Scarface was an exact portrayal of the Miami cocaine smuggling world of the 1980s. Those who criticized the movie during screenings had no idea of the reality of Miami in the 1980s.
was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
One Scarface story that has fascinated me was, after its release in 1984 December Eliza Maneli said she saw Al Pacino walking into a restaurant and a lot of people were giving him side and upside down looks 😂. She went up to him and asked what he has done to these people, before he could answer Eddie Murphy walked up to them and said to Al Pacino 'I just saw your movie Scarface, it's the best movie I have ever watched' 😂😂😂😂
I was born in 1966, so I have seen many films, but Scarface is the film where I have become the most involved in all the characters, Tony, his sister and Many, etc. Scarface is a masterpiece. /michael
When I was in the Air Force, all of the guys in my squadron had seen the film on VHS. And when we watched it together in the break room after work we'd be drinking beers. And every time we heard the word f--k we'd take a giant gulp. Well, we all got really really drunk from all the beers we drank watching that movie! We had so much fun then...
Beers out of a machine were 40 cents at Sheppard in '77. Movies like Animal House and Up In Smoke inspired impressionable young airmen like myself to think life was only just a big party, in addition to being stationed at Homestead AFB in South Florida just below Miami/Ft. Lauderdale. I was there when the 1980 Cuban boat lift was happening as depicted in Scarface. Lots of mutilated bodies being found. It was pretty fcked. This was not so many years before the military learned how to detect pot in pee. Some officers smoked it even. But then along came Ronald Reagan. No more enlisted or commissioned Cheeches or Chongs. SPs became much more bust busy. No matter how good someone was, if they were found to be associated with Mary Jane , their AFR 39-10, or in some cases AFM 39-12 DD form 214 was not far away and it was back to reality. But yes, this is a very good documentary.
I can relate to your post a lot because I was in the Air Force during the Carter Administration1977-1981. Movies such as Animal House, Quadrophenia, Up in Smoke, and midnight movies Song Remains The Same and Woodstock and numerous concerts led a young impressionable airman such as myself to think that life is only just one big party, not to mention being stationed at Homestead AFB located between Miami/Ft. Lauderdale and the Florida Keys. I was there in 1980 when the Cuban boat lift was happening as depicted in Scarface. Lots of mutilated bodies were being found - It was pretty fcked. A very pleasant lady from Ohio who had not long been promoted to Sgt.(That rank no longer exists) was among these ill fated. This was not long before the military learned how to detect pot in pee. A few officers indulged in smoking pot even. But then came Ronald Reagan. The SP squadron became bust busy. No more enlisted or commissioned Cheech and Chongs. No matter how indispensable someone was, being found associated with Mary Jane meant that certain civilian status was not far off. But yes, this was a very good documentary on the production of Scarface. I think that Brian De palma's wife Nancy Allen would have made a good Mrs. Scarface Elvira had they not divorced the same year this was released. Another inside note: Before he became known as Scarface, He was Scabface.
Movie was made as a psy-op...was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
The 80s had a few movies that originally bombed at the box office and with critics and turned into classics like Scarface, The Shining & John Carpenter's The Thing. Both Pacino and Nicholson would have there performances praised instead of criticized.
I was a freshman in highschool when this came out and my best friend and I watched it over, and over again. We loved it and quoted lines, and called the executioner at the final scene Neil Schon because we thought he looked like the Journey guitarist during his HSAS days. It's pretty cool that this movie inspired the Miami Vice look, which in turn defined the mid to late 80's. Even with the violence and unhappy ending it still made us all want to be surrounded by kilos of coke.
Both funny and ironic hearing Mark Margolis and Steven Bauer describe the backlash of this film when years later they are both in breaking bad which was far more gruesome and potent yet it’s praised as one of the best shows of all time. Boy how times have changed lol. Scarface was and is my favorite gangster film of all time since my first viewing of it and I can’t recite almost the entire movie. I’ve literally watched it at least 25 times and as an artist and customizer, I’ve done many Scarface artworks. It also made me a huge fan of Giorgio Moroder. No other soundtrack gives me so much nostalgia. Literally sitting in my workshop writing this whilst looking at my Scarface posters on 3 of my 4 walls lol
was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
If you grew up in Miami in the 80s, you were very familiar with Steven Bauer. He was on a little show called (Que Pasa,USA?)Half the dialogue was in English and the other half in Spanish. Sort of a language educational sitcom.
@martyconroy3786 lmfao I had stacks of mad magazines. I wish I still had them I lost em to a house fire. I had so many I bet my collection would rival anyone's grandfather's or fathers porn magazine collection before Internet porn started.
