Alejandro "Alex" Sosa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1983 American crime film Scarface and the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours. He is an international Bolivian drug lord and the chief supplier of cocaine for his business partner Tony Montana.
Eventually, Manny falls in love with Tony's sister, but the latter harshly warns him to stay away from her. Tony later finds the two together and shoots and kills Manny in a fit of rage, not knowing that he had recently married Gina. He was portrayed by the only actual Cuban-American in the main cast Steven Bauer.
Tony attempts to locate Gina and finds her with Manny. When he sees them wearing bathrobes, Tony thinks they must be having sexual intercourse. An enraged Tony shoots and kills Manny in a cocaine-fueled rage before Gina reveals that they were just married and would announce it to Tony when he returned home.
At the end of the film Gina herself suggests Tony must indeed want her because he can't stand for another man to be with her. Tony has a genuine look of confusion on his face and even asks what she's talking about. Therefore he likely did not have sexual feelings towards her.
After the botched assassination attempt, Tony returns home to learn that his sister has been missing. Upon investigating, he finds out that Gina is at Manny's house, and in a fit of rage, he kills Manny.
Manolo "Manny" Ribera, also known as Manny Ray is the deuteragonist of the 1983 epic crime drama film Scarface. He is Tony Montana's best friend and partner-in-crime, helping him in his rise in the criminal world after assassinating Frank Lopez.
At first Elvira wants nothing to do with Tony, seeing him as a nuisance. After Tony begins to amass more power within the drug world, he promises her that he will treat her better than Lopez. Realizing that she has developed feelings for him, Tony asks Elvira to marry him.
Omar Suarez is a major antagonist of the 1983 epic crime drama film Scarface, a remake of the 1932 film of the same name. He is the right-hand man of Frank Lopez, who hires Tony Montana and Manny Ribera to work in Lopez's mob. In reality, he reveals himself as a police snitch in the middle of the movie.
Robert De Niro did not want to star in it and John Travolta rejected the role of Manny, the right-hand-man of the main character, Tony Montana. Sidney Lumet resigned from directing it and predicted a flop of biblical proportions.
The Skull is a professional hitman who began working for drug kingpin, Alejandro Sosa, at an unknown stage but ended up becoming his chief henchmen and personal assassin. His real name is never given and he has no on-screen dialogue.
As it turns out, several of Tony's closest allies betrayed him. However, the most consequential might be Carlo Gervasi. Carlo was a capo and top earner for Tony. In the series finale "Made In America," Tony discovers that Carlo became an informant and posed the greatest threat to Tony going to prison.
Why did Al Pacino not want Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface?
“He was probably more intense back then, or I think it was maybe the nature of the project, and he didn't particularly want me for the part,” Pfeiffer acknowledged.
Both the film and novel are loosely based upon the life of gangster Al Capone, whose nickname was "Scarface". The names of characters and locations were changed only minimally. Capone became Camonte, Torrio became Lovo, and Moran became Doran.
Elvira is Frank Lopez's girlfriend, and she enters Tony's life as a glamorous and mysterious figure. Her icy exterior and her stunning beauty captivate Tony, and he becomes infatuated with her. Elvira's presence serves as a catalyst for a profound transformation in Tony Montana.
Coming from Cuba to Miami as a refugee, ex-convict Tony Montana used his greed, desire, and ambition to build an empire that is estimated at $900 million.
Frank Lopez sent two hitmen to kill Tony after he made a deal to work with Alejandro Sosa behind his back, and after saying he could no longer give him orders.
Melfi, Tony Soprano's Therapist. Though their relationship was short-lived, this Tony Soprano mistress was probably one of the most influential on the mafioso's psyche.
The relationship between Tony Soprano and Dr. Jennifer Melfi in The Sopranos was of the most complex in the series, but why Tony never sleeps with Dr. Melfi has been debated even after the show concluded.
How old was Al Pacino in Scarface? The character of Tony Montana was written to be in his early to mid 30s. Al Pacino, the actor, was 42-43 when the movie was filmed and it premiered.
