My review

Interesting way to review movies. Thanks for reviewing Miami Vice. It's one of my favorites.

In your review, you asked, "What kind of cred do Sonny and Rico have? Who can front them?"

Nicholas did, remember? He was the guy in the really nice condo. He made the call that got Sonny and Rico the meet with Jose Yero. Their "fabricated identities" did the rest.

Also, one of your complaints was Gong Li is Asian, but she speaks Spanish. In the script, Mann writes that she is "Afro-Cuban".

From the script:

CROCKETT
Were you born in Havana?

ISABELLA
Angola. My mother was being a
surgeon there. She volunteered.
Mozambique and Mali, too...
(over the wind)
...those days, in those days...she
was part of Cuba's gift to the
third world. She came from a
bourgeois family with a house in
Verdado...we still have the house.
We will go there...
CROCKETT
Where's she now?

ISABELLA
She's dead...
Crockett looks at her. Her perspective is that of the '60's
and '70's, the politics of national liberation, the
perspective of Marcuse and Franz Fanon.

CROCKETT
Your father?

ISABELLA
Angolan Military. Went back to the
fighting. Disappeared. Who
knows...?

Later...


CROCKETT
What was your mother's name...?

ISABELLA
Blanca...a rubio like you.
(pause)
I see her in a dress...an old
photograph from Lucinda somebody's
wedding...everybody is with
couples. Husbands and wives. They
all pose. My mother is alone
because my father had to go back to
the fighting.

ISABELLA (cont'd)
...she looks right into the camera.
She is the most beautiful woman in
the room. By herself. In a party
dress. And she looked like she
knew she would die alone...
(beat...remembers)
She spoke many languages. We were
in Luanda when she died. I went to
her friends in Mali. They sent me
to the Ecole Polytechnique in
Geneva to study mathematics, where
I met Montoya in the discos. He
had banking there...I was seventeen
and very much into the clubs. And
he sent me to University for an MBA
in Finance.

Overall, nice review. By the way, I loved the series and the movie!


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