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Scarface (1983) [DVD]

Al Pacino (Actor), Michelle Pfeiffer (Actor), Brian De Palma (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Cuban immigrant, Drama, DVD Movie, Blu-ray Movie, Action & Adventure/Thrillers, Tony Montana, Action & Adventure, Miami See more
Format	DVD, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Special Edition
Contributor	Al Pacino, Paul Shenar, Miriam Colon, Martin Bregman, Oliver Stone, F. Murray Abraham, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, Harris Yulin, Pepe Serna, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian De Palma See more
Language	English
Runtime	2 hours and 50 minutes

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Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film, in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Directed by hit-maker Brian DePalma and produced by Martin Bregman who brought both Godfather legends to the screen, Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire. With its intense screenplay by Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone, driving music score by Giorgio Moroder, and superb insights into Miami's Latin lifestyle, Scarface joins the ranks of Hollywood's greatest underworld dramas, as it lays bare the sordid power of the American drug scene. Time Magazine calls it "Exhilarating," while The New York Times' Vincent Canby applauds the picture as "Stylish and Provocative."

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Brian De Palma
Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Special Edition
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 1998
Actors ‏ : ‎ Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
Producers ‏ : ‎ Martin Bregman
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Studios Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0783225970
Writers ‏ : ‎ Oliver Stone
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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A Paine

good stuff

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2023

well made

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2023

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I first watched Scarface when I was just ten years old when it was released in 1983. At that time, I didn't understand the plot much and didn't enjoy the movie. However, now, at the age of 50, I have rewatched the movie, and I am amazed at how incredible the story and the movie are. Despite not being Cuban, Al Pacino played the main character brilliantly. The entire film was captivating and had a complete storyline. This classic gangster movie is undoubtedly one that will stand the test of time.

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"Nothing Exceeds Like Excess."

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2005

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SCARFACE is Brian DePalma's and Al Pacino's operatic masterful retelling of Howard Hughes', Howard Hawks' and Paul Muni's definitive 1932 gangster film of the same name. First panned upon its 1983 release, like it's predecessor and namesake SCARFACE has become a part of the American cultural consciousness far beyond itself.

Pacino plays Marielito Tony Montana, a small-time stickup artist in Castro's Cuba who becomes a major drug kingpin in 1980s Miami. Pacino's Montana is reminiscent both of Muni's character and of his own portrayal of Michael Corleone. In Montana, Pacino shows us the twisted inner workings of the criminal personality he presented so convincingly as THE GODFATHER.

Pacino gives us an intentionally over-the-top performance, using a theatrically "theek" Cuban accent and unremitting obscenities (estimated as one every thirty eight seconds on average) as the foundation stones for Tony Montana. Much of Pacino's characterization depends on black comedy (Tony's beloved bright yellow Cadillac with the tiger stripe interior is ridiculous to the point of screaming laughter, as is his bloodthirsty earnest buffoonery---after killing two men in cold blood he casually offers his third intended victim a job: "Okay! You call me tomorrow!") Pacino's humor hits its high point when he mutters miserably, "I don't trust Mob guys," while lighting a Corona in unconscious flattery of Vito Corleone. Scarface is very intentionally the id of the more calculating Don Michael.

DePalma, through scriptwriter Oliver Stone, manages to penetrate to the heart of darkness of the cocaine subculture. Surrounded by metric tons of cocaine, warehouses full of money, and all the trash it can buy, Montana values only three people in the world, his sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and his friends Angel and Manolo (Steven Bauer), one of whom he kills himself and two of whom die through his indirect machinations.

When Angel dies in a gruesome chainsaw scene as brilliantly conceived and executed as Janet Leigh's shower scene in PSYCHO, a classic of directorial misdirection, Tony's humanity all but dies, and he rampages through Miami's drug underworld, butchering his rival, Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), stealing Lopez's vicious, sexy llello-emaciated wife, Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer), and burying himself alive in a lust of grotesque materialism. For just a moment the world is his.

