To see or re-watch this great classic of the gangster film, you don’t have much time left since it is definitely leaving the Netflix catalog in a few days.
Every month, films, series, documentaries and entertainment programs leave the catalog netflix. And the month of February is no exception to the rule. Unfortunately for subscribers, many titles are preparing to leave the streaming platform for good on Wednesday, February 15among which are Ouija And Ouija Board: The Origins. The little ones will be able to take advantage of this weekend to (re)watch the Barbie films before five new feature films and an animated series featuring the famous doll land on Netflix. But for adults, if there is one film not to be missed, it is that of director Brian De Palma.
A cult movie of gangster by Excellency
scarface tells the story of Antonio “Tony” Montana, a man expelled from Cuba who arrives in Miami in the 1980s with his friend Manolo “Manny” Ribera in the hope of making a fortune. Upon their arrival on American soil, the unscrupulous little mobster contacts Lopez, one of the godfathers of the local underworld who traffics in cocaine. Tony quickly climbs the ladder by becoming his bodyguard, then his right-hand man. He gradually established himself with Bolivian suppliers and eventually set up on his own before killing his mentor and marrying his widow, Elvira. Despite his success, his drug addiction makes Tony Montana dangerously unpredictable.
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A hero inspired by a famous gangster
If “Scarface” (“Le Balafré” in French) is a nickname given to Tony Montana in the feature film, you should know that it was above all the nickname given to Al Capone, the famous gangster of Italian origin who s had his left cheek slashed by a local mobster while he was a bouncer at a New York nightclub. The king of the Chicago underworld – who made his fortune trafficking bootleg liquor in the 1920s – was instrumental in the emergence of the mafia system, using the corruption of police, justice, figures policies, as well as physical threats to avoid prosecution witnesses, and not hesitating to resort to assassination.
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