I still love that movie even today, but maybe not for the reasons you think.
Being a fan of the Friday The 13th original four, the one thing I would never want to hear the producers of Scarface to ever claim is that they were not trying to make money off of gore and violence. It would be stupid for them to even claim that.
Now, having said that, the reason I love that movie, looking back at it now, and unfortunately, back then, and even today, some look at Tony as a hero, or a "tragic hero" because he wouldn't kill the diplomat's kids. Nope, sorry, Tony in that movie was still a flat out monster and criminal with no redeeming qualities. Not killing the kids did not take away the fact he put his own sister's life in jeopardy and got her killed.
But even that is not my point in all this. I like the movie because in it, when he shows up to his mothers house, she tells him basically, "You are a piece of shit, I don't want you here". Even his girlfriend later to be wife, got wise and left before the shit went down and spared her own life. But in the end, right under the statue of the planet with the slogan, "The world is yours" he ends up getting murdered. Moral of the story, CRIME DOES NOT PAY!
Now dont get me wrong, I don't want any of this to be confused with petty non distributing non violent users. But that is a different story.
Al was a great bad guy in that movie, but Tony was a public enemy #1 character in that movie.
Being a fan of the Friday The 13th original four, the one thing I would never want to hear the producers of Scarface to ever claim is that they were not trying to make money off of gore and violence. It would be stupid for them to even claim that.
Now, having said that, the reason I love that movie, looking back at it now, and unfortunately, back then, and even today, some look at Tony as a hero, or a "tragic hero" because he wouldn't kill the diplomat's kids. Nope, sorry, Tony in that movie was still a flat out monster and criminal with no redeeming qualities. Not killing the kids did not take away the fact he put his own sister's life in jeopardy and got her killed.
But even that is not my point in all this. I like the movie because in it, when he shows up to his mothers house, she tells him basically, "You are a piece of shit, I don't want you here". Even his girlfriend later to be wife, got wise and left before the shit went down and spared her own life. But in the end, right under the statue of the planet with the slogan, "The world is yours" he ends up getting murdered. Moral of the story, CRIME DOES NOT PAY!
Now dont get me wrong, I don't want any of this to be confused with petty non distributing non violent users. But that is a different story.
Al was a great bad guy in that movie, but Tony was a public enemy #1 character in that movie.
