![]() ![]() In Mexico, Javier watches as children play baseball at night in their new stadium. Javier explains to the media about the widespread corruption in the police force and army. Salazar's secrets are revealed to the public, and he is arrested and is shown suffering probable torture in prison. In exchange for his testimony, Javier requests electricity in his neighborhood so the youngsters can play baseball at night rather than be tempted by street gangs and crime. Javier, who can no longer stomach working for Salazar, decides to make a deal with the DEA. Javier's partner Sanchez attempts to sell the information of Salazar's true affiliation to the DEA but is killed for his betrayal. In 2004, USA Network ran a miniseries-also called Traffic-based on this film and the 1989 British television series. It was also a commercial success with a worldwide box-office revenue total of $207.5 million, well above its estimated $46 million budget. Traffic was critically acclaimed and earned numerous awards, including four Oscars: Best Director for Steven Soderbergh, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro, Best Adapted Screenplay for Stephen Gaghan and Best Film Editing for Stephen Mirrione. Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive color grade for each story so that audiences could tell them apart. USA Films, however, liked the project from the start and offered the filmmakers more money than Fox. Soderbergh refused and proposed the script to other major Hollywood studios, but it was rejected because of the three-hour running Time and the subject matter- Traffic is more of a political film than most Hollywood productions. 20th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded that Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. ![]()
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