10 Movie Remakes With Better Endings Than The Original
5. Scarface (1983)
On paper, the basic ending to both versions of gangster classic Scarface - Howard Hawks' 1932 original and Brian De Palma's gonzo 1983 remake - are functionally the same, with kingpin Tony (Paul Muni/Al Pacino) being shot dead during a desperate last stand.
And though Hawks' version delivers an unsurprisingly more subdued, tasteful death scene for Tony given the time of its creation, De Palma's remake offers up a blood-soaked, cocaine-huffing new version that gives audiences far more bang for their buck.
Between the explosions, the trail of bodies, the music, and Pacino's thermonuclear performance, it gives viewers so much more of an ending, placing an exclamation point on the film's deliriously entertaining indictment of '80s excess.