Taken from: http://www.doubleviking.com/the-top-ten-most-misunderstood-movies-ever-made-3632-p.html
Scarface
What everyone thinks the message is: Tony Montana is awesome!
What it actually is: No, he isn’t!
If
there is any cultural phenomenon more widespread or more infuriating
than the wholesale misunderstanding of Scarface by the gangster rap
community, I don’t know what it is. Either every copy of Scarface in
the ghetto has the last half of the movie edited out, or America is
dumber than anyone could have ever truly considered.
Wannabe
gangstas(z) look at Tony Montana’s rise, and they think, “That’s me.
He’s uncompromising, he’s ambitious, he’s intelligent, and he’s got
morals. He is a product of his environment, but he’s made the most out
of it and is a relative hero amongst villains.”
Then they
look at Tony Montana’s fall, where he abandons his mother, loses
Michelle Pfieffer, fucking murders his best friend, involuntarily gets
his sister shot, and then gets blown in half by a shotgun, they think,
“Let’s watch the first half again.”
Honestly, how
ridiculous a world do we live in where an entire generational subgroup
admires the aesthetics of a drug-fueled gangster flick, but not its
overall message?
Not to mention, this general attitude
led to the creation of the alternate-reality Scarface video game, where
Tony survives the shootout.
But let’s not think about that right now. | 
