Scarface 4K 1932

At one time I learned about this movie quite by accident. I remember in the movie 'The Aviator', Cate Blanchett's character says to Leonardo DiCaprio's character something like, 'I saw one of your movies, 'Scarface', very violent'. I got curious. Then I found out it was one of the first movies in the gangster crime movie genre. Was it successful? ... Absolutely.

In general, this movie belongs to the noir genre. It's not just a black and white movie. It is imbued with black noir atmosphere, people are constantly darkened, or even they are shown with only shadows to emphasize the gloominess of the city of those years. All the frames of the genre are fully observed. Although at that time noir was not yet popular, and it was a kind of experiment to make a crime drama, and also in noir, but fortunately everything succeeded.

This movie is a true representation of the America of the 30s. Everyone kills each other, the police are sluggishly on the trail of gangsters. There is no prohibition on carrying weapons, everyone walks around with machine guns left and right, you never know when you will die. That's how life was back then.

Actually, the title of the movie is Scarface. That was Al Capone's nickname. But, unfortunately, the movie is not about him. After all, the director said that the image of Tony Camonte he created, focusing on two other gangsters - Jim Colosimo and Charles Dion O'Bannion.

In general, 'Scarface', I would not say that this is a revolution in the genre, because it was the first representative of its genre, it is more like a revolution in the movie itself, because before this movie none of the directors dared to show America, overflowing with cruelty, anarchism.

The main character Tony Camonte, played by Paul Muni. He played just fine. And his signature gait after he was hit by a car. I've even heard it's the basis for the zombie gait in computer games. It does look a lot like a zombie. Tony was already kind of a walking zombie. All he had to do was kill, kill and kill. He was feared by everyone around him, because he didn't care whether you were friend or foe when his personal interests were infringed upon. This was shown in the storyline with the sister. In general, it seems to me, in those years there were plenty of such people all over America. It was after the war that they began to disappear, and in the 30's there was a pond of them on the streets of cities.

In general, this is probably my favorite gangster movie. I liked it even more than the same 'The Godfather', both the first, second and third parts, more than 'Once Upon a Time in America'. Unfortunately, I haven't watched the remake of this movie, 'Scarface' from 1983, where Al Pacino plays, but I will do it soon. And I liked this movie even, probably, more with its style, so successfully pick up shades of two colors at the time when there were no computers or normal video cameras, then the sound to record the movie, it was a heroism. And that's when this masterpiece came out. An unforgettable classic.