{"id":16758,"date":"2016-11-20T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16758"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:43:23","slug":"sicario-2015-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16758","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sicario&#8221; (2015) written by Taylor Sheridan, directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z112016zview_sicario_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sicario (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong><span class=\"itemprop\">Denis Villeneuve<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Taylor Sheridan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Donovan, Raoul Max Trujillo, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Kevin Wiggins, Edgar Arreola, Dylan Kenin, John Trejo<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Daniel Kaluuya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline: <em>The border is just another line to cross.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kate Macer\u00a0is an FBI agent recruited to join a US task force fighting the war on drugs along the Mexican border. \u00a0After joining Kate learns things aren&#8217;t as they seem and lines are being crossed that bring into question her ethics and place her life in danger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sicario\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>was nominated for three 2016<em> Academy Awards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Achievement in Sound Editing<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Alan Robert Murray<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score<\/em> &#8211; <strong>J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Achievement in Cinematography<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Roger Deakins<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Sicario<\/strong><\/em> is one of the best movies I&#8217;ve seen in years. \u00a0Taylor Sheridan creates a smart screenplay with action, drama and a story that sticks with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Denis Villeneuve&#8217;s direction makes every scene interesting. \u00a0Everything in this movie works &#8211; the cinematography, the sound, and the actors are all perfectly cast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benicio Del Toro felt that in the original screenplay, his character spoke too much.\u00a0 He approached director, Denis Villeneuve, with his concerns.\u00a0 Villeneuve agreed and estimated that 90% of his dialogue was cut which made his character much more mysterious and interesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villeneuve told the movie&#8217;s composer, J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson, that he wanted the score to contain the sound of a &#8220;threat&#8221; like that found in <em>Jaws<\/em>.\u00a0 J\u00f3hannsson came through like gangbusters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Sicario<\/em><\/strong> gets my highest recommendation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z112016zview_sicario_photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sicario (2015) Director: Denis Villeneuve Screenplay: Taylor Sheridan Stars: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41460,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758\/revisions\/41460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}