The Shame Of The Nation Film Analysis

This paper will serve to analyze these brilliant Gangster genre films, and will do so through a compare and contrast format. In both films even though they are five decades apart are impressively similar and yet have major differences that I will go over in my essay analysis. These films are about an immigrant man’s lust of power, beautiful women, violence, and getting money at any means necessary. Controversial issues in completely different film making eras with power struggles, drugs, violence, dialogue, action sequences, and visual motifs. Scarface “The Shame of the Nation” (1932) directed by Howard Hawk was made during a time where censorship played a role in how this movie was eventually portrayed and edited. In the beginning

Both Tony’s use cigarettes as a prop and are frequently seen smoking. Both Tony’s had an insane way about them in both ending scene they are seen as provoking or egging on the police or other crews to start shooting like he is invincible.
Scarface (1983) has a more horrific gruesome murder scenes like with chainsaw murder in the hotel room. Scarface (1932) has killings with silhouettes or shadows however you don’t see the damage so you don’t get the same visual effects. Also the era in which the movies were made the earlier version was in black and white with very little music. Whereas in the 1983 version music helped set the tone for many scenes. In conclusion, Scarface (1932) versus Scarface (1983) films come from entirely different time periods they have surprising many similarities. Many of the same quotes, props, criminal activity, endings, and motifs were used in both films but modernized in the 1983 version to have more of a real time effect. A lust for power, money, and beautiful women lead to a road of destruction and death for both leading