Brief Thoughts on Hawks' Scarface
“Out of that whirlwind no voice spoke and the pilgrim lying in his broken bones may cry out and in his anguish he may rage, but rage at what? And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among the sand by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?”
-Blood Meridian
Desire is the motor of the world, and objects of desire cannot ever be shared. In Scarface, those who touch upon force to obtain these objects enter into a spiral of death. Paul Muni, despite his constant wielding of force, is traversed by fear and fragility in the depths of his being. He is a man whose wounds will not fully heal and will forever scar his flesh. And not having respected the power of force, he unleashes something which he is not strong enough to withstand.
Muni’s sister, Ann Dvorak, in the moment when force is stripping her body of the soul which occupies it, describes to him that she feels “all hollow inside”. Howard Hawks always seems to be in fear of the hollowing out of the body. In his films he confronts his cowboys, his scientists, his gangsters and his pharoahs to this process. And through this confrontation he takes us to that place he so knows so well, that place that awakens us, deep in our stomachs, where Sex and Death intertwine
“Because during those seconds, eyes shut, I was becoming aware of myself as one becomes aware of a taste: all of me tasted of steel and verdigris, I was all acid like metal on the tongue, like a crushed green plant, my whole taste rose to my mouth.”
-The Passion According to G.H.
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