Scarface Movie Themes

Tony has a scratchy, slightly lower pitched voice form of Danny’s. Tony is most comparable to a tulpa; an entity created in the mind, acting parallel to or independently from one's’ own consciousness. Danny created this “invisible friend” as way to cope with his family's issues following the Danny event. “The greatest terror of Danny's life was DIVORCE, a

The AFI movie I chose for a week 3 assignment is Scarface, this 1983 cinematic masterpiece, starring Al Pacino, shows the journey of a simple immigrant from Cuba trying to make his way to America, trying to find the American dream, after the character Tony Montana play by Al Pacino tries to enter into United States illegally, he was caught and placed into a immigration detention center, this is where Tony Montana gets his big break by taking on a contract hit for a Colombian drug cartel that can help him with his immigration status. The theme of this movie Scarface is a fast rise and fall of a poor immigrant from Cuba, with goals and aspirations to become a drug kingpin. Each scene becomes progressively understanding and clear that Tony Montana goal is to become a boss, by setting into motion plans to make his way into South Florida by any means necessary, Montana at this time has taken on hit man jobs and started paddling narcotics for himself and his crew, I feel as though the first scenes Tony Montana's cocky attitude broken English and demeanor and disposition towards the police, introduced us to who Tony Montana was, at one point in this film Tony Montana talks about Humphrey Bogart and a few other actors that portrayed gangsters and gangster life style, he seemed to be admiring the gangster life style, in this scene you can almost see the admiration within his eyes as he was telling the a story about them. This scene was brought to light by the cinematographer who created a dim but dynamic lighting setting, the focal point was directly on Al Pacino as he was telling his story, the effective framing and captivating way that Al Pacino portrays his character. There was another scene in Scarface

Reading questions on the essay, “A Moral Never-Never Land: Identifying with Tony Soprano" by James Harold.

The Gangster film ‘Scarface’ (DePalma) is about the rise and eventual fall of Cuban immigrant, Tony Montana. Throughout the film the viewer witnesses how Tony Montana goes from a criminal in Cuba to a drug overlord in America. The average viewer cannot connect to the arc of Tony Montana. But, the average viewer can connect to what Tony Montana is working for, the American dream. Brain DePalma chooses purposefully to have a hyper-masculine, narcissistic, megalomaniac immigrant as the main character of a story of American dream. In ‘Scarface’, DePalma show the universality of the American dream. By utilizing various filming techniques, DePalma shows how the American dream is available for everyone.

In addition, Tony’s mother Maria was a staunch catholic who desperately wanted her youngest son to become a priest to a small community of farmers. Her roots were in farming and living off the land (having a mutually benefiting relationship-being connected to the land). She prayed during times of family toil constantly. Tony has a dream after his brothers beckon him into a whorehouse to sleep with the women at “Rosie’s House.” He refuses the offer and affirms that he will preserve his innocence in order to become a priest in the holy catholic faith. His brothers mock him. They try to tell him that in being a man and the son of a vaquero his need for bodily pleasure will become stronger. Here is where I believe Tony accepts the destiny that his mother supplies for him as a man of god, but again his faith in this religion fails. He feels that his catechism will protect him from being corrupted and that god will reveal himself during this ceremonial rite-but nothing happens. He thought that when he partakes in this ceremony all will be revealed to him, but it is not.

     Tony himself went through the process of growing up and losing his innocence as well throughout the novel. In the beginning of the whole story, Tony is concerned with nothing much but his own little world like every child ought to be. His worries and experiences are really nothing compared to what he had in store for him later on, but although his later experiences would be rather unreal it still would be how any child would grow up, very gradual learning and taking things in stride. So as the story

In the same dream, Tony admits to doubting God. And then sees his three brothers being whipped by the Trementina sisters. His brothers have asked for forgiveness for their sins, and this is when Tony admits he has doubted God, by saying, “...I am not a priest... I too have sinned! I have doubted the Lord!”

People that have encouraged her to do her best had now seen her at her worst. Her downfall displays how her tragic flaw had unfortunately taken over everything she had worked for her whole life. The case went world wide as prosecutors took upon themselves to investigate Harding in court. First, the hitmen used their platform to explain how Harding had known about the attack and helped them plan it out (Harding’s Ex-Husband Arrested). At first, Harding did everything she could to make her seem innocent, however all of the evidence displayed pointed fingers at her. Even though Harding tried dodging the truth, she came out with sympathy and regret: “‘I’d just like to say I’m really sorry that I interfered” (Harding Makes Deal). Following, Tonya physically and emotionally suffered from her mistakes. First off, she had to give up the sport that she had loved ever since she was three years old. Along with that, came the embarrassment. Just to think that she was so close to having her second appearance at an Olympic tournament, to only throw it away before even performing. People once thought of her as an inspiration, but now when they hear her name they think of her sabotage. Secondly, she physically had to pay for her actions. After the case was finalized, the court ruled that Harding wouldn’t have jail time if she

Antonio’s mother believes that his destiny is to become a priest, and pushes him to become a devout, unquestioning Catholic. Tony tries to follow his mother’s ideals and attends church, and communion, yet remains unsatisfied. He does not

In this case, he believes that revenge is something that is deserved. Nevertheless, later on in the text Tony also states, “Come clean. I have to just come clean, to tell them everything. Then everything will be okay. Mr. Bellingham…Share location?

(Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P., 2014). Tony did achieved everything that he put his mind into, until all that power and money became his worst enemies. As Tony progressed in his finance and power he also starts to be more greedy and violent until he goes from having it all to literally losing

I believe that Mr. Dussel has the more logical response because this time, no one could be trusted, especially people that was attempting to steal from a building. If the thief figures out that they are there then the thief will, for sure, tell the green police for a special price. The thief would not care about others, probably only the money. The thief was, however, frightened about the noise that the families made did scare the thief off. So the thief may have been someone trying to escape from the Green Police as well, so they might have realized they were there, and left not to get caught.

The gangster movie genre is one of the most popular among the modern movies and some of the best film directors have produced some very excellent gangster movies. For my first film analysis, I decided to analyze my favorite gangster movie of all time. The movie that I analyzed is called “Scarface” and is directed by Brian De Palma. It was released in 1983 and is still a super hit movie today. Let me go through a short summary of the movie.

A genre is a category, and in film it is a way to describe the best fit of the direction a movie will display. There are many subgenres within a genre that also help to give definition. Genres are used to support a system of grouping instead of disarray by leaving others to decipher it themselves. Scarface is a crime film that also has the sub-genre of gangster. Even though it does not dramatize a social statement on a need for change, Scarface fits into the crime/gangster genre because it distinctly characterizes the severe bloodshed and assaults that are customary in the world of organized crime and demonstrates the calamity of the gangster lifestyle; however, oddly enough with the way the murders occurred it also fits into the horror film genre as well.

“I am not insane. I am angry…I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society ‘push us and we will push back.’” This statement came from someone who reached their limit of being bullied by their peers and could not tolerate the rejection from their significant other. This statement came from someone who decided one morning to conceal a rifle and go on a killing spree: first the mother, next the significant other, the female standing next to their significant other, and then continued to shoot and wound seven other students. This statement came from a 16-year old Mississippi male student, Luke Woodham’s manifesto, accounting for the actions previously stated. The police wrote him