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ng the movie Tony Montana arrives to America from Cuba with his best friend Manny Ribera. After meeting with his mother and sister he becomes an employee of drug lord Frank Lopez. Whilst in the employment of Lopez, Montana meets many other drug lords such as Hector the Toad, El Gordo and the film's villain Alejandro Sosa.
Ultimately Montana desires to own Lopez's drug empire and confronts him alongside Ribera.
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During the movie Tony Montana arrives to America from Cuba with his best friend Manny Ribera. After meeting with his mother and sister he becomes an employee of drug lord Frank Lopez. Whilst in the employment of Lopez, Montana meets many other drug lords such as Hector the Toad, El Gordo and the film's villain Alejandro Sosa.
Ultimately Montana desires to own Lopez's drug empire and confronts him alongside Ribera. After disarming Lopez and his henchman Officer Mel, Montana agrees that he won't kill Lopez and Mel. He then hands his gun to Manny who shoots and kills Lopez and Mel leaving Montana in charge of Lopez's drug empire.
During all this he has a bounty on his head made by Sosa after a bumbled meeting earlier in the film. Sosa offers to call off the hit on Tony if he kills a reporter who is threatening to release a story that would send Sosa to the electric chair. Montana agrees but ultimately relents when he realizes that the reporter is a family man and it would be unethical to kill him.
Back at home Montana ignores some advice given to him earlier: "Don't sniff your own product," thus making Montana high on cocaine. Because of this he kills Manny when he finds out that his sister is dating him. Ultimately Montana retreats to his mansion with his sister in tow just as Sosa calls him on the phone saying that although he's going to be executed he's sending the remaining of his thug army to take Montana with him.
Montana forgets to gear up for the oncoming battle as his sister is killed by an assassin. He only realizes that danger when he hears his henchman Chi-Chi getting gunned down outside. At this point he equips himself with an M-16 and grenade launcher the latter of which he aims at the door.
From here he does one of the most iconic scenes in film history, something that is known amongst fans as "Tony Montana's Last Stand" which starts with the infamous line, "Say hello to my little friend," before blowing the door and several thugs behind it skyhigh. Montana then exits engaging in an intense gunfight miraculously dominating the battle against the hit men. In fact he's shot dozens of times in various, normally fatal regions but he keeps on going fueled by rage and cocaine. As Montana puts it, "You'll need a fucking army to take down Tony Montana!"
Unfortunately for Tony, Sosa also sent his chief assassin "The Skull" on this mission who approaches from the same balcony where Montana's sister died. The Skull kills Montana with a sawed-off shotgun shot to the back causing him to plummet into the pool below. The song "The World Is Yours" then plays in bitter irony at Montana's downfall.
Scarface: The World Is Yours
The video game titled Scarface: The World Is Yours, a quasi-sequel to the film, features an alternate ending and epilogue of sorts to the movie. In the opening scene of the game — the original "ending" scene of the movie — Montana detects his would-be assassin and shoots him before escaping his mansion. He then spends the next three months hiding before beginning a quest to rebuild his empire and getting revenge on Sosa.
During this quest for vengeance, Tony has to take down several opportunistic rivals who were only too eager to take over his empire after the assassination attempt, amongst them are Gaspar Gomez, the Diaz brothers and others seen only briefly in the film.
Though the game is inherently violent, it is impossible to kill "innocent" bystanders and Tony can converse civilly with most of the NPC's who aren't hostile by default. Some have longer conversations which count to the conversation score.
This, amongst other things is a bonus to offset the somewhat tedious aspects such as defending territory, running drugs and completing preliminary assignments before that.
In popular culture
- Since the release of Scarface, the Tony Montana character has been widely referenced and parodied in popular culture. In the world of hip hop, particularly gangsta rap, Montana is widely seen as a role model for his "outsider" status, rise from poverty to wealth and power and appetite for violence.
- Each DVD release inspired the largely Hispanic population in Hudson County, New Jersey to "camp out" in front of retail stores such as Best Buy in Secaucus, as well as Circuit City in Union City. Both stores indicated record high sales on the release dates.
- In the popular animated series, The Batman, the classic Batman villain The Ventriloquist is featured with a revised design for his puppet. The puppet in the show is dressed in Tony Montana's trademark white suit, rather than a wardrobe reminiscent of Al Capone, which he wore in the original comic books.
- Lines from the film are also frequently sampled in hip-hop songs. The Houston-based Geto Boys were one of the earliest rap groups to sample the lines and dialogue. During Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome", Flavor Flav recites several lines from the film. Music from the movie has also been sampled in the instrumentals for hip-hop songs such as Mobb Deep's "G.O.D. Pt. III", Esham "Bolivia" and "It's Mine". Nas' "The World is Yours" takes its title from the motto Montana lived by. One hip-hop artist, Brad Jordan (later a member of the Geto Boys) has even gone so far as to name himself Scarface after the film, and another goes by the name Tony Montana. Jay-Z's 1996 debut album, Reasonable Doubt, also samples Omar's lines to Montana regarding the deal with the Colombian's on the intro to the song "Can't Knock The Hustle". In "A Milli" by Lil Wayne he says, "Tony told us this world was ours." which is a reference to the globe above the fountain that says the world is yours. The rap group G-Unit also uses lines from the film in their song "My Buddy".
- Various Latin rap artists such as Immortal Technique, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Cuban Link and The Beatnuts have sampled lines from the movie.
- In the third episode of Code Monkeys, an 8-bit version of Tony Montana is shown, renamed Tony Dakota, and is a drug lord that Dave and Jerry end up owing $30,000.00 to.
- In the movie Reno 911!: Miami, there is a guy named Ethan the drug lord who dresses like Tony Montana and pretends to be Cuban and his accent even sounds like that of Tony Montana.
- Lil Wayne also quotes Tony Montana from the movie, in his song A Milli, saying "Tony told us "This world was ours"
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