Frank Lucas...he was pretty bad in all honesty..

If you have seen one of my favourite movies (American Gangster). Then you will know this name..


Frank Lucas was a drug dealer/Gangster in the 1960s in Harlem. He has since been glorified in the movie American Gangster by Denzel Washington. What interests me (other than this great movie) is the way a drug dealer who bought directly from the source and shipped the drugs back in the coffins of dead american soldiers has been glorified in history and cinema.

I mean how on earth can he be made a character we feel for and relate to in the movie? because if you think about it, everything he is doing is really quite terrible (abusing a dead soldiers coffin, murder... etc), yet he was a much loved member of the Harlem community, partly because he used to hand Turkeys out during thanksgiving to those who couldn't afford their own, and when convicted he helped give out 700 convictions to crooked cops and other dealers (obviously to shorten his sentence). But more than anything due to his gangster status and his brand of cocaine called 'blue magic'.

Click HERE to see a link on a recent interview with Lucas (read the comments most people actually do not seem to like him or what he stands for...).

Click HERE for the American Gangster Trailer (gives you an idea of what im talking about if you haven't seen the movie).