Scarface

After learning about the 1930's movie code, I was on the lookout for things that should or should not be included in the movie. If I had to rate the movie on how well it followed the code, I would give it about a 50 percent. The movie producers did a great job in not showing the murders of the characters and keeping the murderer and the victim out of the same shot, as well as eliminate profanity. However the part that they did not follow was the showing of guns, trafficking of drugs, and glorification of the bad guy.

One of the other things that I noticed while watching the movie was that there was no music at all. This seemed odd due to the fact that all the other films we had watched were filled with music. The new sounds were great to hear and that might be the reason why there was no music, they might have not wanted to overpower the voices. The only thing that resembled music in this movie was the whistled that Tony did right before he killed someone.

The last thing that caught my eye was the amount of smoking that the characters in this movie did. I know that smoking was a lot more popular during this time, but I was wondering whether the cigarette and cigar companies had a role in this, because they used to use famous people to advertise their products. Every time a cigarette was lit, the match was thrown onto the ground, the cigarettes were also thrown onto the ground when finished. This made me wonder whether or not the ground was covered in cigarette butts and matches, and if it was I would feel bad for whoever had to sweep it up.

Overall I really enjoyed this movie. Characters that actually speak did wonders for the story, before sound there was hardly any dialogue shown in the film. This made it hard to get an idea of what was really happening in the movie. The sound completed the film.