Scarface - Unseen and Untold Documentary - 2003 Spike TV

money first then were you getting funny you get about then we get a power then you get a woman it's the American dream for those who grow up on the streets don't underestimate cars and fast women and I pick up chicks in his company pimped out houses and endless piles of coke exceeds like excess and it can all be yours if you've got what it takes to become the bad guy we'll interrogate the a list of Hollywood hitmen who put a new face on Scarface Brian DePalma takes gangster films to the cutting edge I just said if we were out of way of doing it which wouldn't turn into the Texas Chainsaw I'm Melissa Oliver Stone turns a coke addiction into a killer script they say that cocaine always kicks your ass right and it's really kicked my ass and Al Pacino becomes an untouchable so I found myself every day with all these guns and ammunition and all the smoke and all this hell find out how a film about the most violent drugged-out foul-mouthed characters everybody was like this guy back usually went from a rating boards target list anthem hex rating on this to a hip-hop pop culture cult classic phenomenon blimp flies by and says the world is yours crazy gives you goosebumps when you dig about this there's no place for the weak at heart cuz it's time for the unseen untold story about Scarface all I have in this world is my balls I would and I don't break them [Music] Oh when the movie Scarface shot onto the scene 20 years ago it sent a message echoing across America Tony the terror was back people like to see the outside I think they like they did is someone throwing portion to them where'd you get the beauty Scott some fashion pieces you know I'm just going for this I'm going to this because it feels good to go wash yourself I wanted to establish a level of violence like nobody had ever seen before [Music] [Applause] certainly it was terribly received in Hollywood and many critics and I knew the film was good the reason I did the Scarface how it came to my attention as I was watching the the old core Muni film about three o'clock one morning I couldn't sleep by this time Marty Bregman had established a name for himself as one of Tinseltown's most-wanted producers he'd already made killings at the box office with Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico and he was looking for his next big hit the curd to me that the film like Scarface the rise and fall of an American gangster and with done since Karthik's and having had done a number of films with the chena I always wanted to do a large gangster film where he would have a part to play in this young dynasty I thought about it and I thought about it you know there's something here I don't know where it is yeah enter Al Pacino the 43 year old Italian born actor with four Academy Award nominations already under his belt for Godfather to and justice for all Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico he was the king on the streets as a kid I remember my relatives talking about Scarface and how George Raft flips taphonomic and so I had heard a lot about it and never saw the picture so I was one day walking along the Sunset Boulevard the first place it was a few of us that there was the I believe it's the Tiffany theatre now we watch it 10 minutes I thought it was great move in the performance of Paul Muni was astounding and inspiring and I thought after that dad I just wanted to imitate him this was a rarity for me to see something that I responded to like that wanted to play actually and I called Marty Bergman who then put together some people and they started working on developing this as a film Bregman was now on a hunt to find a director who could bring that new face to Scarface Brian De Palma a romantically visual filmmaker he turned heads with hits like Carrie blowout and dressed to kill we started working on still our face David rabe and the screenplay was not exactly going like everybody wanted it to and ultimately I felt we could no agree on what we were trying to do and David not left the project then Marty went and got Sidney Lumet having worked with Bregman and Pacino on Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon who met was intrigued by the new project and made some strong suggestions to update the old tale about alcohol prohibition in Chicago Sidney thought about it and immediately came up he says well why don't you do this about the cocaine world to me but that's that's it Sidney the man had the idea of putting it in Cuba there's a Cuban refugee which I thought was a brilliant idea for years I remember even Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro had the Scarface movie in their repertoire of things they wanted to do and it was a difficult thing to break through and find our way in to do it in today's world and it was a sitting the met they found that way in this idea to remake Scarface based on a cocaine smuggler truly would be the key so Marty went directly to the source for a writer that had a clear-cut understanding of cocaine Oliver Stone an aspiring director and celebrated writer he had written Conan the Barbarian and won an Academy Award for writing Midnight Express I was