THANK YOU..This Movie is about taking what you want,-"BE SURE YOU DO DESERVE WHAT YOU TAKE !"..I learned from this Inside Story.I'm 67-I've seen this Flic' at least 15 times-I'LL STILL WATCH IT'OVER'AGAIN, THANK YOU AL"💜
When I saw Scarface on VHS for the first time back in the mid eighties, I was 15yrs old & after watching it I thought that movie was the best movie of all time so I kept on seeing it a dozen more times but then as I started getting older like in my 30’s, I started realizing this movie was unrealistic & just way too over the top so I just lost interest in it! Now when Breaking Bad came out & after watching all 5 seasons, I thought I gotta watch Scarface again & after watching it 30plus years later, I saw the movie in a different way & not like I did when I was in my teens. I saw it as ; all that hard work you put into that lifestyle & this is how it all ends for you & your love ones??? What a shitty way to go & it was all for nothing!!! That’s what I get out of it now when I see Scarface…..
Saw this in the theater when it came out. I'd never seen anything so violent. When the lights came up at the end, the whole audience just kinda sat there in stunned silence for a while. Great film.
Scarface (1983) is one of the few movies I've actually seen in a theater show when it came out. I've always felt it was one of the many movies worth owning on media, videotape was the only common media at the time. Until recent times did not realize it was a box office flop.
I like these docs on how movies were made . Seems like every movies has a lot of problems when being made . Aliens had a lot of headaches also and Wizard Of Oz.
I met Angel Salazar- Chi Chi 4 years ago and I have his autograph …he’s a standup comedian now…it was crazy he was cracking jokes on the audience and even got me😂…a great memory for me❤
Such a classic movie I was 2 years old in 1980 when I came on the Mariel boat lift so to see a movie that represent that and Miami was real cool loved this movie since I was a kid true classic
First saw it at my former workplace, before working there, Powerplay Video Games in Melbourne. Dude had the door open and asked me if I wanted to play. I said "huh? It's OK?" to which he showed me the open cabinet door and jacked up the credits counter. I chose Ken, did a hurricane kick which sent me across the screen and blew my mind. ❤
If Perez was against filming in Miami, he probably as a politician had something to hide that he didn't want exposed by Drug enforcement agencies....gg, Tampa Florida
@@georgegreen1191 I don’t know about Tampa, but Miami had lowered their standards for police officers. Police corruption was a serious problem in Miami during this time. This was fuelled by a "virtual hiring frenzy" in the Miami Police Department in 1981 and 1982 when 714 officers were hired, more than doubling the force's size by relaxing screening standards. At one point in 1987, 100 of Miami's 1060 police officers had been or were under investigation on corruption-related matters. I know there was a documentary I watched where they talked about the movie and everything that was going on in Miami at the time. There’s a few different Cocaine Cowboy Docs, it might’ve been in one of them. Possibly Cocaine Cowboys: The kings of Miami but I can’t remember.
Probably one of my favorite movies of all time. If you're ever in Miami beach, stop by 728 Ocean Dr and take your pic in front of the hotel where the massacre took place. It's no longer a hotel. It changed from a hotel to an eatery to a CVS years ago but you'll recognize it right away from the stairs on the side the 3 bubble windows on the front of the building.
Wow, thank you I had forgot that I went and watched this with two of my buddies in my hometown in Lou of something that we really thought was going to be great but our buddy talk to you into this and we sit down for almost 4 hours in total all of a movie completely unexpected
That azzhole didn't like the movie and never figured it would be his most recognizable by minority people and regretted doing the character cause he considered himself a classical actor.
Also Tony Montana inspired the late famous Pro Wrestler Scott Hall persona for "Razor Roman" He said in interviews the entire character was copied from Scarface.
Tara, tks 4 ur reply. UR correct. It was based on Big Al. In fact, a couple of his men went 2C Howard Hawks. They asked HHs why was he making a movie abt Al Capone? Hawks told Capone's men tt he named it "Scarface" bcz he thought tt if the public thought it was abt Capone, people would go 2C the movie. That satisfied Capone's men. Also, watch the movie "Little Caesar," starring Edward G. Robinson. It is also based on Big Al. I also suggest "Key Largo," also starring Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart. EGR's character is based on Charlie(Lucky) Luciano. It is abt when Luciano snuck into Cuba. Excellent film. IMHO. Again, tks 4 ur reply. Hv a great day. God bless U and yours.😊
I was a senior in high school and went to see Scarface with a few friends. We all had jobs, one counted the number of “fucks”, another countered deaths, another counted scenes with cocaine. It was a great movie and we talked about the movie for weeks at school…
Scarface was theeeeee most magnificent movie ever, all involved in this epic movie, take a bow, you all made this movie epic, what a fabulous team !!!!!!!!!