Pacino captures Montana's colorful rise and his robotic downfall perfectly, showing us that Tony Montana is a spiritually dead character. Although he fights to protect Gina and idolizes her throughout the film, his lifestyle of excess eventually claims her, as unable to grasp the thought of love as opposed to sheer possession, Tony kills Manolo when he discovers them together. (The two had secretly married and planned to surprise Tony).

DePalma also uses the tropical motifs of Miami in a subtle way to mark Tony Montana's rise and fall. Starting out as a wisecracking second-story man addicted to Hawaiian shirts and jeans he later graduates to neon technopop polyester leisure suits in pastel colors and then finally to dark black pinstripes. The further he descends into evil the more conservative and less bright he appears.

Pacino's Montana ends his depraved existence with his face buried in a mound of cocaine, and firing a grenade rifle at men come to kill him for botching an assassination---ironically, Tony is to die for not killing the children of an important politician. In the end, this flicker of compassion can't redeem him.

The Special Edition second disc has some fascinating material comparing and contrasting the two SCARFACEs, and exploring much of the underpinning of this gangster classic. One of the more interesting segments is a hip-hop exploration of the film, which has become a kind of bible for 'gangsta' rappers. To see Tony Montana lauded as "a man of principle," "loyal to his friends" and a man who "has it all" is an incredible expose of the mindset of the rap contributors to the segment, since Tony Montana is none of the above, except in the most meaningless of ways.

Although SCARFACE has its uneven moments and Tony's rise is far more fascinating than his inevitable fall, this movie is far better than its initial weak press reviews indicated. SCARFACE is a true classic and time-capsule piece of the Miami drug scene. Once again, Al Pacino is being, not acting onscreen, and the results are nothing short of amazing.

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Charlie Calvert

Surreal, Scared and Egregious

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2009

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Brian de Palma stormed my heart back in the mid-seventies when he released Phantom of the Paradise. That unforgettable film represented exactly the kind of feverish extravaganza that I wanted to see at that time of my life. Phantom was blatantly absurd, a movie that could be enjoyed only by moviegoers who accepted that it was intentionally unbelievable, a blatantly absurd, feverish and surreal dream made with passion and conviction.

It is a long journey from the risky, outside mood of Phantom to this mainstream video with its blatant appeal to the American moviegoers craving for fare that offers unadulterated visions of money, violence and sex. Nevertheless, I always enjoy watching this movie.

Perhaps Scarface can't be fully appreciated unless you have first seen Phantom of the Paradise. From the swirling camerawork in Al Pacino's crazed and brilliant opening scene through the Tarantino-topping violence of the final shootout, everything in this movie pushes us beyond the place where we can sit back in dispassionate comfort. The point here is that no decent person can sit through this movie without feeling uncomfortable. A naïve viewer might think this is simply an exceptionally wild violence and sexual ridden romp, but the point here is that every scene in this movie is calculated to take matters to extremes, to push beyond the boundaries of the real world.

Tarantino and Oliver Stone get the credit for making movies that intentionally court a surreal degree of violence -- in Tarantino's case for the fun of it, and in Stone's case as a protest against the American obsession with destruction. Yet this movie shows that de Palma was there well before them. Like Natural Born Killers or the Kill Bill movies, the camera never sits still in this movie, and the violence is intentionally taken into an unreal realm of the imagination. Egregious consumption, egregious violence, and a disturbing sexual ambiance are captured by de Palma's careening camera and thrust in the viewer's face, making us squirm in our seats, unable to turn away from what simultaneously repulses and fascinates us.

Personally, I don't think there is any need to make this movie again. De Palma got out in front of his audience and made a movie that was panned when it shipped, but which neither audiences nor critics have been able to ignore since. In many ways, Scarface makes both Natural Born Killers and the Kill Bill movies redundant, mere remakes of what de Palma laid down in the mid-eighties.

