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Aug 7, 2015 · F. Gary Gray was only 23 when he directed the fantastically literal video for Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day” in 1993.
Aug 23, 2015 · In 1995, at the age of 24, Gray, who grew up in South Central LA, directed the hit Friday, written by and starring Ice Cube about a day in the life of drug-dealing slackers.
The accompanying music video for "It Was a Good Day" was directed by American director and producer F. Gary Gray and was first aired in March 1993. [28] It was later made available on YouTube in February 2009 and had generated more than 249 million views as of November 2023. [29]
- Video Triumphs Led to Film
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- Patience Pays Off
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Fortunately, Gray had talent to match those ambitions, and word of his directorial skill spread to other acts. Soon, he found himself directing clips for Mary J. Blige, Coolio, TLC, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, among others. The video for Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day” was listed among Rolling Stone’s “Top 100 Videos of All Time.” Gray garnered multiple t...
Any concerns Gray may have had regarding his abilities were unfounded. His instincts allowed him to plan the shoot and still leave room for improvisation. Co-stars John Witherspoon and Chris Tucker, Gray told High Times, “are so funny on the fly and right off the cuff that I didn’t want to miss any of that, so I said, ‘Stick to the
In Set It Off, Gray found the right combination of elements. “It takes a lot for me to get passionate about something,” he told Thulani Davis of Newsday The film, he ventured in Detour, “has always been in me. But it was definitely a leap. I would shoot for 14 hours, then I would watch dailies for two, then I would rewrite and workon the script for...
Although he hasn’t dwelt on it much in interviews, Gray’s celebrity derives in part from his success in the mainstream as a black filmmaker. Yet he never claimed to have encountered adversity because of race. “The strong battles, the battles that are historical for blacks in Hollywood, I haven’t experienced any of that,” he pointed out in Newsday. ...
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Gray was initially hesitant for his first film to be an Ice Cube comedy but ultimately agreed to direct the film. Gray makes also makes a cameo appearance in the film as an employee in the liquor store, Ezal (Anthony Johnson), who slips and falls.
Aug 13, 2015 · DEADLINE: Your goal? GRAY: To become a filmmaker and direct my first film when I was 45. DEADLINE: Why that old? GRAY: This was before Spike Lee, John Singleton and all those guys. The only...
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Apr 20, 2015 · A neighbor — unhappy in spite of the $100 he was paid daily for the inconvenience of an Ice Cube movie being shot on his block — tried to disrupt the process in the most obnoxious of ways. He’d belt out Al Green tunes off-key and loudly every time director F. Gary Gray would call for action.
