Comments on: Former DEA Agents File Lawsuit Against American Gangster

By: Henrik

Henrik — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:02:13 +0000

I am more calm then… I would hate for me to have less reasons for thinking the US Military is a despicable organisation.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:54:57 +0000

There’s an “American Gangster” tv doc that covers the same story and it talks about the smuggling about the same way.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:23:56 +0000

I read somewhere else that how the military was involved and the way to traffic stuff specifically was made up as well though.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:20:03 +0000

No the military taking part in the smuggling was true, the only thing that wasn’t true (pertaining to this lawsuit) was the fact that 3/4 of the NYPD was involved in corrupt dealings.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:54:09 +0000

Well.. I would have gone to see the film even if it had not been based on a true story, but I definitely feel like I’ve been had. I thought the movie presented the US military as a pretty dubious organisation and that the actions the military took in this situation (which I thought were based on true events, but I guess it was just made up?) were absolutely despicable. Knowing nothing about the situation, I would not assume that something as major and outrageous as that would have been made up, and I think it’s definitely morally wrong to present actions like that as based on true events.

If somebody made Hitler: The Movie starring Russell Crowe, and it presented him as the savior of all the jews in the world, and as somebody who wanted to establish equal civil rights in all the world, and claimed that it was based on a true story, I would hope that somebody would sue those people as well. Even if the film starred Russel Crowe and Denzel Washington.