ya know when one look at this brian depalma film today and i be sure there have be allot of criticism about how dated it be . also and about the violence . when i look at this film on vhs when i be 20 and i think it be ulta violent and gritty as well . but i do not get it . a few decade go by and man and how i know how much i do not get in this film . this be a remake of an excellent film which be do back in the 30 /40 . how can you improve upon a classic . ya do not . but you tell a tale that be bring up to date through the eye of the new immigrant during the most greed ridden decade and the over indulgent 80 . depalma and stone and the gang present an ambitious and disturbing and darn right good film . yes . disco be die and new wave or punk be take over but these immigrant from cuba who have to make a new home in florida couldn not tell the difference . it be excite and it be what they want but how to get it . to these immigrant and there be only one way to get it in florida where they be . by have lot of money and to get the money and you have to take over run a drug empire . al pacino be fantastic to me a tony montana and the little train that could . what an amazing way to have your lead character look at america represent to fight and kill and steal . lie and cheat all to get the money and the woman and the power . that what tony saw a the american dream . he want it and he want to live it and in his circle saw nothing wrong with how he go to get it . tony montana command of the english language be heavily saturate with the f word but what do you expect and emily post finishing school for him and his co horts . look at how they come to america and what they know and what they be expose to . this be the way tony and his crew choose to be all they can be in america . it be all about the power . tony montana would and do anything to achieve it . it all it violent and lying and stealing and crooked and thieve glory . the part of the film that personify the 1980 to me and be the money laundering . tony crew bring sack of drug money to the bank . do those around tony and his crew care . at the club where he spend and drank . nope . money be money and with money and you get the power . tony be live high off the hog . he and his pretty blond american trophy he marry play well by michelle pfieffer . after tony montana rise to power and he find out it really crappy up there . he riddle with doubt and he drug addict and he paranoid and he surround by those who want to take him on in a bloody take over and his trophy 80 american blonde drug addict wife he find out be a bore and he need to keep atop of his empire because . he go down . and down he go in a horrific violent fashion and but again i ask and what do you expect . this be the quintessential 1980 film tell you a warped tale of how some misunderstand the american dream . to obsession . it violent and bloody and overly so . but it drive the point disturbingly home . not all cuban throw out of cuba who land in florida in the 80 be anything like tony montana . give me a break . but the showing of how miserable the 1980 be with it emphasis on greed and money a the only measure in the usa to be somebody and have power take it tool on these poor character and their life in america . make you wonder have anything from then be learn today .