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  1. Scarface isn’t a mafia movie. It’s certainly a gangster movie, but that’s not the same thing. If you’re looking at it as a comparison to The Godfather or even the Irishman, then you’re comparing apples to oranges. The movie was intended to feel like a coke dream, mirroring its content.

  2. Scarface” takes its title from the 1932 Howard Hawks movie, which was inspired by the career of Al Capone. That Hawks film was the most violent gangster film of its time, and this 1983 film by Brian DePalma also has been surrounded by a controversy over its violence, but in both movies the violence grows out of the lives of the characters; it isn’t used for thrills but for a sort of ...

  3. Sep 28, 2003 · Tony Montana, broke and a criminal, will do anything to get started in the new land, and quickly hustles a commission to kill a fellow prisoner who is disliked by a wealthy Cuban American. The payoff will be citizenship. “I kill a communist for fun,” he says, “but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice.”.

  4. May 27, 2016 · Why Scarface's critics were right the first time. It's awful. Beloved by gangster rappers, a pop-cultural subset not exactly noted in society for their exquisite taste, Brian De Palma's 1983 ...

  5. Scarface. After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who ...

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  6. 162 minutes. Certificate: 18. Original Title: Scarface. From its first moments, 'Scarface' is Al Pacino's movie. The opening shots of Tony Montana reveal that weíre in the presence of a truly ...

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  8. Dec 9, 1983 · Scarface: Directed by Brian De Palma. With Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Miami in the 1980s: a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Florida, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.

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