approached originally by Marty Bregman he came to me after the failure of my picture I directed called the hand wanted my services back as a writer and he said he wanted to do Scarface I said I'm not really interested in remix I'm going to say something probably that's sacrilegious here to a film buffs but I didn't care for Paul Muni Scarface that much there's something kind of theatrical and hammy up [Music] after the hand which I had lost them and Conan the Barbarian which was a bad experience for me I needed money and I was in a tough place and he paid the enormous amount of money in it for nineteen eighty two three I was grateful to do it and I enlisted out who I'd known for a long long time I were very good friends we embarked on this adventure this quest to explore the cocaine world when unseen unfelt returns Oliver goes on a trip like no other at least I learn from the awful experience of being on coke [Music] welcome back you're watching unseen untold Scarface on Spike TV in the fall of 1981 writer Oliver Stone teamed up with Marty Bregman and Al Pacino to remake the 1932 classic Scarface in his promise to bring a Latin Flair and a deadly drug line to the story stone immediately dove into living history the new Scarface would Center on the events of the Mariel boatlift that brought masses of Cubans to America reportedly the wrong kind of Cubans Sidney Lumet was very anxious to do the movie and wanted to do it Cuban Miami 1980-81 the Mariel boatlift it's a good idea there were all kinds of factors in the Cuban emigration I started into the research into Miami and I went to Miami extensively and then eventually I wanted more and I plunged on into the Caribbean went down to a Bimini I went to Ecuador and Bolivia and the research part of it was fascinating for the reason a guy as far as I did was because I was doing cocaine so when I went to Bimini I could hang out with these guys they were all over the place a lot of guys with jewelry Playboy types and they were in the bars they were everywhere so naturally we struck up conversations and we started talking and went back to their place drinking starting having a party and they told me a lot about what was going on you know but not too much no specifics having delve deep into the drug pipeline between the Americas Oliver was ready to begin writing his script I wrote Scarface in Paris actually so he got me away from that world of cocaine because France was very clean then and I needed to be free of cocaine they say that cocaine always kicks your ass right and it's early kicked my ass I got off cocaine in Paris I reestablished my life I found my integrity again so in a sense I broke the habit by writing the writing about cocaine there was my farewell to goddamn stone's visit to Paris resulted in a clean bill of health and a script that took a whole look at cuban-american history on the first reading of the script I realized how Oliver had captured that world made it his own and brought out that the wonderful texture in the ones in power not all reactions to the script were good ones I gave the script in and when that did not like it the screenplay was developed by me with Oliver without Sidney syndrome when Sidney read the screenplay he felt it should take more of a political direction he thought it was too violent over the top didn't it wasn't what he wanted to do so he left the project on all accounts Oliver script was a powerful one mixing the passion of the Latino culture with a hard mindedness of Cuba's history but this new Scarface would become cinema's most edgy character to date I never anybody over in my life didn't have a comment the world would have to brace itself for a whole new Tony took him onto his name by the way but after my the star at that time was Joe Montana decided to take a fight of family I was looking around for a good name I thought Montana the mountain I think that this star face was an embodiment of all the different kinds of gangsters you see you know he was representative of a collective person that's what I like most about this character Tony Montana Tony Montana was a product though this time he came here not to blow up and not to go into the but this is what was available he is what he is he doesn't deny it there's some kind of sensible person who says who he is he doesn't try to be something he was a man that hadn't acted he was a man fine very quickly placed upon his intelligence and his topics become King events and they Scarface the way Oliver Stone is written is more of an anarchic personality [Music] he was a dynamic character an exciting character he was a romantic addict he was all the things that a good thanks to film should be in terms of the leading men this fresh new Scarface for the 1980s was a stark contrast from the 1930s tony camonte a but a Help Wanted sign still hung in the director's window so Marty went back to one of the film's first visionaries I went out looking for another director ultimately found the bomb who saw the film as I saw because Oliver had written the script that came to me ultimately that Bregman had developed the stone was completely different it's sort of like the capitalists dream gun bizarre and Buzzard and as crazy as