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Traffic. (2000 film) Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from several perspectives: users, enforcers, politicians, and traffickers. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some characters do not meet each other.
The 2000 and 2001 reissues of Traffic brought renewed attention to the album, adding bonus tracks and single mixes that expanded its legacy. These reissues were carefully produced with the assistance of Jim Capaldi, ensuring that the album’s re-release paid homage to its original spirit while offering fans new material to explore.
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- The film had ties to a movie that hadn’t even been made yet. Steven Soderbergh wanted to do a movie about the drug war, but he didn’t want it to focus on drug addicts, so he based it on the 1989 U.K.
- The teens achieved the look of being high by having dust blown in their faces. To prep for the scenes in which Topher Grace and Erika Christensen were stoned, filmmakers blew peppermint dust in their faces to irritate their eyes (the same effect was also used for scenes in Super Troopers).
- Screenwriter Stephen Gaghan based part of the story on his own personal history. When a movie critic took issue that it seemed unrealistic that Erika Christensen’s character had an perfect report card while being addicted to drugs, Gaghan pointed out that this was based on his own high school life at the time, and he had a perfect record as a high school drug user.
- Benicio del Toro’s Oscar win put him in select company. Del Toro is one of only five actors to have won an Academy Award for a role spoken mainly in a foreign language.
Best of Traffic – 1969 US #48, AUS #12. Heavy Traffic – 1975 US #155. More Heavy Traffic – 1975 US #193. Smiling Phases – 1991. Heaven Is in Your Mind - An Introduction to Traffic – 1998 (part of Island's An Introduction to... series) Feelin' Alright: The Very Best of Traffic – 2000 (re-released in 2007 as The Definitive Collection ...
Dec 31, 2000 · The only title in my top ten with that kind of bold invention was "Requiem for a Dream," although "Traffic" did a skillful job of juggling parallel stories and "George Washington" was a triumph of style in a more muted key. And yet, as stories, what pleasure they gave!
Jul 29, 2016 · 6) Paper Sun (single, 1967) Traffic’s debut single, produced by Jimmy Miller, marked the beginning of the Winwood-Capaldi songwriting partnership and landed them a top five hit. Full of dazzling summer-of-’67 vibes, Paper Sun’s spiritual locale is somewhere between West Coast USA, rural Berkshire and (courtesy of Dave Mason’s incense ...
Traffic's singer, keyboardist, and guitarist Steve Winwood was the lead singer for the Spencer Davis Group at age 14. The Spencer Davis Group released four Top Ten singles and three Top Ten albums in the United Kingdom, as well as two Top Ten singles in the United States.