This movie showed me what happens when you give a psychopath the money, and power to do what he wants to do. It's not like this is a movie about someone who became corrupt because of money, and power but someone who is corrupt from a young age. I would say the people who operate the vast majority of the corporations for the last 70 years are really this way, they just know how to do it quietly, fly under the radar so to speak. I found the movie a bit overboard for me but it is what it is. I can't see the value this movie has for so many, and I think maybe, this movie appeals to those who are very capable to become someone like this. The only thing stopping them is getting into trouble but would have no issue being as evil, and wicked if they knew they could get away with it. It's as if they lack a conscience but too afraid to do what they really want to do so they live out who they really want to be through this movie, and all movies like it.
I don't think Tony Montana is a psychopath though. He's a man of passion and drive and desires an idealistically success life which can be called greed. He is indeed violent, impulsive and can be reckless. However he lacks some key psychopathic traits. He is not deceitful, he values his word and he doesn't try to present a false image in order to please or manipulate. Moreover he is not devoid of empathy or compassion, as we see in the penultimate action of his life when he calls off an assassination when he sees that the target has his wife and two children with him knowing with little doubt that this action will ultimately lead to his final battle and his own death. And when he kills his best friend for marrying his sister, who also ends up dead because of his actions, afterward we can see that he does have remorse and regret for the terrible things he did in his crazed and drug-fueled state. I am not an apologist for Tony Montana, he is certainly a "bad guy" and he knows it, and it may even be fair to call him evil, but in my opinion he is not a psychopath.
Funny story I left a crowded theater thinking it was over only to find out later that was the the halfway point ... Scarface is equivalent of the Godfather to Black's & other minorities. White Critics panned and hated it, but black people disregarded their conservative assessments and made it a box office smash hit with no recognition from the media. The average black person paid to see this multiple times, making it a modern day Cult Classic til this day. I've seen it countless times myself. It has some of the most imitated and emulated scenes of any movie in Hollywood history.
The thing about Scarface is it was happening in real time. That's exactly what was happening in real life at the time.The people who know, know. I believe it was the prelude to New Jack City which was just as epic.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio grew up near me in Lombard IL. She went to school in Oak Park. Tony Montana got his name from DePalma & Stone from their favorite football player Joe Montana. The building where Tonys friend got killed with the chain saw is a CVS now. The band Blink 182 got their name because Scarface used the F bomb 182 times. My girlfriends son answered the phone 1day when he was about 6 years old. He was talking just like Tony Montana to person on the other end LMAO,
My friends work at the movie theater and they told me about it the first night. They dropped me off at the theater in the middle of the day and I watched it twice... Within 3 days it was a phenomenal
for me personally this movie is a master piece , the one and only of its kind ... no movie ever since has put an impact on me like this one, not to say that i dont like new movies but for me , nothing compares to it and thats why i still think its the best movie i`ve ever seen
It's not really a mob flick. Next to Jaws, Scarface is the movie I've watched the most over the years, sometimes the whole thing sometimes just scenes. It played a second run theater a couple of blocks from my house in 1984, a friend's older brother worked there and let us sneak in to the balcony. We had it to ourselves almost every night for a week or so. I was 18.
love the slow panning camera movements, timing and the nice environments, and I think Brian da Palma made the right choices to not care about some conventions at that time.
The first time I saw it so long ago, it hit me like a realistic mob documentary, like Goodfellas. The very violent scenes, the language are how these people operate and converse in real life. Been around enough of this world to know. What seems to be missed is that Tony and most everyone in the movie is dead by the end with a couple of exceptions. The wages of their sin is death. It's like looking through a lens at real life horror that surrounds us daily
except movies shape opinion. In the 50s-60s Hollywood was going broke because home television became more prevalent and theatres the industry declined by 50%. Movie was made as a psy-op...(was a good movie)... but was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Hollywood got subcedies from these agencies low key but had to put out certain narratives for the government for domestic interest and used in cases for geopolitical means but mostly for domestic needs. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the public drugs and the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool as it became so prevalent within society. At the beginning it was debated to legalize but you make way more money if it's illegal and when you're the government you have free pass.
Another gangster movie that came out around the same time was Once upon a time in America. Neither movie was fun to watch but they were both powerful and disturbing they were hard to resist
I see where you're coming from about 'Once Upon A Time In America'....but damn it is worth it....unforgettable and doesn't get it's iconic place in film history imo.no idea why..maybe because it's a little on the long side!?
