Death creeps in with the dawn in the expressionistic opening scene of Howard Hawks’s “Scarface” (1932). A streetlamp shines like the moon before going dim as a milkman makes a delivery.

Scarface was the most controversial film of ... and excitedly proposed doing their own version, approaching Stone and their go-to director at that time, Sidney Lumet. Stone wasn’t keen at ...

Scarface’s verse on that track was raw, honest, and haunting. It was one of those songs that tapped into something real. From the beat to Scarface’s chilling lines, everything just hit.