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I initially had no interest in this film, thinking who wants to spy a movie about some two bit dope dealer? My teenage son, however, rented the DVD, and I found myself a captive audience. To my surprise, it was a riveting, well done film. Distinct, it was about a two bit dope dealer, but what a account. George Jung, an all American kid from a hard working, hard knocks family, begins dealing marijuana during the 1960s. He develops his business into an empire, and then he decides to branch out into the sexier world of cocaine and really astronomical money. Using his grand entrepreneurial instinct, he makes a deal with the Columbian drug cartel. Before you know it, he is raking in millions. Unfortunately, the best laid plans often go awry, and there is no fairy anecdote ending for George. This is a chronicle of hopes, dreams, violence, greed, and betrayal.
Well directed by the slow Ted Demme, the film is compelling and piquant as it recounts George Jung’s extraordinary odyssey in the drug trade, tracking the rise of the cocaine industry in the United States, attendant with all its violence. Johnny Depp, in the role of George Jung, makes him into a likable guy who has bitten off more than he can chew, with ultimately dire results. His is a search for the American Dream, a dream that forever remains elusive.
Ray Liotta is terrific in the role of George’s father, Fred Jung, a sensitive and devoted everyman married to a hard, selfish woman, Ermine Jung, a woman who lacks all motherly instincts and is played with gritty determination by Rachel Griffiths. Jordi Molla is friendly in the role of Diego, George’s entre into the world of high stakes, cocaine dealing, and Cliff Curtis is beneficial as Escobar, the Columbian drug cartel’s main man. Penelope Cruz is poor as George’s graceful Latina wife, Mirtha. She is simply a awful actress whose English is often unintelligible. With the exception of Ms. Cruz, however, the cast is uniformly profitable.
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This is the epic about a young man who, faced with choices in his life, made the immoral ones and lived to regret it. Johnny Depp captures the pathos of Jung’s wasted life. That his characterization is lifeless on is brought home by Ted Demme’s astounding interview of the staunch George Jung. This interview is one of the numerous bonus features on this DVD and is well worth watching. It is a poignant interview, as it underscores that Jung’s was a life wasted. It also serves to illustrate unbiased how worthy Depp’s characterization of Jung really is. All in all, this is a vibrant, informative, and fascinating film.
This film presses all the factual buttons, but being touted as basically the true-life narrative of George Jung, I was disappointed that the film paid slight respect to the chronology of well-known events and completely overlooked many of the defining moments of George’s career.
Having already read the book “Blow” – available from Amazon and an worthy biography – perhaps I found it more difficult to collect “into” the movie, often asking myself “why is this happening/not happening now? ” amongst other things…
A few positive changes for dramatic conclude, perhaps…..
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1. George’s first girlfriend (played by the babelicious Franka Potente) tell’s George she has an incurable disease, so he skips bail to hang out with her in Mexico until she dies. In proper fact, the girlfriend was dumped lovely rapidly, was never fatally-ill (interviewed for the book) and was one of a long, long succession of girls that George old-fashioned and discarded during his “career”. He skipped to Mexico purely because he didn’t want to go to jail, and travel into “quantity” smuggling of marijuana.
2. George is basically kidnapped and taken to Colombia to meet Pablo Escobar, – a test – and this meeting “starts” the whole coke business. In fact however, George had been importing/dealing mammoth quantities of coke for a few years before going to meet Pablo – something he did voluntarily on his bear, to find place among the Florida-based Columbians and rep favour with Pablo in his problems with Carlos Lehder – a cartel member.
The movie ignores or trivialises many of George’s character traits – great long-term coke usage and the resultant psychosis and paranoia, his life-long addiction to hookers, kinky sex, including masochistic tendencies played-out by cross-dressing (french maid) and being dominated and “spanked” by his wife while tied spread-eagled to their marital bed, among many others.
The turning point, the originate of his “accurate” troubles is when George confides his secrets to an undercover cop whom he meets one afternoon on the beach out-front of his house. In short-order, George invites the guy into his house, tells the cop that he’s a big-time smuggler and immediately makes him allotment of the “operation” without smart anything about the guy. This of course brings astronomical heat onto George, and the good-guys initiate engineering George’s downfall.
The movie omits this entire pivotal event however, perhaps because the real-life event, that for a pleasurable big-time dealer with $30m stashed in the house,at least, displayed a degree of stupidity and naievety that would earn Johnny Depp’s George (bright, hip, trusting) glimpse dumb and fair too incredible to be sympathetic.
Nor is there any accurate basis for the whole father/daughter interplay in the movie, which I personally contemplate is overdone, and is pleasing out-of-character anyway.
Finally (at least for this review) the money George had stashed away in Panama, approx. $50m apparently, was not confiscated by the Panamanian Govt (Noriega) – George never visited Panama – but was stolen by the pilots who opened the bank tale for George, (co-signatories) and flew the cash down on a regular basis over several years. It defies plan that over several years, George never opinion to enquire about the balance of his narrative, and unprejudiced kept shuttling the cash into the story, but that’s what actually happened.
Carlos Lehder was arrested in Colombia – basically fingered by Escobar for bringing the heat down on the cartel because of his loopy political beliefs, extradited to the States, with George being the main prosecution ogle. This gained George early release, and it was actually another bust in the mid-80’s that reulted in George’s explain incarceration. Again, none of this was in the movie, although I reflect it would have brought another perspective to George’s characterisation, and also given George some revenge for his beating by Carlos’ thugs on Norman Cay (never happened) had it been included.
I guess all these and many more lawful inaccuracies in combination with Johnny Depp’s overly sympathetic portrayal of George – almost a victim of circumstance – and definitely too “nice” to be in the drug business, are so far off the real-deal that it made it very difficult for me to give this movie the respect that so many others assume it deserves….
All this doesn’t halt the movie being well-behaved entertainment but I can’t assist thinking how agreeable it “could” have been, had it been a miniature more lawful to George’s dependable narrative.
The cast is generally outstanding, the gaze and sound of the DVD transfer never less than savory, and the soundtrack really brought help the 70s / early 80s for me – a time of dreadful fashion, worse haircuts, and for most of us, a time probably best forgotten.
Buy the DVD. The book “blow” is definitely worth reading, and if you’re collected eager in the whole coke thing, judge checking out the book titled “Killing Pablo” a correct gape at the the coke business, the Medelin cartel, and the hunt-for and eventual killing of Pablo Escobar. Now “there’s” a movie unprejudiced begging to be made……
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