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Scarface
UNITED STATES · 1983

Scarface

Brian De Palma
drug trafficking organized crime immigrant experience corruption and violence rise and fall
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Synopsis

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own dr

Cinema Atlas Connection
When I did A Better Tomorrow, I was really impressed by the film Scarface. Not just the Al Pacino one, but the original Howard Hawks Scarface. I watched them and they gave me the idea of how to make a heroic bloodshed movie.
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→ A Better Tomorrow (1986)

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