SCARFACE is De Palma's finest film post BLOW OUT. It's just about the ONLY American gangster film that can stand up shoulder to shoulder with anything that Coppolla and Scorsesse has had to offer...
Language aside...and if you're offended by anything that come's out of another person's mouth -bad breath excepted- then go and grow up...it pretty much pushes the MPAA's R rated standards by delivering some gloriously violent setpieces, a delicious nihilistic world view and some tremendous plot developments...
c-dic...........I see your point. I just think it made the film better that the character was played more authentically (beside Pacino's HORRIBLE cuban accent)..........I believe if you were to run into a real person like Tony Montana, he would speak exactly the same......the language I think just made the picture more realistic. Hell.......within a 3 hour period I say the word fuck more than Tony did in the flick.......I've got a real potty mouth.
Originally posted by bardock
i think it is one of the better films out there. i recommend people see it. if there is one film to not see it is monster that movie sucked.
First of all, I wouldn't recommend either "Scarface" or "Monster" to anyone, because of the offensive subject matter.
"Monster" was superior to "Scarface", IMO, anyway. The truest serial killer movies made to date. The first of which, in recent memory anyway, that was actually based on all real life accounts.