you can get and completely self-destructive but one problem still remained De Palma was already two weeks into pre-production on a movie named Flashdance so the palma would have to make a choice stick it out welding in warehouses with Jennifer Beals or jump ship and make one of the most violent movies of all time [Music] there's a lot of graphic files and that's why I liked it so much because it's a whole new way of approaching this material I like the script and I said fine now let's start when Spike TV returns the cast and crew prepare for shooting cuz then I'll burned himself badly I want to a gun [Music] me I'm almost company over what's coming to you in the world and everything you're watching unseen untold Scarface on Spike TV in the summer of 1982 Marty Bregman Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone kicked off their three-month mission to remake Scarface in this version the rising talents of Michelle Pfeiffer Mary Elizabeth mastrantonio Robert loggia and Steven Bauer would center entirely around the movie star Al Pacino the only thing in this floor that gives Hortis its boss like incredible talent I think the most stunning thing about Alice's face he's the kind of guy that can hold the scream of space I thought that reminded be always at Humphrey Bogart with that kind of narrow face and those kind of nervous eyes it is when you start a movie sort of want to give the lead character are very impressive entrance como se llaman that face the character the reason sure he's wearing scar how'd you get the beauty Scott tough guy the way he moves the way talks where'd you learn to speak the English Donnie is a my father he was for United State here was a Yankee you just want to really hit them because you're hitting them with something they'd never seen like man I'd like to dress up like a woman what's wrong with this guy if you look at any a pudgy nose work it's very difficult to watch any other actor on the screen the cast and crew continued searching out and shooting in Miami's hottest spots the beaches the bars and even the Nixon estate Bolivar gave us the cocaine Cuban drug dealer tour of South Florida and and we're sort of looking around at these very seedy places I had a dope dealer sign a dope dealer I remember once sitting with Alan Oliver and we finally looked at these guys and they looked like dope dealers and then of course we discovered they were the band as filming went on a political rift between Cuban communities and the US forces begin to affect production just as we can't incest visitors using our beaches must have slim waists and trend shapes we can't insist in all movies shot here originally we were gonna shoot the entire film in Miami because that's where the story takes place right it's not right to do anything on there was an element of the human community that were convinced that this was a Castro financed film to embarrass the American human community which was obviously not true and this unmarked northwest Miami warehouse the Scarface team is closing down its production office and leaving town along with it's a movie industry sources maybe this area's future as a major film production center there were a number of threats made had we thought that it would be best if we moved halfway through filming and homeless the gang took production on a tour around the state's stopping by the streets of New York to film the car bomb scene [Music] [Applause] then moving to the Santa Barbara hillsides for the Colombian cartel Eno's estate finally production cemented itself in Los Angeles with the hope to recreate Miami some of the things in Scarface were born out of necessity for instance the opening the internment camp it was under the freeways and so on if we had been leveled off you could have seen it was Los Angeles and not Miami so I think his idea of wanting to shoot straight down and get him down deep enough so when you get up in a two-shot of the power and Pacino you were not aware that you were not in Miami constantly throwing new measures of violence into the mix the shoot extended its end target to the six-month mark and it all culminated with a massive Colombian firefight for the film's big finale we were shooting so many guns and everybody had to go to armaments school so if I could shoot he's done I found myself everyday and with all these guns and all this ammunition and all the smoke then I'll burned himself badly I'm one of the guns it's on the film you see him he grabs the gun that's when he's up in the top two steps he's on the ground feeling around the gun if he's been knocked down picks it up and he picked it up by the barrel and a barrel is white hot and really burdened himself very badly on his hand but he grabbed it like this but I basically had to shoot like two weeks without a so a lot of time to shoot the Colombians doing things as it turns out De Palma wasn't the only director to take advantage of the extra time to shoot the final standoff Steven Spielberg is a close friend of deposits and when you're shooting the shootout inside of Tony's mansion it came down to seven we had like seven cameras I said you want to get behind one of these I'd help me with the shot he said great and said I