This past weekend, I watched American Gangster. Though I had seen the previews earlier, I had no expectations going in, and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. It was a gripping movie and it certainly had my attention for over two and a half hours.
The biopic movie, about the real life gangster Frank Lucas and Detective Richie Roberts, is definitely worth a watch. It is set in the 1970’s New York underworld. The film explores the rise and fall of Lucas who also happens to be the guy who was above the Italian mafia at that time. Meanwhile, throughout Lucas’s rise, an outcast cop named Richie Roberts begins to put the pieces together and discovers that Lucas is the next big crime boss and at all costs wants to and manages to bring him down. A great gangster film ensues!
I am sure all of you can read the reviews of the movies online, but what intrigued me about the movie was the irony of both characters. Their professional and personal lives are flipped. Frank does dishonest things for a living at every turn, but in his personal life lives by a strict moral code of humility, honesty, church and family. Richie is a painfully honest cop, but his personal life is a garbage dump of lies, failed relationships, prostitutes and insecurities.
The movie did get me curious and I did do some looking around to see the kind of life the real Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts are leading today… and believe it or not, they are good friends today. It was one of those movies that I was thinking about the next day (rarely does that happen :)
Anyways, for those interested in looking/reading about the real American Gangster, here are some interesting links
The biopic movie, about the real life gangster Frank Lucas and Detective Richie Roberts, is definitely worth a watch. It is set in the 1970’s New York underworld. The film explores the rise and fall of Lucas who also happens to be the guy who was above the Italian mafia at that time. Meanwhile, throughout Lucas’s rise, an outcast cop named Richie Roberts begins to put the pieces together and discovers that Lucas is the next big crime boss and at all costs wants to and manages to bring him down. A great gangster film ensues!
I am sure all of you can read the reviews of the movies online, but what intrigued me about the movie was the irony of both characters. Their professional and personal lives are flipped. Frank does dishonest things for a living at every turn, but in his personal life lives by a strict moral code of humility, honesty, church and family. Richie is a painfully honest cop, but his personal life is a garbage dump of lies, failed relationships, prostitutes and insecurities.
The movie did get me curious and I did do some looking around to see the kind of life the real Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts are leading today… and believe it or not, they are good friends today. It was one of those movies that I was thinking about the next day (rarely does that happen :)
Anyways, for those interested in looking/reading about the real American Gangster, here are some interesting links
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/3649/
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/09/film.real.americangangster.ap/index.html
http://www.daylife.com/topic/Frank_Lucas
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/09/film.real.americangangster.ap/index.html
http://www.daylife.com/topic/Frank_Lucas
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