Author: Hilary Lewis / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Michelle Pfeiffer, also present for a postscreening discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival, talked about “starving” to play her cocaine- addicted character after a poorly worded question from the moderator prompted boos from an audience of rabid fans.
Scarface fans didn’t need mounds of cocaine to pump themselves up to see Al Pacino; Michelle Pfeiffer; director Brian De Palma; and co-star Steven Bauer, who played Pacino’s character’s gangster sidekick Manny, at a 35th anniversary screening of the beloved drug kingpin drama at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The packed, sold-out audience at New York’s Beacon Theatre cheered throughout a postscreening discussion with the cast (and booed at one poorly worded question from the moderator, writer Jesse Kornbluth) and even gave Pacino a standing ovation as he took the stage.
Though the film was released in 1983, viewers watching the movie now might be reminded of some present-day public figures, including perhaps one in the White House, with echoes of lead character Tony Montana’s bravado and ego. At one point in the film, Montana proclaims, “Who put this thing together? Me, that’s who! Who do I trust? Me.”
Kornbluth brought up that quote, saying that it possibly “suggests what life is like this year.” But the actor wouldn’t take the bait, saying simply, “I didn’t think we would get political. … George Washington?”
But DePalma mused about Montana’s modern-day contemporaries as he revealed what attracted him to the story.
“I’ve always been interested about making movies about people who start rather humbly and then acquire a great deal of power and then ultimately isolate themselves and live in their own world,” he said, wondering aloud, “Could that be anything we’re experiencing now?”A remake of the Pacino starrer, which itself was a remake, has been in the works for a couple of years and was initially set to be released this year, but is now unscheduled after studio Universal parted ways with director David Ayer.
Pacino previously told The Hollywood Reporter of the new remake, “Oh, it’s fine,” calling the plans “interesting.”
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