The N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton has been a blockbuster success, pulling in a cool 56.1 million on the opening weekend at the box office. The film has been heralded by fans and critics alike, but there have been a few omissions or factual inaccuracies that have made headlines. Possibly the most glaring omission was Dr. Dre's abusive relationship with hip-hop reporter Dee Barnes, as well as his other alleged incidents of violence towards women. Barnes has spoken out about the incident and now the original script has leaked with a scene featuring Dre's abuse of Barnes.
In the scene obtained by the L.A. Times, fictional Dre, "eyes glazed, drunk, with an edge of nastiness, contempt" (per noted from the script) spots Barnes at the party and approaches her.
"Saw that [expletive] you did with Cube. Really had you under his spell, huh? Ate up everything he said. Let him diss us. Sell us out."
"I just let him tell his story," Barnes' character retorts, "That's what I do. It's my job."
"I thought we were cool, you and me," Dre fires back. "But you don't give a [expletive]. You just wanna laugh at N.W.A, make us all look like fools."
The conversation escalates, Barnes throws her drink in Dre's face before he attacks her "flinging her around like a rag-doll, while she screams, cries, begs for him to stop."
According to screenwriter Jonathan Herman, the scene was cut from the film to get it down from 3 and a half hours to where it is now at 2 and a half.
Beyond the obvious issues that the scene was cut, Barnes' own account of the tale that she outlined yesterday in an "op-ed, tells a different story. The original scripted version puts much of the blame on her and she disagrees with that vehemently and denies that a drink was never thrown at by either party.
