Monday, June 22, 2009

'Scarface'

There is no doubt that if I were a 10-year-old kid in 1932, I would've loved "Scarface."

What I found most interesting is the short introduction denouncing the gangsters and the power they held in America's cities.

Then they proceeded to glorify the gangster lifestyle and even make the gangster's kinda funny in a very physical way (the Italian cohort that can't really speak English, but is told to answer phones and he later is in a funny scene where his hat is shot off answering a phone).

Reading more about it, the intro and the subtitle, "The Shame of the Nation," were added later so as the movie wouldn't glorify the gangster lifestyle, which it does anyway without or without the intro and subtitle. A very ridiculous plan, indeed.

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