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NEW!Watch the latest videos on YouTube.Scarface is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios.Note to Parents: Scarface is rated R.Starring
Al Pacino
Steven Bauer
Michelle Pfeiffer
F.Scarface is a 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Antonio "Tony" Montana.Tony becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980s cocaine boom.The film is dedicated to Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, who were the writers of the original Scarface.Cast
Al Pacino as Antonio "Tony" Montana "Scarface"
Steven Bauer as Manny Ribera
Michelle Pfeiffer as Elvira Hancock
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Gina Montana
Robert Loggia as Frank Lopez
Miriam Colon as Georgina "Mama" Montana
F.Murray Abraham), offers Tony and Manny a job unloading cocaine.Salazar) then set out to meet "Hector the Toad" (Al Israel) at a seedy motel on the beach.The meeting does not go smoothly, as Tony grows irritated with Hector, who is slow to give him the cocaine in exchange for money.Thus, Montana begins his rise through the ranks of the Miami cocaine underworld.Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar), the ruthless and powerful Bolivian drug lord.That same night he and Manny kill both Frank and the cop on his payroll, Miami Chief of Narcotics Mel Bernstein, who had already shaken down Tony for a hefty monthly payment and airline tickets to London.His problems apparently solved, Tony begins a profitable relationship with Sosa, marries Elvira, buys a new mansion, and sets his sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) up in business with her own beauty salon.But as Montana's business grows, so does his cocaine addiction and paranoia.It is the beginning of the end.His wife, now hopelessly addicted herself, becomes distant.He introduces Montana to his cocaine "board of directors" a group that includes Bolivia's military chief and a mysterious American, known only as being "from Washington."In exchange, Montana must assist in the assassination of a journalist attempting to expose Sosa, his partners, and the ongoing corruption in the Bolivian government.Montana agrees but later has second thoughts when the journalist, now in New York to expose the cartel at the UN, unexpectedly picks up his wife and children.Tony, saying that the team was only supposed to kill the journalist, instead then shoots the assassin to prevent the journalist's family from being killed.Tony has long harbored an apparent unnatural obsession for his sister and is overly protective of her for reasons that he may not understand himself.Manny unexpectedly opens the door.Tony then sees Gina in a night gown at the top of the stairs.Hysterically, Gina reveals that they had just been married.In revenge for the missed opportunity to kill the journalist, who has now exposed him to the world as a drug lord, Sosa sends an assassination team to Montana's mansion to kill him.As his men are being killed, Tony still delirious from the cocaine leans over Gina's body begging for forgiveness, at the same time the hitmen break into the mansion, Chi Chi opens fire with an Uzi as he backs up banging on the door but Tony does not seem to hear him, Chi Chi is shot in the back and Tony sees it on the cameras.As the hitmen take their position by the stairs preparing to storm his office Tony arms up with an M4A1 rifle with an undermounted M203 grenade launcher blowing down the door and crying out "say hello to my little friend," and, after killing several hitmen, he is shot in the back by Sosa's righthand man, the Skull, and falls into the pool at the end of the stairs, below the globe that says THE WORLD IS YOURS.Production and controversy
Scarface was directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Martin Bregman, and written by now famed director Oliver Stone battling a cocaine addiction.Castro activity against him in Miami a part of the plot.After protracted negotiations the producers ultimately refused to give in, saying the film was about cocaine and not the politics of Castro's Cuba.DePalma cut the film twice but it still received an X rating.With a third vote of 18 to 2 in favor of an 'R' the MPAA agreed.Critical reception
Scarface held its premiere on December 1st, 1983 in New York City where it was initially greeted with mixed reaction.Scarface, upon its first release, drew controversy regarding the violence and graphic language in the film, and received many negative reviews from movie critics.On the 2 Disc Special Edition, director Brian De Palma said that the film was well received by only one notable critic, Vincent Canby of The New York Times.However, Roger Ebert rated it four stars out of four in his 1983 review and he later added it to his "great movies" list.DVD
Scarface has been released on DVD three times in the United States as of 2007.DVD of the original Scarface.Anniversary Edition, with deleted scenes as the sole bonus feature.Anniversary Edition were also included along with two new featurettes regarding the new video game and the criminal and cultural world of Miami in the 1980s.The music in Scarface was produced by Academy Award winning Italian record producer, Giorgio Moroder.Like Moroder's style, the soundtrack consists mostly of synthesized new wave, electronic music.Scarface: The World is Yours, a video game based on the movie Scarface was released on different platforms in 2006 and 2007.Scarface: The World Is Yours was released in September and October 2006 as well as an update in June 2007, developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Vivendi Universal Games.Main article: Scarface: Money.Radical and Vivendi also released a second licensed video game, Scarface: Money, Power, Respect, in October 2006.The game is identical to and different in some ways from Scarface: The World is Yours, but one main difference is that the second game deals more with the controlling of drugs and managing of the Montana cocaine empire and turf, whereas The World is Yours is mostly focused on getting rid of gangs, gaining respect and overall reconstruction of the empire.To date, only a PSP version of this game has been released.The hit Grand Theft Auto: Vice City also has some small similarities to Scarface, like an easter egg that has the bloody bathroom from the chainsaw scene, Also the Malibu Club is very similar to the Babylon Club.In this mission Tommy has to fend of a whole rival gang in his mansion with only a few weapons.Books and comics
Dark Horse Comics' imprint, DH Press, released a novel called Scarface: The Beginning by L.In 2007, IDW Publishing released a new series called Scarface: Scarred for Life, which picks up where the film ends; as in the video game, it depicts Tony Montana barely surviving the film's climactic shotgun blast and, with the aid of two corrupt DEA agents, recovering to rebuild his empire and seek revenge on Sosa.Television and film
In the year 2001, plans were set into motion for hip hop artist Cuban Link to write and star in a sequel to Scarface entitled Son of Tony.In pop culture
Scarface has been frequently referenced to in other popular works.Wireimage Listings: Scarface Premiere: Dec 1, 1983.The Palm Beach Post (October 11, 2003).Armitage Trail (novel)
Ben Hecht
Seton I.It was directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes.Burnett and Howard Hawks (uncredited) from the novel Scarface by Armitage Trail.The film is loosely based upon the life of Al Capone (whose nickname was "Scarface").The first version of the film (Version A) was completed on September 8 1931, but censors would not allow its release until 1932, because of concerns that it glorified the gangster lifestyle and showed too much violence.Two other gangster movies produced at about the same time were Little Caesar (1931) and The Public Enemy (1931).The alternate ending is not different from the original ending (Version A), except for a certain sequence of events.Unlike the original ending where Tony Camonte escapes the police and dies getting shot several times, the alternate ending begins with Tony reluctantly handing himself over to the police.Significance
The film Scarface has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.Scarface was remade in 1983 by Brian De Palma in a modern day setting.Url to be current translated CMS Url
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