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..(too tired, pick up today) but what a great movie by Brian de Palma and a seminal role by Pacino.
Note it's Oliver Stone who wrote the scenario.
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"White Heat" is, of course, the gangster flick to end all gangster flicks and is, imho, a far better effort than the later "Scarface." It's interesting to see the 30s version of "Scarface" and the 40s "White Heat" and then watch dePalma's "Scarface", which suffers in comparison to the earlier films.I think the violence in the newer film is excessive and gratuitous. The violence in "White Heat" is much less graphic and infrequent but it is more effective and certainly shocking, whereas that in "Scarface" (the new one) rapidly loses its shock value and just becomes tiresome.
I still think dePalma's "Scarface" is a good film but it misses the mark of greatness because of dePalma's lack of discipline - his too intense and frequent violence and his almost comic-book second half nearly ruin it. BdP wanted to make his "epic" and was tired of the comparisons to Hitchcock but he seems to have fallen into the same old patterns as he got further and further into "Scarface." It coulda been a contender had the director known when enough was enough.
His "Phantom of the Paradise" and "Body Double" were better films, imho. His version of "Blow Up" is pretty good, too.
...I thought that the 2nd half seemed like a different movie. I thought the first half was brilliant.
F. Murray Abraham was fiendishly evil, as was the lizard-like Colombian warlord.
Pacino created a character that has become an icon, and that's rare.
Unfortunately, police say the Montana character has spawned many ghetto wannabes, replete with white suit, polyester shirt open to the waist, and pounds of gold chains. No word on blond babes that good-looking, though.
hot then and still hot....
vulnerable and tough as nails.
Yes, completely over the top - maybe Stone's (scenario)influence?
I heard, also, that Scarface is eulogised (?) by a whole new generation - crazy!
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"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
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say hello to my stinky friend! oops that's Jim Carey - Pet DetectiveI think the chainsaw scene is one of the scariest torture scenes I have seen
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