What Happened to Scarface?

you never get bored of repeat viewing of this classic film

It just gets better with age. Arguably one of the greatest gangster movies of all times. In layman terms ... A must see and an absolute timeless classic!

This is one of those film where the term "overrated" gets thrown around, and it bothers me because this film is a true masterpiece that is even better than its 1932 original film. Brian del Palma brought his magic to this film and I can't imagine someone making this with as much passion and flare like he did.

I was 15 years old when this came out. The whole reason I wanted to see it, was because I had read in a magazine, that it was originally given an X-rating. I had to convince my mother to let me see it. She drove me to the movie theater and asked the ticket guy, if it was appropriate for a 15 year old, thankfully he said yes.

I saw this movie in the theater and it's still one of my favorite films all these years later.

The "Look at de pelican fly! C'mon pelican!" scene may be the funniest sequence in any non-comedy. It's incongruous with what's going on and the stupidity of the Montanna character, whether Tony knew it wasn't a pelican and was just being goofy or he really thought it was a pelican, is just gold. Thank God nobody was allowed to redo the soundtrack with a bunch of contemporary rap songs. Also, Son of Tony? What a blessing from heaven that was never made.

"Fly, pelican!" is still my go-to quote when I see ANY bird that isn't an actual pelican.

Scarface was such a masterpiece. I was planning to watch 10 minutes at first and ended up watching 3 hours straight. I missed dinner and a study group but it was worth it.

Scarface is and always will be one of the longest best entertaining movies. This is one of those movies if you fall asleep on it, it's so long that you wake up from a nap and it's still not even close to over 🤤

"Hey....You gotta job!" - Most underrated line in the film

Beautiful piece. This was the first movie I saw in a theater over two hours long that flew like lightning. Many thanks for including the chainsaw edit. A lot of my friends thought I made it up. DePalma RULES.

Maybe it has been noticed and brought up by others: when Geena Davis is mentioned auditioning for Scarface, the picture supposedly showing her is actually Kelly LeBrock on the movie "Weird Science"!

Brian De Palma remade Howard Hawks' Scarface, which was already a masterpiece, with his own De Palma style infused with Sam Peckinpah level violent shootouts. You really can't get much better than that. It's a classic.

Alot of criminals saw scarface as the face of drug trade they always had a huge poster of him hanging around in the house cops actually started to suspect the pattern that how crazy the impact of this movie was

Robert loggia deserved a Oscar nomination for his part.

I remember seeing this the movies when it came out. The theaters were packed for weeks. The movie was beloved in the South Bronx.

I spent most of my life in the New York, New Jersey tri-state area and people are still obsessed with this movie. I would go to businesses and there would be wall size movie posters on the wall. My mother loved this movie so much that it must’ve played over 50 times in my house back then when it came on VHS. I probably actually sat own and watched it about 20 times.

As a GenXer born in 1968, I fully admit, I didn't actually see Scarface until decades later when I purchased the DVD of it. I would always see a Scarface poster in University Students houses back in the 2000's when I was a Cable TV Installer/Service Tech. That is mainly what drove me to blindly buy the movie before I actually watched it. I never regret the purchase and I do re-watch it every so often. It IS a must seen gangster movie and, like so many other 80's and 90's movies Hollywood keeps trying to re-make for money's sake. You can't capture the magic of the cast that helped tell this well written story. Thanks for making this video JoBlo!!

Many of the things that went wrong made the movie even better. Nowadays Hollyweird plays it much too safe, so classics like "Scarface" are a thing of the past. Which makes them even more precious and special. Greetings from Germany :)

It's because the movie is timeless. It's funny because it definitely has that early 80s feel, and it captures that capsule of time. But the real answer is the realism, the rawness, and most of all, Pacino's performance. I mean this was one of them movies where we are rooting for the bad guy. Pacino's portrayal of Tony Montana is beyond mesmerizing. He does a lot, and I mean a LOT of bad things. And he makes us care about him. Also the movie is almost 3 hours and boy does it fly. The first half of the movie is Tony's journey to and through the American system. He starts off with nothing. And by the half point mark in the movie, he's got everything he wanted,"The World and Everything in It," then once he gets it, he begins his demise. And the last half hour or so is a complete master class of Tony's demise. I believe the whole movie is just a very tragic and cautionary tale. But Tony is a complete antihero, with more quotable lines in the film than probably any other. This movie blasted into the world in 1983. It is now 2023,and ppl still go back to it, the younger generation knows, the generation before that, and I'm sure this film will absolutely stand the rest of time. Imo, it's perfect. It's not like an American gangster movie that Martin Scorcese has pumped out many a time. And imo, I don't think that it should be compared to one. Sure, DeNiro and Pesci are the GOATS when it comes to the Italian American Mafia as we know. But this isn't like that. Yes, it's a gangster film but this deals with the Puerto Rican gangster, the cartel, the ppl who were supplying the mafia with cocaine and if you did that drug in the 80s,chances are , it probably went through the hands of ppl like Alexander Soda, and Tony Montana. This movie pulls you into Tony's world, the way he thinks, and his reaction to every aspect of his life. And you will never see a spiral into the bloody, fiery, and bullet riddled descent into hell that Tony goes to by the end of the movie. And when them credits role, the movie finally lets free of the grip it has on you. The thing about it is, this movie will stay with you, the cast and the acting is top notch. And you'll never see a bad guy like this again!