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	Scarface (1983 movie)
		Scarface is a 1983 motion picture about Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who has come to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift and entered into a life of organized crime and cocaine dealing.
		At the start of the movie, Tony is questioned by the US authorities and we see that he has a tattoo on his hand with the word 'Madre' (mother) inside a heart; this is a Cuban prison tattoo signifying the rank of executioner.
		The Scarface influence on hip-hop has been decried by many critics, many of whom are part of alternative hip hop, who feel that the fixiation of these rappers on a character such as Montana are poor influences for young people.
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	Scarface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scarface is a Mafia movie first made in 1932; see Scarface (1932 movie).
		Scarface is a 1990s rapper who was originally a member of the Geto Boys; see Scarface (rapper).
		Scarface is the name of the dummy used by the Batman villain The Ventriloquist.
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	Scarface (1932 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scarface (also known as Scarface, the Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 gangster film which tells the story of gang warfare and police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of a city.
		The movie was adapted by Ben Hecht, Fred Pasley, (uncredited), Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett and Howard Hawks (uncredited) from the novel by Armitage Trail.
		Scarface was remade in 1983 by Brian De Palma; see Scarface (1983 film).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scarface_(1932_movie) (333 words)

	Scarface (1983 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scarface is a 1983 motion picture about Tony Montana, a fictional Cuban refugee who comes to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift.
		Scarface was directed by Brian De Palma, and written by famed director Oliver Stone while he battled a cocaine addiction.
		For the remainder of the 1980s, Scarface held the record for the movie containing the most uses of the word "fuck." (A popular Internet rumor states that the group Blink 182 got their name from a mis-count of how many times Tony says "fuck" in the film.) It lost this title in 1990 to Goodfellas.
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	Scarface (1983 movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Scarface is also notable for its extensive popularity by many (An urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city) hip-hop artists and fans, in particular those affiliated with (Click link for more info and facts about gangsta rap) gangsta rap.
		The Scarface influence on hip-hop has been decried by many critics, many of whom are part of (Click link for more info and facts about alternative hip hop) alternative hip hop, who feel that the fixiation of these rappers on a character such as Montana are poor influences for young people.
		Looking up to Scarface and Montana, they argue, would cause children and teenagers to romanticize ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act) crime, (An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)) violence, and the mafioso lifestyle.
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	Scarface (1983 movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Scarface is a 1983 movie about Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who has come to Florida in 1980 and entered into a life of organised crime.
		Scarface is essentially a "character study." Through third-person limited view, you come to learn a lot about how Tony Montana behaves and acts.
		The movie is also notable for its extensive influence on the musical genre of rap, in particular gangsta rap.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/scarface__1983_movie_ (290 words)

