{"id":43213,"date":"2026-11-08T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43213"},"modified":"2026-11-06T21:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T02:59:43","slug":"savages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43213","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Savages&#8221; (2012) directed by Oliver Stone, starring Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek\u00a0and Shea Whigham \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110826zview_savages.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Savages <\/i>(2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Oliver Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Shane Salerno, Oliver Stone, Don Winslow; <\/strong>based on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1451667159?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1451667159&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> SAVAGES <\/strong><\/a>by <strong>Don Winslow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Taylor Kitsch, <\/strong><strong>Blake Lively, <\/strong><strong>Aaron Johnson, <\/strong><strong>John Travolta, <\/strong><strong>Benicio del Toro, <\/strong><strong>Salma Hayek\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Shea Whigham<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Young. Beautiful. Deadly..<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben (a pacifist) and Chon (ex-military) are best friends who share a thriving marijuana business and a woman named Ophelia. The relationship works as well as their multi-million dollar pot business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All is paradise until a brutal Mexican cartel (is that redundant?) decides to move in on their pot trade. When Ben and Chon refuse their offer, the cartel kidnaps Ophelia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nothing will stop Ben and Chon from getting her back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ron Kovic, the subject of Oliver&#8217;s Stone&#8217;s <em>Born on the Fourth of July<\/em>, makes a cameo as a wheelchair-bound customer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The novel by Don Winslow provides a solid foundation. The screenplay by Shane Salerno, Don Winslow and Olver Stone isn\u2019t afraid to make changes to the great source material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro and John Travolta are excellent. Oliver Stone delivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Savages <\/i>(2012)<\/strong> 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\/2026\/z110826zview_savages2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savages (2012) Director:\u00a0 Oliver Stone Screenplay: \u00a0Shane Salerno, Oliver Stone, Don Winslow; based on SAVAGES by Don Winslow Stars:\u00a0 Taylor<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213","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=43213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43360,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213\/revisions\/43360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}