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Scarface (1983 Movie)Scarface is a 1983 motion picture about Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who has come to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift and entered into a life of organized crime and cocaine dealing. The film was released to theatres by Universal Pictures. It is loosely based on a 1932 movie of the same name, (see Scarface (1932)). Movie Facts | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Release date: | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | 1983 | | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Duration: | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | 171 minutes | | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Director: | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | Brian de Palma | | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Box office: | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | $23 million | | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | MPAA Rating: | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | R | Plot Summary An exiled Cuban immigrant, Tony Montana, comes to Miami with dreams of fortune. Montana begins as a dishwasher and small-time hitman, but quickly rises the ranks to become one of the leading drug barons in Florida. Analysis Scarface is essentially a "character study." Through third-person limited view, the viewer comes to learn a lot about how Tony Montana behaves and acts. Scarface and hip-hop Scarface is also notable for its extensive popularity by many hip-hop artists and fans, in particular those affiliated with gangsta rap. A number of rappers single out Tony Montana as a role model for his transition from poverty to wealth and outsider status. Mafioso fashion became a prominent part of hip hop fashion, quotes from the film (often sampled lines of dialogue) are prominent in many hip-hop songs, and rapper Scarface named himself after the film and its protagonist. "Tony Montana is an ultimate gangsta", says Latino hip-hop musician Fat Joe. "Its like the code of the streets, man; everybody who thinks they gangsta or are gangsta live by that movie." http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1478255/09162003/fat_joe.jhtml A number of hip-hop stars have featured Scarface memerabilia as being among their prized posssessions when filmed for MTV's television show Cribs, and Universal Pictures, whose parent company, Vivendi Universal, owns a number of prominent hip-hop records, supported the Scarface-hip hop connection with both a hip-hop soundtrack to Scarface and a documentary on Scarface's lavish boxed-set DVD re-release in 2003. Plans were made to re-score Scarface with a completely hip-hop based soundtrack, but Oliver Stone refused to approve such a version of the film. The Scarface influence on hip-hop has been decried by many critics, many of them part of what is labeled as alternative hip hop, who feel that the fixiation of these rappers on a character such as Montana are poor influences for young people. Looking up to Scarface and Montana, they argue, would cause children and teenagers to romanticize crime, violence, and the mafioso lifestyle. Profanity and violence The movie contains a good deal of profanity (the word fuck is used 182 times by Pacino alone) and violence, including a notorious shower scene featuring a chainsaw. It is the origin of the phrase "Say hello to my little friend", which Tony says before blowing away a door with an M203 grenade launcher and taking on a hit squad sent to assassinate him. Information Starring Crew External links
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