True, but being a white kid that goes to school everyday I'm more prone to run into the ones who watch movies too much.
I think you hit it on the head, Ludovico:
Whatever its other qualities, "Scarface" is a phenomenon: a one-of-a-kind collaboration among three hot properties--De Palma, Stone and Pacino--all going completely, totally over the top. I think of other films that went over the top in how they were produced or directed, ranging from the silent "Birth of a Nation," to DeMille's "Ten Commandments," to Carpenter's "The Thing." They were not only judged on their content, but became cult films precisely because they were over the top. Kids in school often are the most devoted to cult films.
Also, a lot of white schoolkids take their cues from African American hiphop stars and "gangsta" rappers, among whom "Scarface" is the absolute ultimate.
