![]() It was a life of luxury and extravagance. Once the cameras started rolling, Pablo Escobar’s only son began to tell the story of his extraordinary childhood. I think that’s what helped him to take this chance.” Marroquin had not spoken to the press in years but after some coaxing from Entel, opened up his family’s personal archive of photographs, videos, and voice recordings. But, I think he understood that I wasn’t just trying to glamourize his father’s image but I was trying to do something different, tellings things from the point of view of his generation. Basically, he felt that he was risking his life by finally breaking his silence and letting the world know where he was and that his name was Sebastian Marroquin. It took me more than six months to get him on-board. “It was very hard to get Sebastian to agree. I did not know him but I thought it was going to give me the opportunity of not only achieving this that I already mentioned but also of giving my documentary a more contemporary tone.”īut first he had to get Sebastian Marroquin to agree. “So the first idea I had was telling the story from the point of view of Sebastian Marroquin, who of course was born Juan Pablo Escobar but changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin after his father’s death for security reasons. Entel, without ever having met Escobar’s son decided he wanted to make a documentary about him. He was quietly living in Argentina under an assumed name making his living as an architect. It turns out Pablo Escobar had a son who fled Colombia soon after his father’s death in the early nineties. One of the first things I asked myself is how can I not only retell the story of Pablo Escobar, which of course takes place in the past but also have a documentary that which at least certain things happen in present time and unfold in front of the cameras?” “I am always very interested in documentaries in which the story unfolds in front of your eyes, that take place in present time. He challenged himself to find a way to tell the story in the present. Some of them suggest this ridiculous idea that he was killed by a delta force sniper, some of them glamourize him, and even dare to ask if he was good or bad which is a ridiculous question.”Įntel wanted to find a way to create a different kind of Pablo Escobar documentary. Although there is a lot of them most of them are embarrassing for lack of a better word. ![]() He says, “Although many documentaries have been made about Pablo Escobar, before making this one, I really felt that there was a void for good Pablo Escobar documentaries. Nicolas Entel, an Argentinian-born New York-based documentarian decided to forge ahead with making a film about Pablo Escobar despite the glut in Escobar-themed documentaries. Escobar’s criminal exploits have been depicted in countless sensationalized TV shows, movies, telenovelas, and documentaries. Back in the eighties Escobar acquired massive amounts of wealth, controlled 80% of the world’s cocaine supply, ordered the murders of hundreds of people, and at one point was even elected to Colombia’s Congress. Almost twenty years after his death, Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia, is still infamous. ![]()
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