Stay Sharp, Stay Calm

Ignatius 2022-04-19 09:01:02

The first half of the filming was very good, and it basically established a process of continuous counterattack of young people with courage and aspirations. He takes care of the family, shows loyalty, protects his relatives, and pursues the woman he likes even if she is the eldest woman. In the second half, when he planned to kill the boss and the police and started taking drugs, he became like a dictatorial and foolish emperor who conquered the world. The woman left him, and the allies of women and children collectively attacked him and killed him by mistake. The good siblings and their own sisters also went insane and robbed their own brothers naked.

The first half of this movie is great. It has the historical background of Cuban refugees fleeing politically. Unfortunately, the second half is not very good. When a man has everything, money, rights, and women, how should the screenwriter make it up? The only thing that can be done It is to tear them apart and destroy them one by one. Unfortunately, the transition in the middle is a bit abrupt, just like a bright monarch suddenly becomes a dictator and a stupefied monarch after boarding a plane. If the director and the screenwriter spend more time in the transition stage to create some conflicts between characters, such as It is even better to say that the male protagonist has conflicts with his drug-addicted wife after marriage, conflicts with siblings, conflicts with relatives, etc., but then it will be the second godfather.

In the scene where Tony's wife left him in the hotel, Tony asked himself "eating, drinking, fucking, sucking, for what?" Her wife replied "Actually, you are not winners, you are all losers." Tony said to a group of diners in the restaurant, "You need a bad guy like me, so that when you point at me, you can appear to be a good person. The difference is that I don't hide it. Even when I lie and you just cover it up, you won't see bad guys like me again"

So, having desires (dreams) is a good thing or a bad thing? Life is a journey. The starting point and the end point are the same. The key depends on how to walk this road. The male protagonist once felt that the whole world belonged to him. Unfortunately, after he got Qian Quanse, he was lost again. Desire guided him, but also lost destroyed him. If it is said that he got all this in the filming of his old age, at least his life process is on the road of creation and progress, avoiding the pain of loss and destruction.

So, stay sharp, and stay calm.

Scarface (1983)
8.3
1983 / USA / Crime Drama Thriller / Brian De Palma / Al Pacino Steven Ball

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Scarface quotes

  • Frank Lopez: Elvira! Baby! Where've you been? It's 10:00, honey, I'm starving!

    Elvira Hancock: You're always hungry. You should try starving.

  • Tony Montana: Look at that, a junkie... I got a junkie for a wife. Her womb is so polluted, I can't even have a fucking little baby with her!

    Manny Ribera: C'mon, Tony.

    Elvira Hancock: You son of a bitch!... You fuck!

    [throws wine in Tony's face]

    Elvira Hancock: How dare you talk to me like that? What makes you so much better than me? What do you do?

    Manny Ribera: [trying to dry off Tony's clothes] Don't worry.

    Elvira Hancock: [as shocked restaurant clients looks on aghast] You deal drugs and you kill people. Oh, that's wonderful, Tony. Real contribution to human history.

    Tony Montana: Go ahead. Just tell everybody. Come on.

    Elvira Hancock: You want a kid?

    Tony Montana: Tell the world.

    Elvira Hancock: What kind of a father do you think you'd make?

    [Tony tries taking a swipe at her]

    Elvira Hancock: Who's gonna drive him to school in the mornings? Are you even gonna be alive by the time the kid goes to school?

    [Tony glowers at her in rage]

    Elvira Hancock: You don't even know how to be a husband!

    Tony Montana: [snarls] Sit down before I...

    Elvira Hancock: [as Manny and guards try to calm her down] Do we ever go anywhere without having 600 thugs hanging around us all the time?

    [sobbing:]

    Elvira Hancock: I have Nick "The Pig" for a friend. What kind of a life is that?

    Manny Ribera: Come on.

    Elvira Hancock: Can't you see... what we're becoming, Tony? We're losers. We're not winners.

    Tony Montana: Go home. You're stoned.

    Elvira Hancock: I'm not stoned. You're stoned.

    Tony Montana: Get her out of here!

    Manny Ribera: Come on. Come on.

    Elvira Hancock: No! No! I'm not going home with you!

    [sighs, vainly trying to brush her hair back]

    Elvira Hancock: I'm not going home with anybody! I'm going home alone. I'm leaving you. I don't need this shit anymore.

    Manny Ribera: Okay, I'll walk you out.

    [tapping Tony on the shoulder:]

    Manny Ribera: I'll take her home in a cab.

    Tony Montana: Let her go, let her go. Another Quaalude, she gonna love me again.