Drug Talk with Scarface

MOVIES
Cocaine: The drug gives inspired filmmakers a licence to drive well over the speed limit


Things do, in fact, go better with coke, provided you’re talking about movies. And when it comes to gangster movies, cocaine is the best thing to happen since machine guns, black sedans and sound technology.

Take Scarface as a case in point. In its first incarnation, directed by Howard Hawks in 1932, Paul Muni’s Capone-inspired bad guy Tony Camonte is a nasty piece of work. He’s got ambition to burn, and his own sense of grandiosity ultimately leads not only to the death of all his friends and loved ones, but Tony himself. There’s a lesson in that.

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