It is Scarface's impact on the fantasy lives of urban moviegoers?the subcult that creates the fashions, music, lingo and news fodder for the rest of the country?that has helped extend the greed of the Reagan 80s into the new millennium's social desperation. By ignoring Scarface, they have set themselves up to remain ignorant about the last two decades of changes in American society. For the past 20 years, the appeal and influence of Scarface has flourished in America as if under the radar of all the movie magazines, buff websites, film festivals and high-profile critics. It's hard to think of any other movie release that has so clearly revealed the true class, race and moral divisions of contemporary popular culture.įace it: Movie-fads like Memento, Fight Club, The Blair Witch Project were primarily white cultural events (and their less-impressive DVD sales reflect the relative "minority" status of their lasting significance). That's a record number?the highest ever?yet the mainstream media has dismissed the re-release of this film as a "minority" cultural event. Advance orders for the new double DVD release of Brian De Palma's 1983 Scarface have been announced as two million.
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