Scarface Deluxe Gift Set - Scarface (1983) & Scarface (1932)

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Scarface (1983)
This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. 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. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. --Jeff Shannon

Scarface (1932)
Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first "talkies" to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. Outgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy--in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style--the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. It remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul Muni's portrayal of Al Capone surrogate Tony Camonte etched a screen original: a merciless assassin who's not only reflexively criminal but pre-civilized, almost pre-evolutionary, a simian shadow ready to rub out the world if he can't have it for his own. This is still one of the greatest, darkest, most deeply exciting films American cinema has produced. Those demonically ubiquitous X's--starting with that titular scar gouged into Tony's cheek--rival "Rosebud" for resonance. --Richard T. Jameson

Customer Reviews:

Overrated movie by an overrated director.......2007-09-09

Scarface is overlong, excessively vulgar and violent. I agree that this movie has been influential, but for all the wrong reasons. Many gangster rap groups, most notably the Geto Boys, used many soundbites from Scarface throughout their career to accentuate their bravado or "hardcore attitude toward life." It's a shame that De Palma convinced so many talented people to waste their time with this gutter trash. Howard Hawks' Scarface is still superior in every way.

my review.......2007-09-06

yes i enjoyed very much the movie its a very cool movie.
i hope to buy some more stuff jaja XD thanks

AL PACINO IS THE MAN!!.......2007-09-01

scarface is one of my very favorites. this movie is very powerful, beautifully done, and one of the most influential of all time. no matter how many movies al pacino does, he will always be known as tony montana aka scarface no matter what. this role was made for him, he was born for this. the rise and fall of this man, the love he won and lost, the power he earned and abused, the drugs he bought, sold, did, and that destroyed him. at the end he went out like a real man, taking a lot of fools with him. he went down like a soldier, but they killed him from the back like cowards. this was the life for him, the life he dreamed of, the life he achieved, but in the end it caught up to him. it always does. it got to him. the life and everything that came with it. for a brief moment the world was his. a gauranteed pleaser. no doubt.

Pacino Rocks.......2007-08-26

In the 1980's Castro emptied his prisons. In this movie Tony Montana comes to America. Very violent movie which depicts the cocaine wars in southern Florida.

Corey Cotta, Author of All of Yesterdays Tomorrows.

Excelente movie.......2007-08-24

It is an excelent movie and exceptional pack have a very nice surprises and gifts

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