Movie was made as a psy-op...was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
It goes to show you, being a critic doesn't mean shit. The whole team that made the movie should worry about what people think about it because at the end of the day, we pay for it..and if it flops on the big screen, doesn't mean shit. There's movies that do shit at 1st but when they come out on video or dvd..that's when it counts
The 80’s rocked hard. All the hippies can jack on about the 60’s all they want. But the 80’s was pure debauchery and hedonism. So much LSD, blow, pharmaceuticals, weed…etc. and we did it all 😂😅. The women were smoking hot and ready for a good time. Just glad I was there to enjoy it 😎. The 80’s was all about excess. Pushing the boundaries to the limit. There will never be another decade that epic. Ever.
Scarface was an exact portrayal of the Miami cocaine smuggling world of the 1980s. Those who criticized the movie during screenings had no idea of the reality of Miami in the 1980s.
was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
One Scarface story that has fascinated me was, after its release in 1984 December Eliza Maneli said she saw Al Pacino walking into a restaurant and a lot of people were giving him side and upside down looks 😂. She went up to him and asked what he has done to these people, before he could answer Eddie Murphy walked up to them and said to Al Pacino 'I just saw your movie Scarface, it's the best movie I have ever watched' 😂😂😂😂
Yep that
ELIZA
MANELI
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LIZA MINNELLI
Sorry, and then what?
Why if tf is that "fascinating"? That Eddie Murphy liked it? And who is Lisa Manelli?
@@DblTap317 Liza Minelli. Judy Garlands daughter.
Still have my original Scarface VHS cassette. Watch it from time to time.
Don't forget to keep it clean... #vhscassette #vcr
The real original starred Edward G Robinson.
@@track1949 You're so clever. Congrats
@@track1949no it didn’t the original scarface from 1932 starred Paul Muni not Edward G. Robinson.
@@Manwithnoname2you’re right. It started Muni. Little Caeser started Robinson.
Every time I see it playing somewhere I'll sit and watch wherever it happens to be in the movie. Training day has the same effect on me.
Scarface? One of the best movies ever put on film! Total Classic!
I was born in 1966, so I have seen many films, but Scarface is the film where I have become the most involved in all the characters, Tony, his sister and Many, etc. Scarface is a masterpiece. /michael
Whew....🎉...😂...🥃🥃
What about the restaurant owner in the dishwashing scene, and Tony's mother?
Scarface is the Greatest Movie Ever I have watched it over 1000 times.
It's really watchable ... 🎉🎉
It gets better after you watch it 1,250 times. Keep going kid.
@@dublinsfaircityHahahaha 😅😊
Steve bauer was casted as the right actor for Manny .
It makes it difficult to find work,, type casting...
Steve is a fabulous actor
didnt john travolta, ken wahl, consitered for the role
That's right MANG!!!
When I was in the Air Force, all of the guys in my squadron had seen the film on VHS. And when we watched it together in the break room after work we'd be drinking beers. And every time we heard the word f--k we'd take a giant gulp. Well, we all got really really drunk from all the beers we drank watching that movie! We had so much fun then...
Beers out of a machine were 40 cents at Sheppard in '77. Movies like Animal House and Up In Smoke inspired impressionable young airmen like myself to think life was only just a big party, in addition to being stationed at Homestead AFB in South Florida just below Miami/Ft. Lauderdale. I was there when the 1980 Cuban boat lift was happening as depicted in Scarface. Lots of mutilated bodies being found. It was pretty fcked.
This was not so many years before the military learned how to detect pot in pee. Some officers smoked it even.
But then along came Ronald Reagan. No more enlisted or commissioned Cheeches or Chongs. SPs became much more bust busy.
No matter how good someone was, if they were found to be associated with Mary Jane , their AFR 39-10, or in some cases AFM 39-12 DD form 214 was not far away and it was back to reality.
But yes, this is a very good documentary.
I can relate to your post a lot because I was in the Air Force during the Carter Administration1977-1981. Movies such as Animal House, Quadrophenia, Up in Smoke, and midnight movies Song Remains The Same and Woodstock and numerous concerts led a young impressionable airman such as myself to think that life is only just one big party, not to mention being stationed at Homestead AFB located between Miami/Ft. Lauderdale and the Florida Keys. I was there in 1980 when the Cuban boat lift was happening as depicted in Scarface. Lots of mutilated bodies were being found - It was pretty fcked. A very pleasant lady from Ohio who had not long been promoted to Sgt.(That rank no longer exists) was among these ill fated. This was not long before the military learned how to detect pot in pee. A few officers indulged in smoking pot even.
But then came Ronald Reagan. The SP squadron became bust busy. No more enlisted or commissioned Cheech and Chongs. No matter how indispensable someone was, being found associated with Mary Jane meant that certain civilian status was not far off.
But yes, this was a very good documentary on the production of Scarface. I think that Brian De palma's wife Nancy Allen would have made a good Mrs. Scarface Elvira had they not divorced the same year this was released. Another inside note: Before he became known as Scarface, He was Scabface.
