Title: Scarface
Writer: Oliver Stone
Director: Brian De Palma
Year: 1983
Actors: Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer
Story:
In the scene where “Al Pacino (Tony Montana and Michelle Pfeiffer are at the night club, the director used traditional three point lighting, which is based on three primary sources of light, a bright key light and slightly dimmer fill light to the upper right and left sides of the camera”(Goodykoontz, & Jacob,2011). In this film lighting was very strong whereas low key lighting was barely used. The benefits of that style of lighting used was that by having bright and filler lights would help the audience feel how real the film was. Scarface scenes looked real. For the scene where there are two kids and their mother, and Al Pacino was following their car that was going to be exploded the lighting had a glare but it was filmed outdoors. All other scenes had good three point lighting except at the end when Gina shots Tony Montana the scene is too dark and blurred. I Believe that the scene was perfect as it is and if there had been different choices made, it would have changed the whole movie and maybe the audience wouldn’t have cared too much for this movie.The graphic language used in this movie is what the audience critizise, The actors could have used less of those words and everything would have turned out fine. This film was and still is famous to a lot of people. It is a gangster movie genre.
References:
Scarface(1/8)movie clip-Political Prisoner (1983) H.D. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZgE_sUrXFY&list=PL9AC85FC3F15BF7A2
Goodykoontz,B.& Jacobs, C. P. (2011) Film from watching to seeing. San Diego,CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
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