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Was the Nick/Maria story true?

posted 9 years ago by Stewatson35
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Loved this movie. There was so much going on that we didn't see, I found it really interesting having done some research on Escobar. And it was all spot on, apart from the love story between Nick and Maria, nick's family, or basically anything to do with Nick.
I've never heard of a Canadian being involved with Pablo.
I do know that Los Pepes - a left wing terrorist group - was taking out Escobar's family and business associates. Was this movie just using artistic license? Because with somebody like Escobar, I wouldn't have thought they needed to fabricate any love story, which I'm not entirely sure it was.
Absolutely brilliant movie. It seems to be in keeping with Escobar's life, although I'm not sure whether they compressed it down a bit.
I do know that he came and went from that "prison" as he pleased, he was literally in there as a show of force by the Colombian government. When he'd had enough, he left.

The books I've read and the documentaries I've seen never mentioned diamonds or a Canadian, they did paint a very real picture of the cartel boss though. He always seems to be romanticised, but he did some really terrible things to get to where he was.
Still, can't help but love him.

[–] Stewatson35 9 years ago

Just read a few reviews and it would seem that the love story was fabricated. The OP seems very unhappy that they used fiction where there was plenty of fact.
Even if the story was fabricated, it still took place in real events. He was denounced by Lara and the government. Consequently he was dead a week later, which is what began the civil unrest and the murders.
He became enemy of the state, he was literally the most wanted man in the Americas. Which is why he gave himself up, to protect his family, to his own built prison which was on a massive hill. It did have a football pitch yes, but it was on a 45 degree angle!

[–] wildfire160 9 years ago

Its claimed that Di Stefano heard a story from a police officer about an Italian who visited his brother in Columbia and got into(some sort of) trouble,it seems unlikely that anything about Nick and Maria is true...

Nee ta ma duh tyen-shia suo-yo duh run doh gai si

[–] Stewatson35 9 years ago

Still a great film worthy of more than 6.6 or whatever it got.
The amount of stories surrounding Escobar are vast, it seems a shame that they had to fabricate a story, when his life was rife with insane stories.

[–] vittimafia 9 years ago

In my opinion the movie deserves a 6.6; the boy was terrible (as always) and the story felt rushed.
However if I only rate Del Toro as Escobar I give him a 10; what an absolutely amazing performance!

That was real? I saw that movie, I thought it was bullsh*t

[–] Stewatson35 9 years ago

True, I'd have much seen a movie about Pablo than the two made up people.

[–] spookyrat1 8 years ago

The Nick/Maria story was totally fictional and IMO was pretty poorly constructed any way. I mean seriously, as if she had no idea of the dangers of Escobar and was happy to have her husband working at his hacienda. Just fanciful!🐭

[–] monstermayhem32 8 years ago

The nick me Maria story should have been more developed.

[–] Movie_Piranha_1979 8 years ago

I was wondering the same thing!

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

[–] Dennis_Cooper 8 years ago

To the OP, Los Pepes was not a left wing terrorist group. Quite the opposite. They were a right wing group (allegedly backed by the CIA) made of men who had been fighting the left wing terrorist group FARC for years in the jungles of Columbia.