Scarface was a remake of a 1932 movie!!!
Posted on 08/26/2011 11:11:00 AM PDT by Borges
Edited on 08/26/2011 11:32:12 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I left out the opening paragraph! Can you put this in please? Thanks!
“Back in school, I was always amused to read about classics that were dismissed when they first came out — you know, how Moby Dick wrecked Herman Melville’s literary career or how The Wizard of Oz was considered a disappointment when it was first released. I naturally assumed that, had I been around back then, I wouldn’t have missed the boat like that.”
What’s an “NPR”?
“Say hello to my lil’ frien’”
What’s an “NPR”?
I think it’s shorthand web lingo for Nauseating Pablum Radio.
Like Radio Moscow, circa 1985, but slightly to its left, politically speaking.
Scarface was a remake of a 1932 movie!!!
The article states that.
I saw this movie in a theater when it came out. Toward the end there’s a scene I think where he falls face down in a mound of cocaine and I said loudly “I hope he’s dead” and the entire audience burst out laughing. It was a debased vile movie then and I assume it still is since nothing has changed except I’m less tolerant than I used to be but I won’t watch again it to confirm my suspicions.
The French (go figure) have a saying that people like to roll around in the gutter. This is more of the elite rolling around in the gutter and calling it great art.
Al Capone was the original Scarface
There’s a funny music video, called Jack Sparrow, put together between the rap group, The Lonely Island, and Michael Bolton, that has Michael Bolton singing about the movie Scarface and him looking like Tony Montana.
(warning: bad language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction aren’t all that violent. At least not onscreen.
Captain Jack Sparrow...
Heh - I know, I know. Just a little tangent. :)
“...remaking it as something trashy, shallow, and excessive to the point of Camp.”
Sounds like NPR’s coverage of the Tea Party.
“When it first came out, I panned it for taking Howard Hawks’s great 1932 movie and remaking it as something trashy, shallow, and excessive to the point of Camp”
Which is precisely why its popularity grew. Same reason “Rocky Horror” has the longest continuous run in movie history and “Saved By the Bell” has been on the air for 22, or whatever, years. People, especially cultists, like trash.
“Back in school, I was always amused to read about classics that were dismissed when they first came out — you know, how Moby Dick wrecked Herman Melville’s literary career”
Sometimes first opinions are better. I tried and failed to get through “Moby Dick” and “Scarface” still sucks.
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