American Gangster Hollywood Vs History

Hollywood vs History: American Gangster
It was in 1968 when a notorious Harlem gangster would have came into power with a huge drug network that stretched from New York City to asia. The man’s name was Frank Lucas, once the right hand man of another Harlem gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson. Johnson would later on die of a heart attack and Lucas would become the next player in town. This story would later on lead up to his life of crime and how a detective named Robert Richie would later take him down. The movie was released in theaters November, 9 2007 based off the book called The Return of Superfly. Once it was released and then reviewed it got a lot of feedback on how inaccurate it was on the investigation of Frank Lucas. Many former

Give the evidence or detail from the movie with citation: He shoots him in the head while his brothers are watching from inside the restaurant and then walks back in like nothing happened ( American Gangster). During the movie, Frank Lucas leaves the restaurant to confront a rival drug dealer and tells him to pay up. The rival drug dealer doesn’t listen and Lucas shoots him in the head while his brothers were still in the restaurant seeing everything. In American Gangster, Frank Lucas appeared on the New York Magazine in 2000 called “The Return of Superfly”. While discussing to Mark Jacobson about what actually happened and telling him the dealers real name Tango, he said: So I figured, Tango, you're my man." Frank confronted Tango and asked him for money that Tango owed him. Tango cursed at Frank. Unlike in the movie, Tango "broke" for Frank, prompting Frank to shoot him four times. "...bam, bam, bam, bam," Frank recounted. "The boy didn't have no head. The whole sh@t blowed out back there (Interview with Frank Lucas at Hot 97). The part where Frank shoots Tango is inaccurate because it showed Frank’’s brother’s watching the whole thing but they actually didn’t know it happened at the time and in the movie after Frank shoots the dealer it shows him going back to the restaurant

When asked in the if he was was the main one responsible for taking down Lucas’s drug operation, Richie said "The people who put Frank down. I'm more like a composite. We had a squad of guys that worked on him." (Radio show with Roberts). Richie also admitted that some other detectives were upset by the lack of screentime. This.This had upseted a lot of ex- cops who were on the case having no show time in the movie promoting detective Roberts as the main person responsible just shows how it was hollywood's