Here’s the link in case you want to read it without me spoiling #1 for you:
The Top Ten Most Misunderstood Movies Ever Made
Back now? How great is #1? Here’s some of the entry if you’ve skipped over the whole link just looking for the spoiler filled gold:
1. Scarface
What everyone thinks the message is: Tony Montana is awesome!
What it actually is: No, he isn’t!
If there is any cultural phenomenon more widespread or more infuriating than the wholesale misunderstanding of Scarface by the gangster rap community, I don’t know what it is. Either every copy of Scarface in the ghetto has the last half of the movie edited out, or America is dumber than anyone could have ever truly considered.
Wannabe gangstas(z) look at Tony Montana’s rise, and they think, “That’s me. He’s uncompromising, he’s ambitious, he’s intelligent, and he’s got morals. He is a product of his environment, but he’s made the most out of it and is a relative hero amongst villains.”
Then they look at Tony Montana’s fall, where he abandons his mother, loses Michelle Pfieffer, fucking murders his best friend, involuntarily gets his sister shot, and then gets blown in half by a shotgun, they think, “Let’s watch the first half again.”
And we have a winner! Scarface is an infuriating film for me, and the above is a big part of the reason. The other part is that I don’t think it’s as good as everyone seems to thing it is, but that’s not a path I want to go down so early in the morning…
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