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Absolutely a classic.

Very powerful film, its brutal and real. Edward James Olmos is excellent...stand and deliver might be his best performance butthis come close. He also did a very good job directing and its just a great film start to finish...the ending is beyond brutal and sad.

top ten film of the 90s for me. :whew:
 
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kp404 said:
its a classic but its one of the most depressing films I've ever seen...but its very realistic
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One of the realest "gangster" movies. Theres no happy endings, its a pretty accurate description of how the game is.



I remember reading somewhere that the Mexican Mafia were pissed about the way the film was made and some folks hinted that there was some push back on the filmmakers.
 
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Jutt said:
One of the realest "gangster" movies. Theres no happy endings, its a pretty accurate description of how the game is.



I remember reading somewhere that the Mexican Mafia were pissed about the way the film was made and some folks hinted that there was some push back on the filmmakers.
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yea if I'm not mistaken, one of the writers for this movie was killed by Mexican Mafia for their depiction in the movie...I'll see if I can find where I read that a while back
 
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yea if I'm not mistaken, one of the writers for this movie was killed by Mexican Mafia for their depiction in the movie...I'll see if I can find where I read that a while back
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One of the consultants on the film, a woman Was murked. olmos received death threats and might of been extorted. def a lot of unhappy real gang members.
 
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Mexican Mafia reaction
The real Mexican Mafia continues to revere Cadena and was enraged by the film, as the Cadena character is portrayed as having been raped as a juvenile ward of the court at the beginning of his foray into the criminal justice system and ultimately stabbed to death by his own followers at the end of his criminal career. Eme godfather Joe "Pegleg" Morgan allegedly attempted to extort money from Olmos, the director and lead actor of the film. An Eme member-turned-informant raised the possibility of putting out a contract on him. Court documents show that Olmos was a victim in one extortion count contained in a 33-count federal indictment. According to reportage by CBS News weekly 60 Minutes, three consultants on this film were later murdered because of the depiction of a homosexual rape scene which offended the Mexican Mafia's internal code of "ethics."[8] The first killing occurred 12 days after the movie's premiere when one of the film's consultants Charles "Charlie Brown" Manriquez, who was a member of La Eme, was slain in Ramona Gardens, L.A.'s oldest public housing project.[9] Another well-known person from East Los Angeles and paid consultant to the film, 49 year old grandmother Ana Lizarraga commonly known as "The Gang Lady", was murdered when she was gunned down in her driveway unloading groceries.[9] A federal indictment accused La Eme of ordering the 1992 murder of Ana Lizarraga.
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