The dark side of America is captured on the screen by this extravagant production that left me stunned when I first saw it, back when I was much younger and my blood ran much hotter than it does today. Al Pacino gives an exalted performance that is simultaneously absurd and brilliant. The same is true of de Palma, who dazzles us while eliciting gasps of laughter and shock while pushing us beyond our tolerance for any number of things. To say that this film is too violent, too sexual and too hard too believe is only to reiterate de Palma's purpose in making this production. Watch this movie when you have a craving for the extreme, when you want to analyze how a talented director performs sleight of hand effects, and when you want to see the movie that lay the groundwork for the careers of contemporary directors like Tarentino. Watch this movie when you want to contemplate the dark side of America, when you want to watch an actor go the distance and then travel half as far again just for the heck of it, and watch this movie if you are willing to let your demons out to dance. Just don't watch this movie if you want to take it literally as a Hollywood entertainment.

This is a movie about bad people doing very bad and very destructive things. It is so egregious, that I'm sure it had the opposite effect that its critics suppose. Young people who saw this movie while growing up probably left the theatre or TV screen convinced that nothing is crazier than taking drugs and running around on your wife. But to ascribe a moral purpose to the movie is to undermine its fundamentally anarchic spirit. Go back to Phantom of the Paradise if you want to understand the movie. The point is that it takes conventional movie ideas and pushes them beyond the extreme and into the absurd.

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Freya

Très bon état

Reviewed in France on November 12, 2023

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Très bon état

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Le calvez

Scarface

Reviewed in France on October 18, 2023

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Al Pacino et ce film juste mythique.

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Ottimo , un classico

Reviewed in Italy on October 10, 2023

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Combat Wombat

"Weißt du was Kapitalismus ist? Angeschissen werden!" (Tony Montana)

Reviewed in Germany on September 8, 2011

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ZUM FILM:
Wenn man beachtet, welchen Status "Scarface" heute in aller Welt genießt, so kann man kaum glauben, dass er zum Zeitpunkt des Kinostarts - 1983 in den USA, 1984 in Deutschland - weder von den Kritikern noch vom Publikum übermäßig euphorisch aufgenommen wurde. Der Film konnte folglich auch an den Kinokassen keinen durchschlagenden Erfolg erzielen. Ich kann mich gut erinnern, dass sich damals zahlreiche Kritiken vor allem mit der Frage beschäftigten, wie häufig das Wort "fuck" im Film fallen würde. Ebenso thematisiert wurde der hohe Gewaltfaktor. Vor allem letzterer Umstand sorgte dafür, dass "Scarface" in Deutschland auf dem Index landete. Die Folge: Auf Video und DVD war über viele Jahre nur eine stark gekürzte Fassung frei erhältlich. Nur, wer nach Filmen fragte, die "unter dem Ladentisch" liegen würden, bekam tatsächlich die ungekürzte Fassung angeboten. Diese liegt nun auch erstmals frei verkäuflich auf Blu-Ray vor, da der Film im Mai 2011 vom Index genommen worden ist.

Bei all der Diskussion um den hohen Grat der Gewalt in "Scarface" darf man nicht vergessen, dass in erster Linie eine packende Geschichte vom Aufstieg (und Fall) des aus Kuba in die USA eingewanderten Gangsters Tony Montana erzählt wird. Diese Geschichte führt den "american dream" - vom Tellferwäscher zum Millionär - in Perfektion vor. Nur, dass der "american dream" des Tony Montana mit unzähligen Leichen garniert ist, die ihm bei seinem Aufstieg zum mächtigen Drogenboss im Wege stehen.

