I assume were bloods by looking at the color of the car

[@androsmillenio450]

American me also did damage as well as blood in blood out.

[@BBdalvin]

First off colors predicted exactly what’s going on now

[@CBlixk6300]

No it didn’t there’s politics and everything

[@1trucxhondamov589]

LA, Cold spot in 88, I thought that the world was coming to an end!

[@D33Lux]

One of the great mystery's of this movie for years was people looking for the guitar song that the actor Courtney Gaines (Whitey) played at the end of the movie, when they were chilling after the shoot out with Rocket and the Crips.

[@johnsheetz6639]

Rico suave was in this remember that ?

[@gbear2253]

And Mario Lopez! Who I thought was so fine at that time 😂

[@maximilianolira6372]

I don't know about the rest of America, but I love this movie. I was just q kid when I went to see it at the theater, with my little homie. And ever since I've watched it from time to time.

[@lovingmymamalighter102]

Colors is an amazing movie!!!

[@fd111e2]

“Yo yo, listen up y'all! Let me tell you about my little Gs, Roller and 4 Legs here. They just smoked thirteen Bloods in one night!”

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

Why was the video privated i hope its not for censorship

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

@Ichijou Miyamoto thats possible but I hope he didn't remove anything

[@indionopalez3716]

After seeing this movie I started claiming crip, ......I became a wannabe .....

[@brianlevine1479]

I was in Stuttgart,Germany when this movie arrived. I was an Army brat visiting my friends there. I took my friend Roland to see this movie so he could have a better understanding of the US. He laughed all through the movie. After wards we went for snacks and drinks. I asked what he thought of the movie. He thought it was a very exaggerated story. Very "over the top" movie. He said this type of story could never happen in Germany. The Government would go in with Police and Military units to clear out armed groups threatening law and order. That's what was so funny. The situation was something he would never see there. I told him it really exists. "Why would you allow armed gangs to exist?.Don't you have laws,police,courts?. Why would you tolerate them?. They would be treated as armed terrorists here.". He's never visited me here in the US. I go there for visits. Polizie carry 25 shot Glocks. If a police officer considers his life threatened he shoots the suspect. I watched Neo Nazis threaten a Black American soldier and his White German girlfriend. Polizie ordered them to interlock both hands in front of the body. Feet spread. Full compliance. Corporal pulled his gun and placed it in the ear of the leader. If he moved he knew the trigger would be pulled. The next two people would also catch the bullet.

[@strannick2212]

Thank you for your story. Germany is a wonderful country.

[@randyr.9643]

I was an Army MP stationed in Germany at the time this movie came out and you are correct about how the German government would have handled gangs like that back in that era. We worked with the German Polizei and they took no shit from anyone. I married a German girl and therefore, we keep up on German news and visit her family every couple of years. The Germany you knew then no longer exists, thanks to the current left leaning government that was run by Angela Merkel. She allowed arabs and eastern europeans to enter the country and the subsequent crime rate went way up. The Polizei now are very young, there are a lot of females, and they are trained to be kinder and gentler. Because of that, the criminals run the show over there. There are plenty of KZbin videos of German Polizei being threatened and attacked by criminals and they allow it to happen. Its very sad..

[@chitownmo]

Germany is not the US. Also, criminals have rights. If you are going to arrest a suspect, you need evidence/wotness testimony to prosecute, otherwise no case can be made. In thse communities, many were afraid to testify and some of the cops dodnt care about what happemed to the residemts as they were not of the ethnic backgrounds or lived on thse communities, so they would do the minimum as they viewed it as not beinf their problem.

[@chitownmo]

Tjere have been multiple criminal organizations in Germany operating for decades. They dont commit the wanton violence that groups in other groups do, but there are still there. Selling dope, hoes, gambling, and more.

[@truthtold9084]

This was just a movie and in a way it was comical. It showed the ignorance of knuckleheads needing to fight for stupid reasons and turf.

[@txddyfarquh69]

In New Zealand, I SWEAR my neighbourhood knew about the red and Blue flags before even knowing what the actual fxck they stood for and why people in USA wore these colours.

