Scarface - remake (D: Guadagnino / W: Coen Bros.)
11-29-11, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by troystiffler
But I guess it wasn't too responsible to make Scarface in the 80's. It bared a "crime doesn't pay" message, but just barely.
He pretty much is shown murdering people who are bad guys themselves: the former torturer for Castro's govt, the cocaine buyers who killed his friend Angel, his former boss who attempted to kill him, and then the corrupt cop.
The reason he's eventually killed is because he DIDN'T kill the journalists children in the car, and instead, kills the guy who was willing to.
Just look at the Hip-Hop documentary on the Anniversary Edition DVD to see how irresponsible the film was. Even though I watched and enjoyed the film when I was younger, seeing the effect it had on those around me, I can't really support gangster films where these guys are made into anti-heros to root for.
11-30-11, 03:09 PM
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re: Scarface - remake (D: Guadagnino / W: Coen Bros.)
Originally Posted by brayzie
Just look at the Hip-Hop documentary on the Anniversary Edition DVD to see how irresponsible the film was. Even though I watched and enjoyed the film when I was younger, seeing the effect it had on those around me, I can't really support gangster films where these guys are made into anti-heros to root for.
2. Those hip-hop assholes are the way they are because they never met their dads, not because of a film. Give me a break. I heard Phil Spector shot his wife because he watched Phantom of the Paradise three hundred times. :rolleye:
11-30-11, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Mabuse
1. All gangster films glorify the bad guy, but they usually show his downfall too.
2. Those hip-hop assholes are the way they are because they never met their dads, not because of a film. Give me a break. I heard Phil Spector shot his wife because he watched Phantom of the Paradise three hundred times. :rolleye:[/QUOTE]
I never said watching Scarface or certain gangster films will automatically turn someone into a gang member. But films like that promote, and also help reinforce that lifestyle. Not to mention the questionable nature of the studio getting together with Def Jam to make a documentary and a hip-hop soundtrack to the film, knowing full well the influence hip-hop has on the younger generation.
I've watched Birth of a Nation but it didn't want to make me join the KKK but I'm sure that when it came out it helped to spread and reinforce racist beliefs.
12-01-11, 11:29 AM
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1. Hollywood has been making films that depict gangsters and gang activity since sound came on the scene. Along with the musical and the western, the gangster film is one of the unique American contributions to cinema. I'm proud of it.
2. Do you only feel this way about Scarface? What about Goodfellas or Reservoir Dogs?
3. What do you suggest we do about it? Not allow these kinds of films? Censorship?
Lastly, you should read up on the history of gangster films and their imitation by real gangsters. There's evidence that the gangster films of the thirties influenced the dress, behavior, and slang of real gangsters back then. There's always been a two way street between the genuine gangsters and films about them.
2. Do you only feel this way about Scarface? What about Goodfellas or Reservoir Dogs?
3. What do you suggest we do about it? Not allow these kinds of films? Censorship?
Lastly, you should read up on the history of gangster films and their imitation by real gangsters. There's evidence that the gangster films of the thirties influenced the dress, behavior, and slang of real gangsters back then. There's always been a two way street between the genuine gangsters and films about them.
12-01-11, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Mabuse
2. Do you only feel this way about Scarface? What about Goodfellas or Reservoir Dogs?
Reservoir Dogs was a little more stylized but pretty brutal as well.
Even though I'm a big fan of The Godfather, Carlito's Way, Scarface, etc, I don't really watch those movies anymore and stay away from future gangsters flicks like Public Enemies.
3. What do you suggest we do about it? Not allow these kinds of films? Censorship?
Lastly, you should read up on the history of gangster films and their imitation by real gangsters. There's evidence that the gangster films of the thirties influenced the dress, behavior, and slang of real gangsters back then. There's always been a two way street between the genuine gangsters and films about them.
