These included Frank Lopez, the ruthless Cuban refugee turned cocaine smuggler in Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983); a member of an extended mafia family in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor (1985); a vicious criminal in David Lynch's neo-noir Lost Highway (1997) and the intimidating old-time mobster Feech La Manna in the TV ...
A Cuban immigrant who enters into a life of crime as he seeks success in America, Antonio “Tony” Montana is known for his violence, cocaine habit, and for the movie's iconic final scene in which he wields an M16 assault rifle while shouting “Say hello to my little friend!”
In contrast to Guarino and Camonte, who were Italian immigrants, Montana is a Cuban immigrant. According to Oliver Stone, Tony's last name was inspired by then-NFL quarterback Joe Montana, Stone's favorite player. A prequel novel, Scarface: The Beginning, written by L. A. Banks, was published in 2006.
Alejandro Sosa is presented in the film as a Bolivian landowner, hailing from a rich family, educated in England and currently the business brain and drug overlord of an empire that stretches across the Andes region.
Frank Lopez is the secondary antagonist of the 1983 epic crime drama film Scarface. Frank Lopez is an aging Miami-based Cuban drug lord leading the Lopez Cartel, who asks Tony Montana and Manny Ribera to kill a former political aide to Fidel Castro.
Tony, Manny and Chi Chi visit Frank at his car dealership back office, who is with Det. Bernstein. Nick calls Frank, who confirms his involvement by playing the call off as Elvira telling him she'll be late home.
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.
Over the next year, Tony makes $75 million off 2,000 kilos of cocaine that he brings to America and is soon making $15 million every month in profits from his business relationship with Sosa.
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.
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.
Manny disappears for a while, as does Gina. Tony heads to Manny's house, where he reunites with his friend and, to his surprise, Gina, who had married Manny yesterday and was about to surprise Tony. Tony goes into a blind rage and kills Manny with two shots, much to the shock of Gina and the others.
At the time of its premiere, some believed it portrayed Cubans, particularly those who fled during the Mariel boatlift to the United States in 1980, in a harsh light. That view persists today, decades later. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who is of Cuban heritage, said Scarface misrepresented the Cuban community.
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (/kəˈpoʊn/; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.
What's surprising, though, is the discovery that Scarface's Tony Montana isn't based on the life of any modern-day nose candy overlord at all. No, Tony Montana is patterned after notorious 1920s and '30s racketeer, pimp, and bootlegging crime czar Al Capone.
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.
The Scarface remake tells the story of Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee who arrives in Miami in the 1980s and soon gets involved in the drug business, marking the beginning of Montana's criminal life, which was marked by betrayal and a lot of violence.
We do know that co-star Keanu Reeves famously took a pay cut of a few million in order to allow for the production to afford to bring Pacino on board. As a result, we imagine Pacino was most likely paid around $10 million for his role.
His sister is stated to be around 19 or 20 in the film, and Al Pacino was in his early forties when he played Tony. What with how actors frequently play characters younger than themselves and taking into account Tony's sister's age, it can be assumed that Tony is in his early to mid thirtie...
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.
Sosa then explains that that way heroes don't get confused and go on 60 Minutes, but instead go back into the holes they came from. After an optional conversation with Sosa, Sosa is shot by Montana and left slumped on his sofa, ending his reign of terror for good.
Furious at Tony Montana for killing Alberto the Shadow and sparing the journalist who had information that could prosecute him alongside his associates, Alejandro Sosa sends his men to Miami, Florida to murder Tony at his mansion.
During the intense scene where he witnesses the killing of Frank and Mel, he nervously looks at Tony and Manny, unsure of his survival swiging a bottle of JD whiskey, Tony comments casually, "You want a job, Ernie?" indicating that because Ernie was not in Frank's good graces, he was no threat to Tony's power.