got an idea let's put a camera over here I said fantastic so I was like a camera it was a low angle camera over on the side we used one of his shots when the Colombians are rushing into the mansion [Music] coming up the boss man team Scarface too hot for America he stamped an x-rated despot [Music] welcome back you're watching unseen untold Scarface on Spike TV when the editing process for Scarface completed in October of 1983 in a two-hour 50-minute film about a Cuban coke smuggler prepared itself to get rated by the Motion Picture Association of America we cut the movie and we submitted it to the mdaa the gentleman that was head of the MPLA at that point had a very strong negative feeling about this film in terms of its violence and in terms of its language he stamped an X rating on this film the MPAA declared Scarface a dirty movie demanding the film clean up its act and its foul mouth to let me know I had a few guy yeah I mean it's all over the place everybody was like this guy the mother of all swear words is mouthed 194 times from start to finish averaging the drop of one f-bomb for every 50 seconds listen these people you know were mild so it's again being realistic and the movie was supposed to be a little shocking but the MPAA's bigger concern targeted Scarface's extreme use of violence [Applause] and one unforgettable scene about a drug deal gone bad the idea basically was Oliver's comes from many news casts the chainsaw scene was based on an event I heard about in Miami that had all the case histories were pretty thick on the murders definitely the saw had been used so that money was in Miami it was a ripoff between two two drug dealers obviously a buyer and a seller toniest does seem a wife form I just want to get to know her get to know me when you start doing business with me and stop around it happens and they tend to obviously take take matters into their own hands easy money [Music] they didn't just kill each other in these drug wars they literally chopped people for whatever reason you know they just decided to you know hack the other of the other individual like it happens in this scene [Applause] I just had to figure out a way of doing it which you know wouldn't you know turn into the Texas Chainsaw Massacre the shower scene was picked up as something that was extremely violent it was disgusting if you look at that same very process we show nothing what is a sound this sound and a man's face and some indication of a spray of blood small in the case of but there's nothing that goes on in that scene it's very similar to the shower scene that mr. Hitchcock did many many years ago and Canseco I saw nothing if it is something that premiered the audience's imagination which was brilliant filmmaking never saw anything the other hand the MPAA felt that it seemed too much between the massive attack of f-bombs and the notoriously violent chainsaw scene the filmmakers were forced to recut and resubmit the movie Mike made an adjustment and Mike sent it back to them a second time they gave us an axe again then I cut it back third time and they were sort of fixated on how many gun hits were in the clown and I'm thinking the clown worried about the gun hits in the cloud so this is the third time our sin in fact and they still gave us an X in the studio of course was saying to me solve this you know we can't really it's the next movie what goes in 1980 sometimes doesn't go in 1990 you know movies like The Godfather did not be released today with an axe and God help taxi driver there was tremendous amount of fervor around the by Anza Scarface tons of articles and we ultimately you know had to go fight our case in front of the motion picture ratings board that's literally like preparing a legal case I call my lawyer he's a best lawyer in Miami it's such a good lawyer like tomorrow morning you're gonna be working in Alaska I brought in three psychiatrists three experts in this field we have lawyers we had psychologists I brought in the police officer the head of the organized crime unit from Miami and I think the thing they really put it over the top was the dark Harvick's cop saying you know this pictures gotta be seen this is what's going on and he spoke with such passion and that's what I think swayed and then we want to beat him hands down the boat was 18 to 2 in favor of our getting an RA which we did there's something that gets completely confused all the time because I cut the picture back three times everybody assumes they saw the third cut but I called the head studio and I said I have an X on the third version I have an X on the first version the initial version Alexis why don't I just go with the first version mr. oh no you can't do that the nexus of X isn't it so what the version you see in Scarface is the original version that I cut it's not changed it has not been cut back I put everything back in from everything that they thought would make it an arm and that's what we fought over and that's what we won with it was a great moment when we wanted in December of 1983 and r-rated Scarface was released to the nation but for every person that liked the movie there were two that bashed it including the almighty critics when Scarface