Not everything you see drunk bear (Cocaine Bear, the original title that its director, fellow actress Elizabeth Banks, worked so hard to keep) is literally what happened, but almost. Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (from animated films by Lego; Spider-Man: Into a New Universe), let’s get to the facts first.
If you have seen the latest episode of oscarWell, there has been talk (and the bear seen) of the film. It aroused so much emotion after its premiere in the United States.
Around 1985, Andrew C. Thornton II, a former drug trafficking cop and drug trafficker with ties to the Colombian mob, dumped sacks of packets of cocaine in a wood. He did it to release the weight. So he threw in a parachute, but it didn’t open. Thus, nearly 80 kilograms of cocaine were lost in the forest.
It’s true: the film itself shows it with archival images.
Dead and surrounded by 40 bags of cocaine
The bear of the title – which is a bear, as one of the co-protagonists of the fiction will put it in words – is dead. He was found three months later in north Georgia surrounded by 40 open plastic bags filled with cocaine.
More data? The corpse was stuffed and put on display at the Kentucky Fun Mall.
In the fiction of this crazy, unbridled horror comedy, the humans who arrive in that forest are many and of different origins. There is a couple of tourists, a girl and a schoolmate who instead of going to class run away to “color” some waterfalls, the girl’s mother (Keri Russell), and there are those who were companions of the deceased pilot, desperate to find the shipment, not just to recover the money, but to terrorize Colombian drug traffickers.
Among them is Syd, played by Ray Liottapassed away in May last year, in one of his many last film appearances which he left posthumously.
There is also Syd’s son Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich, from Han Solo: A Star Wars Story), another drug dealer, a cop who arrives on the trail, and a couple of rangers.
And we talked about madness. The encounters Black Bear has with the aforementioned characters border on parody. The conjunction of the comic and horror genres is linked to gags ranging from different dismemberments, use of cocaine by the animal – and also by children, which would not be so funny – and no less grotesque situations.
There can be no question of an uneven pace, because everything is counted in the sprints, after the plane crash and once the children have arrived in the forest.
No, the humor of drunk bearwhich will surely have many horror addicted spectators as spectators.
“Drunk Bear”
Comedy/Horror. USA, 2023. Original title: “Cocaine Bear”. 95′, SAM 18. From: Elizabeth Banks. With: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Ray Liotta. Rooms: Cinépolis Recoleta, Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Unicenter, Showcase Belgrano.
Source: Clarin
