Top review. One of the most intriguing movies of That is what makes Ted Demme's "Blow" different from other drug movies-it does not portray its characters as addicted lowlifes, but as recklessly successful, high powered individuals who simply want to live the American dream. The time and location span provided the filmmakers with a challenge.
The film was shot in a variety of locations in Southern California and in Mexico. And since it was the story of a man's life, every scene was fairly brief which meant an incredible number of scenes to be shot," explains executive producer Georgia Kacandes. Covering so many years in a single film also tests the ability of the film's costume designers and makeup artists.
The wardrobes, makeup and hair styles appear authentic and impressive. This movie pays close attention to even some of the most minute of details. George Jung's motives for pursuing drugs may have been triggered by his family life as a child. His father was a nobody construction worker who often struggled with money and his marriage. In the film, Ray Liotta plays George's poor but content father, with the versatile Rachel Griffiths as his bitter, unhappy mother.
George vows to never live his life in poverty, no matter what. He moves to California as a young adult where selling marijuana supports his independent lifestyle. Paul Reubens and Ethan Suplee play George's drug-dealing comrades. Eventually, the authorities send him to prison for a while, where he meets Diego Delgado Jordi Molla. An insider in Colombia's rising drug trade, this man educates George about the profits of selling cocaine. After serving his time, Jung becomes partners with Pablo Escobar Cliff Curtis , the billionaire godfather of international cocaine trafficking.
Ted Demme's direction is vivid, determined, and stylish. He reportedly conducted many interviews with the real life George Jung, as he makes very clear the early high life, and the dangerous reality of a drug smuggler's everyday lifestyle. Demme is careful to stay away from frequent potential distractions, like the drug use, side characters, family issues, and romantic interests.
This is a vivid narrative of a very interesting character. It does display a message about drugs that we have seen before, but never in this stylishly innovative light. Laced with amusing detail and probing awareness, "Blow" defies the usual road of drug movies and provides us with tension and interest from Jung's many experiences-risky border crossings, ferocious consultation, unexpected deception, the persistence of the authorities, and unconquerable temptations.
But untimely the film shows the true tragedy of losing your dreams to greed and drugs. Johnny Depp proves once again what a triumphant, adaptable actor he can be.
He portrays George Jung with the perfect amount of greed, style, confusion, pride, and desperation. The real George Jung is in a prison cell in New York.
Without possibility of parole, Jung's release date is scheduled for Depp acknowledged the responsibility that comes with dramatizing a true individual, but also the responsibility of the director. Movie May 23, FAQ 2. Is George Jung still in prison? The cause of death is unknown, though he had recently experienced liver and kidney failure, according to published reports. Jung was born Aug. He spent his childhood in a house on Abigail Adams Circle.
In , he graduated from Weymouth High School, where he was a starting fullback on the varsity football team. He got his early start in business as a Patriot Ledger newsboy.
After high school, Jung moved to southern California and, while living in Manhattan Beach, began dealing marijuana, shipping high-grade pot to Massachusetts. The result was a lucrative partnership that introduced Jung to a life of drug lords, rock stars, risky drug-running operations and incredible wealth.
That all ended when Jung was arrested again and sentenced in to 15 years in prison, a sentence that was later reduce ed to four years after Jung agreed to to testify against Lehder, by then a drug lord in his own right. When Jung was released the following year, he claimed to be retired from the drug business.
But six years later, in , Jung was arrested again at his Cape Cod home after receiving a truckload of Mexican marijuana. In , he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, with credit for more than a year he spent in custody while awaiting trial.
Jung was finally released in , through he would return to jail two years later for a parole violation. Freed again two months ago, he visited his old street in North Weymouth this week and found neighbors waiting on their porches to meet him.
In real life, Jung is now finding his way in a world that has changed dramatically since the height of his smuggling business in the s and early 80s, when he was responsible for moving vast quantities of cocaine into the U.
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