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Monday, February 07, 2005

Scarface

Who's watched: M & G
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Commentary:  This is one of my very favorite movies. It is one of my mother's least favorite movies. She watched it once when some friends were visiting, one of them noticed I had the movie and wanted to watch it. The visit became a Scarface Fest. When the movie was over my mother turned to me and said, "I don't know why you like watching all that blood-letting, girl!" Neither do I.
Update 2/9/18:  By the way, Roger Ebert wrote about this movie twice, which is why I am using his reviews (here's the other one) instead of Wikipedia's write-up (Okay, I'll link to that, too). One other thing: If you read the comments, you'll notice a link to a site called The Scarface World. The link is now dead, so I performed a cursory search and couldn't find it. [No, I have not linked to the site, only to a site that indicates that, yes, this site did exist, but has since been deprecated (who knows how long; I only now, on 6/18/21, found this site]. I noticed, however, a plethora of commentary on the movie all over the web. Just punch in its name, if you're curious, and you'll be overwhelmed with content. There's even a Scarface video game.
RE-WATCHED: 7/30-31/2020 Including bonus materials on disc 2. The bonus materials for this movie are especially interesting and there are loads of them, relatively speaking. They include one bonus on the changes made for a TV version and another on why it became so popular among gang members of the time. Al Pacino being interviewed for one of the bonuses dealing with acting the role was a treat. This movie remains an absolute favorite of mine. I can't imagine a time when I won't look forward to watching it ... again.

Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
Al Pacino	Tony Montana	Steven Bauer	Manny Ray	Michelle Pfeiffer	Elvira	Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio	Gina
Robert Loggia	Frank Lopez	Míriam Colón	Mama Montana	F. Murray Abraham	Omar	Paul Shenar	Alejandro Sosa

  One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies.
  Release Date: 1983
  Directed by Brian De Palma.

Labels: action3, brian-de-palma, dramaC, gang-movie, me-favorite4, neo-noirA, oliver-stone, pacino, popcorn-and-soda6, violence3

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Do you know why we love Scarface? Because most of the times we don't have the guts to be what we wanna be. We need people like him. We need people like him so we can point our f...g fingers and say "that's the bad guy".
http://www.thescarfaceworld.com

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Anonymous : 4:52 PM

[http://www.thescarfaceworld.com the scarface world]

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Anonymous : 4:54 PM

Thank you, anonymous, for both the comment (succinct and thought provoking) and the link!

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Gail Rae : 1:38 PM

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