	Scarface review (1983) Pacino - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
		Brian De Palma's (Dressed to Kill, Phantom of the Paradise) updating of Scarface is one of those films that runs the gamut from "all-time favorite" to "worst film I've ever seen" among critics and non-critics alike.
		Scarface is most memorable for the incredible performance by Pacino, and as a whole, it's a well-crafted, if somewhat overlong, morality tale.
		Yet, Scarface is a three hour film, and as such, does tend to have its share of lulls, resulting in scenes that are unnecessarily long, and for a film this grisly, some of the events that transpire seem too unbelievable to be taken seriously.
	www.qwipster.net /scarface.htm (439 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The movie has been borrowed from so often that it's difficult to understand how original it seemed in 1983, when Latino heroes were rare, when cocaine was not a cliche, when sequences at the pitch of the final gun battle were not commonplace.
		Both movies were assailed for their violence, both are about the rise and fall of a criminal entrepreneur, both characters are obsessed with their sisters, and both die because they used their own product -- in Montana's case, cocaine; in the case of the syphilitic Capone, prostitutes.
		A film like "Scarface" is more to their liking, which accounts for the film's enduring popularity, even in an edited-for-TV version that emasculates it.
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	Encyclopedia: Scarface (1932 movie)
		FBI mugshot of Capone, 1931 Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899â€“January 25, 1947), more popularly known as Al Scarface Capone, was a famous American Gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card is reported to have said he was a dealer in used furniture.
		Scarface was remade in 1983 by Brian De Palma; see Scarface (1983 movie).
		1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
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		Top 100 Movie Lists - Scarface (1983) - Photos, sound bites, and reviews as well as a link to two brothers top 100 movie lists along with many reputable critics lists.
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	DVD Verdict Review - Scarface: 20th Anniversary Edition
		As controversial as it was in its time, Scarface is now an indelible part of the popular consciousness: Tony Montana has supplanted Vito Corleone as the archetypal crime boss, quotes from the movie have entered the American lexicon, and the film's macho theatrics and gaudy materialism have been adopted as the blueprint for hip-hop culture.
		Scarface is a sonically lively movie, and that sound is represented here as well as anyone could ask for, with reference-level clarity and a surprisingly active sound field.
		Scarface has weathered critical disdain and financial disappointment to emerge, two decades later, as a film for the ages, joining the Godfather saga and GoodFellas in the pantheon of great gangster flicks.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/scarfacese.php (2254 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Scarface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most thrillers use interchangeable characters, and most gangster movies are more interested in action than personality, but "Scarface" is one of those special movies, like "The Godfather," that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human.
		Both movies are about the rise and fall of a gangster, and they both make much of the hero's neurotic obsession with his sister, but the 1983 "Scarface" isn't a remake, and it owes more to "The Godfather" than to Hawks.
		"Scarface" understands this criminal personality, with its links between laziness and ruthlessness, grandiosity and low self-esteem, pipe dreams and a chronic inability to be happy.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19831209/REVIEWS/312090301/1023 (680 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Scarface at Epinions.com
		Scarface has a supporting cast of highly interesting characters, most of which parallel some of organized crime's most notorious personalities.
		The title was changed from simply "Scarface" to "Scarface: The Shame of a Nation" to indicate the film industry's indictment of the underworld as a societal menace.
		While Scarface was undergoing the scrutiny of the Hays Office, two other films of the gangster genre were released--Little Caesar in 1930 and Public Enemy in 1931.
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	Scarface Movie with Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer @ The 80's Movies Rewind -- Home of 80s Movies
		Scarface, by comparison, was a low key reworking of the 1932 Howard Hawke's classic, an atypical gangster movie in terms of it's political statements about Castro's Cuba and the futility / hypocrisy of the drugs war (also explored in "Traffic").
		For the movie, the camp was erected in Los Angeles, beneath the intersection of the Santa Monica and Harbour freeways.
		It was the last year that this car was available in it's original form as shown in the movie with the totally clean body styling and the "telephone dial" alloy rims.[Thanks to King P] The neo-punk band Blink-182 based their name on the amount of times Pacino said the "f-word"...
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	Scarface (1983)
		This is the basis of the tale of the Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (Al Pacino) as told in Scarface.
		Although she had some ten films prior to this one, Scarface is the flick that brought Pfeiffer into the start of her ‘A’ list recognition.
		Here, with Scarface he appears to be honoring the later work of Sam Peckinpah, especially with a nod towards the ultra violent ‘Wild Bunch’.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /scarface_1983.htm (1148 words)

	I-Mockery.com \| Movie Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This review may contain spoilers so I'll end it with this statement: Scarface 1983 may not be right for everyone, but its a great ganster flim that potrays the darker, more sinister side of the drug gang business.
		Scarface 1983 is a great film, not right for everyone but its one of the best ganster flims I've seen.
		This movie is a classic, but now that the rappers say they like it, the line "say hello to my little friend" is so over used that i kind of wish the film was never made.
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	Scarface
		"Scarface" chronicles the life of a Cuban refugee who came to America in May, 1980, when Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel Bay, Cuba, with the apparent intention of letting some of his people join their families back in America.
		As the movie's opening intro explains, it soon became obvious that Castro was doing little more than sending the scum of Cuba to America in hopes of ridding his domain of filth.
		The movie was written by Oliver Stone, who completed a final draft after many attempts by other writers, including one attempt by the director of the movie, Brian DePalma, who claims that his script was not going the way he wanted it to go.
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	SCARFACE (1983)
		It was also a first for him in another sense; here he was part of a collaborative team on a picture designed to showcase its star, in this case Al Pacino.
		Add to this a growing addiction to cocaine that gives him a false sense of invincibility, and Tony is caught in the worst of "no win" situations.
		Finally, SCARFACE also built a fervent and devoted following among viewers who, perhaps seeing themselves as disenfranchised in much the way Tony is when the story begins (and admiring his blunt humor and honesty as a character), embraced him as nothing less than a hero.
	www.briandepalma.net /scarface/scar.htm (835 words)

