Originally posted by Brwne Byte:
You hear it all the time.Scarface is "ultraviolent"
The chainsaw scene was "pure horror"
Tony clearly has "incestuos feelings"for his sister,
And everything in between. But come on,is all this information truly accurate? Sure the film is violent,but Scarface came out in 1983,when violence to such extent was not really seen before.
Added to your point is the fact that most of those elements (minus the chainsaw) were already present in the original version of Scarface, which came out in 1932. It was actually filmed in 1931 but release was delayed one year, and some scenes added or reshot, because it was considered too violent! In fact the Paul Muni Scarface was the Hollywood benchmark for many years for movies that were censored because of violent and moral content. It seems that the 1983 version not only inherited the original movie plot, but also the unwanted attention of the censors!
