Comparative Analysis: Scarface (1983) And The Godfather

Revenge, Masculinity and Glorification of Violence in the Godfather Abstract: Crime films have been the most enduringly popular genre since the dawn of sound era in Hollywood. Mob and gangster films are a sub-genre of crime films and deals with the mafia and their organized crime focusing on rise and fall of power. These films primarily have stacks of money, guns, flashy cars, illegal goods, cluster of goons, crime families, and a plot with a central theme coupled with violence. Hollywood gangster films in the 1930’s had liberally drawn inspiration from the newspapers and books of the era.

Furthermore, Scorsese shows us how Henry Hill in Goodfellas lives the life of a gangster and finally gets away from it succesfully. Something that most of the audience would readily accept. Kolker says that: ―Henry speaks for the viewer. Like him, we love the gangster life. At least we love looking at representations of it.

Nero has become one of the most infamous men that ever lived. Although Nero has impacted Rome positively, he has done several charges that would inevitably send him to hell. Taking part in several murders, which include the killing of his mother, partaking in homosexual acts, and even betraying his beloved country, he will endure eternal punishment in hell where he will suffer for the heinous crimes he has committed throughout his

This drama/thriller was very unique, “the way it shuffles from tone to tone – animated music video one second, unforgettably dark pastiche of a cheesy TV sitcom the next”. (Parker) It was probably the most controversial film of the 1990’s and one of the most underrated as well. This film has actually received more credit as time has passed. Oliver Stone’s message and overall theme was heard loud and clear after viewing this film.

The plot is far more complicated than that of a typical film noir- at the perfect timing it seems, the film manages to connect all the dots and pick up missing pieces to expose the true plot of the film which has everyone gasping and anxious i.e at the end of the film where Exley finds out Dudley’s involvement with the shootout, his father’s death and Jack Vincenne’s death before killing him). This is very much neo noir which contains more complicated plots and a certain hint of sophistication to

“And then, eyes, widening in horror, he saw the word REDRUM reflecting dimly from the glass dome, now reflected twice, and saw that it spelled MURDER.” (King). This quote is an example of Jack’s psyche. “REDRUM” is a great

Comparing both of these films formally, there is a big difference in speed of the plot and also a full understanding what is going. An example of this is the beginning of both films. In the original film, each character has their own reason or excuse to be involved with the heist. While in the remake, Danny Ocean wants to rob the 3 casino 's because he wants to get revenge back on the owner and also motivated purely by greed (Croft). The speed of the script is also vastly different.

He is a creature unlike any before and thus others, even one as unassuming as Enfield, are left disturbed by his presence. There is something weird going on and it propels the reader to want to find out more. Overall, there are many differences between the novel and the film of, “ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” By Robert Louis Stevenson. Sexuality and violence are two ideas that play a big role in the movie

One way that organized crime ran rampant through the 1920s is bootlegging, bootlegging was an illegal way of making alcohol because of the prohibition, which was a ban on all alcoholic beverages. In the 1920s, a major bootlegger and gangster was Al Capone ,others refer to him behind his back as "scar face", one of his main jobs was "The illegal sale of liquor, called bootlegging, became a growth industry, especially in urban areas such as Detroit, New York, and Chicago, where the

But like the poem Beowulf we have heroes in our societies that fight it everyday. Drugs they appear everywhere, from schools to city streets, and their path of destruction is a devastating one. A part of this path is the families that are constantly being broken up and ruined. From anything like Legal consequences to the drug user putting their addiction before their family. This relates to how Grandel ruined families by killing loved ones.

There is bad luck, and then there is bad technology. The gun, in this film, is the source of all evil. That is the ‘big world ' story. Behind the effects of a single gun (tracked by the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu and the writer, Guillermo Arriaga, with mesmerising intensity from one side of the earth to the other) we may read a parable about the effects of the arms

Throughout the course of cinematic history one of the most popular genres of film has been “gangster” or “crime”, in particular a focus on the Mafia. A couple of the most popular films have been The Godfather, The Godfather Part ii, and Goodfellas. Some of the similar characteristics that the audience notices after watching these movies are: violence, power, family, etc. Of course those examples of films come from the perspective of the American directors who made them. Films like La Siciliana Ribelle (The Sicilian Girl) and I Cento Passi (One Hundred Steps) offer a perspective from Italian filmmakers.

The Mafia Imagine a world filled with big men with strong accents, walking around in suits with big cigars in their mouths. These men were loyal to their families but were dangerous if ever crossed. Does one thing wrong and you might as well dig your grave. These men thrived on the terrible economic trouble America was going through. These men are a big part of history and still have an effect on us today.