supersoul

Let's not kid ourselves, this is anything but your usual mafia movie. De Palma, with Scarface, pulls the American gangster film away from that aura of tragic hero imposed by a moralistic stance on the giants of the genre like Howard Hawks, where the antagonist provoked both fear and pity in the audience. Tony, on the other hand, is excessive and deserves no compassion, not even from the viewer. Rather, it's the stereotype that "Carlito's Way" falls into, which in this sense is not innovative. Think of all those films with the bandit who realizes he no longer belongs to the world he's always wallowed in and seeks a new life, like Bogart in the great "Deadly Is the Female" (or all those magnificent losers of Sam Peckinpah's twilight westerns). The ending is beautiful, a testament to De Palma's virtuosity: the fear of the subway crowd, the fear of open space where one is exposed, the image of the woman coming to life in the advertisement for the Bahamas, where Carlito dreams of ending his life with his woman. In this film, is Sean Penn better than Al Pacino? Here we see the difference between an actor who is constantly over the top and a master who dominates the scene. If Penn had played Tony Montana, we would have been rolling on the floor laughing. :))))

I remember the same film made by Tony Richardson in 1970 with Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly; I think it was called "I fratelli Kelly" in Italian. Even though Richardson was a good director, I remember the film as rather dull. Perhaps if I watch this one, I might reevaluate the other...

Primiballi is right: it's a matter of vibes... even though I have double the years of Franci, I find myself in sync with him. If you’re someone who loves rock wholeheartedly, you might think that the perfect song is "Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf. If you love pop but have a knack for irony and not taking things too seriously, you might be obsessed with "Making Plans For Nigel" by XTC. If, on the other hand, you’re on the same wavelength as a splendid forty-something doing a review between one client and another at the bourgeois studio, then this sweet talk from Sting and company works just fine. That's all there is to it ;)

I would say not just "Dazed and confused." Listen to "Too Long" on this record and then "The Rain Song" on Houses of the Holy by Led Zep. When Plant's vocals come in, they're practically taken from Holmes's track... those clever Zep have recreated the same atmosphere.

"Trip Thru Hell" the absolute top of US psychedelia?... mmmm the C.A. Quintet has never fully convinced me, beautiful and experimental suites in the Morricone style with Kevin Erwin's trumpet (like the title track) and catchy little songs like "Blow my soul". A very strange group indeed.

I wouldn't be as drastic as a trilobite... then what happened? Maybe the great musical currents we liked ran out, not rock itself. The same Paisley that we liked so much was nothing more than a revival from a scene of young people who, despite coming from punk (take the Three o' Clock of Mike Quercio), got tired of being angry at everything and everyone and returned to that sixties atmosphere immersed in a harmonious context with the world. Unfortunately, in recent times of rock with a certain depth, compounded by the world's drift into crap, it seems that such an approach is now an even worse utopia than communism, so you have to be depressed like the grunge guys or grunt like the metalheads.

Jack was a coincidence, it happened once when I played the SuperEnalotto!!!!