Brian De Palmas "Scarface" ist dabei keine grundsätzlich neue Geschichte. Sie wurde bereits 1932 von Howard Hawks inszeniert. Als De Palmas "Scarface" in den frühen 80ern ins Kino kam und, wie eingangs erwähnt, nicht wirklich überzeugen konnte, erinnerten sich plötzlich viele Leute an das "viel bessere Original". Heute, knapp 30 Jahre später, erinnert sich hingegen kaum mehr jemand an das Hawks-Original. Ich denke, dies beweist sehr anschaulich, wie gut De Palmas "Scarface"-Version tatsächlich ist. Der Film steht für sich alleine und erzählt eine fesselnde wie auch tragische Geschichte, die im wesentlichen von einem grandios aufgelegten Al Pacino getragen wird.
Die deutsche Synchronisation ist wirklich sehr gelungen. Trotzdem: Al Pacinos Performance wird noch beeindruckender, wenn man den mit seiner Rolle verbundenen spanischen bzw. kubanischen Dialekt hört. Tipp an alle Zuschauer: Zumindest einmal testweise die Sprachfassung wechseln.

ZUR BLU-RAY:
Das Bild ist wirklich eine Augenweide. Wer die DVD besitzt und das Blu-Ray-Bild sieht, wird die DVD postwendend einmotten oder verkaufen. Ich bin platt, wie scharf und detailliert das Bild über weite Strecken ist. Auch die Farbgebung ist sehr natürlich. Die größte Freude bereiten jedoch der sehr gelungene Schwarzwert und der zumindest gute Kontrast. Das Bild wirkt dadurch oftmals recht plastisch, wenngleich in dunklen Szenen öfters Details verlorengehen. Alles in allem kann man dem Bild in Anbetracht seines Alters eine überdurchschnittliche Qualität zusprechen.

Beim Ton sieht es hingegen nicht mehr ganz so gut aus. Der deutsche Ton liegt in DTS 2.0 = Stereo vor. Erschwerend kommt bei "Scarface" hinzu, dass das Basismaterial meines Wissens nach urspünglich eine Mono-Tonspur gewesen ist. Durch die 2.0-Tonspur werden zwar so etwas wie Stereoeffekte erzielt. Jedoch wirkt das mehr wie ein über zwei Kanäle ausgegebener Mono-Sound. Das Ergebnis enttäuscht zudem weitestgehend in Sachen Dynamik, Höhen und Bass.
Die englische DTS-HD 7.1-Tonspur klingt zwar räumlicher und frischer, ist jedoch auch von aktuellen Produktionen meilenweit entfernt. Vor allem sind für meinen Geschmack die Surrounds zu laut abgemischt, so dass man das Gefühl hat, einen Sound mit zu viel Hall zu hören. Merke: Auch der beste Upmix wird immer nur ein Kompromiss bleiben.

Ich besitze die für Sammler sicher interessante, limiterte Holzbox. Enthalten sind darin mehrere Bildkarten, mehrere Dollars mit Tony Montanas Konterfei, eine nachgebildete "green card" im Kreditkartenformat und ein schönes Booklet. Für Fans mindestens ebenso interessant ist das umfangreiche Bonusmaterial. In zahlreichen Dokumentationen wird detailliert auf die Entstehung von "Scarface" und dessen Entwicklung zu einem Kultfilm eingegangen. Besonders die 38-minütige Doku "Das Scarface-Phänomen" macht deutlich, wie stark der Film mittlerweile in der modernen Kultur verankert ist und wie oft er von anderen Stellen zitiert wird.
Eher dem Bereich "Spielerei" zuzuordnen ist die U-Control-Funktion. Ist diese während des Films aktiviert, kann man sich u.a. die Anzahl der gesprochenen F-Wörter und die Anzahl der abgeschossenen Patronen einblenden lassen. Die beiden Summen werden parallel zur Handlung aktualisiert.

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Der Film ist überragend! Die Blu-Ray kann hingegen nur beim Bild und beim Bonusmaterial weitestgehend überzeugen. So macht es eine große Freude, "Scarface" anzuschauen, jedoch weniger Freude, ihn auch anzuhören. Aufgrund des Ausgangsmaterials muss sich jedoch jeder Zuschauer im Klaren darüber sein: Besser wird der Film vermutlich nie klingen. Auch wenn das Ergebnis nicht brauschend ist.

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