Comments on Thanks for the Use of the Hall - Archive: Scarface: MOMA, December 16, 2007

The dodgem analogy is a great one. All those car c...

2007-12-26T08:36:00.000-05:00

The dodgem analogy is a great one. All those car crashes -- like a seventies movie that's gone back in time! -- make me feel the pain of pre-crashbag transport without safety features, the grand old days when folks got impaled on steering columns or cut up on dashboards. For a film without graphic gore there's a strong sense of potential injury throughout. Just been reading Donald Westlake and he

David - I don't feel so much jolted by the violenc...

2007-12-25T17:51:00.000-05:00

David - I don't feel so much jolted by the violence in Scarface as, I don't know, slapped around? It's like riding in a dodgem car and getting slammed into the walls a lot. The violence in White Heat is more tied to Cody's presence; the human aspect of the violence in Scarface seems less obtrusive.

I'm not so much jolted by the violence (as I am in...

2007-12-22T07:39:00.000-05:00

I'm not so much jolted by the violence (as I am in WHITE HEAT) as swept along and astonished by the pace and the narrative ferocity. But it certainly IS an interesting film to measure our responses to film violence with, as you say, since it clearly allows us to vicariously revel in this stuff. One reason I feel less offended by this movie than by, say, the remake, is the lack of vulgarity to

Daniel - I hope my description doesn't have you ex...

2007-12-16T04:23:00.000-05:00

Daniel - I hope my description doesn't have you expecting a gorefest. I suppose one has to put oneself in a 1932 state of mind to be jolted by the violence in the film.

Interesting angle, I haven't seen the film in year...

2007-12-15T20:41:00.000-05:00

Interesting angle, I haven't seen the film in years and clearly don't remember its violence but I do remember its speed. I'll be there tomorrow!