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Scarface
| Rated:
R |
1983 |
Color |
170
min. |
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| Starring:
Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F.
Murray Abraham, Paul Shenar |
| Director:
Brian De Palma |
Screen
Writer: Oliver
Stone |
| Produced
by: Martin
Bergman |
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| Music:
Giogio Moroder |
| Movie/Production
Co.: Universal Pictures |
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By navyboi18
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“Say hello to my little friend” In this movie Tony Montana (Al
Pacino) is in the struggle of his life. Tony gets on the good side
of major drug distributor Frank Lopez (Robert loggia). After
creating a name for his self he starts to want every thing frank has
including his wife. |
| After two difficult years in the making, SCARFACE appeared in
late 1983; marking De Palma's entry into territory he hadn't
previously explored the American gangster film. Brian De Palma has
directed 38 movies his first being “Icarus” in 1960. “SCARFACE” is
De Palma’s 22nd movie. Some said that this movie would be the
hardest movie he ever did but it boosted his reputation as a
director overall. Oliver Stone the screen writer gave this reasoning
for writing “SCARFACE”. “I got excited by the subject,” he said. “I
got a fire in my belly. This was something I really wanted to do,
but I knew my writing wasn't going to be there unless I stopped
doing coke.... I was becoming more one-dimensional, fueled by the
need for the drug.... I wrote SCARFACE basically as an adieu to
cocaine. It had beaten the hell out of me, but I got my revenge by
writing about it.” I guess starting the habit is a lot easier then
kicking it. Tony Montana is a convict in Cuba who comes to America
to live a new life. Within a couple weeks Tony gets hooked on
cocaine and he goes from an unknown immigrant, to a well known drug
lord. |
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| As he continues to rise in the material
wealth he starts becoming very paranoid. This paranoia will take
Tony to a point where he trusts nobody not even his own wife. Now he
has every thing he wants but he is, how do would you say head over
heels, on cocaine. The most critical drug in this time was cocaine
many people were drug down by this drug and this movie is a perfect
example of how cocaine can affect your body and mind frame. After he
shots his best friend everything else falls apart. His sister Gina
now hates him and he has pissed off the biggest drug lord, Sosa.
This movie ends with one of the best gun battles of the time. Sosa
sent his men to Tony’s mansion to assonate him but Tony won’t go
down with out a fight.
Being the most action packed gangster film, overall this was a
great movie for its time. This movie has went down in American
history as a classic. Even though the movie has been digitally
re-mastered recently, it was done with only few minor mistakes. In
some scenes you can see camera crew and equipment. I would recommend
SCARFACE to American gangster film lovers. This movie is rated R and
has serious language and adult content. I give this movie 8 out of
10 stars.
Sources:
http://www.briandepalma.net/scarface/scar.htm |
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| Awards:
Although Nominated for 3 Golden Globes, it won nothing. |
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1.) Brian De Palma was nominated by the Razzie Awards for Worst
Director in 1984. Ouch!
2.) Oliver Stone says that they cut the movie significantly in
order to receive an "R" rating, but they released the uncut
version in theaters...right under the censors' noses.
3.) Al Pacino badly burned his hand on his "Little
Friend" (no, I mean the machine gun) in the final fight scene and
production was shut down for a few weeks.
4.) This movie uses the "F word" 206 times, a record
in 1983. It has since been surpassed by Goodfellas (1990), which
uses it 246 times, and Pulp Fiction (1994), which uses it 257
times. Don't ask me who's counting! Still, this fact makes
it very amusing to watch the censored version of Scarface on
network television with such well-dubbed dialogue like:
"FORGET YOU!!!"
"DON'T FOOL WITH ME!"
And my personal favorite:
"Where'd you get that scar?" "Eating Pineapple."
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