Movie was made as a psy-op...was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
The 80s had a few movies that originally bombed at the box office and with critics and turned into classics like Scarface, The Shining & John Carpenter's The Thing. Both Pacino and Nicholson would have there performances praised instead of criticized.
Hooray for the Audiences! I stopped counting how many times I have watched this masterpiece. Thank you!
Still loved by generations (WOW)
It has that affect on audiences...
The world is yours ..blimp scene🤙🏻
Scarface is a timeless movie.
What a great documentary ....Bravo
Long over due ... ❤❤
I was a freshman in highschool when this came out and my best friend and I watched it over, and over again. We loved it and quoted lines, and called the executioner at the final scene Neil Schon because we thought he looked like the Journey guitarist during his HSAS days. It's pretty cool that this movie inspired the Miami Vice look, which in turn defined the mid to late 80's. Even with the violence and unhappy ending it still made us all want to be surrounded by kilos of coke.
This was my favorite gangster film .Alpacino did a great job in this movie
Both funny and ironic hearing Mark Margolis and Steven Bauer describe the backlash of this film when years later they are both in breaking bad which was far more gruesome and potent yet it’s praised as one of the best shows of all time. Boy how times have changed lol. Scarface was and is my favorite gangster film of all time since my first viewing of it and I can’t recite almost the entire movie. I’ve literally watched it at least 25 times and as an artist and customizer, I’ve done many Scarface artworks. It also made me a huge fan of Giorgio Moroder. No other soundtrack gives me so much nostalgia. Literally sitting in my workshop writing this whilst looking at my Scarface posters on 3 of my 4 walls lol
was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
That chainsaw scene is one of the greatest scenes in movie history.
Every scene in the movie is 10/10 tbh
Thank you for uploading this!
Man this one of the best movies
If you grew up in Miami in the 80s, you were very familiar with Steven Bauer. He was on a little show called (Que Pasa,USA?)Half the dialogue was in English and the other half in Spanish. Sort of a language educational sitcom.
That's so funny, it's exactly where I learned what little Spanish I can speak, and understand...que?
Lol I bet anyone on here born from 1990 maybee 1995 and up have no idea who the pic is of on yer profile pic here lol
#Pittmail I was sayin that to
@@H4WL3YWOOD69 Alfred E Newman, Mad magazine... you're welcome 😂😂😂
@martyconroy3786 lmfao I had stacks of mad magazines. I wish I still had them I lost em to a house fire. I had so many I bet my collection would rival anyone's grandfather's or fathers porn magazine collection before Internet porn started.
The impact of cocaine in the 80’s can’t be underestimated. I remember overnight it want from weed,acid, peace and love to paranoia, money and guns.
Crack is whack
If it wasn't a controlled substance, there wouldn't have been crack nor would there have been violence.
#griseldablanco #pabloescobar #cocainecowboys 1980's ... 💲💲💲🔹💥
All I can say is thankgod I never won the lottery back then 😎
And that was just your own life
I was in Scotland in the Navy 1983/84 when I saw Scarface. Great Classic .
I was slinging keys in Gainsville
who cares?? nobody gives a flying fuck where u were
@@BigPoppieSeedMore like bigdumbcopycat .... Hahahaha 😅😊
THANK YOU..This Movie is about taking what you want,-"BE SURE YOU DO DESERVE WHAT YOU TAKE !"..I learned from this Inside Story.I'm 67-I've seen this Flic' at least 15 times-I'LL STILL WATCH IT'OVER'AGAIN,
THANK YOU AL"💜
Never underestimate the power of art created through pure, honest expression.
Frank Lopez was dropping gems.
When I saw Scarface on VHS for the first time back in the mid eighties, I was 15yrs old & after watching it I thought that movie was the best movie of all time so I kept on seeing it a dozen more times but then as I started getting older like in my 30’s, I started realizing this movie was unrealistic & just way too over the top so I just lost interest in it! Now when Breaking Bad came out & after watching all 5 seasons, I thought I gotta watch Scarface again & after watching it 30plus years later, I saw the movie in a different way & not like I did when I was in my teens. I saw it as ; all that hard work you put into that lifestyle & this is how it all ends for you & your love ones??? What a shitty way to go & it was all for nothing!!! That’s what I get out of it now when I see Scarface…..
Wow my exact same analysis
I personally feel that it has political undertones as it is a critique of Neo-Liberal Capitalist economies.
Released throughout America around Christmas. Did stick to the "snow" narrative...quite well I might add!
Saw this in the theater when it came out. I'd never seen anything so violent. When the lights came up at the end, the whole audience just kinda sat there in stunned silence for a while. Great film.
