Love & Lust on Film: Scarface, Bridget Jones and Lessons Learned - Page 2

Tony Montana wants, as he says, “what’s coming to me,” which is “the world and everything in it.” Never satisfied, never settled, the immigrant with the chip on the shoulder who sees Miami as “ a great big pussy just waiting to be fucked,” and he’s the guy to do it. I love that he sees himself so well endowed; it shows a moxie and an appealing verve that today’s sensitive men lack (or more accurately, feel they must keep under wraps.) Tony’s energy is violent, sexual, intense; he’s all about conquest and triumph and most of all, proving himself. A guy who knows that in “this country, you gotta get the money first” That money is power and all flows from that.

When Elvira laughs and mocks at his tiger-striped, tricked-out Cadillac (read; his interpretation of money versus what people who have money do), he goes and buys a new car, bringing her along. She canpick the car. He’s adapative, comprising, and mostly, wooing. That he’s willing to shake-off the guido-trappings he can then have the ultimate American male accessory – the beautiful and aloff womean who doesn’t give a shit, and as she says, “doesn’t fuck around with the help” which is him, but not matter. She will. The icier she is, the harder he tries. It’s a little dance we see a lot on our society and I wonder why we can’t just say what we mean and mean what we say and why we have to pretend we’re not interested in the first place. But okay.

Her nose is packed with coke, she needs to relax more than a little and should be doing Valium and Prozac and Ritalin instead of coke and she does look like she needs to be fucked, especially by someone like Tony Montana. But what Elvira fears is her own sexual appetite – and basically anything that makes her human, and this reminds me of other girls.

My point is that Elvira is afraid of need and wanting which is like a lot of girls in the world that I see every day. We kill our natural desire will pills and yoga and shopping and expensive highlights and blow-outs and make–up from Nars and Armani that we don’t need, but believe are The Answer, because all these panaceas makes us feel better - for a brief time.

Am I the only one who finds it odd that we pursue the latest make-up or perfume to create the seasons’ smoky lid and crimson lips and cheeks all flushed and wear blush called Orgasm and wear perfume that smells of musk and civet (from the balls of a wild cat), all in an effort to create the illusion that we have just had a night of mind-blowing, boot-banging, spank me-fuck me sex with some guy like Tony Montana.

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Article comments

  • 1 - Eric Olsen

    May 27, 2004 at 1:18 pm

    Whoa, that's something Sadi, thanks and welcome! Never has gardening sounded so appealing.

  • 2 - Chris Kent

    May 27, 2004 at 1:24 pm

    ----these are girls with giant blue vibrators tucked away in their Pier I night-tables----

    Sadi, I did not want to know this!!!!

    Nice work, and interesting to see things in your perspective - though you use the word "fuck" more than Tony Montana!....;-)

  • 3 - sadi

    May 27, 2004 at 3:23 pm

    apologies for language, and i think you're right ... i hadn't realized it was so full of bad language. i promise to be better next time!

    thanks all for reading... hope you found it interesting... very gratifying to know it's being read...

    of course, it's just my opinion... and grateful for all feedback.

    sadi

  • 4 - sadi

    May 27, 2004 at 4:45 pm

    ahhh...i see the typos and i am so sorry. so now with the language and the typos, i hope i haven't totally lost anyone... though maybe for other reasons. I will be more careful in the future. thx. to all for reading... and please keep posting comments if the spirit moves you. i plan to write every week... so now Onward to next topic !~ Thx for being such a receptive audience; your comments mean everything.

    sadi

  • 5 - Eric Olsen

    May 27, 2004 at 8:36 pm

    S, if there are typos (I fixed a couple) please fell free to go back in and edit. I reedit my own posts all the time. That's why they are perfect.

  • 6 - Ant

    Jun 01, 2004 at 5:29 pm

    Sade
    I thought your colorful use of language was totally refreshing (you write in the way I talk)- and suited the topic perfectly!

    I really enjoyed the article and your style. Bravo!

  • 7 - sadi

    Jun 01, 2004 at 5:42 pm

    awww, shucks. glad to hear it, Anthony! Working on other stuff, so you'll have to check that out too... if the spirit moves ya. ;)

    keep cool

    sade

  • 8 - Erica

    Jan 13, 2005 at 6:52 am

    Sadie, just because you've had a few bad experiences in life doesn't mean true love doesn't exist..and NO I do not believe "the virginal bride" is a "silly charade." Love is hard though no doubt.

  • 9 - Eric Olsen

    Jan 13, 2005 at 8:29 am

    "true love" requires as much or more work than false love

  • 10 - Shark

    Jan 13, 2005 at 8:42 am

    Sadi sez: "...I feel most beautiful when I am alone in my garden, wearing that slightly see-through slip that I love and my Doc Marten gardening boots and no underwear and no make up and my high-lights have grown out and I’m covered in freckles and my breasts are loose in my shift and I feel full and ripe and full of life and that the world is mine for the taking."

    Whoa.

    Sadi, coupla things:

    * got jpgs?

    * Universal Law #33: ALL men are either gay or insensitive pricks; there are no exceptions.

    * ie. You shoulda been a lesbian; women are great!

    * "Masturbation: Sex with someone I love!" -- Woody Allen

    * I've never been one to define myself relative to others' expectations, but man, thanks to age and wisdom, all that crap means even less. God rewards the patient survivors with enlightenment coupled with flaccidity.

    * got jpgs?


  • 11 - sadi

    Jan 13, 2005 at 3:30 pm

    hey Shark: excellent points all, and jpegs exist, but alas not for sharing.... ;)

    the older i get, the more i wonder about this "true love" business. Yes, Eric is right; if it does exist (my issue), then it requires as much or more love than false love, no question. But i wonder how we define true love anyhow? One may know what is true for onesself, but what of the other and how they feel? How do you know whether or not their love is true?

    Yes, without a doubt, i should have been and almost was a lesbian, and odd you mention since i was just saying this to my friend P. today, who was agreeing with me. I was deeply in love with a woman who is a lesbian many years ago, and we were and are good and dear friends but things did not progress for myriad reasons - too complicated to get into here, and i think though, to the point, much to the regret of both of us likely. It's too bad. Things would have been totally different for me and for her too, no doubt. Life would be nothing like what it is today.

    Shark says All men are either gay or insensitive pricks, which i hate to believe, but experience is showing me that this may have more truth than initially believed and i do not WANT to believe that, so am happy to be proven wrong at any time. Please... show me that this is NOT the case.

    That's all i have to say. Shark, my dear friend, i would send you jpegs, but we're not that close, are we, so how can i do that? sorry sweets...

    love to all,

    sade

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