SCARFACE question
10-01-03 | 01:15 PM
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SCARFACE question
Quick question on SCARFACE.
Haven't seen it in a while, but it contains one of the most violent scenes that I can remember:
That scene has always stuck out to me. Oliver Stone even used it in a montage in NATURAL BORN KILLERS.
Haven't seen it in a while, but it contains one of the most violent scenes that I can remember:
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That scene has always stuck out to me. Oliver Stone even used it in a montage in NATURAL BORN KILLERS.
10-01-03 | 01:34 PM
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we don't actually see it happen, we just see a shot of the chainsaw, hear screaming, and see blood on a persons face. thats it, no limbs got cut off, according to one of the documentaries, there might have been a prop body part but they didn't film it. (and it was only the arm that got cut off)
10-01-03 | 03:41 PM
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Don't forget what Hector says though:
But it IS true:
NOT showing gore (like the unseen shark in JAWS) is more effective than actually showing it.
I thought the scene was actually more brutal than I thought.
Like, in Reservoir Dogs, for instance - Mr. Blonde and the cop.
Spoiler:
But it IS true:
NOT showing gore (like the unseen shark in JAWS) is more effective than actually showing it.
I thought the scene was actually more brutal than I thought.
Like, in Reservoir Dogs, for instance - Mr. Blonde and the cop.
11-03-03 | 03:31 PM
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It was always my impression that Hector cut his arm off first, then his leg...there is a still showing the severed arm hanging from the pole, but AFAIK it was never "filmed", per se. Now I have an additional question concerning this scene, in regards to the new anniversary DVD...is the line jeffkjoe has in the tag above "and now..." in the DVD? I seem to remember that particular line only being in the overseas version, but I haven't watched a home-video version of this in years.
11-03-03 | 04:16 PM
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Originally posted by Toka
...is the line jeffkjoe has in the tag above "and now..." in the DVD? I seem to remember that particular line only being in the overseas version, but I haven't watched a home-video version of this in years.
...is the line jeffkjoe has in the tag above "and now..." in the DVD? I seem to remember that particular line only being in the overseas version, but I haven't watched a home-video version of this in years.
11-08-03 | 03:20 AM
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I heard they sawd and cut up an actual REAL PERSON for that scene. Supposedly the victim(idiot?) had signed papers stating his desire to be actually murdered with a real chainsaw during the scene. Alledgedly the victim in question felt he owed his life to Al Pacino and since he idoled him so much as "The Godfather"....any truth to this?
11-08-03 | 03:34 AM
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lol
"Do you want your grandmother dying like a little bird in some hospital room, her translucent skin so thin you can see her last heartbeat work its way down her blue veins? Or do you want her to meet Chuck Norris?"
-Bill Hicks
"Do you want your grandmother dying like a little bird in some hospital room, her translucent skin so thin you can see her last heartbeat work its way down her blue veins? Or do you want her to meet Chuck Norris?"
-Bill Hicks
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11-08-03 | 03:20 PM
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Originally posted by isamu
I heard they sawd and cut up an actual REAL PERSON for that scene. Supposedly the victim(idiot?) had signed papers stating his desire to be actually murdered with a real chainsaw during the scene. Alledgedly the victim in question felt he owed his life to Al Pacino and since he idoled him so much as "The Godfather"....any truth to this?
I heard they sawd and cut up an actual REAL PERSON for that scene. Supposedly the victim(idiot?) had signed papers stating his desire to be actually murdered with a real chainsaw during the scene. Alledgedly the victim in question felt he owed his life to Al Pacino and since he idoled him so much as "The Godfather"....any truth to this?