I was 14, and it was the first time a “kill count” was used in a non- Horror movie, by the general public.
Scarface (1983) is one of the few movies I've actually seen in a theater show when it came out. I've always felt it was one of the many movies worth owning on media, videotape was the only common media at the time. Until recent times did not realize it was a box office flop.
Young people in the 80's made Scarface what it is today.
Pacino was classic in this. His voice was so hilarious
I like these docs on how movies were made .
Seems like every movies has a lot of problems when being made . Aliens had a lot of headaches also and Wizard Of Oz.
I really enjoyed watching this. I've shared it to my Facebook, because a lot of fans on there. But this was so entertaining.
Saw it at the Base Theater on Camp Pendleton. Really surprised they showed it! The one before it was......Revenge Of The Nerds. :)
No #porkys "?? 😂❤
One of my favorite movies...
Amazing movie!!! I never get tired of watching the movie. 👌
Just an all around well made, well acted movie that was ahead of its time.
Oh man, I'll have to break out my DVD of Scarface again.
I met Angel Salazar- Chi Chi 4 years ago and I have his autograph …he’s a standup comedian now…it was crazy he was cracking jokes on the audience and even got me😂…a great memory for me❤
It's my favorite movie until this day still even in 2024 still watch it to this day best movie ever
My Favorite film of all time …Scarface 1983 ❤
Such a classic movie I was 2 years old in 1980 when I came on the Mariel boat lift so to see a movie that represent that and Miami was real cool loved this movie since I was a kid true classic
Fidel Castro is dead .. 🎉🎉
This was the Goodfellas before Goodfellas!!
First saw it at my former workplace, before working there, Powerplay Video Games in Melbourne.
Dude had the door open and asked me if I wanted to play. I said "huh? It's OK?" to which he showed me the open cabinet door and jacked up the credits counter. I chose Ken, did a hurricane kick which sent me across the screen and blew my mind. ❤
100 years from now Scarface would be on TV.
Steve Bauer always been fine. Even on Ray Donavan & Breaking Bad
He hit it out of the ball park...🎉🎉
Top 5 film all of all time for me
Right after bad news bears and carwash
If Perez was against filming in Miami, he probably as a politician had something to hide that he didn't want exposed by Drug enforcement agencies....gg, Tampa Florida
Of course... 🎉.
Should have sent him back to Cuba..😂
@@georgegreen1191
I don’t know about Tampa, but Miami had lowered their standards for police officers. Police corruption was a serious problem in Miami during this time. This was fuelled by a "virtual hiring frenzy" in the Miami Police Department in 1981 and 1982 when 714 officers were hired, more than doubling the force's size by relaxing screening standards. At one point in 1987, 100 of Miami's 1060 police officers had been or were under investigation on corruption-related matters.
I know there was a documentary I watched where they talked about the movie and everything that was going on in Miami at the time.
There’s a few different Cocaine Cowboy Docs, it might’ve been in one of them. Possibly Cocaine Cowboys: The kings of Miami but I can’t remember.
One of the best movies ever made
Probably one of my favorite movies of all time. If you're ever in Miami beach, stop by 728 Ocean Dr and take your pic in front of the hotel where the massacre took place. It's no longer a hotel. It changed from a hotel to an eatery to a CVS years ago but you'll recognize it right away from the stairs on the side the 3 bubble windows on the front of the building.
Thanks for the update... 🎉🎉
biggest star was skinny michelle in that clingy slip dress..tell me i'm wrong.
😂😂😂😂
You're not wrong, but I prefer Gina.
Sheez A Tigar 😽 👀
Gina Was A Toilet Date Remember "
You wrong
Got to be Pacino's all time performance. He always tells the truth. Even when he lies ! 😂😊
Mark of a good actor 🎉🎉
Let's not forget
"Scarface"
Was a
Christmas movie.
Satanic. I hated it.
They said that!
Wow, thank you I had forgot that I went and watched this with two of my buddies in my hometown in Lou of something that we really thought was going to be great but our buddy talk to you into this and we sit down for almost 4 hours in total all of a movie completely unexpected
@@catherinemerrill5511 Christmas is satanic. 🍿😂
Seasons beatings.......not exactly white Christmas....
Michelle who was a knockout for years and years after Scarface. But when She was young O!M!!GOD!!! One of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen.
My 2nd Favourite Film of all time behind Godfather 1 & 2 🍷❤️
Legendary 💯 I have a big Scarface picture on my bedroom wall
Tacky eh?....nice
Hahahaha
@darrell9294 we all know the type...ami right
@@Charlimarteli Oooooooohhhhhh yaaaaa
Scarface is A Movie Of Truth Just Like They Live is A Movie Of Truth " Just Like Jaws is A Movie Of Truth "
This video is fantastic. I grew up in Miami in the time of the film and the story is real. The film is one of the greatest films ever made.
