Pacino is spectacularly over the top in Scarface

10 April 2012

Based on the 1932 classic by Howard Hawks, a director few would even try to copy, Brian De Palma’s 1983 version has Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a two-bit hood from Cuba who makes it big in the drug trade.

His performance is spectacularly, sometimes gloriously, over the top as Montana sniffs enough cocaine to sink a battleship and luxuriates in a huge bathtub in his absurd mansion.

Oliver Stone wrote the screenplay and De Palma provides some notable sequences.

To call the whole thing visceral is a palpable understatement.

It goes on even longer than Tarantino but with much, much more flair.

Scarface
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