We see the sadistic murder that the two of them carry out in order to buy their freedom, and then the first drug deal that Tony handles, which turns into a bloody massacre. In these lushly ominous early sequences, the American immigration officers spot Tony for what he is, and they put him and his pal Manolo (Steven Bauer) in a detention camp. The swaying movements of music and image suggest a developing delirium. With Giorgio Moroder’s synthesizer music pulsating and with shots of the arrival of the “Marielitos” (the Cubans who set out from Mariel Harbor), it feels like the beginning of a new-style, post-“Godfather” gangster epic-hot and raw, like a spaghetti Western. “Me, I want what’s coming to me,” he says-“the world and everything in it.” He’s an angry, vindictive killer, and he sees America as the land of opportunity.įor the first three-quarters of an hour, the film is garish and intense. Tony Montana boils with resentment because other people have a soft life, and more money than he has. The basic story fits right into the early eighties: the new Scarface is a Cuban, one of an estimated ten thousand inmates of jails and mental institutions whom Castro, having his little joke, deported to the United States in 1980, when President Carter (briefly) opened the doors to Cuban refugees. As the central character in the new “Scarface,” directed by Brian De Palma from a script by Oliver Stone, he scrambles up the rungs of the Miami drug world the way that Paul Muni, as an Italian immigrant, climbed to the top of the Chicago bootlegging business in the 1932 “Scarface.” Modelled on the career of Al Capone, the 1932 film, like the other prototypical gangster pictures “Little Caesar” and “The Public Enemy,” both of 1931-was set during Prohibition. The slash of a scar that runs through one eyebrow and down across the cheekbone seems to go right to his soul there’s something dead in his face-as if ordinary human emotions had rotted away, leaving nothing but greed and a scummy shrewdness.
Al Pacino’s Tony Montana is small and mean.
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