Incidentally, Oliver Stone wrote the script for this violent classic. I thought that the great Al Pacino gave one of his best, most convincing performances. I was wondering who he based his character on. He must have hanged around with some really dangerous people. I also enjoyed playing GTA: Vice City and that had a lot of tributes to this movie.
I don't understand how people can like that movie. I thought it was way overrated. To each his own I suppose.
Carlito's Way was excellent, too, but in a different way. The theme and structure of Carlito's Way was far more mature and pragmatic. In that character we identified with someone that made an attempt to break from his predicament, which was crime, and who had no choice but to follow the spiral downfall to his destruction. Scarface didn't have any social pretensions. There was no hipocrisy, only the dream of the protagonist to live his interpretation of the American Way, no matter what the cost. I would go as far as to compare it to a modern day Faust, but with guns, blood and coke, which pretty sums up the world we live in today anyway. It is a violent, gory film, but then again if the media were allowed to show you the overcrowded children's hospitals in Iraq, where some of the kids can't brush away the cockroaches sitting on their faces because they have lost their limbs due to cluster bombs, then I wonder which image from Scarface would really offend.
