"The Return of Superfly"
Nov. 2nd, 2007 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriThis is the New York Magazine piece that inspired American Gangster:
Then finally, Frank said, "Look, all you got to know is that I am sitting here talking to you right now. Walking and talking -- when I could have, should have, been dead and buried a hundred times. And you know why that is?
"Because: People like me. People like the fuck out of me." This was his primary survival skill, said the former dope king: his downright friendliness, his upbeat demeanor. "All the way back to when I was a boy, people have always liked me. I've always counted on that."
Damn good reading. Going to see the movie tonight. More then.
ETA: Quite liked the movie actually. The first third is pretty much a string of vignettes so reading that article helped understand things by a lot. I like the interwoven structure a lot. I think they under-utilized Chewitel Ejifor who is such a marvelous actor; they really should've given him more than five lines and a couple of bad suits. I also got tired of the protracted needle shots and "drugs are bad" sequences: yes, we know, we passed fifth grade. I love how "love of America" is synonymous with "free trade and guns." I was distracted by Armand Assante's pomade. Finally, in the words of Angel, "everybody loves Denzel."
Then finally, Frank said, "Look, all you got to know is that I am sitting here talking to you right now. Walking and talking -- when I could have, should have, been dead and buried a hundred times. And you know why that is?
"Because: People like me. People like the fuck out of me." This was his primary survival skill, said the former dope king: his downright friendliness, his upbeat demeanor. "All the way back to when I was a boy, people have always liked me. I've always counted on that."
Damn good reading. Going to see the movie tonight. More then.
ETA: Quite liked the movie actually. The first third is pretty much a string of vignettes so reading that article helped understand things by a lot. I like the interwoven structure a lot. I think they under-utilized Chewitel Ejifor who is such a marvelous actor; they really should've given him more than five lines and a couple of bad suits. I also got tired of the protracted needle shots and "drugs are bad" sequences: yes, we know, we passed fifth grade. I love how "love of America" is synonymous with "free trade and guns." I was distracted by Armand Assante's pomade. Finally, in the words of Angel, "everybody loves Denzel."