	MJ Movie Reviews - Scarface (1983) by Dan DeVore
		Brian De Palma’s movie was less interested in explaining why the gangster known as Scarface fell from grace than he was showing the viewer the empty results of the decline.
		Scarface is different because it presents itself as a serious drama and character study but falls flat on it’s face.
		Scarface has more than its fair share of memorable and exciting moments, but many of them would be better suited to a Rambo or Commando type movie than a “drug/gangster” movie.
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	SCARFACE (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That movie was known for its groundbreaking violence and the same can be said for this film.
		It is not comparable to the 1932 movie because the twain are very different.
		Scarface is an exciting movie as well as an effective drama.
	www.softcom.net /users/chuckmc/entertainment/movies/scarface.htm (407 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Scarface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Not the definitive film of the 80s but a definitive coke movie, the decade's drug of choice.
		Loaded with memorable lines ("Say hello to my leetle friend") but flawed by a zombie movie soundtrack; Giorgio Moroder's synthwork is as bereft of feeling as Montana himself in its nullifying effect.
		A tribute to Hawks and Hecht, the director and writer behind the 1932 classic of the same name, ends the film, but this is very much a film of the 80s in its portrayal not of moral decline (there is little declining left to do) but of unstoppable ego-centrism.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/02/08/scarface_1983_review.shtml (343 words)

	Film Freak Central Presents: DE PALMA ON DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They say the movie pursues the rise and fall of a gangster, but it's really an allegory of the getting and losing of an erection, with Cuban political refugee turned Miami drug kingpin Tony Montana (Al Pacino) going limp from head to toe as his empire begins to crumble.
		As someone who didn't see Scarface until recently, I wonder if it's because of Tony's status as a mascot for the hip hop community that we can begin to appreciate him as anything other than, well, a figurative cigar: the messiahdom of a penis is bound to be far more interesting than the penis itself.
		The characters talk in war movie clichés as if to knock down as many barriers as possible between us and them--familiar figures in messed-up circumstances that are given both poetic distance and due by DePalma, the cast, and composer Ennio Morricone, contributing one of his most aching scores.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/depalmacaps.htm (2213 words)

	Popcorn Monsters - Review for Scarface by apalmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Scarface, Pacino’s role is extravagant and he’s not embarrassed or shy to give it his all, to get out of his comfort zone.
		Some say Scarface is a b-movie version of the Godfather and I have to agree.
		While watching the movie you may start thinking that crime really pays, but fortunately, the end shows that living life in the fast lane, that greed and selfishness eventually will catch up with you and at some point they’ll knock on your door to collect their high price.
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	Scarface (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Scarface could go on a diet, lose 20 minutes, and be a better picture.
		Great movie,I only saw this movie for the first time in January 2004.Al Pacino is great and the storyline is nice too.You too,mel.You fucked up.
	www.ymdb.com /scarface/f0086250_ukuk.html (218 words)

	Scarface (1983)
		Scarface is a quintessential 80's movie, instantly recognizable by upbeat synth music that is somewhat at odds with the subject matter.
		As Scarface points out, "her womb is so polluted she can't even give me a little baby".
		Ultimately Scarface is the tragic tale of a man trying to do all the right things in all the wrong ways, falling victim to his own devices and the trappings of excess.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/scarface.htm (587 words)

	Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
		Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932) is one of the boldest, most potent, raw and violently-brutal gangster-crime films ever made.
		Scarface is prefaced with a critical, written statement to indict gangster hoodlumism and the public's and government's indifference.
		At the moment of the shooting, Scarface's shadow overlaps directly with the shadow of a large upright X or cross -- thereby signifying that from now on, all killings will be identified by this X-motif.
	www.filmsite.org /scar.html (3229 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Scarface [1983] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination.
		When it was originally released in 1983 it was received in similar fashion to that of "The Exorcist", utter disgust and fascination.
		Scarface is a brilliant story of greed and self-destruction that has turned into a cult classic.
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	Trivia for Scarface (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The message on the blimp is the same message that appeared on a building in Scarface (1932).
		The Miami Tourist Board decided not to allow filming, as they were afraid the movie would discourage tourism to Miami, particuarly as it showed Miami's latest Cuban immigrants as gangsters and drug dealers.
		The original idea was to make this film a remake of Scarface (1932), which took place in Chicago, but this proved t be impossible due to budget constraints.
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	Scarface movie info - dvds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Scarface" is one of the greatest of all mob movies.
		Unlike "The Godfather," which was more about family and relationships between father and son, "Scarface" is an exhilarating and intriguing journey into Miami's mob underworld, seen through the eyes of Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee with some of the greatest lines in movie history.
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