Product Description In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami… wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name… Scarface.Bonus Content:Scarface (1932): Alternate Ending RecommendationsScarface (1983): Scarface: The Rebirth Scarface: Acting Scarface: Creating Scarface: The TV Version Deleted Scenes Def Jam Presents: Origins of a Hip Hop Classic Cast and Filmmakers .com 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 ShannonScarface (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
A**R
Best DVD Ever
This is the best DVD, including both the actual movie and also the special features, I believe I have ever seen. I received the DVD box set a little over a day ago, but have been too busy watching it to come and review it. Well, after a day, I've finally seen most (but not all) of the special features that it includes. And all I can say is "wow!" From the moment I took it out of the box, I knew that this wasn't just ANY DVD. This was Scarface; in a league all by itself.Plot of the MovieIf you have never seen Scarface before, it is a movie about the rise and fall of a Cuban refugee trying to make it in America and in the process becoming Miami's biggest cocaine kingpin.As most people buying this have already seen the movie before, I won't dwell on the movie itself.Sound and Video QualityThe quality of this movie is incredible. After seeing the original 1983 version, I have to say that there is no comparison between it and this new digitally remastered version. The sound is incredible. And the video looks to be on par with other movies of our current generation, which is quite a step up from the older version of the film.Special FeaturesThe special features are also very nice. You can view the "Rebirth of Scarface," "Acting Scarface," and "Creating Scarface." All of which are extremely interesting to watch and don't ramble on and on like similar "Behind the Scenes" on other DVDs.Other features include "The Origins of a Gangsta'" Which I honestly haven't had time to watch yet (I told you there were a lot of extras!). Also included is a comparison between the Network TV version of Scarface and the actual version, which is short but fun to watch. Truly, I didn't think the deleted scenes that were included were all that great, with the exception of a few of them, but they are included for anyone who wants to view them.Box Set Versus DVD OnlyAnd lastly, if you are debating over whether to go for only the DVD, or instead get the entire box set, I think I would get the box set. It comes with many more things that make it worth the extra fifteen or twenty dollars. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the box itself is really neat, and bigger than it seems to look from Amazon's picture. It measures to be about 12 inches long by nine inches wide. It also comes with a gold money clip with the Scarface insignia, and "lobby cards" which are pictures from the movie printed on some high-quality paper and are at least 8½ x 11. And, not to mention, it comes with the original 1932 version of Scarface which even comes in its own separate DVD case. So, if you're a fan of the movie I would recommend to spring for the box set.In short, if you loved the movie, you'll need to add this classic to your DVD collection.
M**S
The, dare I say it, single prettiest DVD purchase I've made.
I'm not going to comment on either of the classic films; both have enough recognition and good reviews (except, of course, for the single one coming from misguided-as-usual Leonard Maltin).Instead, I will concentrate on the box set alone. It is, beyond any doubt, the most visually attractive and best designed DVD set I have ever bought. The whole package is impressive enough on the outside - a huge faux-alligator-leather box (and the actual package box from Amazon, which the mailman brought in, was much, much larger - I truly did not expect it to be that big!), designed to be reminiscent of Tony's famous armchair (complete with his monogram, with an additional silver imprint saying: "Al Pacino - Scarface"), and accompanied by an informative leaflet - but it's the interior where even more treasures lie. Upon opening the box, a miniature poster for the film welcomes us; below, sleeping on a bed of (false :) red "silk", is Brian DePalma's film, in its glorious Anniversary Edition with all bells and whistles (well, except for a pointless and absolutely unwelcome pseudodocumentary in which some dull in-duh-viduals - who, apparently, constitute a group of rap "stars" - babble for half an hour about nothing... at least I *think* they drone on and on until the end, since I returned to the DVD's main menu about two minutes after that "documentary" began).This, however, is just the first level of this treasure box, since, underneath - this time on black "silk", for a change - lie three more items: a set of lobby cards printed on coated paper, a DVD with Howard Hawks's first classic "Scarface" from 1932... and a golden (obviously not made of real gold, mind you :) money clip decorated with Tony's monogram and probably the most famous quote from the film - "The World is Yours" (and, if I were to pick any major flaw in this set - ignoring the presence of the droll rap "documentary" - it would be the fact that these are imprinted rather than engraved, as the imprints may wear off quickly... not that I'm actually going to use the clip - it's too pretty for that!).The only thing that could make this set better would be getting rid of the aforementioned "documentary" and replacing it with a commentary track by Brian DePalma, Oliver Stone and, ideally, Al Pacino (the lengthy interviews are informative, but a commentary would be even better... I would particularly like to hear Oliver Stone's recollections of all the dangerous research he conducted in Miami's underworld). Either way, this is certainly the most visually appealing DVD set I have ever bought, and one of the (if not THE single) most impressive sets ever produced. I'm not even keeping it with the rest of my DVDs; instead, the whole box sits on a separate shelf, under a transparent dust cover. I can just wish that more of my favorite movies would get such a luxurious treatment.
E**A
Scarface is a crime classic.
This movie has received a lot of flak because of all its violence and the overuse of the F word. Now lets talk about the most hated scene in the whole movie. The chainsaw scene. Sure it is a violent scene but if you watch closely you never once see the chainsaw actually cutting anything in fact you never see anything overtly violent. You see some very bad placed spurts of blood hitting Al Pacino. You can almost see the guy off camera with the bottle of fake blood. You hear the chainsaw, you hear the screams but not much else. It leaves everything up to your imagination sort of like the classic Hitchcock movie, "Psycho". Now lets get to the other reason people hate this movie. The F word. It is ridiculous how much they use this word in fact I was kind of annoyed after the 50th time. But after a while you kind of get used to it. Its really not that bad. Just think about it, the music these days is as bad if not worse with all that reference to ho's, bitch's, etc. This is just a couple hundred F words badly placed but seriously its not that bad. I have to give credit to the superb acting. Its absolutly excellent. Now on to the "gangsta' aspect. For some reason the Rap, Hip Hop, genre has adopted this movie as its proverbial bible. This group of people has somehow ignored the moral of the story (which is drugs do not give you a life it takes life away and it is never good to get involved in drugs) and somehow thinks that becoming Scarface would be very cool and all the things he does is cool. This is very stupid. in fact I resent all those who beleive that becoming Scarface would be cool.
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