{"id":16843,"date":"2024-10-08T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2024-10-07T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:05:52","slug":"scarface-1932-howard-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16843","title":{"rendered":"Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess I watched an old disc when the 4k remaster is right around the corner, oops.  Big showy camera moves in an early sound film, impressive.  A good start towards dialogue based cinema, also a cavalcade of atrocious accents.  It&#8217;s the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16280\">Ferrari<\/a><\/em> Theory, or just typically Italian: the accents can be as random as you want if the picture is on point.  Ben Hecht (and maybe an uncredited Hawks) had written one of the great silent gangster movies <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6110\">Underworld<\/a><\/em>, then after <em>Little Caesar<\/em> and <em>Public Enemy<\/em> started a craze, they came back to claim their throne.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/scarf1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Rich party thrower Louis is shot dead, Paul &#8220;Scarface&#8221; Muni was supposed to be his bodyguard.  Scarf&#8217;s new boss is Johnny Lobo (Osgood Perkins, grandfather\/namesake of the <em>Longlegs<\/em> director).  During Johnny&#8217;s rise to the top, Scarface kills all their competition except dapper Boris Karloff, then comes for him too, then kills his own boss and steals his girl Karen Morley.  But Scarf is also overprotective of his sister Ann Dvorak, and after he catches her with his prize henchman George Raft, the siblings have got nobody left but each other, and go out in a hail of bullets.<\/p>\n<p><em>Scarfie having a moment with his sister:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/scarf2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Mabel has parrots:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/scarf3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess I watched an old disc when the 4k remaster is right around the corner, oops. Big showy camera moves in an early sound film, impressive. A good start towards dialogue based cinema, also a cavalcade of atrocious accents. It&#8217;s the Ferrari Theory, or just typically Italian: the accents can be as random as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,1139,13,1243,103,2900],"class_list":["post-16843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-boris-karloff","tag-criterion","tag-gangsters","tag-howard-hawks","tag-prohibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16874,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions\/16874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}