Al Pacino recalls the Hip Hop community embracing, "Scarface," and pushing it into the mainstream...
From Indie Wire
When Brian De Palma’s reinvention of Howard Hawks’ classic gangster picture “Scarface” was first released in 1983, critics skewered it for its overt violence, drug use, and profanity, as well as its stereotyping of Cubans. The film wasn’t exactly a flop, earning $66 million against its roughly $30 million budget, but it wasn’t a runaway success either and many in Hollywood questioned Al Pacino‘s choice to participate in such a shallow and grotesque project such as this. Pacino shared in his recently published memoir, “Sonny Boy,” as well as on the “WTF Podcast with Marc Maron,” that he was “surprised it had that reaction” and that it took the Black community incorporating “Scarface” into their image and their music for the film to receive the acclaim and acknowledgement it deserved.
“Hip-hop just got it, they understood it, they embraced it — the rappers,” Pacino said on the “WTF Podcast.” “And then the next thing you know, VHS is going out and more people are seeing it, plus we’re on the records — these rappers — and then it just carried. And it kept going.”
13 comments:
Congratulations everyone who helped him get rich. You should be proud of yourselves lol
White people are still trying to attach themselves to us.
Translation:
Hip Hop embraced negativity.
Unfortunately we love what k!lls us
I never did understand people loving this movie so much. He was a c0kehead, with a strange obsession with his sister's sx life and he died in a hail of bullets. Nothing about that clown of a character was admirable, but Black men ate it up.
Great UNDERDOG Tale. I Wouldn't Recommend it for the Simple Minded OR Impressionable.
Well, rap music is pretty much everything misogyny. It’s like what MC Lyte said, it became disrespectful after her era. They weren’t calling women B’tches and garden tools but gangster rap started and this is where we are today.
MR. AL APCINO IS RIGHT.
SCARFACE BECAME EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL WHEN STRONGLY ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE HIP HOP COMMUNITY... AS WELL AS SOME OF US THAT JUST LIKE EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD CINEMA (I OWN SEVERAL COPIES OF THIS MOVIE MYSELF!).
Classic
Scarface is a classic! Those that see it as anything else, other than a movie, can't appreciate a good movie.
It was an entertaining movie to watch.
The industry always shat on Scarface but big upped The Goodfellas and The Godfather.
They didn’t like seeing Cubans, especially the Black Cubans getting any shine/recognition.
MR. AL PACINO DID HIS THING IN THAT FILM
CHI-CHI, GET THE YAYO!"
"NEVER GET HIGH ON YOUR OWN SUPPLY"
"I FUKKING TOLD YOU, NO KIDS- LOOK ATCHU NOW!"
"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!"
I MIGHT'VE WATCH THIS FILM A LITTLE TOO MUCH-LOL
I LOVE IT THOUGH
^^^^ so many quotable moments from this film.
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