[@stansmith8206]

New Zealand residents are some of the biggest cowards. Are you still wearing that covid mask>

[@isaacster5027]

Sad how senseless it is and how that actually makes it spread so much

[@sunsetlights100]

I'm in NZ too As just regular citizen I like wear trucker hats with the mesh back cause it's cooler in summer protects from sunburn but not wearing blue or red anymore to risky I was in supermarket one day wearing blue & felt vibes it's real thing my area anyways

[@hughg.rection7208]

@@sunsetlights100 bro I’m pretty sure y’all ain’t gotta worry about bloods and crips in New Zealand dawg. Y’all literally have ur own gangs n they just as crazy lmao just don’t use guns like we do

[@txddyfarquh69]

@@hughg.rection7208 Nz does have their own home-grown Gangs but imo because of the massive Polynesian population in one particular City at that time?....it was able to flourish and spread.....like Covid, from one place to the next. As for weapons?...Nz has gunplay, just not on the crazy and ALLLLLL too often scale as USA

[@scottsws-fz6mm]

There was no outrage at movies when this came out period.

[@beachboi6196]

There was

[@coreymichae3747]

I was a teenager in Little Rock Arkansas during this time and it was like over night we had bloods and crips. The youth glorified and tried to mimic this. It was crazy

[@thecanman132]

Started gangbanging in 1994 still in it!! Gangs are still very much here and the streets are still very dangerous at night depending where you go! It will never stop.Gangbanging will never go away as long as there’s bad parents in the world gangs will only grow stronger🤨

[@jetstreamdefalpha5411]

Larry sqautting gripping the uzzi ,,muahw (chefs kiss) . one day ima get a wall size poster of him (no homo)

[@slemkapone5769]

Hell yea Looney Tunes

[@pewpewTN]

Some good old fashioned multiculturalism.

[@theinfamousmell]

A lot of LA niggaz didn’t hated this movie for peculiar reasons…..

[@kevinspachier203]

I'm AG uk 🇬🇧 Birmingham tell me about it life is hard wasn't meant to be easy i fucked off the life style but on point cace of having to be 56 years old times running out are well that's life human beings are capable of doing everything couldn't put past them impossible to change hopping there is a after life we've you can find peace at last 🙏

[@ChosenOne6666]

That was a movie based on fictional characters

[@codmobilecodmobile3088]

why wasnt latino gangs mentioned in this video

[@txddyfarquh69]

@@codmobilecodmobile3088 were there Latino Crip and Blood sets or even Latinos in either 1of these Black gangs in this time period?

[@JV-in9kk]

@Txddy Farquh Mexican gangs in LA pre date the black gangs by decades. The movie focuses on 3 gangs The Crips, Bloods and 21st street.

[@txddyfarquh69]

@@JV-in9kk yip, I know that. But I was just asking dude a question about if Latinos were in or creating their own Blood and Crip sets in this this time period

[@JV-in9kk]

@ Txddy Farquh as far I know there aren’t really any Mexican blood or Crip sets

[@dnalevelc144]

"How dangerous los angeles was" I think they meant "is."

[@BlxckBaron]

It's nowhere near how bad it was in the 80s and early 90s. Life before camera phones was DIFFERENT.

[@MR-vf1fw]

On top of everyelse the cocaine wars were in full swing which stoked the fire more.

[@evilsidelocos1072]

Boulevard Nights and American me was dope.

[@LionelTurner777]

loved it but that movie dd more damage then any other movie in history

[@corywhitley4573]

How so?

[@MrHowhot]

Every hear of birth of a nation?

[@edouble30083]

The movie only depicted the happenings of an impoverished society, due to the ill wills of Reganomics, that left a lot of citizens having to chose crime over starvation. And if you didn’t come from this demographic, then it would be hard to understand. Ultimately one should not choose the path of crime, but when positive options are scarce, one can not judge another person decisions to fed their families.

[@uchihadabba699]

@@edouble30083 wtf? You mean Reaganomics? That had nothing to do with the stupid crap people choose to do. The devil made them do it? Gtfo

[@edouble30083]

@@uchihadabba699 Like I said, if you wasn’t affected by the policies of the time, then you wouldn’t understand, and I really don’t have the time to give you that lesson.

[@moreme40]

LA was dangerous at the time of this movie ? As opposed to now ?

[@JohnWest-zq5gs]

They need to send those gangs to black dolphin prison in Russia

[@louismatassa8489]

A great movie and all the actors put on great performances

[@jamesjarrettjr.5974]

R. I. P. LARRY SYLVESTER LOONEY TUNES

[@solidus818]

T bone 🦴 in the house 🐰. Give me my 🐇. 😂

[@nakdad]

high top or hi top..

