Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe are both Hollywood stars who have won Oscar titles. Perhaps many viewers or fans bought tickets to enter the arena just to see the acting skills of the two movie kings, but if you have watched many movies of the same type, you will not be satisfied with this film. In fact, the two movie stars are both good actors, but in terms of the creativity of the characters in police and gangster movies, they can only be regarded as quite satisfactory. Maybe it's because Marlon brando who played the old godfather in "The Godfather" and Al pacino who played the new godfather or Robert de niro who created many classic characters in gangster movies were so successful that I made a comparison between them (perhaps The title of American Gangster is too grand, so subconsciously, it will be compared to the classic gangster movie). Especially in the second half of the film, when the two directly meet face to face and start their rivalry, they always feel that the confrontation between the two is weak and lacks the spirit of being equal or competing with each other. Even in the end Frank Lucas agreed to help Richie Roberts turn to help the police testify against drug criminals. Part of the twist of his inner drama is really formal and lacks realistic convincing.
In the history of American film, the classic gangster movies that people will always talk about must be director Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" 3-episode series, or director Martin Scorses' gangster Movie series. In their films describing American gangsters, they have a strong sense of sociological research, presenting the dark side of life realistically, and depicting the gangster characters in flesh and blood, as if they were all real people, and the films often show many soul-stirring stories. The scenes of the film play a huge shocking force. The theme of the film always has many profound contents for people to reflect on. It not only reveals the ugly side of the dark bottom life, but also makes people see its sad and helpless life tragedy.
Although "American Gangster" is stable and stable in structure or technology, that is, it appears to be quite stable in all aspects, but the conflict setting in the plot lacks the creativity full of vigor and unrestrained passion, and also lacks a macro narrative. Atmospheric. Although the film also shows the impact of the Vietnam War on American society at that time and reveals the dark side of the cooperation between drug dealers and soldiers, the work's unique insights into the social era and personalized artistic language are obviously insufficient.
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