was released review wise we did terribly dad never talked Tony oh good and what an accent Al Pacino has here a mongrel mixture of the South Bronx Milan and Matanzas it wasn't a major reviewer in this country who thought this wasn't garbage it was condemned and it was flayed it was a terrible reception and it was perceived as a hardly violent overdone film badly done throat esque well they were very polarized a lot of people really hated the movie because they were so shocked by it and say good night to a bad film you can sum up Scarface in two words bangbang snort snort bangbang is for gunfire snort snort is for cocaine there's a lot of both in Scarface it's one of those movies where everybody says shocked by it and the publicity had scared everybody away because bull the findings with the ratings board well I saw Scarface yesterday and for any Cuban who was worried the movie was going to offend Cubans don't worry it just offends everyone the most violent film I've ever seen and just in time for Christmas god forbid the movies a don't offend because they have to sometimes what else is the point of making a movie but of course years later they old so how good it was at the time that was not well liked these same reviewers have then pointed 10 years later five years later fifteen years later have pointed to Scarface as the as the consummate gangster fell when Spike TV returns the consummate gangster film takes over the hip-hop nation every rapper out there can just be on my okay because I was on the set in the movie welcome back to unseen until Scarface on Spike TV Al and the gang offered Scarface to America in 1983 only to be bashed by the MPAA the critics and the box office over the past 20 years mob man Tony Montana has finally found himself a place in American culture thanks to the world of video tapes DVDs and one hilarious lead of TV version mr. lecoeur creepy wait don't these sound like a great big chicken just wait until deep where'd you get the beauty scar tough guy [Music] where'd you get that beauty start tough diet even pineapple [ __ ] [Applause] since then Scarface has earned itself the ranking of 8th place on AFIS all-time cult movies list you're sort of discovered as you go along so you just go out to make the desparately you can and what the labels for where they will I knew it was good because you know why I go on the New York subway I'd hear dialog from the picture if you anything about your gangsterism Scarface was it don't get surprised one of the things it's just surprised me I guess this I started seeing you know videos you know where people were calling themselves Scarface and Tony Montana and the change and everything another cool this is based on our movie Jim look at Scarface okay and it's about social mobility if you look at hip-hop social mobility hip hop is a culture now it's not just the music and part of hip-hop culture is being from the street Scarface was like of that 80's era there knew about that was close to us was about things that you actually saw on the street about drugs and young cats coming up after going to a place where with success you get to enjoy life to the fullest that's what Tony Montana kind of represents the influence of Scarface is popped up in places you would never imagine it's even been made the subject of college curriculum but it's one of the main films of my hip-hop class we're looking at the culture and we talk about the films that have either best representative pop or most influenced hip-hop in Scarface is that film you know you're listening to big on juicy trying to come up in the game 50 inch screen money green leather sofa got to cause a limousine in the chauffeur and my whole crew is lounging celebrating every day no more public housing that's you know the come up you know you listen to jay-z he's talking about to come up you know I'm in the streets you know I'm trying to get mine it's like this passion if you watch cribs all of these rappers all of these stores everybody has to go know rappers home would be complete without Scarface in its collection just as the movie Scarface wouldn't be complete without the pimp add that the movie showcases while shooting a music video in Miami with pop star Monica Chris had his eye on one of Scarface's most coveted prizes one location scout man I'm looking for houses and I go you know I don't like any of these houses and the location scouts like what are you looking for I'm like I'm looking for the house like in Scarface and she was like well that house is over here I'm like no no way so we just went crazy President Nixon lived in that house that's the Nixon the state and that's where Frank lived with the glass elevator is just sick for better or for worse Scarface has had an impact on everybody who's seen it I was an extra in the movie Scarface okay so every rapper out there can just be on my god okay cuz I was on the set in the movie okay why not I was actually in the pool when when the girl you know slaps him I was also in the pool when they're walking away and I'm floating on a raft I saw that movie and the big screaming I said to myself this is what I want to do the rest of my life true to his word the legacy of Scarface now lives on