Bloody Crime Thriller Defining the 80s Finally on Netflix

Jonathan Klotz | publishing 3 seconds ago

If a word is given to define the 80s, it would be redundant. Everything is bigger and more flickering from hair to cars, suits, shoulder pads and movies. It is no surprise that it has continued to shape popular culture for ten years.

Nothing better than 1983. The decade summed up in the past ten years Scar face and Al Pacino’s legendary portrayal of Cuban mob Tony Montana. Whether you’ve seen any movie or not, you know how he looks, how he speaks, and knows his little ones.

The rise and fall of legends

Scar face Tells the rise and fall of Tony Montana, from Cuban refugees and restaurant dishwashers to Miami’s underworld kings. It’s a bold and loud story, like Tony, who doesn’t believe in doing anything halfway through.

Tony has been ambitious from the moment he arrives in Miami, and has already planned how to reach the top when crime boss Frank Lopez brings him under his wings. It’s no surprise that he first had to control the process of cocaine from Bolivia to Miami, thus standing out on his own.

Since it was the 80s, Tony’s betrayal Frank unveiled a montage of a song that only took a hit in the decade, it was Paul Engermann’s “Push it to the limit.” Without saying anything, we watched Tony’s crew enter the bank with a cash bag of suitcase bags, who married Frank’s trophy wife, Michelle Pfeiffer.

He bought a salon for his sister Gina and, of course, showed off the tiger he left behind in his mansion. He commissioned huge works of art, and a lot of cocaine. No wonder Scar face It has had a big impact on the rise of hip-hop and the second most common movie poster in college dormitories, behind Jim Belushi’s iconic “university” sweatshirt Animal House.

Say good night to the bad guys

The movie is so iconic that the beat of the plot doesn’t matter, and Tony Montana’s Last Destiny is a visual poem that fans hide when they talk about it Scar face. What people remember are iconic suits, giant mansions, cars, women, and most importantly Tony’s attitude. Al Pacino directs every scene, and every moment he goes on screen, delivering the best quote ever with an incredible fake Cuban accent.

“Say hello to my little one” has been imitated for decades, but there is no definition Scar face Just like Tony’s drunken speech to a bunch of old white onlookers after Tony blows to him in the restaurant, he introduces the world to the bad guy.

“You know why? You don’t have the courage to be the person you want to be? You need someone like me. You need someone like me so you can point your fck*n’ fingers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” “So…you don’t know how to cover me up.

The anti-hero who changes everything

From start to finish, Tony Montana is a flawed person, Scar face It makes it clear that he is not a good person. He is a bad guy. The problem is that it also makes it look cool to get bad.

Michael Douglas starred in the late decade of Wall Street in an iconic 80s film Greed Is Good, a corrupt greed by Gordon Gekko. Decades later Bryan Cranston won the award breaking bad Walter White is another villain fan who takes root, after all he is the “knocking guy”, but without Pacino’s top performance, it’s another character, which doesn’t exist.

Since then Scar face Go to the theaterthis is a staple food in popular culture. Even today, in Paul Thomas Anderson A battlea character shot out a machine gun and proudly declared: “I feel like Tony Montana!”

Wall Street Disappeared, the new Coke was just a fashion, MTV stopped trending ten years ago, and Hair metal is not over 1992, but a poor Cuban refugee decided to take everything from the world by himself? This character became a legend.

Scar face Now streaming on Netflix, you’re crediting yourself for watching it at least once, if no other reason, besides realizing how many lines, moments and costumes have been taken from this movie over the decades.