[@jamesjarrettjr.5974]

Hey Hodges,, what’s happening 😂😂

[@papozzitv]

I saw that movie on black and white t.v

[@jasbarsoph]

Fantastic movie.

[@sterlingwilliams8645]

The first HOOD movie…

[@BlxckBaron]

nah, that's youngblood.

[@kath1017]

The movie didn't paint the cops in the best light. The biggest gang in that movie was the LAPD. It wasn't the topical copropaganda film we saw in the 80's .

[@uchihadabba699]

The stupidest movie ever.

[@EddieMo816]

🔥🔥🔥🤟🤟🤟

[@eliasbarnes3710]

Hodges had good intentions.

[@gymreaper1728]

Why did they want to kill pacman when he didn’t shoot leon it was the sheriff who shot him.

[@ARG_Records]

The girl recognized pacman

[@claudiovallejo9427]

Cus wen sherryl Williams rockets lady sat n looked up pac man walked in the room and she thought bright away it was him that shot killer-b that's why

[@elmerkilred159]

"HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW, PAC MAN!?!"

[@chrisvillanueva1691]

Cuz the movies pretty damn accurate of how it was and is

[@SPACEM0NKEY1102]

Ya sure multicultural gangs existed

[@davidcastillo6777]

Lol, how dangerous LA was...like it got any better.

[@RIZEorDIE]

I'm going to join a gang now!

[@jayw.1042]

Wyt racists created these gangs

[@jasonm949]

Lol...Outrage at theaters? Everyone loved it. Clickbait.

[@friendlyfire2374]

Do you know “everyone “ 🤨😑

[@beachboi6196]

There was some places were scared to show

[@JoeLawrence-i2x]

Classic song

[@JosephWagner500]

U should be more storie about colors and da gangs

[@troyelliott390]

Sharing

[@larrydanadavid2435]

Yo Rocket

[@gbear2253]

Badass Gangster

[@saintlouis1087]

Two One homes

[@fromeasttokyo]

中学生の時に見た。

[@xlbendylx]

First

[@cornellgregg5381]

A classic

[@K20civicsirturbo]

😢😢😢😢

[@myrecordcollection5602]

Colors was comedy 😂 Entertaining AF, but far from gangster.

[@HellaShotsMedia]

sure tough guy 😂😂😂

[@friendlyfire2374]

People like you grind my gears. Not because of your failed trolling but because you try to play this tough guy and edgy person when you are not.

[@HeavensAngel-bf9rd]

Do a better movie. L 7. Connect l 7. That's what u are

[@myrecordcollection5602]

@@HeavensAngel-bf9rd Damn right I'm square now. After doing 10 in the pen I straightened out my act. Thanks for recognizing 💪

[@doswheelsouges359]

Colooors is a gang moviiie

[@Jesse-cx4si]

Sure…the movie Colors caused gang violence. They would never have harmed each other otherwise. 🤣 😂 🙄

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Outrage.... It's a terrible cartoon movie of tired characters and plot with an awfuk soundtrack

[@steveanderson1058]

The movie had the worse actors. Stupid story.

[@gambinom5967]

Duval?

[@steveanderson1058]

@@gambinom5967 he was the only good actor.

[@gbear2253]

Are you Kidding Me??? Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, the cholos, the crips!!!!! They were Freaking AWESOME!! Great Fkn Actors! And the movie and story about LA Gangsters and Police is an All-Time Classic 👍👍👍👍🌹🌹♥️♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@friendlyfire2374]

@@steveanderson1058 I dont think the movie was intended to be story based. I mean they literally were showing you

[@gbear2253]

@@friendlyfire2374 😂

[@2WK09]

Blacks and Hispanics didn’t beef back then lol??

[@beachboi6196]

😂😂😂not in LA then

[@beachboi6196]

Ya not in LA 😂😂back then

[@uchihadabba699]

Cringe. aSF

[@destotrill2247]

Lil kid sounds like you come from a different world this reality for most

[@uchihadabba699]

@@destotrill2247 for most? Nah! But colors is the stupidest movie. Where in reality do you find a black cholo as the leader of a Mexican gang?