He assumes the burden of it being a tale of people testing the bounds of their behavior. Some people think Ben Stiller's terrific in the movie, and others think he's the worst thing in it. Almost everyone loves Tyson and Downey in the movie. Just about every other character is all over the place. His favorite character is Claudia Schiffer.
Different people react in different ways.
The first character was the D.A.'s son. I knew there had to be a murder, because I don't think you can make a movie about hip-hop without having there be a murder, since it happens to be one of the distinctive forms of that existence. The question then would be to try to hook into that story one of the white kids obsessed with the black life, as the one who's enlisted to do the murder. And I thought if he's the son of a D.A., that's really interesting. So those characters came in, and then Stiller's character came in as a decoration on that theme.