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Scarface

1983Paul Monette

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Scarface, better known as Tony Montana. Tony, a Cuban refugee who has entered the United States to make a name for himself. Tony had a rough start. Tony and many other fellows had been sent to a camp. He had made friends but his best friend, Manny. Manny had a plan to get both Tony and himself out of the camp. They had to kill a powerful Cuban figure. As soon as they had killed him, they started to roam around the streets of Miami. They both started small part-time jobs at a shack after the street from a club. The owner says that there were two guys waiting to meet Tony and Manny outside. It was Frank Lopez's henchman, Omar. Omar had offered Tony and Manny to buy Frank cocaine from Colombian dealers. When Tony and Manny go to the Colombian dealers,they run into trouble. They had been hostiled and Tony's had lost a friend for cocaine. Frank was expressed by their work and decided to hired both, Tony and Manny. During the meeting with Frank, Tony spots Frank's girlfriend, Elvira and falls in love. Months later, Tony decides to go meet his mother and his younger sister, Gina. Tony's mother was disgusted from his attitude and had kicked him out of the house. Gina comes outside to meet him and he tells her to enjoy her life and gives her $1000. Since Tony is very protective of his sister, Manny makes a remark on his sister's beauty and tells him to stay away from her. For business, Tony is sent with Omar to Bolivia to make a deal with the "Cocaine King", Sosa. Tony agrees to deal with Sosa without Frank's approval. Omar is worried and goes to contact Frank. Sosa orders his men to take Omar to the helicopter and have him been taken back to Miami. What Sosa really meant to do was get rid of Omar, once and forever. Sosa's men had beaten Omar and hung him up from the helicopter. When Tony heads back, Frank isn't really impressed and tells Tony to leave. When Tony leaves, he heads to the club and sees Gina dancing with a guy who had taken her into the bathroom. Tony notices and beats up the guy and slaps Gina a couple of times. In anger, Gina leaves with Manny and he drops her off at home. When she leaves, Tony goes back into the club and gets drunk. Bernstein( approaches Tony and talks to him. When Bernstein leaves, a comedy show is taking place and there are two hitmen sitting across from Tony. The hitmen fire, but Tony survives the assassinating attempt. Tony leaves with a bullet in his arm and goes to Frank's office with Manny and Chi-Chi(Tony's buddy) and meet Bernstein, who meet Tony a couple hours ago at the club. In anger, Tony finishes off Bernstein and Manny takes out Frank. Tony leaves Frank dead with his new girlfriend, Elvira and seizes Frank's empire. With Sosa by his side, Tony builds a multi-million-dollar empire and marries Elvira. As they say, "More money, more problems",there was a problem for Tony. Tony had been charged with money laundering and tax evasion. Sosa asked his government connections to keep Tony out of jail if he takes care of a journalist that is attending to expose Sosa's speech at the United Nations. Tony heads with Sosa's henchman, Alberto, to prepare for the assassination. Alberto had planted a bomb under the journalist's car, but he is unexpectedly accompanied by his family. Tony calls off the mission, but Alberto insists to continue. Alberto leaves Tony no choice, but to kill him. When Tony returns back home, he receives a call from Sosa who is furious about the mission being cancelled. They both argue and Sosa cuts Tony out of the business. Later Tony realizes that both Manny and Gina were missing. In search of Gina, Tony goes to his mother and she tells him that she had left with a man to big house of Coconut Grove. He rings the bell and sees Manny approach the door. He looks up at the staircase and sees Gina standing. Although Manny was warned, he didn't listen to Tony. Manny had ended up losing his life. Gina had told Tony that they had gotten married a day before and they were planning to surprise him. Gina was taken back to Tony's mansion and was calmed down. At the mansion, Tony sniffs a large amount of cocaine. Gina enters the room and starts shooting and accusing Tony of wanting her to himself. Gina hits Tony in the leg and she is shot by one of Sosa's hitman. When Tony was drugged, he didn't notice he had company of Sosa's men. Sosa's men had taken out many of Tony's men. Tony kills the man who killed Gina and gets distracted by Gina's dead body. In a cocaine fury, Tony pulls out the grenade launcher. Tony quotes one of the most famous quotes ever said "Say Hello to my Little friend" and shoots down the door. He starts to kill Sosa's men which were coming from left and right. Tony keeps fighting back and loses his gun. He is taking shots from different directions and is shot in the back to end his Road to Riches. He falls right infront of a fountain statue reading "The World is Yours".

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