How Does De Palma Create His Signature Style?

De Palma is well known for his hit with his Scarface remake in 1983. This is because he used his own signature style on this movie creating use of stylized violence which gave this film a high attraction to his style. This film is jam packed with exciting gangster confrontations. Including use of many weapons such as, bullets, guns, chain saws not to mention the high amounts of cocaine. De Palma’s movies began to evolve around tackling issues of psychotics, gangsters, killers and using these tales in a way to create his signature style by adding his own subversive sensibility. Which is what makes this film so aesthetically pleasing created by his signature style. Brian gave us a sense of glamorised violence and well dressed criminals living a better life than the poorer legal workers. This film was brought out in 1983 when America was only just recovering from its worst economy depression. Which is what Brian intended to do by showing his viewers what was actually happening in the 80’s by being shown their cultural values with exaggeration to aware them of the social and political issues that time in America.

Brian shows American’s the real world and what is happening in the 80’s such as ‘Tony’ an immigrant making his way up the table , yes in an illegal way but he is shown as the top man with all the beautiful women all the money  and big house living this so called American Dream but is this the way Brian wants to show this immigrants stereotype they are breaking the law but why? Having to escape a bad life through crime and drugs to live sustainably but with gaining access to ease of money carrying out the issue until the end and becoming greedy. Brian shows us this straight from the escape right up to not knowing when to stop when to give in and run from it all over again.

Here is a quote from Brian's interview book:







This quote clearly shows how bad he wants his audience to react to the effects of blood, he sarcastically speaks to his staff by saying 'what ware we making here ? Cinderella' clearly showing that he wants his films to be gory as possible to shock the audience.

Source Page 83, Brian De Palma Interviews:
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