Is there a movie more iconic of the 80s than Scarface? A remake of Howard Hawks’ eponymous thriller, Brian De Palma’s version (based on a screenplay by Oliver Stone) sees the bandit of the original film become a Cuban immigrant completely obsessed with the idea of the American dream in this modernized version.
An action crime film with a political context, Scarface offered Al Pacino one of his most iconic roles. Although the feature film was not a success upon its release, the years allowed the film to acquire the status of a cult work, and a large number of its lines entered the collective imagination: “Hello my little friend”, “The world is yours” or “You live by a gun, you die by a gun”.
Rumor about the end of the movie
Rumor has it that the latest attack on Tony Montana’s mansion was directed by Steven Spielberg. The latter, of course, are not credited in the film’s credits, but are long-time friends of director Brian De Palma (they formed a group of young directors in the early 1970s with Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola).
The story is neither completely true nor completely false. While visiting the set of the famous scene, Steven Spielberg was actually asked for help by Brian De Palma. But the latter did not ask ET’s director to shoot the scene, but simply operated one of the cameras used that day.
Al Pacino in the movie “Scar”
The presence was confirmed by the director
Brian De Palma confirmed the story, however, he did not reveal which frame of the film was shot by Steven Spielberg. The famous scene required several days of filming to produce, especially since Al Pacino’s injury forced the filmmaker to shoot the footage at the Montana mansion in his absence, armed to the teeth.
Therefore, Steven Spielberg could be written not as a director, but as a cinematographer in the movie Scarface. Some photos from the shoot also confirm the director’s presence with Brian De Palma, one of which shows him wearing a Plexiglas mask to protect him from the pyrotechnic effects of the shooting.
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