Who doesn’t remember the so many lines of one of the most legendary gangster movies of all time? Yes, we are talking about Scarface. Brian De Palma’s Scarface from Universal Pictures had an incredible impact on entire generations of people all around the world. The year 1980 marked a new decade, a new era, and the most amazing time for us that were born in the 70s. The movie Scarface takes place during the spring of 1980 when the Mariel Boat Lift took place bringing thousands of Cuban immigrants into the U.S.