ty to the fringes of the city. Hawks focuses on the central character as one distorted vision of the American Dream, represented in the film in terms of crime rather than acceptable routes to success.
             Tim Dirks points out how Hawks makes use of certain motifs in the film to convey meaning, such as the use of the symbol "X":
             The film inventively uses a visual "X" motif throughout to signal that a murder is imminent. The X symbol takes such varied, prolific forms as shadows, gown straps, wooden cross-beams, a facial scar, a door number, and a strike symbol on a bowling score sheet. (Dirks para. 8)
             The "X" first appears under the title, in effect showing the word "Scarface" as if x-ed out. Other characters are x-ed out by the r
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