American Gangster by Ridley Scott (2007)
Hᴀʀʟᴇᴍ Nᴇɪɢʜʙᴏʀʜᴏᴏᴅ, Nᴇᴡ Yᴏʀᴋ (1968)
The true story of Frank Lucas, the most infamous drug lord in America.
The rise and fall of a man who came to power after the death of his boss, Bumpy Johnson, and was relentlessly pursued by cop Richie Roberts.
The 1970s.
The horrors of the Vietnam War, black and white, good and bad, right and wrong.
American Gangster unfolds against the backdrop of the epic transformations of those turbulent years, in a cynical, contradictory, grim, and morally bankrupt nation, where a man’s life is worth less than nothing, where “you can be nobody and have many friends or be somebody and have none.”
And then, above all, there’s the drugs. An omnipresent demon that drives everything.
Around it, everything is manipulated—those who sell it, those who buy it, those who profit from it, and those who abuse it.
The undisputed king of the trade is Frank Lucas with his pure heroin, “Blue Magic.” He’s a refined, elegant man, always surrounded by many people.
On his trail is Richie Roberts, an incorruptible and unyielding cop—solitary, strict, and genuine.
Two sides of the same coin, two opposing characters,
at war in a collapsed and crazed universe.
Quote:
“The man I worked for had one of the biggest companies in New York, ran it for more than fifty years.
For fifteen years, eight months, and nine days I was always with him, worked for him, protected him, watched his back, learned from him. Bumpy was rich, but not white-man rich, he wasn’t a millionaire, he wasn’t the owner of his company.
He thought he was, but he wasn’t, he just ran it. The owners were white, and they were his bosses. Nobody is my boss. Because my company is mine.
And my company sells a product better than the competition, at a price lower than the competition. […]
The most important things in business are honesty, integrity, hard work, family, and never forget where we come from. Everyone is who they are in this world. It’s simple: you’re either somebody, or you’re nobody.”
Frank Lucas
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