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Scarface and surrogate

2007-06-03

Good morning Boys and Girls.

Cloudy and cool here.

Stayed up till almost three in the morning watching "Scarface." I'd somehow never seen the flick.

It was well done, I guess, but it might have been one of the most depressing movies I've ever watched. Maybe that's not fair though because but then I've never been a fan of ruthless violence. I mean I love Al Pacino, but I just don't understand how that movie has been considered a "classic" since Tony Montana seemed to be such a one dimensional character. Maybe I need to see it again...

I found I kept waiting for the "I like you to meet my leee-tle friend" line I've seen clips of for twenty or more years - which, of course, comes three minutes before the end of the three hour movie... like two minutes before he's sprayed with machine-gun fire and takes the fatal shotgun blast to the back of the head.

By this point, the end of the movie, we're supposed to feel sympathetic toward Tony because he's in trouble with his compatriots due to his refusal to carry out a hit when the target's two children and wife are in the car with him at the time the car-bomb explosion meant to end the target's life is scheduled to take place. Unfortunately for Tony, his anger gets the best of him and he instead kills one of his accomplices in the assassination plot, the brother of the business partner who asked him to do the job.

I didn't "feel" the requisite sympathy.

About the only fun I had was recognizing some of the older buildings in Miami from a few drives down along Route One and A-1A from Ft. Lauderdale a few years ago when I lived down that way.

Well this is a weird post, so, I'll end it with some sage surrogate-like advice...

Be better to people than Tony Montana was.

In fact, be good to everyone.


I was just thinking... Brian DePalma directed it. Maybe it would have been better in the hands of someone else.

Me, for instance.

I'd have given Tony a pet... a cat probably, and instead of guns and cocaine, I'd have changed it to razor sharp comments on other peoples' blogs and mugs of coffee. Huh? Huh? And instead of a facial scar? Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from typing too much...

Now we're talkin action!

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Barnabus (2007-06-03)
hehe right on!!!

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