By “taking it” as a send up you’re basically rewriting the movie to your liking. Scarface has a pretty strong following outside of the normal cinephile group, just like the article points out, you can walk into any poster store in this country and find half a dozen posters for it on prominent display. It’s got all that larger than life stuff that brings normal people to the movies.
Haven’t seen Blow Out, looks interesting though, popped it into the Netflix queue.
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“Scarface has a pretty strong following outside of the normal cinephile group, just like the article points out, you can walk into any poster store in this country and find half a dozen posters for it on prominent display. It’s got all that larger than life stuff that brings normal people to the movies.”
You and the article seem to take the stance that 50 million hi-hoppers can’t be wrong (him after the fact, you apparently all along). Well, they can. There were wrong according to you when they didn’t like in the first place, right? So happens that “Scarface” is enjoyable on a certain level, and may be, as you say, “fun.” But there’s fun and there’s good and fun. “Scarface” is fun without being good. Poster store patrons would do well to drift on over to better, and equally as fun, gansta pictures like “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas.”
At least one significant critic thinks it was a comedy and loves it on those grounds. Al Pacino described it as Brechtian.