{"id":36797,"date":"2024-09-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36797"},"modified":"2024-09-19T21:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T01:40:36","slug":"36797","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36797","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American Me&#8221; (1992) directed by Edward James Olmos, starring Edward James Olmos &amp; William Forsythe \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092324zview_americanme.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>American Me<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Edward James Olmos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Floyd Mutrux, Desmond Nakano; <\/strong>story by<strong> Floyd Mutrux<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe<\/strong><strong>, Pepe Serna,\u00a0Lopez, Dyana Ortelli, Lance August, Cody Glenn, Don Pugsley\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>William Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>In prison they are the law. On the streets they are the power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>American Me<\/em> follows three friends, Montoya Santana (Olmos), JD (Forsythe) and Mundo (Serna) from their days of youthful crime to their leadership of the powerful La Eme gang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>American Me<\/em> is based on real people and events, but was fictionalized.\u00a0 Some of the choices made were not well received.\u00a0 Reportedly at least three of the consultants for the film were murdered after the movie&#8217;s release.\u00a0 Danny Trejo talks about the problems and the people who were killed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m6ph5_yysW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this interview<\/a> (start at 24:32).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several scenes were shot at Folsom State Prison and the California Institution for Men.\u00a0 Real gang members, prisoners and guards are seen on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Edward James Olmos&#8217; debut as a director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>American Me<\/b><\/i> (1992)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092324zview_americanme2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Me (1992) Director: Edward James Olmos Screenplay: Floyd Mutrux, Desmond Nakano; story by Floyd Mutrux Stars: Edward James Olmos,<\/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-36797","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\/36797","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=36797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36937,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36797\/revisions\/36937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}