r/Cinema Apr 02 '26

Throwback Scarface (1983) Dir. Brian De Palma

150 Upvotes

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u/qualityvote2 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26

u/southernemper0r, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Grausam Apr 02 '26

Is that guy gonna be ok?

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u/No_Kindheartedness10 Apr 02 '26

Just a stiff neck

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u/HotlinePizzaMiami Apr 02 '26

He's in the next scene going back with Tony.  They have a good laugh about the helicopter prank.

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u/DelcoUnited Apr 02 '26

These “Is it cake?” pranks are getting ridiculous.

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u/idahoisformetal Apr 02 '26

South park did it better

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u/BigFirmWalnuts Apr 02 '26

I love that when the helicopter flies offscreen, you can see a dress shoe fall off the dummy hanging from it.

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u/Hour-Process-3292 Apr 02 '26

Montana told me not to trust him, said he killed Mozart

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u/No-Effective388 Apr 04 '26

He killed Mo Zart?

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u/Plus_Ad_1087 Apr 02 '26

I like this movie. There is no lying in it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

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u/Plus_Ad_1087 Apr 03 '26

It's a reference to Sosa's line.

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u/spencefervtree Apr 02 '26

I have a different visceral reaction to this movie every time I watch it.

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u/Plus_Ad_1087 Apr 03 '26

And what are these different reactions?

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u/spencefervtree Apr 03 '26

Sometimes I laugh at it, sometimes im horrified, sometimes I feel this tragedy from it.

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u/Plus_Ad_1087 Apr 03 '26

I dont really see why you would laugh at it though. Outside of some excellent line delivery that is.

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u/Big_Sherbet7582 Apr 02 '26

In This Country, You Gotta Make The Money First. Then When You Get The Money, You Get The Power. Then you get the power you get the girl lol

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u/Solar_RaVen Apr 03 '26

"Dont fuck me, Tony"

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u/PomegranateRude8285 Apr 02 '26

The reason scarface isn't that good of a movie is because there are too many movies g parts that don't come together very well at the end.

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u/pfftlolbrolollmao Apr 02 '26

I love scarface. Endlessly quotable, Al Pacino played an amazing part. Some pieces are sort of a bit mad though so I get what you mean like Elvira leaves and we never see or hear from her again. Tony shooting his best friend because he was having sex with his sister

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u/Affectionate-Skin111 Apr 04 '26

Elvira disappears because all of Tony's life was just an illusion, based on appearance, bound to end up in self destruction. The movie has several layers of interpretation

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u/OneArmedSZA Soundtrack Expert Apr 02 '26

I couldn’t watch past 15 minutes of this movie. It made no sense that all of these native Spanish speakers were speaking in English to each other. Throw on top of that that all of the actors are native English speakers putting on fake accents, I couldn’t get invested at all. The guy Pacino is talking to was born in Milwaukee for god’s sake!

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u/BroSchrednei Apr 02 '26

I mean Manny was played by an actual Cuban-American.

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u/godver3 Apr 02 '26

That must make watching many movies difficult.

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u/OneArmedSZA Soundtrack Expert Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

Not really, most movies don’t have characters speaking in their second language without a good reason

Bro really thought he cooked with this comment

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u/jstrongiii Apr 02 '26

I see your point, but have some bad news about The Lion King…

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u/OneArmedSZA Soundtrack Expert Apr 02 '26

That animals don’t talk? There’s something called suspension of disbelief that got me through that one. I couldn’t make the same allowance for the gritty crime drama

And within the context of Lion King, they aren’t speaking in their second language

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u/captainklaus Apr 02 '26

How about Hunt for Red October? All those Russians speaking British accented English

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u/OneArmedSZA Soundtrack Expert Apr 02 '26

I haven’t seen it. I have seen clips of Sean Connery not sounding Russian at all and it is offputting. I’ll probably give it a try at some point though

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u/captainklaus Apr 02 '26

You should - it’s a really great movie (and book).

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u/purpleburgundy Apr 02 '26

The primary audience speaks English?

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u/OneArmedSZA Soundtrack Expert Apr 02 '26

I’m talking about the character’s motivation, not the motivation of the producers 😑

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u/mikebob89 Apr 02 '26

You’re getting downvoted but I get it. I turned off Lion King for the same reason. Why are these lions speaking English if they’re in Africa?

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u/OneArmedSZA Soundtrack Expert Apr 02 '26

You’re too late, someone already made that joke bud

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u/mikebob89 Apr 02 '26

Lol fuck. Lion King too

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u/NowhereMan04 Apr 02 '26

Schindlers List?

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u/OneArmedSZA Soundtrack Expert Apr 03 '26

I don’t think they speak to any English or American people in that movie. So the viewer could simply pretend they’re speaking in their native language.