how can the 1983 movie "Scarface" be used as a teaching tool?

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how can the 1983 movie "Scarface" be used as a teaching tool

Answer 1

Everybody here has some great ideas - they're dead-on. Myself, I think the film can be used as an anti-morality tale in its depiction of materialism.

Keeping this in mind, I think it's important to note two scenes. The first is when Tony laments over the fact that he can't have children with Elvira because of her drug abuse. It's curious that, here's a man who can buy anything he wants, pay off anyone he wants, yet the one thing in life he wants most - a family - he can't have, and no amount of money will get it for him.

Second is the final scene - the image of Tony lying face down in his watery grave with his lurid The World is Yours statue towering above him. It's a perfect epitaph - and a mockery. The world WAS his - now he's dead and all of that means nothing.

Going back to the original point about materialism, I think these two scenes (among others) demonstrate two, simple truths: (1) money cannot buy what is most important in life and (2) material things mean nothing after death.

I'm glad you see "Scarface" as a teaching tool, because I think too many shove it aside as another, ultra-violent film. It is, no denying that, but it's much more. And I think that's why it's especially popular with young people who have grown up with parents (and a culture) consumed with getting stuff and having the best and the latest of everything.

You can get everything in the world - even the world itself - but it doesn't mean anything if it takes control of you.

Cheers!! :)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I think it was to mean not to let anyone goad you into doing something.

I think it was the scene where the kid was goaded into shooting his cousin or something.

Pacino said that was put in there strictly to show people that others will goad you to do something you don't want to do and most times it comes with circumstances you cannot control.

Answer 4

CTU - you took the words right out of my mouth. Are you a film student? Excellent references.

Answer 5

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Blind ambition is dangerous.

Answer 6

Don't let instant fortune and success get to your head.

Answer 7

This is your brain....this is your brain on Cocaine. - Don't do drugs! lol