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...Highlight Reel: 1. On the first Scarface, Howard Hawks' 1932 adaptation of the Armitage Trail novel: The film faced considerable censorship challenges from the Hays Office, which oversaw the industry's Production Code. In fact, two different cuts of the film were eventually created, and individual states could decide which version should play on their screens. "Accused of being too violent, plagued by censorship problems, scripted by a flamboyant writer, and starring an actor who sometimes went over the top on his accent - remind you of a movie we know? The 1932 Scarface both dovetails and diverges from its sequel...
...film's impact on the music industry: "Snoop Dogg told me that Scarface laid out everything a gangsta needed to know: how to handle himself, how to live by a code of making money that may be gotten in illegal ways, but having a kind of morality. He would not kill that man's wife and kids with that bomb, you've got to remember that. He had limits ... You can watch it for fun, to get off on his big guns and 'Say hello to my little friend' ... But you can also use it the way businessmen use self...
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...There’s an odd sort of integrity, a sui generis moral code in the movie that in no way corresponds with its quality. Most of the dialogue amounts to unimaginative and unnecessary narration delivered by actors who couldn’t convince you to buy toothpaste, let alone their performances. As for production values, half the film takes place in a bathroom. There are no frills, no flourishes, no showy fountains of blood or heart-pounding chase sequences with the camera trained on the victim’s bouncing bosoms...
...that country's first President, Atatürk steered resolutely westward, implementing radical reforms. He removed all references to Islamic Shari'a law from the statutes, introduced a Swiss-based legal code, abolished religious education in schools, introduced women's rights and changed the alphabet from Arabic to Latin...