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Adam_S · 07-24-2005, 04:01 PM

Scarface (1983) -

Quotes list - "Say 'hello' to my leetle friend!"
OARDVD
07/24/2005

I think he's a fucking peasant

And of course that's why the person who calls Tony a peasant, and the person he was talking to both die, because they underestimate Tony, they're still caught in the medieval conception, unable to realize that although the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer all the time there's never been another country in history where that was actually fluid for people to advance in class. In a sense this is the great American Horatio Alger story, it just happens to be about drugs. Pacino is wonderful to watch, but overall the entire film feels very overblown. In fact the big music video sequence when Tony makes his move is just pathetic and kind of entirely inappropriate to the rest of the film. Overall I prefer the original. Good flick though, lots of great lines and iconic moments, but overblown.

07-24-2005, 04:01 PM	#62 of 462
Adam_S *Adam_S* Member Location: Marina del Rey, CA Join Date: Feb 2001 Local Time: 02:34 PM Local Date: 10-06-2008 Posts: 5,026	Scarface (1983) - Quotes list - "Say 'hello' to my leetle friend!" OARDVD 07/24/2005 I think he's a fucking peasant And of course that's why the person who calls Tony a peasant, and the person he was talking to both die, because they underestimate Tony, they're still caught in the medieval conception, unable to realize that although the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer all the time there's never been another country in history where that was actually fluid for people to advance in class. In a sense this is the great American Horatio Alger story, it just happens to be about drugs. Pacino is wonderful to watch, but overall the entire film feels very overblown. In fact the big music video sequence when Tony makes his move is just pathetic and kind of entirely inappropriate to the rest of the film. Overall I prefer the original. Good flick though, lots of great lines and iconic moments, but overblown.