HOW DARE THEY REMAKE THE ORIGINAL 1932 FILM...
..NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....HOLLYWOOD HAS RAN OUT OF IDEAS....STUPID POOPY JERKS....
shareWell, I'm glad someone is recognizing the 1932 version. I love the original and I will always consider it to be the best Scarface and the best gangster movie made around that time. I thought it was way better than Little Caesar and The Public Enemy. I found Little Caesar to be the worst out of the three. The 1983 remake with Al Pacino is good in its own right. I can see the humor in your post. This one they have planned now will be the second remake and the third version. It will take place today in Los Angeles and Scarface is going to be Mexican. I wonder if they will change his last name again. I'm guessing they will. There was Tony Camonte, Tony Montana, and now Tony (who knows?). I heard rumors a while back they wanted DiCaprio to play the new Scarface. When I heard that, I was assuming Scarface was going to be Italian again and I was even thinking they were going to set the movie during the roaring twenties and make it a period piece. If they had any guts, they would've tried that.
shareThe 32 version is very good. Too bad so many don't know it exists.
shareI like it more than the Pacino one.
shareThey're two different approaches separated by 1/2 a century.
shareno they are not. the 80's one plagiarizes the same stylistic choices the first one did, like The World Is Yours and many other things, and the 32 one is automatically better, it has A REAL ACTOR for a change, the legendary Paul Muni, as well as proper cinematography, not time traveling cinematography with jarring cuts, and it's just a great movie.
shareI agree Muni is a better talent than Pacino, but, the difference is not monumental. Muni is A+,,,Pacino is B+.
A production company cannot go back 50 years for that [technology]. The cost would be prohibitive.
go back 50 years? I didn't say they had to, don't get your point. Pacino is not a good actor just one more of the neurotics that appeared during the 70's, like Dustin Hoffman and the rest, who have no talent, they are just mentally ill, and hideous as fuck. Paul Muni was a true artist, and very handsome, and his film is way better.
share[Paul Muni was a true artist]
And I've stipulated to that point, Cake. His work in "The Good Earth" is unequaled. I too love him.
I think you're mistaken on Pacino & Hoffman, but, your mind is made up.
I am not, like everyone my age I grew up with the 80's and 90's films, but having really immersed myself in golden age hollywood, I can now see that there truly is no comparison, like at all. These people were not talented, they were just the antithesis of what came before, which was true talent, greatness and movie star quality. It is so insanely boring to see someone like a De Niro or Hoffman, it is so insanely boring to me and the films are crap.
shareDamn, you're a hard ass, Cake.
You're still a fine fellow though.
We both regret, even resent the loss of talent like Muni, et al. That's the price we pay when we invest ourselves in these films. The loss is boundless.
I caught Cary Grant in the tail end of "Penny Serenade" last night and grieved over his absence.
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I can't see any remake accomplishing what either Scarface did. I don't think it's possible to have another successful Scarface. When I heard rumors way back that DiCaprio was going to star in Scarface, I started wondering if they were going to make Scarface Italian again and make the movie a period piece that takes place in the roaring twenties. Looks like they're not doing that. I couldn't see DiCaprio as Tony Camonte anyway, but going back to the roaring twenties again might've been interesting. Sounds like this new one is going to take place today and Tony will be Mexican. I also heard it will be set it Los Angeles. This new one doesn't sound appealing at all and I don't see them making it appealing. I look back at the styles of the other movies. I think back to the way those movies were made, the music, the clothes, the cars. What style will this one possibly have?
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