{"id":169191,"date":"2021-06-29T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=169191"},"modified":"2021-06-29T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:42:37","slug":"x-marks-the-spot-in-scarface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=169191","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;X&#8221; Marks the Spot in <i>Scarface<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x-e1624969221674.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"538\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<big>&#8220;In the papers, in those days, they\u2019d print pictures of where murders occurred and they always wrote &#8216;X marks the spot&#8217; where the corpse was. So we used Xs all through the film. When anyone connected with the picture thought up some way of using an X, I\u2019d give him a bonus.&#8221; &#8212; Howard Hawks to Peter Bogdanovich<\/big><\/p>\n<p>\nThe X-es are so obvious I can&#8217;t believe people wouldn&#8217;t perceive it, even if they didn&#8217;t know this backstage story.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s an X on the screen somewhere, you know the character is dunzo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x1-e1624969230108.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169193\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x4-e1624969239906.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"527\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x3-e1624969247835.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"527\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x5-e1624969255325.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"530\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x6-e1624969262392.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x7-e1624969270995.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169198\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x12-e1624969281324.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"523\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x10-e1624969289682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x13-e1624969297264.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"527\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x14-e1624969305673.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/x15-e1624969313705.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"523\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the papers, in those days, they\u2019d print pictures of where murders occurred and they always wrote &#8216;X marks the spot&#8217; where the corpse was. 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