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American Gangster And Scarface

American Gangster And Scarface

American Gangster

American Gangster has become one of the major candidates to rise with the statuette for Best Picture (as it endorses the fact that in the case of one of the titles nominated for the prelude, the Golden Globes.) As the film critic vis has a lot of hobby, now you engrossed citing pros and cons of the options of the film in the competition film par excellence. I will not, but nobody should worry: in February there will be portions and more servings of the perennial colors.

So American Gangster is defined by the press as "strongly Oscar” and that taking into account the obvious media considerations, but also reasons to bring the cinematic elements that move the machinery of this well-balanced film. Three of them, as basic as the implementation, interpretation and writing the script, the three flowing in that kind of synergy that is achieved when you have a talent for crafts and temper enough to offer without the risk bombast. This may sound so bad, but we call it a mistake: American Gangster is a great film, because it is projected more or less than what is intended. Here coppolianas no tragedies, no bloodshed depalmianos or scorsesianas rats: here we have the old articulated Ridley Scott for the umpteenth time to crank like mainstream entertainment, pulling his usual and so resolution stylized design of the frame, refine increasingly its ability to simplify descriptions and narrative economy, avoiding the unnecessary formal parade, and instead controlling the rhythmic tension millimeter living in the assembly. Scott pulling large but not excessive budget digital effects, powered calligraphy as well as know the script by Steve Zaillian.

One of the strengths of the film is its stunning setting, this quality in which Ridley Scott had already demonstrated its soundness and again stir again: in American Gangster traveled to the heart of the battered city, alleys filthy disadvantaged neighborhoods in New York(Upper Manhattan, but also areas like the Bronx and Brooklyn coat), which are put on the block compared to the design shops that dominated the drug lords, in an almost identical -and as effective, as the contrasts between rich and poor that will mark out the images of the film.

In any case, Ridley Scott's film does not track on the pulse of his time with the expertise he did another film released this year, the superlative Zodiac David Fincher, probably because that movie was intended to take the temperature at a the economic crisis moved to the social, and instead here is chosen individual story, a story in two parallel threshed based on a final and unexpectedly antagonism expire. This is really a limitation to the work of Zaillian and Scott, a limitation barely perceptible, though very important, you have to do with the actual weight in the star-system who hold both Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, two wonderful actors, yes, but already have plenty of time to shape the ...