I always enjoy gangster movies; they rely heavily on a good performance by the actors. Gangster movies need a good lead performance to make the whole story believable and keep the audience interested in characters. Paul Muni as Tony in “Scarface” was able to do just that. He used this voice to show the audience how his character felt and his body movements to help add underlying tones to certain situation. His voice and movements are what really sold the character to me, and Muni was one of the few actors in this film who were actually able to easily sell their characters to me.
Muni plays the now typical overly confident gangster that wants to be the big guy on top. This is a role, if done right, can be fantastic. If done wrong, it could kill the whole film. Muni was able to show his character with what felt like ease. He was constant on how he used his voice is certain situations to depict
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His giddy demeanor further showed that the character didn’t blink an eye at violence, but instead enjoyed it. Muni’s vocal reaction to being repeatedly shot at made his character even more believable and better. He could have said those lines casually and it would have done the job of showing he didn’t care, but his upbeat voice gave depth to the character that I really enjoyed. Tony is a character that, from the start, was depicted as someone who doesn’t care about hurting people as long as he is getting his way. He shows his nonchalant attitude towards the idea of killing people and his over confidence in his abilities from the start of the film when he was sat in the car. This was during his talk about how he can run easily the business; he is seated in the car reclining. It’s one of those small things that actors do that make their performance more realistic that I really
Al Capone, also known as Scarface, was a notorious hero. Capone has given himself to something bigger or other than himself such as sacrificing himself to stand up for others rights, help others who struggled financially, and create a better security throughout cities.
Tony is very smart but also quite poor. His family didn't have enough money to send him to school but since he was smart and the nuns had faith in him they were able to provide him with a scholarship: “His family could not afford to send him to school. But the nuns believed in him because he was smart and a good boy.” (McKay 44). This shows how tony was viewed as a person before everything with the LRA happened. Tony also had a dream to become a priest when he was older. He never openly said it but it was very obvious to others; “ He has never actually said to his friends, but everyone knew that tony really wanted to become a priest.” (McKay 45). This shows that Tony wanted to go to school to repay god and how much of a good kid we was and how he didn't deserve to have to become a rebel soldier.
Tony was around 30 years old at the time. Tony was having a normal day at the fire station. His job for the day was to answer 911 calls. Tony was working at the Fire Station full time. Tony was encouraged by his dad to be a fireman because he was a police officer. Tony interviewed for a job opening, and got the job because he scored high on his exam. When Tony was at the firehouse with other firemen, Suddenly he got a call from a mother about a baby having trouble breathing. The baby had pneumonia, causing him to have a blocked airway. The mom was yelling at Tony saying “My Baby can't breath and he is turning blue!” Since tony was on the phone with the mom and couldn't be there to physically help the baby he had to think fast to tell the mom what to do. Tony explained to her mom how to open up the baby's airway to save him. The mom followed tony's instructions until her baby could breathe. Tony and the mom ended up saving the baby and an ambulance came to make sure he was ok. Before the mom ended the call Tony could hear the baby crying so he knew he was ok. Knowing the baby was ok and could live a normal life gave Tony lots of Confidence. Tony didn't make a big deal out of this, but the Fire Chief did. There was lots of press and it became a big deal. During the call Tony got no help from other fireman. After saving the baby tony felt like this is where he belongs, and it reinforced his comitment to his job. Tony learned 3 major things from this. Stay calm, depend on your training and never give up on what you are
You don’t need to carry a gun to be a vigilante. Sometimes, even a sizable club can suffice—such in the case of Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler whose intolerance of crime led him to become sheriff and fearlessly tackle corruption in his hometown. Pusser’s life story served as an inspiration for the 1973 film Walking Tall that made him a hero across
Danny Devito is perfect in this role because he has quite a seedy voice this is good to illustrate the sleaziness of film-noir, it shows the real voice of L.A.
The gangster genre within films in America has accomplished numerous positive criticisms and constant willing audiences due to containing outstanding spectacles and mind-blowing action. The Godfather, being second on the IMDb Top 250 Movies, has set a new popular concept to life within the Mafia from their point of view. Doing so, creating a positive association. Yet within Italy, the same topic contains a complete different view. Movies such as I Cento Passi demonstrate unenthusiastic view by those whom are outside yet negatively affected by those members. Unlike American films, the gangsters are not as often viewed at the protagonist and are the main causes for the problematic events. But how different is Italian Mafia and American
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.
Drugs, violence, drugs, materialism, drugs, immorality and more drugs. The movie explores a lot of themes, crime, politics, psychology and the “American Dream”, all which is portrayed in a bloody and foul-mouthed manner. Scarface is a glorified portrayal and subversion of crime life at the same time. Tony Montana is an immigrant that has nowhere else to go, he then goes to a life of crime, got rich, and then goes down. It is a common misconception that the movie glorifies violence. The conceptions are wrong; the movie portrays violent scenes as a major turning point for characters, both tragic and bittersweet. Like the tagline of the movie. Tony loved “The American Dream, with a
An influential member of a Sicilian anti-racket association was arrested on Wednesday morning, after it emerged he was in cahoots with the Cosa Nostra.
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.
Francis Ford Coppola directed the gangster crime drama film, The Godfather (1972), inspired by the novel of the same name, written by Author Mario Puzo. The film plays out in the beginning how Don Corleone declined to join the narcotics business with notorious drug lord Sollozzo. With this in mind, one of the greatest gangster films created by a man who decided to lead, and not follows. Moreover, explaining the formalist approach for this film which covers an array of elements that include plot structure, camera techniques, editing, mise en scene, and sound. The following film critique will analyze “The Godfather,” beginning by utilizing the formalist approach theory, camera technique and sound gradually introducing additional theories
Tony is an indian. In the beginning, you get the impression, that he is a sweet, innocent and caring boy. He’s very helpful but also very naive. Through the story, it gets more and more clear, that there is something mentally wrong with Tony. He keeps believing, that the cop is something that his parents warned him about in his childhood, wich he calls ‘a masked dancer’. His parents told him not to look into the eyes, so in Tony’s head, the cop’s sunglasses equals the masked dancer’s mask. And Tony ends up killing the cop, and telling Leon that everything is O.K., it’s killed, they somethimes take on strange forms. He also compares the cop’s raised billy club to the witch’s raised human-bone in his dream.
him. He's tough: a mans man. You have to like him. The character of Tony
Throughout the film, Michael Corleone played brilliantly by Al Pacino, experiences a major change in his way of thinking. Michael changes from believing that what his family does is wrong, to believing that his family's crimes are a necessary evil. He begins by insisting to his girlfriend that his family's crimes belong to his family, not to him. He was not involved in the business and did not want anything to do with it.
In the beginning of Iron Man, the main protagonist, Tony Stark, was generally a bad person. He was an extreme example of the celebrity stereotype-- flashy, arrogant, self-absorbed, and rude. Stark took personal honors, as well as relationships with others, for granted. But that all changed when Stark was kidnapped by a terroristic rebel group. During his time as a prisoner, Tony saw what horrors his technology could be used for, and later escaped captivity humbled and changed. From the moment he returned, Stark’s character started growing into a caring and heroic figure. Specifically, Tony Stark emerged as a new man, actually caring for his assistant, Pepper Pots, being concerned about what