Cocaine Cowboys: Difference between revisions

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* [[Corrupt Cop]]: Police corruption was endemic, to the point that an ''entire academy year'' of the Miami PD ended up dead or in jail over drug-related corruption.

* [[Damn It Feels Good to Be A Gangster]]: Played straight for most of the first film, until it all falls apart.

* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be A Gangster!]]: Played straight for most of the first film, until it all falls apart.

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: Both movies spend a good deal of time showcasing the considerable amounts of money, power and notoriety that drug dealing brings. They even get [[Miami Vice|Jan Hammer]] to do the first film's score for that extra coat of gloss.

* [[The Dragon]]: Rivi, hitman and enforcer for Blanco.

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* [[Irony]]: A moment of situational irony occurred when a South Florida preacher's sermon on the evils of drugs was interrupted by half a million dollars worth of cocaine crashing through the church roof.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Zig zagged in the first film. Averted in that at the time of filming, almost all of the criminals were either dead, in jail or out of jail. Doubly subverted with Griselda Blanco who managed to keep her cocaine business going despite being arrested in 1985. Deconstructed with Max Mermelstein, who escaped prosecution only to end up in [[Witness Protection]] with a price on his head. Played straight in the second film with Cosby.

* [[Know When to Fold Em]]: Cosby directly credits this for his survival at the end of the sequel.

* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Cosby directly credits this for his survival at the end of the sequel.

* [[Man of Wealth and Taste|Woman Of Wealth and Taste]]: Griselda Blanco.

* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Roberts describes this as a major difference between Colombian and Italian organised crime - the Colombians would kill someone if they didn't get paid, whereas the Italians felt that it was easier to get their money back from a living person.