Scarface’s Scarface is a new version of the prohibited crime movie in the thirties of the last century

Thanks to his brutal killing, cocaine piles, and the final bloody confrontation, Brian de Palma was always with a notorious reputation. I remember to watch it on TV as a child, and a tingling ears of all the bad language I heard on the field, just to know that most of it was called “this city is like a great large chicken, waiting to be disposed of.” Once again when the film was released in 1983, De Palma had to make discounts to avoid the dreaded X certificate, and critics criticized it because of his gun, profanity, foreigners, hate women, and nihilism. Moreover, it also caused a stir for its negative photography of Cuban immigrants, many of whom were honest working hard to flee to the United States to escape persecution at home. Perhaps all this controversy was no surprise, because it was a new version of the crime classic that was banned in the 1930s.

Al Pacino suggested the reshaping of “Scarvis” Howard Hox after picking up a show in Los Angeles. The actor was going through a little rough correction in the early eighties, and it appears comfortable in William Friedkin bomb, the controversial “sail” And a terrible misfortune in the “author!” He played a recent update for Hawks’s Titular Mobster as a welcome return to the star, who became great with his performance like Tony Montana, a former author of Cuban born in Florida and puts his eyes on taking over the crime world in Miami.

“Scarface” stopped other gang films by focusing on Cuban immigrants instead of putting the story in the world of the most knowledgeable Italian Americans. Screenwriter Oliver Stone also replaced the original site from Chicago to Miami and updated the background of the ban on the US government war on drugs. The topic was close to Stone’s heart at the time; He was struggling with his cocaine addiction and expelled on Paris to write the scenario and kick the habit, declaring later the escalation of the Reagan administration against illegal materials “Taurus *** R.”. Despite the controversy, “Scarface” is still making decent money at the box office and is now considered one of Best Palma moviesBut the anger surrounding its content echoed the challenges facing Howard Hawx and its producer, Howard Hughes, when they were trying to bring their original vision on the screen 50 years ago.

“Scarface” was released in 1932 and starring Paul Money as The Titular Mobster, “Scarface” by Howard Hughes, which is Tycoon Playboy who inherited a great wealth only eight years ago when his father died. It was his first major project to move to Hollywood and start a profession in filmmaking, especially through the production and directing of “Hell’s Angels” (an expensive experimental excitement movie that gave Jean Harlo a great break for her) and the production of the “front page”, which is the first screen modification in the game Been Hecht and Charles Macarthur. After that, Hughes wanted to make a gang movie, which was all anger during the ban. More specifically, he put his attention to making an image that would compete with the “public enemy” and “Little Caesar”, which made James Kagney and Edward J. Robinson Megor Stars.

For inspiration, Hughes decided to build his movie about the life of Al -Kabouni, the famous crime coach in Chicago, whose exploits were new in the minds of everyone at that time. Hughes Ben Hasht rented to adapt the scenario from the 1929 “Scarface”. The New York theatrical writer, who turned into the screen, was a great choice, as he won the Academy Award at the Oscars ‘Oscars’ opening ceremony for another gang movie, “UnderWorld”. Hecht played quickly and loose with source materials, and perhaps wisely. Legend says that two Capone enthusiasts have visited the writer to ensure that the film will not closely adhere to the real life of KingPin. Regardless of this, the events and details of the film were recognized enough, although Hecht wrote the title of the title as more wonderful than his counterpart in real life. However, one piece of violent reflected the massacre of the reputable Valentine’s Day, while Tony Camontty of Money bears a face scar as a similar to Capone.

For guidance and participation in production, Hughes Huard Hoks rented. It was a somewhat sudden decision, as Hughes recently filed a lawsuit against hawks and the first national pictures of “Hell’s Angels” with “The Dawn Patrol”. However, the couple is linked to the golf match in which Hughes agreed to drop legal procedures and lure the hawks with the possibility of “Scarface”. They will find another common reason when the Hays office, headed by the President of Photo Producers and Distributors in America (MPDA), is proactive on the film that is made at all.

Although the banned HAYS code (officially called the mobile photo production symbol) will not officially play until 1934, Will Hays and Hays Office still has a lot of influence, as Hollywood seeks to organize its forms and avoid government censorship. MPDA had a “DonsS” and “Be careful” menu in order for filmmakers to commit, and it was safe to say that “Scarface” boasts of each other. Hughes and Hox presented the scenario to the Hayes office for review and received an answer without any unconfirmed conditions:

“Under any circumstances this film is made. The American audience and all conscience councils find mobs and hatefuls. Gangs should not be mentioned in the cinema. If you should be foolish enough to make” Scarface “, this office will never be released.”

Before the challenge, Hughes ordered stations to make the movie “realistic, exciting and as exciting as possible.” Beyond it is a series of forced changes that delay the release of the film for about a year. The Hays office called for cutting many of the most controversial scenes and inserting new scenes to alleviate the glorification of criminal activity, as well as adding the sub -address to the fingers, “Scarface: The Performance of the Nation”. Moreover, Hughes was told that the film will not receive a license that has not been changed.

The end of Hughes and the original Hokus fell into a fire of glory, but that was very heroic for censorship. An alternative end was photographed by Tony and goes to the gallows instead. However, this conclusion did not go beyond censorship, as Hughes fought, in the end obtaining a modified version in which Tony died outside the screen to be released in states with the most lenient control. Several states of banning the film are still, and the premiere of the film in New York was thwarted due to the intervention of the city’s control council. Hughes found an unlikely ally in Will Hayes, where his people were now satisfied with the changes made. All quarrels mean that “Scarface” was not a box office success at that time, but that was unable to prevent him from becoming one of The best films of the thirties One of the most powerful gang films ever.