Scarface

Scarface

This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. Universal's special edition digital video disc includes a documentary about the making of the film that features numerous interviews and several deleted scenes. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Crime, Drama
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NR (Not Rated)
Year:
1932
94
595 Views

Tony:
You keep the motor running. Bring the presents. You stay here. Come on, fellas.

Angelo:
Ah, now we'll know what happened to that girl, Sadie.

Tony:
Angelo, did she take the guy with the collar?

Angelo:
Nah. She climb back in the hay with the army.

Tony:
Yeah? That's fine. She's a smart girl, that kid.

Angelo:
Come on. What're you doin'?

Tony:
Not bad, huh? Just watch this one.

Man 1:
Hello, Tony. How are you?

Tony:
Ahhh, that's-a pretty hot!

Woman:
Hello.

Tony:
Hello.

Man 2:
Hello.

Tony:
Hello, stranger.

Maitre 'd:
Chair.

Poppy:
Well, Johnny! Well, you're lookin' swell. I thought we were gonna see something of you.

Tony:
Well, here I am.

Poppy:
Where have you been? On a vacation?

Tony:
I've been workin'. Up on the North Side, huh, Johnny?

Johnny:
That's what the papers say.

Poppy:
Don't work too hard.

Tony:
I just finish up tonight. Now I play a while.

Johnny:
You get your own table, Camonte.

Tony:
Why is that?

Johnny:
This is a table for two.

Tony:
Well, maybe you get another table, huh, Johnny?

Johnny:
Hey, listen, you! Who do you think you are?

Waiter:
What are you tryin' to do? [Joins the thwarting of a gunman]

Tony:
All right, go on.

Poppy:
Nothing seems to bother you much, does it?

Tony:
Well, I get used to noises.

...

[Guino walks along the manhandling of the gunman outside the ballroom]

Maid:
Hello, Guino. [She walks on]

Guino:
Hello, baby.

Cesca:
Why are you always high-hatting me? Go on, beat it. I suppose you need an organ grinder to work with?

Guino:
Tony's inside. He see you in that outfit?

Cesca:
I looked pretty good from two stories up. Am I different now? Wanna dance with me?

Guino:
Listen, you're Tony's sister, see? Besides, you're only a kid.

Cesca:
I'm 20. You like that music? Now do you wanna dance?

Guino:
No.

Cesca:
Afraid! Afraid of Tony's sister! Why, you... Well, I notice you stood there and watched. Someday you'll find out you've been missing something. [She locks arms with another man and flicks a hand at Guino derisively and walks into ballroom]

...

Tony:
Hey, how about it, you and me, huh?

Poppy:
I thought you weren't dancing.

Tony:
I changed my mind. I need exercise. We show 'em somethin', huh?

Poppy:
I think you missed me, huh?

Tony:
That's right. We make up for lost time.

Poppy:
How do you wanna play, Tony? Like this?

Tony:
That's it.

...

[Tony spots Cesca dancing with a man, becomes enraged and grabs her, dragging her out of the ballroom]

Tony:
You wait here. I take her home myself.

Cesca:
You can't!

Tony:
Shut up!

Cesca:
You'll be sorry for this.

Tony:
Next time I catch you in a place like that, I'm gonna kill you.

Cesca:
You're telling me what to do? I'll do what I want, same as you! Understand?

Tony:
You listen to me!

Cesca:
I hate you!

Tony:
Never mind what I do!

Cesca:
That's all right.

Tony:
You're gonna stay home, understand?

Cesca:
I'm no baby! I can take care of myself!

Tony:
Yeah, runnin' around with the fellas, huh? Letting 'em hold you like that? Letting 'em look at you? Dressin' up like that for fellas to see, huh?

Cesca:
What I do with fellas is my business!

[Tony is in kitchen with mother]

Tony:
Where's Cesca?

Mother Camonte:
Oh, I don't know. She go out.

Tony:
What do you mean? Ain't she comin' home for dinner? Oh. Hey, I don't like that. You tell her I want she should come home for dinner. Understand?

Mother Camonte:
Sure. I tell her lotsa time. "Come home. Come home. Tony no like. " But she don't... [A noise is heard and Tony leaves kitchen to catch Cesca making out with a man in the foyer]

Tony:
That's a nice way I catch ya,

Cesca:
Huh? What do you mean, "catch me"? I wasn't doin' nothin'.

Tony:
You was kissin' him.

Cesca:
Sure. What of it?

Tony:
Well, I don't like it.

Cesca:
You're missin' lots of fun.

Tony:
Listen, I don't want anyone kissin' my sister. Understand?

Cesca:
You're hurtin' my arm!

Tony:
I don't want anybody puttin' their hands on you!

Cesca:
What do you think you're doing?

Tony:
I'm your brother.

Cesca:
You don't act it. You act more like... I don't know. Sometimes I think... I don't care what you think.

Tony:
You do what I say.

Cesca:
Sure, and never have any fun.

Tony:
Oh, "never have any fun. " You call that fun, huh? Runnin' around with guys like that. That's "fun. " Listen, you want real fun, huh? Here. [Gives her cash wad] How's that?

Cesca:
Gee, Tony! Where'd you get it?

Tony:
Never mind where I got it. You just spend it, see?

Cesca:
Tony, you're swell. [She goes upstairs]

Tony:
Go on. Get ready for dinner. And remember, you do what I say. No more fellas, understand?

Mother Camonte:
What for you wanna give her money, huh?

Tony:
Ma, she's just a kid. She wants to have fun.

Mother Camonte:
Yeah? Sometime, I think you crazy.

Tony:
Cesca!

Mother Camonte:
What for you take that money, huh?

Cesca:
Because I want it. That's why.

Mother Camonte:
Give it back. It's bad money. Tony no got it in no good way. It gonna bring you lotsa trouble.

Cesca:
What do I care where he gets it? There's nothing wrong with his giving it to me. Tony wants me to have a good time.

Mother Camonte:
Oh, yes? You listen! Tony no love you like he make you believe. All the time, he smile on top, but what he thinks... Oh, he's got lotsa tricks. He no give money to nobody for nothing. He would to his sister.

Cesca:
Sister. Huh! That make no difference.

Mother Camonte:
To him, you're just another girl. Someday when he need you, he mix you up in his business... just like anyone else, and he's gonna make you bad like him.

Cesca:
He can't make me do anything I don't want to. I'm gonna live my own life. I can take care of myself.

Mother Camonte:
Yeah? All the time, Tony say like that. Afterward, he no belong to me no more. He's-a no good, and now you start to be just like him.

Cesca:
No, I'm not. Don't worry about me. I'll get along all right.


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