Scarface is black, Texan and a convert to Islam. The most famous fictional gangster, in life, is a rapper. Real name Bradley Terrence Jordan, he made the heyday of the Crew the Geto Boys. He also dealt drugs and went to jail, but he did for unpaid alimony. Hard hard to live up to his model. Jordan isn’t the only rapper to adopt the nickname of a famous mobster – ask Capone, Escobar, Young Gotti, Daz Dillinger or Stomy Bugsy. He nevertheless had the audacity to grant himself the blase of the most venerated of all: Tony Montana, alias Scarface, a young Cuban immigrant who became a billionaire by the force of a gun and the grace of the coke trade. The Saint-Just of the ghetto, the Moses of hip-hop iconography, carrying the tables of the outlaw: bling, biatches in swimsuits and flouze galore.
When, in December 1983, “Scarface”, by Brian De Palma, came out on American screens, feminism was not fashionable nor was anti-consumerism up to date. President Reagan launched his ” Star wars ” against the“evil empire” Soviet, MTV is a hit thanks to the revolutionary clips of Michael Jackson, Jane Fonda introduces the planet to fitness and Arnold Schwarzenegger obtains American nationality. The cold war is burning again and materialism reigns. De Palma’s film is right in the era, encapsulating greed, cynicism and bad taste through rise and fall.
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