Coke and murder. Now that's what I call a movie.
Or at least that's what's on the minds of Hollywood producers and directors lately. Three movies profiling the life of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar are in the making as of October. I guess it took the cast of Entourage to get filmmakers to realize the selling potential behind Escobar's mass murders and Robin Hood-esque tale. Minus the green tights and plus a few thousand kilos of cocaine, of course.
As scary as his tale is true, the Pablo Escobar reign is one that people everywhere are amazed by. The violence he stood for is shocking and yet we can't help but stare.
I know exactly what will happen when people go to see one or all of the new Escobar films. Movie-goers will not only love it, they will love him.
Do you ever wonder how you can love a bad guy? You sit and you watch The Sopranos, and you see Tony Soprano murder a guy. But then you see Tony shopping or cooking pasta, and you can't help but wish he were your dad.
There's something intriguing about a character who seemingly could care less about right and wrong. He shoots people and does drugs, but when it comes down to it, he has a heart.
In The Departed, Jack Nicholson is a mobster and mass murderer, but I can't help but want to hang out with him on the weekends when he makes silly rat-like faces at Leonardo DiCaprio.
In the movie Blow, Johnny Depp plays a drug lord with a daughter who gets busted several times and sent to jail. You don't feel bad for him, until he is standing outside of the prison, and he imagines his daughter standing in front of him. The tears are nonstop and inevitable after that point.
My theory is that these criminals just need a little help, some love, a family, anything. They're not bad guys; their fathers just didn't love them enough.
I'm not telling you to marry a gangster or to adopt a drug lord. What I am saying is that if they've got heart, they're okay by me. Well, in the movies at least.
Natalie Cammarata is a junior journalism major and a stringer for The Post.
Send her an e-mail at nc175305@ohiou.edu.
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