Scarface (1983 film)

thumb|I'm Tony Montana! You fuck with me, you fuckin' with the best! thumb|I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one. Scarface is a 1983 film about a determined Cuban immigrant who takes over a drug cartel in Miami, Florida in 1980 and succumbs to greed. It is a remake of the 1932 film. Directed by Brian De Palma. Written by Oliver Stone, based on the 1929 novel. The World Is Yours. taglines Tony Montana thumb|SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND! thumb|This town's like a great big pussy just waitin' to get fucked. thumb|You know what capitalism is? Gettin' fucked! thumb|This country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. thumb| Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls, you got that? Balls. thumb| What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! thumb| Do you know what a chazzer is, Frank? That's a pig that can't fly straight! This is paradise. This is paradise, I'm tellin' you. This town's like a great big pussy just waitin' to get fucked. I'm tellin' you. I shoulda come here ten years ago. I'd have been a millionaire by this time. By this time, I'd have had my own boat, my own car, my own golf course. What I try to tell you? This country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves. I never fucked anybody over in my life that didn't have it coming to 'em. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one. You know what capitalism is? Gettin' fucked! Hey, fuck you man! Who put this thing together? Me, that's who! Who do I trust? Me! [To the guests at the restaurant] What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way! Okay, Sosa. YOU WANNA FUCK WITH ME?! You fucking with the best! You wanna fuck with me? Okay. Okay, you little cockroaches... come on! You wanna play games? Okay, I can play with you. Come on! Okay, YOU WANNA PLAY ROUGH?! Okay! SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND! Note: the bolded and italicized line is ranked #61 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. [Shouting defiantly after being shot several times] Hey, how'd you like that? Huh? You fuckin' maricón! Hey, cockroaches! You think you can take me?! You need a fuckin' army if you're gonna take me! You hear?! C'mon! I'll take you all to fuckin' Hell! Come on! Come on! Come to me! Okay! Who you think you fuckin' with, man? I'm Tony Montana! You fuck with me, you fuckin' with the best! [While being shot repeatedly] Come on! I'm still standin', huh! Fuck! Come on! Go ahead! I'll take your fuckin' bullet! Come on! I'll take your fuckin' bullets! You think you can kill me with bullets?! I'll take your fuckin' bullets! Go ahead! The eyes, chico. They never lie. Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls, you got that? Balls. Why don't you try sticking your head up your ass? See if it fits. Do you know what a chazzer is, Frank? That's a pig that can't fly straight! [To Manny over assassinating Rebenga, a former-Cuban politician] You know I kill a communist for fun... but for a green card, I'm gonna carve 'em up real nice. [Manny leads Rebenga along by menacing him through a tent in a camp uprising with all the detentionees chanting; "¡Libertad!" (Liberty), Tony ambushes Rebenga with a knife when he leaves the other way] Rebenga! From a friend you fucked! Elvira Hancock thumb|Don't get high on your own supply. Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply. Mel Bernstein How much? Well, there's an answer to that, too. [Writes down the number of monthly bribes on a napkin and shows it to Tony] Here's how much. Can you see it? Yeah! That's on a monthly basis, same thing every month. Do you know how this works? We tell you who's moving against you and we shake down who you want shaken down. Let's say that you've got a real problem making a collection. And then we step in for you. Got eight killers with badges working for me. When they hit, it hurts. Same thing works the other way. You feed me a bust now and then. Some cowboy setting himself up in business. Small-fry, you know? We like snacks. Well, that's not my business, Tony. We don't cross no lines. Listen, you think I want this conversation going any farther than this table? My guys got families. They're legitimate cops. I don't want to see them embarrassed. If they're embarrassed, they'll suffer. If they suffer, they'll make you suffer. D'you understand what I'm talking about? Thanks for the drink. By the way, I've got a vacation coming up. I'm gonna take the wife to London, England. We've never been there. So, throw in a couple of round-trip tickets, first class. You ought to smile more, Tony. You gotta enjoy yourself. Every day above ground is a good day. Six months to start don't mean shit, Larry. I'm not a Rockefeller, you know. Not yet anyway. So you owe me a quarter. Dialogue Immigration Officer #1: Okay. So, what do you call yourself? Uh? ¿Cómo se llama? (What's your name?) Tony Montana: Antonio Montana. And you, what'd you call yourself? Immigration Officer #1: Where'd you learn to speak English, Tony? Tony Montana: Uh, in a school. And my father, he was from the United States. Just like you, you know? He was a Yankee. Uh, he used to take me a lot to the movies. I learned. I watch the guys like, uh, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney... They teach me to talk. I