good people and bad people

Stephania 2022-04-21 09:01:13


The two protagonists in the play have been endowed with a certain "divine" by the director: the drug lord Frank, honoring his mother, caring for his wife, the only bad thing he did was drug trafficking and the bad things he had to do because of drug trafficking, which may not be considered sublime, But he does take his job with a serious attitude, and the reason is naturally from his mentor: maybe you have to do something bad, but at least you should do it seriously...

in the film The other protagonist, cop Richie Roberts, is the good of the good: his only passion is rooting out drug traffickers, and even if he gets a huge amount of unmarked cash, he will turn it in -- knowing that no one takes it. Prosecution, but handing it over will lead to retaliation from the bribe colleagues. But even such an idealistic good guy has his problem: being unfaithful to his wife.

Although director Ridley Scott clearly explained the background of these two people, but at the same time he could not give up the complete description of the anti-drug story in the 1960s and 1970s, so the result is: the story is very exciting, but it cannot go further.

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American Gangster quotes

  • Javier J. Rivera: I'm a leper. Because I listened to you and turned in a million fucking dollars. You know who'll work with me after that? Same as you. No one.

  • Rossi: They seize it, arrest everybody, whack it up and sell it back to us. Our dope. They been living off it for years, these New York cops. They basically control the market with it. What the fuck has happened to the world, Frank?