and movies like the rush hour films and money talks nobody does a Scarface impersonation better than Chris Tucker and it even if you watch my first movie money talks when he's shooting at the in the Coliseum he doing Scarface when he's on the bus he's doing Spartacus that's what I do when Spike returns the cast and crew of Scarface remember their favorite scenes each other you know [Music] welcome back to unseen untold Scarface on Spike TV Scarface has proven to be a bridge between the gangster films of the past and the gang films of the present it transitioned cinema from movies like The Godfather to movies like colors New Jack city and boys in the hood we are almost coming over what's coming dear boy there were and everything in it but in its own right Scarface will forever be a classic defined by a couple of f-words fun and fear it was just a fun violent movie it was you know very entertaining go ahead you can door with her her star faces a movie and there's nothing wrong with a movie you know cuz movies are fun it's like you sit down and you just indulge it as you can just enjoy it and laugh at it you know quote the lines [ __ ] insane piles of coke car bombs and itchy trigger fingers it's the fear factor at startup face that makes for some unforgettable scenes and like all good nightmares these are the memories that never go away why kill your brother first [Applause] [Music] why don't you try sticking your head off jars when I look back and remember those two sequences the one is the chainsaw thing because of the way I think Bryan orchestrated it then how he he built it [Applause] [Applause] it seems at times all you can do is put your finger in the dike and pray but now there's an acquaintance the other would be the best MC no one cover less honest maybe because if this one sitting on him mother bear true capitalism ever I met one how would you know bubble this garbage was recognized by my associated love listen informer for the police we hung a flurry from a crane basically but the stuntman dick seikar had to leap out of a helicopter with a noose around his neck [Music] we only do once I hope that nobody gets hurt oh you take this beautiful nice bare hands [Music] I really like the scene in the beginning where we're sitting in the coffee shop drinking Cuban coffee it's just a scene that I remember because of the conditions it's like 40 degrees at night here in LA wasn't lame he was shot in LA under the freeway Dan and it's supposed to be Miami summer and that kind of night in Miami you could usually count on like 95 degrees and really really humid but it was 40 degrees that night so we're wearing t-shirts and it's two soaking wet you just you're like it's just a natural thing you're the hair your hair is always wet your foreheads always wet your backs always so but it was 40 degrees here so they had to spritz us you know before every shot teeth chattering teeth chattering haha the first scene we shoot [Music] I'm hot I'm hot Oh hot you know you have to just tell you said yourself I wanted the last part of the way to be about paranoia I thought that he'd be a great well it'd be a great finale for him to be buried in a mound of gold dust or cocaine you know like just crash you know [Music] the ultimate ultimate see there's so so gangster is when he goes to the house and he gets Michelle Pfeiffer and he's standing in the window and the blimp flies by and says the world is you crazy guests crazy gags gives you goosebumps were you thinking I always felt like it was one of those dark underdogs that would someday find its proper place that it had its own thing to say and that excess was part of that job that excess was part of that style that Brian brought to it everybody that every time to make a new movie they come over and do Tony Montana for me know whether it's Bruce Willis to dusk incredible Tony Montana or Tom Cruise who does have credible Tony Montana or Alec Baldwin I mean you know they all do them I mean it's like you know we used to do Marlon Brando and on the waterfront it's such a audacious character with such wonderful wounds now acquainted what you gonna love me again and how did such an incredible performance that you know every actor in the world loves to play that part Scarface was my first opportunity to work with a truly great actor and a truly great script and from that I grew as a director I could say that of the movies I've made it is one of my favorite films I picked the two dimensions not three dimensions for this character it's like this side and that side I didn't try to go into another area with it and so I felt in terms of that I managed succeeded and when you look it back you say this is really good I was a combative collaboration but I think we made a really fine film out of it and I'm very proud of my collaborators they're all great artists so in that sort of traditional Hollywood way we have a great producer and a great after a great director in a big span around the during three moving [Music] Joe don't know when will he find out it's a reality show that's not real the 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Length: 41min 59sec (2519 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 22 2020