Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Menace II Society (1993); Dead Presidents (1995).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Apocalypse Now (1979): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they directed: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots.
    “The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Blaxploitation films: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they directed: Blaxploitation films ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). It also drew on Blaxploitation films and gangster sagas, scored with 70s soul.
    “But so were Black'sploitation films and gangster sagas.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Bloods (book): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they directed: Bloods (book) ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). Dead Presidents was inspired by Wallace Terry's oral history of Black Vietnam veterans.
    “It was inspired by a book called Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:48:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Full Metal Jacket (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they directed: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes). Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon.
    “So I watched Full Metal Jacket.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80 sure it was them)

The Deer Hunter: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Dead Presidents (1995), which they directed: The Deer Hunter ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read). The film carries the Deer Hunter's post-war isolation, Platoon's combat, Apocalypse Now's helicopters.
    “The post-war isolation of the Deer Hunter, the bloody combat, a platoon, even the majestic helicopter shots from Apocalypse Now.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:57 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

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What the speakers said they did

Directing (2) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

No claims join them to a film or another person.

Fun items about them

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