Scarface (4k+Br)

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Opening frames, via news footage, follows a boat of Cubans headed to Florida. There’s an unidentified man on board with his son; that man points, and an edit cuts to the American flag. Everyone smiles. It’s serene. Then comes Tony Montana (Al Pacino). The restoration goes a bit heavy on the grain at times, though, pushing it beyond the point where it feels like a completely natural by-product of the 35mm source. Yet at other times scenes look as if they’ve had the grain smoothed away.

Fine film grain is apparent throughout - even when it could appear a bit noisy on the old Blu-ray, it's still apparent but more refined and less chunky looking without any signs of digital tampering. To that side, fine details have never looked better! Facial features, costuming, the Miami architecture - everything is on full display here. Maybe that's why I couldn't take my eyes off it this viewing? I felt like I was truly seeing everything better than before! As I said, there is still some softness here and there, but that's by design. That hotel room with the infamous chainsaw sequence has never looked grimier - and therefor - beautiful! Likewise, when Tony reaches his peak, that mountain of cocaine in front of him even offers up small granular details that I'd never noticed before.disc. The picture maintains an organic grain structure; some may find it slightly dense but it's very handsome and complimentary to this The DTS X sound was harder to hear, and I seem to find that to be a problem with most of these titles, as Dolby Atmos sounds more distinctive in the height channels - or these films right now are not using them to their fullest abilities yet. The only time that I heard them was in the detention camp where a helicopter flew overhead and in a shootout in the club and the finale. Other than that, DTS X was only used as a marketing thing to me. In those outbursts, Scarface reacts. Montana is meant to be feared. So too are Cuban refugees. Scarface openly criticizes the broken system that lets a Tony Montana infect Miami. If not him, than any desperate American who feels owed their dream, and sees the out in a system openly inviting their want. Starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana along with Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Robert Loggia, Scarface has become a cultural phenomenon brilliantly directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone.

Considering Scarface’s 1983 origins, it’s a pessimistic view of drugs, even predictive as to how ingrained cocaine would embed itself through the decade. A key scene involves Montana soaking in a bathtub, watching the news as the anchor pushes against an idea to legalize and tax the trade. The resulting ferocity comes as a result of clumsy, near-sighted policy. Montana brings this out from society’s shadows. Shooting people in the street isn’t an elevation of drug-related violence, rather a turn that makes lawlessness visible to a public willingly ignoring it otherwise. Scarfaceis of course an Al Pacino movie through and through, with the powerhouse actor delivering an iconic career high performance that perfectly focussed his particular style of dramatic acting. For these near-three hours he becomes this at-once tragic, passionately aggressive, impressively ambitious, largely unkillable and ultimately grotesque anti-hero, whose initially well-meaning (insomuch as gangsters can be such)quest to fully realise the 'American dream' goes all kinds of wrong. Steven Bauer has a thankless job playing his idiot best friend Manny, a young Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is suitably innocent as his sister, and a youngMichelle Pfeiffer is surprisingly cold as the takenwoman he sets his eyes on. The likes of Robert Loggia, F. Murray Abraham and Harris Yulin colour in the different shades of thecriminal underworldhe swims in, and the combination of the ensemble performances,Stone's script and De Palma's direction leaves a memorable, quotable line in almost every single scene. forward to other on-screen text and crisp white shirts -- enjoy far greater brilliance than even the remastered Blu-ray can provide. Some of the nicest examples of HDR's strengths come by way of bright neon signs around Miami; beautifully blue skies, pools, and ocean waters; and one of the mostrazor-sharp, naturally filmic, and beautifully colored viewing experience that far exceeds either the previously issued VC-1 Blu-ray or the remastered additional supplements listed below are included on the newly remastered Blu-ray disc included with this set, all of which have been reviewed within the While Universal has managed to inject quite a bit of extra dynamic range into the synth score, there’s seldom much bass to speak of. Except for when Tony gets out his little friend, anyway... dense and grungy urban areas or high dollar and high class homes and clubs, the picture reveals every component with incredible sharpness that only