F, Murray Abram - you're most remembered for Amadeus.
That azzhole didn't like the movie and never figured it would be his most recognizable by minority people and regretted doing the character cause he considered himself a classical actor.
Yes, Herr Salieri, the patron saint of mediocrities
Also Tony Montana inspired the late famous Pro Wrestler Scott Hall persona for "Razor Roman" He said in interviews the entire character was copied from Scarface.
Ck out the original 1932 Scarface. Everything tt happened in the movie was based on an actual event.
@@PhilipDarragh Wasn’t it Al Capone, who the original movie was based off of?
Tara, tks 4 ur reply. UR correct. It was based on Big Al. In fact, a couple of his men went 2C Howard Hawks.
They asked HHs why was he making a movie abt Al Capone? Hawks told Capone's men tt he named it "Scarface" bcz he thought tt if the public thought it was abt Capone, people would go 2C the movie.
That satisfied Capone's men. Also, watch the movie "Little Caesar," starring Edward G. Robinson. It is also based on Big Al.
I also suggest "Key Largo," also starring Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart.
EGR's character is based on Charlie(Lucky) Luciano. It is abt when Luciano snuck into Cuba. Excellent film. IMHO.
Again, tks 4 ur reply. Hv a great day. God bless U and yours.😊
I was a senior in high school and went to see Scarface with a few friends. We all had jobs, one counted the number of “fucks”, another countered deaths, another counted scenes with cocaine. It was a great movie and we talked about the movie for weeks at school…
Scarface was theeeeee most magnificent movie ever, all involved in this epic movie, take a bow, you all made this movie epic, what a fabulous team !!!!!!!!!
One of the best movie ever made along with good fellas and casino, movie critics has no idea what people really like
This movie showed me what happens when you give a psychopath the money, and power to do what he wants to do. It's not like this is a movie about someone who became corrupt because of money, and power but someone who is corrupt from a young age. I would say the people who operate the vast majority of the corporations for the last 70 years are really this way, they just know how to do it quietly, fly under the radar so to speak.
I found the movie a bit overboard for me but it is what it is. I can't see the value this movie has for so many, and I think maybe, this movie appeals to those who are very capable to become someone like this. The only thing stopping them is getting into trouble but would have no issue being as evil, and wicked if they knew they could get away with it. It's as if they lack a conscience but too afraid to do what they really want to do so they live out who they really want to be through this movie, and all movies like it.
I don't think Tony Montana is a psychopath though. He's a man of passion and drive and desires an idealistically success life which can be called greed. He is indeed violent, impulsive and can be reckless. However he lacks some key psychopathic traits. He is not deceitful, he values his word and he doesn't try to present a false image in order to please or manipulate. Moreover he is not devoid of empathy or compassion, as we see in the penultimate action of his life when he calls off an assassination when he sees that the target has his wife and two children with him knowing with little doubt that this action will ultimately lead to his final battle and his own death. And when he kills his best friend for marrying his sister, who also ends up dead because of his actions, afterward we can see that he does have remorse and regret for the terrible things he did in his crazed and drug-fueled state. I am not an apologist for Tony Montana, he is certainly a "bad guy" and he knows it, and it may even be fair to call him evil, but in my opinion he is not a psychopath.
never get tired of watching this movie over and over..
I just put it together that Tony’s sister was also the other fishing boat captain in The Perfect Storm
Such likeness now you mention; Lol!
Wait! Steven Bauer was on Breaking Bad! I just connected that! OMFG! He was brilliant in both. When I look at his face it invokes danger in my brain.
Funny story I left a crowded theater thinking it was over only to find out later that was the the halfway point ... Scarface is equivalent of the Godfather to Black's & other minorities.
White Critics panned and hated it, but black people disregarded their conservative assessments and made it a box office smash hit with no recognition from the media. The average black person paid to see this multiple times, making it a modern day Cult Classic til this day. I've seen it countless times myself. It has some of the most imitated and emulated scenes of any movie in Hollywood history.
The thing about Scarface is it was happening in real time. That's exactly what was happening in real life at the time.The people who know, know. I believe it was the prelude to New Jack City which was just as epic.
One of 3 things happened to a person after watching Scarface... You became a Drug dealer ,Drug user or a Mortician...
Movie was a bad influence on Americans! Probably resulted in a lot more of these insane mass shootings in the United States!
