(david bordwell) so that in some sense the style is illusionistic. are you ready, ilsa?rdwell) the style is saying, "come into this world." bye, rick. god bless you. better hurry or you'll miss that plane. the audience isn't distracted from following the story and the characters' flow by an uncertainty about the style itself. (narrator) the invisible style perfected in "casablanca" was reproduced in picture after picture. but hollywood was flexible, encouraging its best directors to bring their own individual flair and eccentricity to a house studio style. howard hawks was one director who obeyed hollywood's rules but still bring his understated slightly ironic stamp to a legendary gangster picture like "scarface." we just collected actors and went ahead and made it. and the whole thing was a challenge and a lot of fun, especially to have it turn out very well and become kind of a legend. a regular audience would look at it and say, it's a gangster picture and really enjoyable and great and the bad guy gets his at the end and all that. but when you go, there's something