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What's with the big Scarface craze?

bigtirebigtire Member Posts: 24,800
edited November 2007 in General Discussion
What's with this Scarface craze going on now? Everybody want's to be like Tony Montana all of a sudden. Professional athletes are referencing him in interviews, Shaq has a Tony Montana themed party.

Ummm... Is he such a great role model for our young folks?

Does anyone remember how the movie ended?

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  • Pa.BillPa.Bill Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He was gunned down.
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  • bigtirebigtire Member Posts: 24,800
    edited November -1
    It was a rhetorical question.
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  • Oklahoma223Oklahoma223 Member Posts: 2,648 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Serial killing, cocaine addiction, drug dealing, dying in a gunfight with hundreds of columbians, what's not to envy about that? I'm just kidding, Tony Montana was a dirtbag. I would like to have his Stoner machine gun with the grenade launcher though, just in case the Diaz brothers try to raid my compound.
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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That movie was actually a remake from a movie made in the thirties about Capone. It had the same "The World is Yours" statue in it!
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigtire
    What's with this Scarface craze going on now? Everybody want's to be like Tony Montana all of a sudden. Professional athletes are referencing him in interviews, Shaq has a Tony Montana themed party.


    Tony Montana is "Gangsta"

    Goodfellas is popular with the Black Urban Male crowd as well....


    Can't say that I blame 'em. Both are excellent flicks
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  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    2007 is also the 25th anniversary of the release of Scarface.
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  • dongizmodongizmo Member Posts: 14,477 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Say hello to my little friend.............
    The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    I kill...I kill for fun.

    I didn't realize it was a new thing. I've always liked scarface. I have noticed that they've been playing it more on TV for the last couple of years.

    Ben
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Who?
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  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Who?


    Al Pacino in Scarface

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  • PATBUZZARDPATBUZZARD Member Posts: 3,556 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oklahoma223
    Serial killing, cocaine addiction, drug dealing, dying in a gunfight with hundreds of columbians, what's not to envy about that? I'm just kidding, Tony Montana was a dirtbag. I would like to have his Stoner machine gun with the grenade launcher though, just in case the Diaz brothers try to raid my compound.



    You sure that was a stoner? I always thought it was an M16a1 with an M203 slung underneath?
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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,050 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only thing I have to say is the only people I see completely infatuated with Scarface are the idiot gang-bangers that I throw out of the store on a regular basis for acting like a short bus dropped them off.
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  • RockatanskyRockatansky Member Posts: 11,175
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bigtire
    What's with this Scarface craze going on now?


    Same reasons lots of people were obsessed with GTA (Grand Theft Auto).
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  • bhale187bhale187 Member Posts: 7,798
    edited November -1
    Nothing new here........
    We (American Society) have always made romantic icons of criminals. We've been doing it at least since the days of the wild west. Today people idolize the kingpin of a drug cartel, a decade or two ago it was the mafia, before that it was Bonnie and Clyde, and before that it was the outlaw cowboy.
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  • The DutchmanThe Dutchman Member Posts: 811 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let's look at this. A Hispanic drug dealer that shoots a lot of people? Dresses like a jerk? Could be the next presidente of Aztlan. [^]

    quote:Originally posted by bigtire
    What's with this Scarface craze going on now? Everybody want's to be like Tony Montana all of a sudden. Professional athletes are referencing him in interviews, Shaq has a Tony Montana themed party.

    Ummm... Is he such a great role model for our young folks?

    Does anyone remember how the movie ended?

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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    because the african american crowd honor criminals like we do war heroes, and he was a success story, a guy from the lowest part of humanity became rich through murder, and drugs, the part where he dies is irrelevant, they kill each other everyday dealing joints, and crack and is an acceptable way of life
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by PATBUZZARD
    quote:Originally posted by Oklahoma223
    Serial killing, cocaine addiction, drug dealing, dying in a gunfight with hundreds of columbians, what's not to envy about that? I'm just kidding, Tony Montana was a dirtbag. I would like to have his Stoner machine gun with the grenade launcher though, just in case the Diaz brothers try to raid my compound.



    You sure that was a stoner? I always thought it was an M16a1 with an M203 slung underneath?
    It was. This select-fire gun is now owned by a range in Dallas and available for rent.

    Before you ask, no you don't also get to fire the M203. It's just a prop. [:(]
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  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    It also has a very young michelle pfieffer, not to mention it is an Oliver Stone screenplay rewritten from the original 1932 movie Scarface.

    Classic gangster movie. A story about a man that rises through the ranks of a gang through ruthless violence, but his strength is also his downfall. The fact that he's a coke-addicted, cold-blooded killer is not romanticized--It's exploited.

    Ben
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  • Daddie_TomDaddie_Tom Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I read somewhere that "Scarface" is the all time leader in "F" bombs..I can't remember how many but it was A LOT!
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Movies with most uses of the 'F' word by 5intheface

    Tigerland- 527 times
    Another Day in Paradise- 327 times
    Sweet Sixteen- 313 times
    Narc- 298 times
    The Big Lewbowski- 281 times
    * + Made- 274 times
    Pulp Fiction- 271 times
    Resevior Dogs- 252 times
    Dead Presidents- 247 times
    The Boondock Saints + Goodfellas#- 246 times
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike back- 228
    True Romance-225 times
    Scarface- 208 times*
    American History X- 205 times
    Shaft- 165 times
    Snatch- 153 times
    Bad Santa- 147 times&
    Shaun of the Dead~ 77 times
    South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut- 133 times^
    ...Four Rooms, In the final segment, "The Man From Hollywood" which lasts 21 minutes, the word is used 193 times, and is used many more times during the earlier parts of the movie.
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  • jhimcojhimco Member Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had this guy try to tell me that Tony Montana was a real guy like Al Capone! Talk about how stupid some people are.
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    I just want his "little friend".[}:)]
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  • WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    Every thug and dope dealer house we go to has a Scarface poster in it.[xx(]
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  • MrOrangeMrOrange Member Posts: 3,012
    edited November -1
    http://www.theonion.com/content/from_print/scarface_onesie_social


    Seriously, we need that movie for a reference point. Whenever people ask what a two-oh-three is, I just have to ask: "Ever seen 'Scarface'?" and they understand.
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