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Word is that Universal is going to make a third version of "Scarface," which brings up some intersting speculation:

The film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: an outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a twisted version of the American dream, becoming a kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition. The studio is keeping the specifics of where the new Tony character comes from under wraps at the moment, but ethnicity and geography were important in the first two versions. In the 1932 Scarface, an Italian (Paul Muni) took over Chicago, and in the Brian De Palma-directed remake, a Cuban cornered the cocaine trade in 1980s Miami, only to be consumed by it.

What could make for a movie as iconic for our era as an Italian in Chicago in 1932 and a Cuban in Miami in the 198s? a hip hop gangsta in New York? A jihadist in Muslim-heavy Detroit? A survivalist in Montana? An Amish gun-runner in Yoder?

Oh, wait, I was forgetting the real center of crime today: A politician in Washington.