If Ayer decides to
make Scarface first, WB could delay or like with Suicide Squad 2, seek out another director to take over for David.
If there was one way to
make the Scarface remake more compelling, hiring Joel and Ethan Coen to rewrite the script does the trick.
Gold is back, and it's certainly been out for a while since it was here — I think the last time I remember gold being the latest home decorating trend was around the time
they made Scarface.
Not exact matches
did
scarface make even a shot off target..
Smooth and tucked under at the ends, Margot's bob is reminiscent of Michelle Pfeiffer in
Scarface (left) and the classic cut (right)
made her hair look shiny and healthy
The subject's films, especially
Scarface and The Bonfire of the Vanities, still inspire as much hate as love, which
makes watching them a cinematic cage match that gets your blood up.
That Johnny Boy is comparatively peripheral in Mean Streets may suggest the uniqueness of Scorsese's film in its relationship to movies in which the alienated hood stands in a position to manipulate perspective by ensconcing himself at the metaphysical core of his cinematic universe, but Johnny Boy's gangland genealogy traces back in a psychologically straight line to Hawks» Tony Camonte, and there is little doubt that Corman, Carver, and screenwriter Browne at least had
Scarface in mind during the
making of Capone.
Honestly, if someone wants to
make a new
Scarface ever 30 years or so to reflect the changing landscape of crime in America, I'd say just go for it.
His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene
making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor,
Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).
They see the fun, laddish side of classics like Godfather and
Scarface, but miss the message that their lives were
made hollow and meaningless, because they
made the mistake of thinking crime pays.
While
making his 1983 excess - fueled crime epic
Scarface, Brian De Palma took some time to answer questions in an interview...
Robert Loggia (Prizzi's Honor,
Scarface) plays the boy's rich and possessive grandfather, a man that has no respect for Hawk whatsoever, and he'll do anything to
make sure he stays out of his life, even if it means going beyond the law to do it.
Antoine Fuqua's remake of
Scarface is still happening, but it's just not going to be
made with Antoine Fuqua.
It lifts lines and scenes from
Scarface —
made some twenty years before — and thinks its revolutionary.
Seemingly determined to
make the climax of
Scarface (1983) look tame, the unabashedly over-the-top violence splatters walls with blood, piles up casualties, and chips away at our heroes» effortlessly established likability and moral code.
Of course, De Palma has
made a number of films that were not particularly well - received when they first came out, only to grow in stature with critics and audiences over the years — «Blow Out» (1981) and «
Scarface» (1983) being perhaps the best - known examples of such reevaluations.
De Palma, producer Martin Bregman, and actors Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, and Angel Salazar all participate, as do Julie Salamon (author of The Devil's Candy, the book - length
making - of devoted to De Palma's ill - fated The Bonfire of the Vanities), Ken Tucker, Keith Gordon (star of De Palma's Dressed to Kill), Antoine Fuqua, and Eli Roth, who surprises no one with his claim that he saw
Scarface 56 times in seventh grade.
While Sea of Love probably won't go down as one of Al Pacino's (
Scarface, Godfather Part II) greatest films, his performance still
makes this otherwise standard police thriller worth watching.
We're now onto the fourth game and Paxman's description still reads true; it's still a banquet of immorality containing enough over-the-top angst to
make Tony Montana (aka
Scarface) blush, but GTA games have always been about more than mindless thuggery.
Miami was known for the violence surrounding drug smuggling activities,
made famous by the television show Miami Vice and the movie
Scarface.