Tony Montana

TONY MONTANA

Antonio "Tony" Montana is a fictional character in the Brian DePalma film Scarface and the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours, portrayed by Al Pacino. Oliver Stone came up with the name by combining the last name of his then-favorite football player (Joe Montana) and the first name from the main character of the 1932 film version, played by Paul Muni.

Tony Montana shows up in Miami from his native Cuba on the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. He is questioned by U.S. customs officials, his scars and gang tattoos, (which hint the status of an assassin), do not go unnoticed. What is known is that he is a prematurely released convict as his mother will later point out. His mother also adds weight to the theory that he was an assassin by asking him, when he boastfully tries to give her money, who he has killed for it. Montana is refused entry into the US and sent along with his best friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer) to a make-shift detention camp. In the camp, Tony carries out a cartel hit that earns him and his friends an early release, green cards and a job washing dishes at a tiny food stand.

Tony and Manny soon quit their jobs after Omar (F. Murray Abraham) offers them a job to do a cocaine exchange with some dangerous Colombians led by "Hector the Toad" at the Sun Ray hotel. The deal goes horribly wrong. Angel, another refugee, and Tony enter and are ambushed. Angel is dismembered with a chainsaw. Tony stood to suffer the same fate had the crew outside not intervened. In the commotion, Manny is shot, but the group escapes with the buy money and the drugs. Montana and his associates earn the respect and admiration of a powerful drug kingpin, Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), who offers them jobs.

Unlike Manny, Tony is not satisfied with their change in fortune, and sets to establish himself as a major player in the cocaine industry. Tony even has his sights on taking Lopez's mistress Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer). Tony hopes to realize a dream he once thought was impossible: to have "the world and everything in it."

Tony then visits his mother and his sister, Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). He doesn't get along with his mother (Miriam Colon), who recognizes him for the sociopath he is. He adores Gina but he brutalizes any other man who tries to form a relationship with her.

Tony wins the trust of the suave Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar), a Bolivian drug lord. Through his dealings with Sosa, Tony quickly rises in Miami's underworld; he survives an assassination attempt, violently overthrows Lopez, and eventually marries Elvira. At about this time, Manny and Gina begin a relationship. They hide it from Tony, however, because they fear Tony's jealousy.

A corrupt police officer named Mel Bernstein (Harris Yulin) meets alta with Tony in the Babylon Club, having heard of Tony's upcoming transaction, where he proposes to "tax" Montana on his transactions. There the two negotiate a large bribe for Bernstein, along with first-class airline tickets to London. Tony is shot at by two Colombian hitmen in the Babylon, and narrowly escapes in the shootout that follows. He makes it to Nick the Pig's (Michael P. Moran) apartment, and from there he summons Chi Chi and Manny. Tony sets a trap for Frank, telling Nick the Pig to call him at 3 a.m. and imitate the hitman by telling him that they "fucked up, he got away." Tony, Manny, and Chi Chi (Ð"Ѓngel Salazar) then visit Frank at his car dealership. There, Tony watches as Frank receives the call from Nick the Pig. However, Frank pretends to be talking to Elvira, and Tony has Manny shoot Frank in the heart as Mel sits by and watches. Tony then shoots him in the gut and then once more in the heart, killing him. Tony then gives Frank's henchman, Ernie, a job. He then leaves and takes Elvira to his house. Tony had overthrown Frank, and a blimp with the caption "THE WORLD IS YOURS" hovered in the distance.

Tony Montana soon completes his business deal with Sosa. On his first deal he makes $75 million. This you can see in the film when Tony Montana says to Frank Lopez: we make $75 million on this deal. Soon after this, Frank is killed and Tony Montana takes over the distribution of Frank and Tony completes his first deal with Alejandro Sosa. Tony Montana buys 2000 kilo of cocaine from Sosa which he sells for $ 75 million dollars. Which was laundered for him by a corrupt banker, but he wants more and is soon making $10вЂ"$15 million a month. Tony marries Elvira and buys a lavish mansion, even buying Gina her own beauty parlor. Meanwhile, Manny and Gina began dating behind his back, and Tony and Elvira become heavily addicted to cocaine.

Tony is later caught attempting to launder $1.3 million by undercover cops, and faces up to three years in prison for money laundering and tax evasion. Sosa confronts Tony and informs him that he can make sure he does not face any prison time, but only if he supervises the assassination of a journalist who is troubling Sosa's entire drug operation in Bolivia. Reluctantly, Tony agrees. Planting a car bomb, Tony and the hitman tail the journalist's car with a remote-controlled detonator. They are to blow his car up with the explosives in front of the United Nations building,