10-17-12, 01:31 AM
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Universal Orders a Scarface Rewrite
It was announced last year that Universal Pictures was developing a contemporary remake of Scarface and shortly thereafter, Training Day David Ayer was brought aboard to provide a screenplay. Today, Deadline reports that the project is still moving forward and that Quiz Show writer Paul Attanasio has signed on to rewrite.
Originally directed for the screen by Howard Hawks in 1932, the story of a gangster's rise to power was based on the 1929 Armitage Trail novel of the same name. In 1983, Brian De Palma offered a modernized update of the story with Al Pacino in the lead, which is the version best known today.
Producers Martin Bregma and Marc Shmuger (the former of which produced De Palma's version) are working on the new version which is expected to borrow elements from both Hawks and De Palma's takes on the material.
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It was announced last year that Universal Pictures was developing a contemporary remake of Scarface and shortly thereafter, Training Day David Ayer was brought aboard to provide a screenplay. Today, Deadline reports that the project is still moving forward and that Quiz Show writer Paul Attanasio has signed on to rewrite.
Originally directed for the screen by Howard Hawks in 1932, the story of a gangster's rise to power was based on the 1929 Armitage Trail novel of the same name. In 1983, Brian De Palma offered a modernized update of the story with Al Pacino in the lead, which is the version best known today.
Producers Martin Bregma and Marc Shmuger (the former of which produced De Palma's version) are working on the new version which is expected to borrow elements from both Hawks and De Palma's takes on the material.
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10-17-12, 02:12 AM
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re: Scarface - remake (D: Guadagnino / W: Coen Bros.)
Originally Posted by jacob_b
Is there even an actor right now who can play a badass drug dealer?
12-05-12, 03:48 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: We Know Where The New Tony Montana Hails From In Universal’s ‘SCARFACE’ Remake
Back in October, Mike Fleming over at Deadline reported that Paul Attanasio is rewriting David Ayer’s original draft of Universal’s Scarface remake. The following is what caught my attention.
Scarface was first done in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. The film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: An outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a twisted version of the American dream, becoming a kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition. The studio is keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment, but ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions.
Keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment? Why so secretive? What is the big deal?
Well, according to sources, we have discovered that the new Tony Montana is actually Mexican and the remake takes place in the world of drug cartels.
Shocker. Are you really that surprised?
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Back in October, Mike Fleming over at Deadline reported that Paul Attanasio is rewriting David Ayer’s original draft of Universal’s Scarface remake. The following is what caught my attention.
Scarface was first done in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. The film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: An outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a twisted version of the American dream, becoming a kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition. The studio is keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment, but ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions.
Keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment? Why so secretive? What is the big deal?
Well, according to sources, we have discovered that the new Tony Montana is actually Mexican and the remake takes place in the world of drug cartels.
Shocker. Are you really that surprised?
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12-05-12, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by wm lopez
They should have went with a white, trailer trash dude like Emnem to go against the Mexicans and blacks.
12-05-12, 04:02 PM
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re: Scarface - remake (D: Guadagnino / W: Coen Bros.)
Originally Posted by wm lopez
They should have went with a white, trailer trash dude like Emnem to go against the Mexicans and blacks.
12-06-12, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by FRwL
Fuck this. Gay shit. 30s chicago ok, 80s latin america ok, 10s mexican? Fuck this.
Should have gone to Europe or something.
Should have gone to Europe or something.
12-06-12, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by FRwL
Fuck this. Gay shit. 30s chicago ok, 80s latin america ok, 10s mexican? Fuck this.
Should have gone to Europe or something.
Should have gone to Europe or something.
30s Chicago, USA
80s Florida, USA
and now they're making a movie about a Mexican immigrant who becomes a crime kingpin in the USA.
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12-06-12, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by wm lopez
That's why I suggested the white SCARFACE cause we have seen the Mexican too much on t.v. and in some cases as our next door neighbors as drug dealers.
12-06-12, 02:27 PM
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White/black/brown... whatever color they make him, I'm sure this will have all the intrigue and spectacle of a DTV 50 Cent movie.
