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Apr 18, 2016 · Absolutely. And that is the actual message of Scarface. But two things: It is absolutely 100% spot-on perfect at displaying the sort of coked-out excesses of the 80s. If you weren't in Miami, you only had Miami Vice and Scarface to go on, and even compared to Michael Alig's club kids, Miami was on a whole other level back then.
Sep 28, 2003 · “Though a busy performance, it’s not a mannered one, meaning that it’s completely controlled,” Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times on the film’s first release. “Scarface” shows a man who wants the world, and at one point even sees The World Is Yours blinking at him from the Goodyear blimp.
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.
May 27, 2016 · Despite vague nods to real-world relevance, Scarface is an overblown B-movie with tabs on itself, that telegraphs every twist. “Assassinate me?” barks Frank Loggia's big cheese.
Apr 28, 2020 · With a combustible screenplay written by Oliver Stone, Scarface (1983), is a cocaine driven and incendiary viewing experience. Stone himself is reported to have been battling cocaine addiction while writing it and this shows in the over-the-top world on screen.
“Scarface” understands this criminal personality, with its links between laziness and ruthlessness, grandiosity and low self-esteem, pipe dreams and a chronic inability to be happy. It’s also an exciting crime picture, in the tradition of the 1932 movie.
Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, and starring Al Pacino. [6] It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, [7] [8] [9] in turn based on the novel of the same name first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail.
