#i'm just the gringo who always delivers

[redbelles]

All this is legal?

AMERICAN MADE dir. Doug Liman

[saltyfilmmajor]

Please rank the Cruise characters for how much you would or wouldn’t trust them to pull together a thanksgiving dinner?

Welcome Anon :3 I'm gonna list al the characters of his that I'm familiar with: Joel Goodson - 1/5 stars, his parents leave for the week and he just eats a frozen tv dinner on the first night, doesn't even heat it up

Woody - 3/5 stars, he seems like a very level headed young man i'm sure he'd be able to pull together a thanksgiving dinner as he got older

Stefen Djordjevic - 4/5 stars, growing up in poverty means you gotta hustle and be resourceful, i think he could do it

Maverick Mitchell - 3/5 stars, he would do anything for his family but can this dude actually cook?

Brian Flanagan - 1/5 stars, motherfucker took pizza out of the oven with his bare hands

Joseph Donelly - 2/5 stars listen that Christmas dinner scene with Shannon was the most romantic thing i've ever seen on film. If he wasn't half idiot he could get it done

Daniel Kaffee - 0/5 stars, all the man has to eat is yohoo and cocoa puffs

Mitch McDeere - 3/5 stars, if his head wasn't freshly out of law school I'm sure he could put one together for his wife

Lestat de Lioncourt - 0/5 stars motherfucker let Louis in control of dinner until he burned his plantation down,

Ethan Hunt - 4/5 Stars, he'd have been a total house husband in another life Bill Hartford - 1/5 stars, dude is dealing with his own demons i think eating is the least of his concerns John Anderton - 1/5 stars, See: Bill Hartford Vincent Collateral - 3/5 stars, he's organized enough to do it but would he? Ray Ferrier - 2/5 stars, he's just trying to do his best for his kids and that's what matters (but he wouldn't be able to make a whole thanksgiving feast no)

Roy Miller - 4/5 stars, i trust him with my life Stacee Jaxx - 0/5 stars, I love him but he has A Lot happening Jack Harper - 5/5 stars, i think thanksgiving would have fascinated him like Football, and he'd like to emulate the tradition at some point Bill Cage - 0/5 stars, No.

Nick Morton - 0/5 stars, See: Bill Hartford. Barry Seal (Because Tom's version might as well be a fictional man) - 5/5 stars: The Gringo who always delivers

[mariamariquinha]

Carrillo's death doesn't have to do with him: but he did some terrible shit

Narcos has always gone beyond the historical series line and on many occasions ended up resorting to artistic metaphor (or something like that) to present the context of the world when Escobar rose in drug trafficking. Carrillo's very existence, in fact, was a poetic license from the creators to develop an antagonist to Escobar and I think it was very right.

My point: the creators created a character who was too strong for what they wanted him to be in the story.

He goes to Madrid, then returns even more furious. In his veins, all that is happening is nationalism and the desire to get his country back, away from the hands of drug traffickers. He is blind with rage, capable of going to extreme lengths to achieve his goal...

But it is nothing more than a narrative element. For the story itself? Also. To Peña? For sure.

The story alone reinforces that the protagonists are Steve and Javier, but Carrillo has a narrative power that could be further explored. I always talk about this, but anyone who lives in Latin America and remembers history classes, the men who were like Carrillo and who were the iron fists in the dictatorships that our countries faced, knows that they were ruthless, but in following orders. They were shaped to commit ATROCITIES (in the name of you know what) and, in my opinion, they could portray more of this context of police forces as the other side of the same coin that the drug traffickers were on.

When he went to Madrid, I think there was still a narrative like that prepared for him. I think the problem was when he came back. They created a (very valid) connection between him and Peña so that when he died, they created something for Peña to lose... and that was it.

I'm not saying that Carrillo was right or that his actions were "exaggerated." They weren't. Things were exactly like that. Guys like him were just like that.

What I mean is that he didn't die solely and exclusively because of his actions, which was pathetic. If you really want to show that it was necessary to go to extreme lengths, that Carrillo chose the wrong path, death wouldn't be the worst thing (because he was willing to do it). The worst thing that could happen to him would be to have to watch gringos take credit for all his work (which is what actually happened in real life).

Would I kill him if he existed in real life? Yes. But the logic of cause and consequence in the series was, once again, to wipe the slate clean with the USA, to "redeem" even partially Peña for the shit he did and give a redemption arc to other people.

In other words: they offered a lot and failed to deliver enough.

Well, that's Netflix. That's USA.

Good thing we have fics to fix that! 🫶