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio grew up near me in Lombard IL. She went to school in Oak Park. Tony Montana got his name from DePalma & Stone from their favorite football player Joe Montana. The building where Tonys friend got killed with the chain saw is a CVS now. The band Blink 182 got their name because Scarface used the F bomb 182 times. My girlfriends son answered the phone 1day when he was about 6 years old. He was talking just like Tony Montana to person on the other end LMAO,
COCAINES A HELL OF A DRUG - RICK JAMES (2004)!
💯 Brian De Palma's cult classic Brilliant performance by Al Pacino 🎥🎬🎞🤘🏻👌🏼💯
I hate there is a board of people who can decide what can see in a movie
Wait till they get their hands on social media - goodbye free speech!
Agreed 1,000%
Enjoyed!👍👍🍻
My friends work at the movie theater and they told me about it the first night. They dropped me off at the theater in the middle of the day and I watched it twice... Within 3 days it was a phenomenal
for me personally this movie is a master piece , the one and only of its kind ... no movie ever since has put an impact on me like this one, not to say that i dont like new movies but for me , nothing compares to it and thats why i still think its the best movie i`ve ever seen
It's not really a mob flick.
Next to Jaws, Scarface is the movie I've watched the most over the years, sometimes the whole thing sometimes just scenes. It played a second run theater a couple of blocks from my house in 1984, a friend's older brother worked there and let us sneak in to the balcony. We had it to ourselves almost every night for a week or so. I was 18.
GENIUSE, GENIUSE, GENIUSE!!! Every Single one of them.
Excellent documentary it pays a proper tribute to the movie!
Thank you.
love the slow panning camera movements, timing and the nice environments, and I think Brian da Palma made the right choices to not care about some conventions at that time.
The falling shoe..
What year is this documentary from?
It would be cool if they made an extended version. From all that film they cut out. Sounded like hell putting it all together tho! Lol
well it was worth every minute
and movie critics prove time and time again that they don't know anything
especially now
The first time I saw it so long ago, it hit me like a realistic mob documentary, like Goodfellas. The very violent scenes, the language are how these people operate and converse in real life. Been around enough of this world to know. What seems to be missed is that Tony and most everyone in the movie is dead by the end with a couple of exceptions. The wages of their sin is death. It's like looking through a lens at real life horror that surrounds us daily
Film critics are like politicians. They rarely get things right and will eventually bend over to popular opinion.
Not #siskelandebert
except movies shape opinion. In the 50s-60s Hollywood was going broke because home television became more prevalent and theatres the industry declined by 50%. Movie was made as a psy-op...(was a good movie)... but was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Hollywood got subcedies from these agencies low key but had to put out certain narratives for the government for domestic interest and used in cases for geopolitical means but mostly for domestic needs. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the public drugs and the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool as it became so prevalent within society. At the beginning it was debated to legalize but you make way more money if it's illegal and when you're the government you have free pass.
Hmmm.... no mention of Tony's iconic 1963 Cadillac convertible. 🤔🤔🤔
Another gangster movie that came out around the same time was Once upon a time in America. Neither movie was fun to watch but they were both powerful and disturbing they were hard to resist
I see where you're coming from about 'Once Upon A Time In America'....but damn it is worth it....unforgettable and doesn't get it's iconic place in film history imo.no idea why..maybe because it's a little on the long side!?
Great Film I could watch it all day 😢❤❤❤❤😅🎉❤❤❤enjoyed All the actors in it great work 😊😊😊❤❤
if not for SCARFACE, the 1980's would've been a lost decade for Pacino
Movie was made as a psy-op...was made under the CIA operation "Hollywood as a weapon of psychological warfare" The files are unclassified. Around this time the CIA was importing and flooding drugs into the United States as revealed by Iran-contra. The CIA was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations. The movie would act as a psychological operation to normalize the to the wider public the violence that comes with drug trafficking and even glorify it to make it cool.
I watch it at least once a year,a true classic.
It goes to show you, being a critic doesn't mean shit. The whole team that made the movie should worry about what people think about it because at the end of the day, we pay for it..and if it flops on the big screen, doesn't mean shit. There's movies that do shit at 1st but when they come out on video or dvd..that's when it counts
Bet Tarintino wished he would have made this lols 😎
Good point he would make a great remake
Maybe... 🎉
Inspiration for many people, still too this day!
" Here Come The Pain " ...
You introduced this doc 3 damn times
The 80’s rocked hard. All the hippies can jack on about the 60’s all they want. But the 80’s was pure debauchery and hedonism. So much LSD, blow, pharmaceuticals, weed…etc. and we did it all 😂😅. The women were smoking hot and ready for a good time. Just glad I was there to enjoy it 😎. The 80’s was all about excess. Pushing the boundaries to the limit. There will never be another decade that epic. Ever.
My mom is your age man y’all were lucky I was born in 94