Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his mettle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him.
Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down. Crazy CreditsIn the opening we see a crawl text (with narrator) that reads: 'In May of 1980, Fidel Castro in an effort to normalize relations with the Carter Administration opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the apparent intention of letting some of his people join their relatives in the United States.
Within seventy-two hours, 3,000 U.S. Boats were headed for Cuba. In the next few weeks, it became evident that Castro was forcing the boat owners to carry back with them not only their relatives but the dregs of his jail population. By the time the port was closed 125,000 'Marielitos' had landed in Florida.
An estimated 25,000 had criminal records. This is the story of that minority those they call 'Los Bandidos'.' In the tradition of the Godfather films, director Brian DePalma has brought Oliver Stone's creation Scarface to the big screen.
It is the archetypal `rags to riches' story of a young Cuban refugee named Tony Montana. Al Pacino more than fulfils this role as he conveys the ruthless nature of Montana and likewise the ruthless nature of Miami's Cocaine underworld.
Although Montana's ultimate position in life is morally wrong, he is a character with unequalled resolve. DePalma brings the audience not only into the inner recesses of Montana's world, but also the reality of the world that he has built.
Spoiler Alert: While it’s highly unlikely anyone on this site hasn’t seen this movie, the following article gives away its ending. Consider yourself duly warned.Say hello to my little friend. Along with the.44 Magnum bit in Dirty Harry, this line is a good contender for the most famous yet delivered about a firearm in all of filmdom.It belongs, of course, to ’s character, aka Scarface.
He says it in the film’s climatic, gun-orgy-of-a-scene as he introduces a double-clipped M16A1 with attached M203 40mm grenade launcher to his “house guests”, a squad of heavily armed assassins sent by (Paul Shenar), the Bolivian cocaine kingpin. The result is some serious carnage; think Animal House meets Apocalypse Now! Anyway, in high school in 1983 when the film came out, we couldn’t get enough of it and “Say hello to my little friend” became our tag line for all kinds of goofiness—some of it funny, most of it crude.But the M16A1, the film’s little friend, had a whole host of buddies who went bang as well. Let’s reminisce and meet them all, shall we?Tony Montana wore a sidearm, a Beretta Model 81, as normally as he wore clothes.
It’s the pistol he pulls on, the cocaine kingpin who first gave Tony his start in the drug business, but then who later tried to have Tony killed at the disco. That made Tony mad. Surprising Frank and corrupt after the botched hit, Tony and his sidekick Manny dispatch the pair in a classic scene.The first automatic weapon we meet in the film is a, complete with suppressor. That seriously hard-looking – yet disturbingly alluring – chick from the Columbian drug gang holds one on Tony while the bad bad guys chain one of the good bad guys to the bathroom shower curtain for the gruesome chainsaw scene. (By the way, Scarface was the first movie to have ever earned an ‘X’ rating for violence alone, a mark of box office poison that forced director Brian de Palma to seriously tone down the gore; the Scarface that we know and love today is this kinder, gentler version. Sort of makes the mind reel.)Another great gun is Scarface is the classic, the Israeli made machine gun that burps more bullets than a frat house of college boys burps beer. Chi Chi, one of Tony’s sidekicks with him from the botched Colombian drug deal days, uses one to welcome his boss’ unexpected guests in the film’s final scene.And let’s not forget the l that Gina, Tony’s sister, absolutely sucks at when she tries to kill Tony, too.
(Tony made her mad when he killed his sidekick Manny, Gina’s secret beau).But back to that final scene, the “Say hello to my little friend” scene, which, if you pause it and know what you’re looking for, can spot a, a Valmet M82A, a Heckler & Koch HK33 and, of course, that sawed-off, double-barreled Spanish Zabala, the one held by that truly wicked-looking guy who sneaks up behind Tony and blasts both barrels into his back at point blank range.To conclude, it’s hard to believe that some people actually live like this, and, to be honest, I feel a little guilty that I enjoy this film so much. Every now and then, I’ll dust off a video and pop it in the VCR, (yeah, I still have one), pop some popcorn, ice down some cold ones, and invite over all of my little friends.