Tony Camote's Scarface: The Shame Of The Nation
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation
The rise from an ordinary middle class gangster to a notorious and high class ruler, “Scarface” is a story of a man who gets his dream and desired status in the gang world through multiple phases of killing and torturing others. It’s a story of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) and his rise and fall as a gangster, a story of violence that ends in self-destruction. “Scarface” not only portrays the ruthless achievement of a gangster but also gives the reason behind their achievement. A moral statement glares in the screen “THE GOVERNMENT IS YOUR GOVERNMET. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?” at the very beginning of the movie. After going through the movie and trying to relate everything in it, this statement indeed …show more content…
Now that she finds Tony attractive, she wants to be closer with him and wants to spend more time with him. Her concern for Tony is reflected in a scene where, after seeing him for a long time, she says, “Where have you been? On vacation?”. Despite being attracted to Poppy, there is barely any romantic scene in between Tony and her. Instead Tony is much more interested in his sister “Cesca”. Although the movie doesn’t show any incestuous relation between him and his sister, his feeling towards her is reflected in his conservative and protective nature for his sister from other men. He goes mad when he sees Cesca with other men. This nature causes him to kill his most faithful and close friend “Rinaldo”, the man whom Tony trusted so much that he had told his intentions of killing everyone to get to the top in a short car ride at the beginning of the movie. But even after his brother killed her husband, Cesca still goes back to Tony saying, “You are me and I am you”, which pretty much shows that she too had that feeling for her brother. As far as the relationship with his mother is concerned, his mother knows that Tony is in the wrong way and that he uses other for his benefits. Throughout the movie, his mother is seen disregarding him for his acts referring him as “bad” and “no …show more content…
Tony shows no mercy, as he knows why and what he is doing it. In one scene, Tony and Poppy are about to have lunch when suddenly, the North-side gang attacks them. The machine guns are fired through the glasses of the restaurant as Tony and Poppy hides behind a wooden wall. The bullets hit innocent people rather than the gangsters, but Tony doesn’t care for others. He leaves the scene with a happy face, as he gets a new machine gun, which he believes will ease his work. His way of dealing with booze buying customers is also very ruthless. As he gets the new machine gun, he starts killing the North-side gang by riding inside a car and shooting through the window. In this process a lot of simple civilians losses their life and in a particular scene, a barrel of beer gets knocked out into a woman’s room and a large crying voice of her is heard. All in all, he shows no mercy for anyone. The public is shown to be the cause behind the rise of gangster and public themselves are also shown to be the ones to
The rise from an ordinary middle class gangster to a notorious and high class ruler, “Scarface” is a story of a man who gets his dream and desired status in the gang world through multiple phases of killing and torturing others. It’s a story of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) and his rise and fall as a gangster, a story of violence that ends in self-destruction. “Scarface” not only portrays the ruthless achievement of a gangster but also gives the reason behind their achievement. A moral statement glares in the screen “THE GOVERNMENT IS YOUR GOVERNMET. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?” at the very beginning of the movie. After going through the movie and trying to relate everything in it, this statement indeed …show more content…
Now that she finds Tony attractive, she wants to be closer with him and wants to spend more time with him. Her concern for Tony is reflected in a scene where, after seeing him for a long time, she says, “Where have you been? On vacation?”. Despite being attracted to Poppy, there is barely any romantic scene in between Tony and her. Instead Tony is much more interested in his sister “Cesca”. Although the movie doesn’t show any incestuous relation between him and his sister, his feeling towards her is reflected in his conservative and protective nature for his sister from other men. He goes mad when he sees Cesca with other men. This nature causes him to kill his most faithful and close friend “Rinaldo”, the man whom Tony trusted so much that he had told his intentions of killing everyone to get to the top in a short car ride at the beginning of the movie. But even after his brother killed her husband, Cesca still goes back to Tony saying, “You are me and I am you”, which pretty much shows that she too had that feeling for her brother. As far as the relationship with his mother is concerned, his mother knows that Tony is in the wrong way and that he uses other for his benefits. Throughout the movie, his mother is seen disregarding him for his acts referring him as “bad” and “no …show more content…
Tony shows no mercy, as he knows why and what he is doing it. In one scene, Tony and Poppy are about to have lunch when suddenly, the North-side gang attacks them. The machine guns are fired through the glasses of the restaurant as Tony and Poppy hides behind a wooden wall. The bullets hit innocent people rather than the gangsters, but Tony doesn’t care for others. He leaves the scene with a happy face, as he gets a new machine gun, which he believes will ease his work. His way of dealing with booze buying customers is also very ruthless. As he gets the new machine gun, he starts killing the North-side gang by riding inside a car and shooting through the window. In this process a lot of simple civilians losses their life and in a particular scene, a barrel of beer gets knocked out into a woman’s room and a large crying voice of her is heard. All in all, he shows no mercy for anyone. The public is shown to be the cause behind the rise of gangster and public themselves are also shown to be the ones to