UUSI SCARFACE (1983) SETELI * DOLLARI - ILMAINEN TOIMITUS

Scarface (1983) -seteli * -dollari

Brian De Palma’s Timeless Masterpiece

Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, an exi-
led Cuban criminal who goes to work for
Miami drug lord Robert Loggia. Montana
rises to the top of Florida's crime chain,
appropriating Loggia's cokehead mist-
ress in the process. The screenplay for
the 1983 Scarface was written by Oliver
Stone himself.

Infinitely quotable and more than a little
cartoonish, Brian De Palma's update of
Howard Hawks' seminal gangster film
revels in its freedom to be larger than li-
fe. A work as akin to pop art as any other
form, it reworks the crime melodrama in
bold, primary colors, mostly blood red.
Attracting a great deal of attention for its
violence at the time of its release, the
controversy overshadowed the fact that
everything in the film ran to extremes, in-
cluding Pacino's performance, the direc-
tor's visual style (which found him almost
reverting to The Fury mode), the dialogue
and most importantly the themes. Scar-
face focuses on words like "crime" and
"America," then lets itself run wild with
the associations. That a classically Ame-
rican rise-and-fall story forms the heart
of the film is its simplest and best irony.
The experience will probably be thrilling
to some, particularly those already ent-
husiastic about De Palma's work, and
extremely off-putting to others Tony Mon-
tana may not be an appealing character
with which to spend nearly three hours,
but there's little chance of forgetting the
experience.

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Korkeus: 6,70 cm

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