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henüz türkiye de gösterime girmemiş olan american gangster filminde gerçek hikayesi anlatılan amerikan rüyasını gerçekleştirmiş uyuşturucu kaçakçısı.yaptığı işin olumlu bir yanı olmamasına rağmen,aklına ve gücüne hayran kalmamak elde değil.aynı zamanda siyahidir.ve 1970 ler gözönüne alındığında,bir siyahinin uyuşturucu patronu olmasının ne kadar zor olduğu anlaşılmaktadır.ve frank lucas bunu başarmıştır.

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american gangster (2007)

[from trailer]
frank lucas: the man ı worked for had one of the biggest companies in new york city. he didn't own his own company. white man owned it, so they owned him. nobody owns me, though.

[from trailer]
frank lucas: see, ya are what ya are in this world. that's either one of two things: either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.

frank lucas: [repeated line] my man.

dominic cattano: how you feel about monopolies?
frank lucas: what, the game?

frank lucas: now, ı got no problem with you showin' up in court tomorrow with your head blown in half.
detective richie roberts: get in line. that one stretches around the block too.

frank lucas: what is that you got on?
huey lucas: what? this?
frank lucas: yeah, that.
huey lucas: this is a very, very, very nice suit.
frank lucas: that's a very, very, very nice suit, huh?
huey lucas: yeah.
frank lucas: that's a clown suit. that's a costume, with a big sign on it that says "arrest me". you understand? you're too loud, you're making too much noise. listen to me, the loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

eva: [after having lunch with a mob boss and his wife] ı don't like how they look at us. like we're the help.
frank lucas: yeah? well now they're working for me.

frank lucas: [after detective trupo finds blue magic in a small bag in the car] what are we gonna do? we're gonna put that back in the bag and into the trunk. how about that?
detective trupo: how about ı throw you and your fucking brother in the river?
frank lucas: or how about next time ı blow up your house?

[from trailer]
frank lucas: this is my home. my country. frank lucas don't run from nobody. this is america.

nephew: ı don't wanna play baseball no more.
huey lucas: [enters back patio] frank, we got a problem.
frank lucas: [looks at his brother then looks back at his nephew] well, what do you want?
nephew: ı want what you got uncle frank.
nephew: ı wanna be you.

[from trailer]
frank lucas: this is my home. this is where my business is, my wife, my mother, my family. this is my country, ı ain't goin' nowhere.

frank lucas: they tried to kill my wife!
frank lucas: who are they?... huh?... maybe it was one of your people?
dominic cattano: ı don't know yet.
frank lucas: you don't know.
dominic cattano: no.
frank lucas: you don't know.
frank lucas: ı tell you what ı know maybe ı should just uh, put five hundred guns out there on the street and just start shooting up some people just to make a point.

[from trailer]
frank lucas: ı got harlem. ı took care of harlem, so harlem's gonna take care of me.

[from trailer]
frank lucas: ıt don't mean nothing to me for you to show up tomorrow morning with your head blown off.
detective richie roberts: get in line. that one stretches around the block.

detective richie roberts: good work frank. you... want a drink or something? celebrate?
frank lucas: you got any holy water?

eva: why would you trust these people? and the way they look at you.
frank lucas: they look at me like it's christmas and ı'm santa claus.
eva: they look at us like we're the help.
frank lucas: they work for me, now.

frank lucas: what's with this outfit? you know what it says? you wanna know what it says? arrest me!

frank lucas: simple simon-ass motherfuckers!

frank lucas: don't rub, blot it! you blot that shit!

frank lucas: [repeated line] 20 percent.

frank lucas: the most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hardwork... family... never forgetting where we came from.

mama lucas: you don't shoot cops. even ı know that. eva knows it. the only one who doesn't seem to know is you.
frank lucas: [ignores her pleas as he escorts her outside] all right, mama. ı'm not going to, ı promise you. ı'm not going to shoot anyone.
mama lucas: ı never asked you where all this stuff came from, because ı didn't want to hear you lie to me. please...
frank lucas: [talking over her] ma, ı understand. ı don't want you to worry about it. now come on, ı have to go...
mama lucas: don't lıe to me!
[slaps frank roughly]
mama lucas: don't... don't do that. do you want to make things so bad for your family that they'll leave you? because they will.
frank lucas: [dismissively] no. no, ma, ı understand...
mama lucas: [points towards eva] she will leave you. *ı* will leave you!

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frank lucas (born september 9, 1930 in lenoir county, north carolina) was a heroin dealer and organized crime boss in harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. he was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in southeast asia. he organized the smuggling of heroin from vietnam to the u.s. by using the coffins of dead american servicemen ("cadaver connection")

career

he claims to have grossed us$1 million a day selling drugs on 116th street. federal judge sterling johnson, who was special narcotics prosecutor in new york at the time of lucas' crimes, called lucas' operation "one of the most outrageous international dope-smuggling gangs ever, an innovator who got his own connections outside the u.s. and then sold the narcotics himself in the street."

according to an interview dated august 7, 2000 with ny magazine, lucas relied on a tightly controlled crew called "the country boys". he preferred using relatives and men from his hometown in north carolina because they were less likely to steal from him and weren't used to city living. he asserts in the article that his heroin, "blue magic", was 100% pure, stronger than most of the stuff on the street at the time. ın this direct quote from the article, lucas was worth something like $52 million," most of it in cayman ıslands banks. added to this is "maybe 1,000 keys of dope on hand" with a potential profit of no less than $300,000 per kilo. also in his portfolio were office buildings in detroit, apartments in los angeles and miami, "and a mess of puerto rico." there was also "frank lucas's paradise valley," a several-thousand-acre spread back in north carolina on which ranged 300 head of black angus cows, including a "big-balled" breeding bull worth $125,000.

lucas rubbed shoulders with the elite in entertainment, politics and crime, even meeting howard hughes at one of harlem's best clubs in his day. he wore mink and chinchilla and dressed his wife in the best. he fathered 7 children, as far as he knows.

when he was arrested in the mid-70's all of lucas' assets were seized by the government.

arrest and release

frank lucas was arrested in 1975 in new jersey and was convicted of both federal and new jersey state drug violations. ın 1976, he was sentenced to 70 years in prison. once convicted, lucas provided evidence that led to the convictions of more than 100 drug-related criminals. his sentence was reduced and changed to parole, so that he was released from prison in 1981. ın 1984 he was arrested again and convicted for new drug violations and a parole violation. he received a sentence of seven years and was released from prison in 1991. within the movie american gangster it was said that at the height of his career frank lucas was more powerful than any other criminal organization including the "mafia" when it came to dope dealing (not overall). he paid off an ıtalian crime family for their "protection" to sell dope on the streets.

frank lucas is in a wheelchair due to a broken leg, as seen in the hbo documentary, the making of american gangster. actor denzel washington portrays frank lucas in the film american gangster directed by ridley scott, which was released on november 2, 2007. lucas and his former competitor, nicky barnes, sat down with new york magazine's mark jacobson recently for a historic conversation between men who have not spoken to each other in 30 years. lucas talks about the film's release and truthfulness in a short interview with mtv on november 6, 2007

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