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Default 06-11-07, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by girlfromthenc View Post
I figured that much as soon as I saw production photos of Denzel playing Frank Lucas handing a "Miss Puerto Rico" a diamond necklace. I will never understand (nor support media), which makes heros out of AA men who destroy their own community and spit on their own women, their own mothers!
This man was no hero. I don't know if the film portrays him as one, however. In the end, Frank Lucas was busted down. He ended up living hand to mouth on the street. Much better than he deserved.


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