Furious Styles

Jason "Furious" Styles is a man that saves his son from going down a terrible road in the 1991 hit movie Boyz n the Hood. He was played by Laurence Fishburne.
Styles was born in late 1957 or early 1958 and impregnated his girlfriend Reva Deveraux when both were still in high school. After graduating, Styles married Devereaux and joined the U.S. Army for several years. While he learned discipline there, he did not enjoy the experience and found that he was treated in a racist fashion by many of his white superiors. Some sources identify Styles as a Vietnam veteran, but this is impossible given that he states he is 33 years old in the main portion of the film, which takes place in late 1990 and early 1991; his Army service would have begun no earlier than 1975, two years after the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam. Vietnam is never mentioned in the movie itself.
By 1983, Styles and Devereaux are divorced. They have a tense but civil relationship and are willing to speak with each other to discuss the raising of their now 10-year-old son Tre, who moves in with Styles. Styles is a reasonably successful mortgage broker who owns a home in a crime-ridden neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he attempts to inspire his neighbors to avoid crime and focus on personal improvement and black solidarity. He has little success with other families on the block but does succeed in raising his own son into an academically successful adult who avoids the pitfalls of his neighborhood friends.
Tre and Furious finally come into contact, father and son, when Tre gets into a nasty fight with a boy who mocks him and his father in school, in the beginning of the movie. They fight like crazy and Tre's mother finally puts her foot down and says that Tre has to live with his father, to impart discipline in him. He saves the house from a robber in one scene, but shoots to scare the robber away.
Seven years later, in the fall of 1990, Tre is a senior at Crenshaw High School and doing well for himself: He stays out of trouble, gets good grades, works at the mal and has a girlfriend named Brandi, but their relationship is somehow deteriorating over Tre's desire to have sex, while Brandi, a devout Catholic, wishes to wait until after marriage. She eventually agrees to have intercourse with Tre after he's threatened by a self-hating African American cop, who responded to the robbery years earlier. The biggest challenge to Furious' fatherhood is when Tre's friend Ricky is shot to death. Here is where the tough part of being a good father comes in. Tre takes Furious' gun and his father, albeit in a rather nasty and profane way, tries to convince him to turn in the gun, telling him that he will be going down a road of violence if he does this. Tre seems to relent, but Brandi and Furious catch Tre sneaking out of his bedroom window to join Ricky's half-brother Doughboy. That night, as the gang drives across the city, Tre asks to be let out of the car and returns home, realizing that his father was right to keep him from falling into an endless cycle of violence. When Tre gets home, Furious is waiting for him. They both look at each other without saying a word, and Furious retreats into his bedroom. Meanwhile, Doughboy finds Ricky's killers at a local fast-food outlet, and his friend Monster opens fire on them, killing one and wounding the other two. Doughboy gets out and kills the other wounded gang member and executes the leader. Overall, Furious was successful. In the end, it's revealed Tre and Brandi resumed their relationship, and respectively went on to attend Morehouse and Spelman Colleges in Atlanta.
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