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Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma came together to make what is now considered a classic by many of the gangster genre, combining Oliver Stone's somewhat B-movie script with endlessly quotable dialogue with De Palma's elegant and fast paced directing.
It all starts with a mini-documentary of the Mariel boatlift accompanied by an amazing deep soundtrack and one of the cuban refugees is Tony Montana (Al Pacino) being interrogated and making jokes the whole time, he's a ballsy guy and…
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Al Pacino gives it his all in Scarface, but even still it isn't his best performance. I would go as far as to say I prefer him in Carlito's Way than I do here in Scarface, not to mention the Godfather movies and of course Dog Day Afternoon. Maybe that is simply a testament to his skill at an actor. I don't know.
What I do know is besides him, this movie is nothing more than a generic shallow crime…
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How come Scarface is so popular within the younger male demographic?
It offers a view into the exotic. What if you could deal your way from the gutter to the top on your terms, get all your materialistic needs satisfied, get the beautiful woman and all the drugs you could ever want. You take part in a high-risk gamble and beat the game, at least temporarily. Although most viewers are content with watching it from a distance and don’t have…
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I prefer CARLITO'S WAY - a minority opinion, and possibly influenced by the fact that I watched it first and SCARFACE second, but there it is. Al Pacino's performance is exceptional - you really do forget you're watching an actor, such is the extent to which he BECOMES Tony Montana, and the usual De Palma set-pieces are very much in evidence. However, for a fairly lengthy stretch of the film - between the infamous chainsaw scene and the nightclub assassination…
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This is Al Pacino's film, he gives a commanding in-your-face performance as Tony Montana the Cuban refugee (Political Prisoner) who rises to the top of the 1980's Miami Drug trade.
The film feels a bit bloated at times with some incredibly cumbersome scenes languishing between the standout iconic sequences.
Thanks must be given to Oliver Stones strong script which delivers many stand-out lines that have since ingrained themselves into the public consciousness.
Masterpiece it may be for others, but for me it has enough flaws to make it just the wrong side of the description.
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A film I hadn’t seen but now I have.
There are a few classic films that it seems I’m in the vast minority of not liking, however Scarface is one that does seem to divide opinion. I always feel a bit guilty criticising such well-known and acclaimed films so I’ll keep this reasonably short. Basically, my main problem with this film is that I just didn’t care about Tony Montana. Why should I? He’s a prick. So at the end…
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'Scarface' is THE gangster film. You've got mountains of cocaine, piles of bodies and a fucking grenade launcher, but most importantly you get a truly memorable lead character in Tony Montana. The real joy in watching this film isn't in seeing people get shot, but in seeing Montana turn from a cheeky chappy to an incredibly successful but equally jaded and miserable drug baron.
Al Pacino's performance is what drives 'Scarface' and it is…
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Tony Montana, uno de los personajes más iconicos del cine, interpretado salvaje y magistralmente por Al Pacino.
Scarface es una de las mejores películas de mafia que puede existir, es agresiva, es intrigante, es divertida y cuenta con una frase bastante épica: "Say Hello to my little friend"