Death creeps in with the dawn in the expressionistic opening scene of Howard Hawks’s “Scarface” (1932). A streetlamp shines like the moon before going dim as a milkman makes a delivery.
Scarface’s verse on that track was raw, honest, and haunting. It was one of those songs that tapped into something real. From the beat to Scarface’s chilling lines, everything just hit.
[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...
The famously private Scarface actor-who titled the book after ... Pacino added: "I tell it [death] to go away." Before ‘The Godfather’ turned themes of loyalty and betrayal into movie gold ...