8 Reasons You've Been Wrong About Scarface Your Whole Life

4. The Dialogue

"The only thing in this world that gives orders... is balls." - Tony Montana

Do you like acting? Or at least, do you like actors? I want you to try an exercise. Take the dialogue in Scarface and play it out among your friends, only this time as a comedy. Funny how easy that is to imagine. Every line in Scarface practically drips of the same ludicrous gold any actor in a Judd Apatow movie likes to reel off.

"This is paradise, I'm tellin' ya. This town like a great big p***y just waiting to get f****d." - Tony Montana

It's almost like Scarface was meant to be a comedy, but the director just got confused while reading the script and decided to run in another direction instead. The whole thing is just chock-full of quotable lines that are memorable because they're so utterly absurd. The director, Brian De Palma, has come out in the recent years during interviews to say he finds people who take his movies seriously to be funny. Don't you get it? All these movies are meant to be silly, hyper-stylised, and absurd. The absurdity is the point we were working towards. Well consider this case rested. Sure we believe you Brian, sure we do...