The boldness and fearlessness of Scarface is astounding
. Based on the real gangster character Al Capone, it presents the brutal killing and betrayal of the underworld world with rich characters. Howard Hawks shoots violent scenes with push-track and push-pull camera techniques, creating a new film technique; the whole film is full of literary symbols and metaphors, and the contrasting and contrasting photographic styles make the underworld in the daytime look illusory and the nighttime Dark and cruel
.Time Review)
The film directed by Howard Hawks is the pioneering work of the Hollywood crime genre. It is set in the era of Prohibition and tells the interests of the underground gangsters, rendering the street violence of machine guns, and affecting a large number of similar works after that. The film's narrative is concise and compact. The director uses indirect methods such as projection to express the murder scene, avoiding naked visual stimulation, and adding an ambiguous brother and sister incest relationship, which is complex and sensitive. Paul Muni, who played the leading role, had stage exaggeration at that time, but he was already very delicate in expressing the psychology of the characters. Many small movements were used just right, such as rubbing matches on the police badge, which showed the arrogance of the hero
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