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well, sorta.
maybe ebert isn't soft on black films because he's married to a black woman. maybe it's like peter griffin from family guy: husband, father, . . .brother?
Peter: Holy crap, I'm black!
AHHH!!!
maybe he was eminem before marshall mathers.
for the love of god, if someone finds a picture of ebert sporting a white man's fro, i'm ready to sign over the reparations check.
HE GAVE SCARFACE FOUR STARS BACK IN 1983.
before rappers were co-opting the movie as their own and sisquo was proclaiming its greatness, ebert was already calling it brilliant and putting it up there with "the godfather."
it becomes a part of his "great movies" in about a week and a half!
roger ebert, do we know thee?
excerpt from original review:
Most thrillers use interchangeable characters, and most gangster movies are more interested in action than personality, but "Scarface" is one of those special movies, like "The Godfather," that is willing to take a flawed, evil man and allow him to be human.
That Hawks film was the most violent gangster film of its time, and this 1983 film by Brian De Palma also has been surrounded by a controversy over its violence, but in both movies the violence grows out of the lives of the characters; it isn't used for thrills but for a sort of harrowing lesson about self-destruction.
It's also an exciting crime picture, in the tradition of the 1932 movie. And, like the "Godfather" movies, it's a gallery of wonderful supporting performances. - you see, "there's something going on . . ."
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