like those guys. I always know one day I'm coming here, the United States. Immigration Officer #1: So where's your old man now? Tony Montana: He's dead. He died. Sometime. Somewhere. Immigration Officer #1: Mother? Tony Montana: She's dead, too. Immigration Officer #1: What kind of work you do in Cuba, Tony? Tony Montana: Ah, you know, things. I was, this, that. Construction business. I work a lot with my hands. I was in the Army. Immigration Officer #1: Any family in the States? Cousins, brother-in-law, anyone? Tony Montana: Nobody. Everybody's dead. Immigration Officer #1: D'you ever been to jail, Tony? Tony Montana: Me? Jail? No way, no. Immigration Officer #1: Been in a mental hospital? Tony Montana: Yeah. On the boat coming over. Immigration Officer #1: What about homosexuality, Tony? D'you like men? D'you like to dress up like a woman? Tony Montana: [beat] What the fuck is wrong with this guy, man? He kidding me or what? Immigration Officer #2: Just answer the questions, Tony. Tony Montana: Okay. No. Fuck, no! Immigration Officer #1: Arrested for vagrancy? Marijuana? Tony Montana: Never, man. Immigration Officer #1: Heroin? [Tony shakes head] Cocaine? Tony Montana: No. Immigration Officer #2: [Tilts Tony's face with a finger] Where'd you get the beauty scar, tough guy? Eating pussy? Tony Montana: How am I gonna get a scar like that eating pussy? This was when I was a kid, you know? You should see the other kid. You can't recognize him. Immigration Officer #2: [Grabs Tony's hand] And this? Tony Montana: What? That's nothing. That's for my sweetheart. Immigration Officer #2: Sweetheart, my ass! We've been seeing more and more of these. Some kind of code these guys used in the can. Pitchfork means an assassin or something. D'you want to tell us about it, or d'you want to take a trip to the detention center? Tony Montana: Okay, you got me. I was in the can one time. For buying dollars. Big deal. Immigration Officer #2: That's pretty funny, Tony. Tony Montana: That's true. It was a Canadian tourist. Immigration Officer #2: Did you mug him first? Get him out of here! Come on! Tony Montana: So I fuck up! Let me talk to this guy. Please! Let me talk to him a minute. You a communist? Huh? How'd you like it, man? They tell you all the time what to do, what to think, what to feel. Do you wanna be like a sheep? Like all those other people? [Mimics sheep] Immigration Officer #2: I don't have to listen to this bullshit! Tony: D'you wanna work eight, ten fucking hours? You own nothing, you got nothing! D'you want a chivato (sneaky informer) on every corner looking after you? Watching everything you do? Everything you say, man? D'you know I eat octopus three times a day? I've got fucking octopus coming out of my fucking ears. I've got the fuckin' Russian shoes my feet's comin' through. How'd you like that? What, d'you want me to stay there and do nothing? Hey, I'm no fuckin' criminal, man. I'm no puto (whore) or thief. I'm Tony Montana, a political prisoner from Cuba. And I want my fuckin' human rights, now! [Slams desk] Just like the President Jimmy Carter says. Okay? Immigration Officer #1: Carter should see this human right. He's really good. What do you say, Harry? Immigration Officer #2: I don't believe a word of this shit! They all sound the same to me. That son of a bitch Castro is shittin' all over us. Send this bastard to Freedom Town. Let them take a look at him. Get him outta here. Tony: D'you know somethin'? D'you can send me anywhere. Here, there, this, that; it don't matter. There's nothing you can do to me that Castro has not done. Nothing! [Tony gets manhandled out of the room] [Tony and Manny are riding a school bus repurposed for detainees] Tony: So? Manny: So? Tony: What'd you tell them? Manny: I told them what you told me to tell them. Told them we were, I was in sanitation. They didn't go for it. Tony: Sanitation? Manny: Yeah. Tony: I told you to tell them you was [sic] in a sanitarium, not sanitation. Manny: Sanitarium. Yeah. You didn't tell me that. Tony: No, I told you to say you had TB and you was in a sanitarium. You was cured. Manny: When did you tell me that? Tony: You should've kept your mouth shut. They'd think you was a horse and let you out. Manny: We can be outta this place in 30 days, not only that, we got a green card and a job in Miami. Now are we made or we made, man? Tony Montana: What do we gotta do? Go to Cuba and hit The Beard, or what? Manny: Nah, man. Someone else. Tony Montana: You kidding? Manny: No. Tony Montana: You're not kidding? Manny: Guy named Rebenga, man. Emilio Rebenga. Tony Montana: Rebenga? Coño, I know that name! Manny: Yeah? Tony Montana: He's political. Manny: Well, he's coming in here today. Castro just sprung him. This guy was one of the top dogs for Fidel in the early days. But Castro felt like he couldn't trust him anymore, y'know and threw him in jail. But while he was on top, he tortured a few guys to death. One of the guy's brothers is a rich guy in Miami now, and he wants the favor repaid. That's where we come in. [Camera focuses on a bureaucratic man entering the camp looking paranoid] Tony Montana: He's ugly, man. Manny: Yeah! Tony Montana: You tell your guys in Miami, your friend, it'd be a pleasure. You know, I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice. [After Manny follows Rebenga through a tent in a camp uprising, Tony ambushes Rebenga with a knife when he leaves the other way] Tony Montana: Rebenga! From a friend you fucked! Frank Lopez: Lesson number one: Don't underestimate... the other guy's greed! [laughs] Elvira Hancock: Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply. Frank Lopez: That's right. Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply. 'Course, not everyone follows the rules, huh? [glares at Elvira] Tony Montana: Hey, coño, what is your problem? You got a problem? You're good-looking, you got a beautiful body, beautiful legs, beautiful face, all these guys in love with you. Only you got a look in your eye like you haven't been fucked in a year! Elvira Hancock: Hey, Jose. Who, why, when, and how I fuck is none of your business, okay? Tony Montana: Now you're talking to me, baby. That I like. Keep it coming. Elvira Hancock: Don't call me "baby"! I'm not your baby. Tony Montana: Not yet, but you gotta give me some time. Elvira Hancock: Even if I were blind, desperate, starved and begging for it on a desert island, you'd be the last thing I'd ever fuck. Tony Montana: Me, I want what's coming to me. Manny: Oh, well what's coming to you, Tony? Tony Montana: The world, chico. And everything in it. Frank Lopez: No, Tony, no, don't kill me, please! [crying] Tony Montana: I ain't gonna kill you. Frank Lopez: Oh Christ, thank you! Tony Montana: Get off my foot. Frank Lopez: Thank you! Thank you! [Tony looks at Manny] Tony Montana: Manolo, shoot that piece of shit! Frank Lopez: What? No. No! NO! [Manny kills him; Tony sits down] Tony Montana: Every dog has his day, huh, Mel? Mel Bernstein: I told him. It didn't make any sense, clipping you when we had you working for us. He wouldn't listen. He got hot tonight, about the broad, you know? He fucked up. Tony Montana: You too, Mel. You fucked up. Mel Bernstein: Don't go too far, Tony. Tony Montana: I'm not, Mel. You are. [shoots Bernstein in the gut] Mel Bernstein: Fuck... You can't shoot a cop! Tony Montana: Whoever said you was one? Mel Bernstein: Wait a minute! If you let me go, I'll fix this up. Tony Montana: Sure, Mel. Maybe you can handle yourself one of them first class tickets to the Resurrection. Mel Bernstein: Fucking punk! Son of a bitch! Tony Montana: So long, Mel. Have a good trip. Mel Bernstein: FUCK YOU! [Tony shoots him in the heart] Tony Montana: You know what your problem is, pussycat? Elvira Hancock: What is my problem, Tony? Tony Montana: You got nothing to do with your life, man. Why don't you get a job? Do something, be a nurse. Work with blind kids, lepers, that kind of thing. Anything beats you waiting around all day, waiting for me to fuck you, I'll tell you that. Elvira Hancock: Don't toot your horn, honey, you're not that good. Tony Montana: Oh yeah? Frank was better huh? Elvira Hancock: You're an asshole! [storms off] Tony Montana: Where are you going? Come here! Coño! Hey, Elvi! I was kidding. I was only kidding! Tony Montana: Your guy Alberto, he's a piece of shit, you know? I told him to do something. He didn't listen to me, so I had to cancel his fucking contract. Alejandro Sosa: My partners and I are pissed off, Tony. Tony Montana: That's okay, no big deal. There's other Albertos, you know? We do it next month. Alejandro Sosa: No, Tony, you can't do that. They found what was under the car, Tony. Now our friend has got security up the ass, and the heat is gonna come hard on my partners and me. There's not gonna be a next time, you fucking dumb cocksucker! You blew it! Tony Montana: Hey, take it easy when to talk to me, okay? Alejandro Sosa: I told you a long time ago, you fucking little monkey, not to fuck me! Tony Montana: Hey, hey, who the fuck you think you're talking to, huh? You wanna fuck with me?! [Sosa hangs up on Tony] Who the fuck you think I am, your fucking bellboy? Come on, you wanna go to war, we take you to war, okay? Taglines He loved the American Dream. With a Vengeance. In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun washed avenues of Miami... wealth, power, and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana but the world will remember him by another name... Scarface. He wanted to live the American dream until the end. The World Is Yours. Cast Al Pacino – Tony Montana Steven Bauer – Manolo "Manny" Ribera Michelle Pfeiffer – Elvira Hancock Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – Gina Montana Harris Yulin – Mel Bernstein Robert Loggia – Frank Lopez Míriam Colón – Georgina Montana F. Murray Abraham – Omar Suarez Paul Shenar – Alejandro Sosa Ángel Salazar – Chi-Chi Arnaldo Santana – Ernie Pepe Serna – Angel Fernandez Michael P. Moran – Nick the Pig Al Israel – Hector the Toad Dennis Holahan – Jerry Mark Margolis – Alberto Michael Alldredge – George Sheffield Ted Beniades – Seidelbaum Geno Silva – "The Skull" External links 0086250 Scarface 1018324-scarface Scarface Category:1983 American films Category:1983 English-language films Category:Cult films Category:American crime drama films Category:American gangster films Category:Epic films Category:Mafia films Category:Remake films Category:Vigilante films Category:Films about cocaine Category:Screenplays by Oliver Stone Category:Films set in Miami Category:Films directed by Brian De Palma Category:Films based on American novels Category:1983 Spanish-language American films