![]() On the film's initial reception among Hollywood executives: Many insiders considered De Palma's Scarface a not-so-subtle critique of a drug-addled entertainment industry. But you can also use it the way businessmen use self-help books."Ĥ. ![]() You can watch it for fun, to get off on his big guns and 'Say hello to my little friend'. He would not kill that man's wife and kids with that bomb, you've got to remember that. On the film's impact on the music industry: "Snoop Dogg told me that Scarface laid out everything a gangsta needed to know: how to handle himself, how to live by a code of making money that may be gotten in illegal ways, but having a kind of morality. And then there's the Scarface ringtone: By mid-2007, more than 2 million people had downloaded the "Say hello to my little friend!" audio file for their cell phone.ģ. ![]() A 2007 feature comments on the popularity of Scarface posters among teenagers ("every self-respecting guy needs a Scarface poster in his room"). One story details how a 24-year-old Indiana man robbed a bank while wearing a Scarface T shirt. "Scarface Lives Among Us:" Tucker chronicles more than a dozen major news stories and pop-culture events that have revived the Scarface brand since 2006. "Accused of being too violent, plagued by censorship problems, scripted by a flamboyant writer, and starring an actor who sometimes went over the top on his accent remind you of a movie we know? The 1932 Scarface both dovetails and diverges from its sequel in striking ways."Ģ. In fact, two different cuts of the film were eventually created, and individual states could decide which version should play on their screens. On the first Scarface, Howard Hawks' 1932 adaptation of the Armitage Trail novel: The film faced considerable censorship challenges from the Hays Office, which oversaw the industry's Production Code. "A quarter-century after its release," Tucker writes, "it remains elusive yet pervasive, the movie that will not go away, but which pops up where you least expect it." ( Read TIME's "Roots of Rap".)ġ. Gradually it became a rallying cry for a subculture that was, in the early 1980s, just coming into its own. As the story caught on with urban audiences via home video, fans started filling in and expanding the story going beyond the literal screenplay to construct alternate meanings and messages. Scarface, Tucker claims, was more than just vulgar escapism. ![]() The book examines how De Palma's work redefined the way films addressed on-screen violence and drug use and how the intensity of its misogyny, money worship and drug euphoria was embraced by hip-hop and gangsta rap. But Tucker recounts how the movie gradually "got away from its creators" and became a hit among "largely young, black and Hispanic" fans. ISSN 0143-9685.Follow Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed AmericaĮntertainment Weekly editor-at-large Ken Tucker surveys the lasting cultural influence of Brian De Palma's 1983 cult hit Scarface a spectacle the author calls the "ultimate gangster film" and a work of pop art that has taken on "an unruly life of its own" in the 25 years since its initial release.ĭismissed by critics and largely ignored at the box office (its $44 million haul didn't even crack the year's 15 top-grossing titles), Scarface arrived on the scene as a decidedly minor event. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. "Revisioning modern American history in the age of Scarface(1932)". " "I Can't See": Sovereignty, Oblique Vision, and the Outlaw in Hawks's Scarface". Gangster mythology in Howard Hawks' "Scarface - Shame of the nation". "Scarface: The Art of Hollywood, Not "The Shame of a Nation "". "Gangsters,Fessos, Tricksters, and Sopranos: The Historical Roots of Italian American Stereotype Anxiety". Diakses tanggal January 11, 2017.īacaan tambahan Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System ( Time Warner). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars.
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