Scarface = Grand Theft Auto
I watched the film Scarface for the first time this weekend. Throughout the movie I kept telling Christina, “Grand Theft Auto has got to be the video game version of this movie.” The similarities were amazing. I can remember almost every song on the soundtrack from the radio in GTA 3/ Vice City. Plus, I remembered a club in Vice City that looked just like
the “Babylon” that the characters in Scarface frequent. Wondering if anyone else had noticed, I did a google search and came up with this link, an awesome 1:1 comparison of all the similarities.
Overall, I’d give Scarface 3/5 stars. It definitely has an interesting “flavor” that I had never seen before. For the first viewing I’d say it’s slightly above average. It might improve over subsequent viewings. It also taught me about the Mariel Boatlift, which I then wiki’d and found the movie’s representation to be quite accurate.
Oooooh… we thought the same about this…. until we bought Scarface for the PS2!!!! It’s even better…
GTA has made my daughter develop a love for the 80’s music that I have never been able to cultivate….