![]() ![]() It’s what leads to his first contact with Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) The image is almost the inverse one of the scene where Lopez himself decides to off Tony Montana and which will instead lead to his own demise. ![]() Note below, Tony Montana’s phone call after the chainsaw scene with the Columbians were he manages to obtain both the coke and the money in spite of the suspicion that he’s been set up by by Omar (F. Most of this post will be about that.īut before that let’s just establish how the colour is designed and patterned. Note also that foot and the patch of purple or violet on the lower right-hand side of the frame. It’s patterned, meaningful, great use of colour and set design. It’s like the colour of killing leads to the whiteness of the coke, which is nonetheless enshrouded in the darkness one has accept and travel through to get to the gold. The red-carpet is like a pathway of blood, leading up to that oh-so-white and oh-so-deadly - ‘don’t get high on your own supply’ - little mountain of coke on the desk, all the darkness of the furniture showing edges of gold, including those two big bars that seem to frame the desk itself. But what caught my eye in my most recent viewing is how the film’s set, costume and colour design - not to mention all other elements of mise-en-scène - also build up to this moment. Pacino’s performance is galvanising and his reading of that line unforgettable: we now have over 35 years’ evidence that this is so. Practically everyone knows or has heard the line either in the movie or cited or imitated elsewhere. The image above is from one of Scarface‘s most iconic moments: ‘say hello to my little friend’.
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