Scarface is one of the major films that defines the American gangster genre in the 1900’s. Scarface was violent and humorous from the beginning; the movie was also controversial. My point of view of the movie was that it was boring at the beginning, but as the movie progressed it started to get more interesting. Some scenes made the movie seem unreal, for instances, the punches that have been thrown looked fake, as if the fist made no contact which the face.
I think Paul Muni (Tony Camonte) did a great job of conveying his character’s personality and really making it seem like he was real. With that being said, I could tell that Paul Muni’s character, Tony Camonte’s, is rude, arrogant, over protective and sarcastic. You can really tell what a character is thinking just by the way they portray themselves and the expressions they do.
Tony Camonte is a gangster who knows he can get away with anything; Tony is very arrogant and his conduct towards the police officer in the movie was very rude. When the officer tells Tony to come with him to the police station, Tony moves very slow and portrays his innocence. He was also very disrespectful when he lit a match on the officers police badge. Another scene shows Tony Camonte being vey over protective of his sister. In the scene Tony spots his sister Casca, making out with a guy. He got very angry and grabbed her. After he yelled at her, he told her that from now on she will obey him. Later, he gives her money and the mother sees Tony giving it to her and she tells Casca to give it back. She disapproves because she knows the money is dirty. She tells Cesca that Tony is not a good person and that she is starting to become just like him. In another scene, Camonte works for a man names Johnny Lovo, but by the look of things, Tony wants to run the illegal alcohol business in town and is just using Lovo to get to the top. The film must be glorifying violence, because as Tony beats up people or kills them, he is getting respect and power. With respect and power he is a feared man. I think the film is giving us the impression that in one point in history, gangsters got away with crimes and government officials did nothing about it.
