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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Al Pacino Says Hip Hop Is Responsible for the Succes of One of the Biggest Movies of His Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Martin Scorsese's nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: three crime Kingpinsagat Scarface starring al Pacino, is considered an
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  Speaker 1: all time classic today by most cinophiles and movie critics,
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  Speaker 1: but the movie wasn't received the same way when it
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  Speaker 1: hit theaters in nineteen eighty three. In fact, it was
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  Speaker 1: almost universally panned in reviews, and while it did fairly
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  Speaker 1: well at the box office, it wasn't a smash, and
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  Speaker 1: when it left theaters many thought it would just bade
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  Speaker 1: into obscurity. But al Pacino is very clear about what
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  Speaker 1: he thinks kept the movie relevant, lucrative, and helped turned
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  Speaker 1: critical opinion hip hop. He tells the WTF podcast. The
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  Speaker 1: audiences liked it, the critics took a while, but hip
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  Speaker 1: hop just got it. They understood it, the rappers embraced it,
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  Speaker 1: and then next thing you know, VHS came out and
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  Speaker 1: more people got to see it. Plus the movie was
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  Speaker 1: getting rapped about on their records, and then it just
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  Speaker 1: carried away and it kept going and going. Al Pacino
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  Speaker 1: on hip hop embracing Scarface rappers from jay Z to
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  Speaker 1: Wu Tang to Scarface himself, who took his name from
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  Speaker 1: the movie. All gave love to the film and a song.
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  Speaker 1: Al's new memoir Sonny Boys out now that's direct from Hollywood.