The 3 concerns are language violence, and most of all, DRUGS. The violence is about as bad as John Wick (worst seen is a closeup head shot with a magnum, brains on window) This film has the 2nd most f word in any movie, the f word is used 1 time per 30 seconds along with every cuss known to man.
Characters are drug dealers and criminals. Cocaine use, drinking and smoking throughout. Parents need to know that Scarface is extremely violent from start to finish and is not recommended to anyone under the age of 17.
Summary. Gangster movies, like the original Scarface from 1932, often faced censorship and bans due to their violent content and portrayal of mafia life. Censors believed that Scarface glorified violence, leading to changes in the film's ending and the addition of a prologue condemning gangsters.
How many times did they use the F word in Scarface?
Profanity (17)
'F*ck' is said 207 times, including paired with the word 'mother' and used in a sexual context. 'Wh*re' is said at least once. 'P*ss' is said at least once. 'D*mn' is said at least once.
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What is the most violent scene in Scarface?
Scarface (1983) - The Chainsaw Scene: Brian De Palma's Scarface features one of cinema's most gruesome scenes, where Tony Montana witnesses a man being dismembered with a chainsaw. The scene's explicit violence was shocking for its time, pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable in mainstream cinema.
Casting. Michelle Pfeiffer was an almost unknown actress when she appeared in Scarface, and both star Al Pacino and director Brian De Palma initially argued against her casting. Pacino insisted on taking the lead role as Tony Montana, although Robert De Niro had been offered it and had turned it down.
At the time of its premiere, some believed it portrayed Cubans, particularly those who fled during the Mariel boatlift to the United States in 1980, in a harsh light. That view persists today, decades later. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who is of Cuban heritage, said Scarface misrepresented the Cuban community.
Scarface, starring Al Pacino, is a remake of a 1932 movie based on the 1929 novel by Armitage Trail, but the true story behind Tony Montana is still uncertain. Al Capone, the American gangster and boss of the Chicago Outfit, served as the real Scarface and inspired various books, movies, and TV shows.
in both the original Scarface (1932) and the remake (1983), Tony admires a travel company's message: "The World Is Yours." And both films end by panning up from Tony's corpse to the same message. (the remake then shows a dedication to the original film's director & writer)
The fact so many people like "Scarface" is testament to the intensity of Pacino's performance more than the intelligence behind it. In the DVD documentary, Pacino readily admits to the character being two-dimensional. For some, that's great.
A prequel novel, Scarface: The Beginning, written by L. A. Banks, was published in 2006. Montana has a large scar on his face, which explains why he is known as Scarface. This is the same type of scar that Al Capone received from a bar fight in 1917 at the Harvard Inn.
We do know that co-star Keanu Reeves famously took a pay cut of a few million in order to allow for the production to afford to bring Pacino on board. As a result, we imagine Pacino was most likely paid around $10 million for his role.
Elvira Hancock is a fictional character in the 1983 American crime drama film Scarface, portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer. This proved to be her breakthrough role. She is the mistress of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) and after his death, becomes the wife of Tony Montana (Al Pacino).
Coming from Cuba to Miami as a refugee, ex-convict Tony Montana used his greed, desire, and ambition to build an empire that is estimated at $900 million.
In Scarface (1983), during Tony's drug deal with Hector, as Tony is being chained up, Hector says, "Ok, cara cicatriz" which in English means "Ok, scar face". This is the only time in the movie that Tony is referred to as Scarface.
Prospect Magazine critic Rhik Samadder has a theory: that those who gave Scarface a hard time in 1983 were right. In his opinion, it is a mediocre film, in addition to being narratively incoherent and gruesome, misogynistic, racist and nihilistic from a political and philosophical point of view.
State censorship boards in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Kansas and citywide censorship boards in Detroit, Seattle, Portland, and Chicago banned the film as well.
Al Capone died of cardiac arrest in 1947, but his decline began earlier. After his transfer to Alcatraz prison, his mental and physical condition deteriorated from paresis (a late stage of syphilis). He was released in November 1939 and was sent to a Baltimore mental hospital before he retired to his Florida estate.
With a budget somewhere between $23 and $37 million, the film made $66 million worldwide. It was only the 16th-highest-grossing movie of 1983, and actually only the seventh-highest-grossing R-rated film in North America that year.
According to the source, the primary reason for Scarface: Empire getting axed in 2008 was too many other open-world games in development at Activision at that time. "It was pretty devastating to lose over two years of effort on what would have been a pretty cool game," a former Radical developer said.
As per a Goodfellas deep-dive by ShortList, Pacino was offered the role but turned it down for fear of typecasting. It's ironic that he went on to play gangsters in Dick Tracy and Donnie Brasco.
