Anyone actually root for Lucas?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — American Gangster
thomaswilliamboner — 10 years ago(January 04, 2016 11:01 PM)
I know he's a bad guy and a drug user. I feel more sympathetic towards his character than Russell Crowe's. Maybe it's because Denzel is so damn charming. I think Russell Crowe's character is not a good person and treats women like crap. I have seen this movie probably 100 times, just never cared for Russell Crowe in this.
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jordanam — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 10:39 AM)
how did he treat women wrong? Because he was having sex with his attorney? He let his wife gain full custody of their son because he realize his career didn't allow him to be the best father at the moment.
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bohunkchicklet — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 08:37 AM)
You do know that was all fiction don't you? He never had any children with his 1st wife. They never had a custody battle or a bad divorce.
Richie also said that they exaggerated how many women he slept with. He said that when he was single in the 70's, there was still a free love vibe from the 60's, and he was just like most people.
Anyway, like most of the movie, it's fiction. I don't know if that changes your opinion of the character or the real life person or not. It was just a fyi.
Cheers
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ridge-m-1 — 9 years ago(December 11, 2016 07:07 AM)
Your comment is totally immaterial since the film was not a documentary and Scott is allowed literary license. Why is it not possible to like both characters. The two of them seemed to enjoy each other's company in the end. In a way they were two of a kind, the major difference being basically the dividing line of the law. They both abhorred corruption which is the major theme of the picture.
Are citizens aware that Heroin was openly sold in this country legally in the form of Laudanum until around the turn of the 18th century. Laudanum is an alcoholic solution containing opium from which Heroin is derived and was used as a narcotic pain-killer. Even more amazing, Heroin is actually a brand name created by the "good folks" that bring us Bayer Aspirin.
The Government has no business depriving the governed of any substance. The Feds job is not to act as a nanny but now that concept is completely obsolete along with the rest of our so called Constitutional freedoms. The Feds, along with the idiotic temperance movement, actually
prohibited the consumption of alcohol and what ensued was an out-of-control period of lawlessness and corruption. In the 30's, the freedom to indulge in most drugs was also prohibited and what followed is a now ongoing period of lawlessness and corruption only this time the C.I.A. is perhaps the biggest drug-running organization in the world.
The entire system is rotten to the core and should be put out of the misery it causes the majority of the citizenry.