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For the Serbian rock musician see Toni Montano
Antonio "Tony" Montana is the main character from the film Scarface. He is portrayed by Al Pacino in the movie and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
[edit] OverviewTony Montana was born in Havana, Cuba, and served as a soldier in the 1970s. In 1980, Cuban President Fidel Castro let the gates open on Mariel Harbor in Cuba allowing thousands of Cubans to emigrate to Florida. Once there, Tony is questioned by U.S. officials; he lies about his life in Cuba, telling them that his entire family is dead and that he is a "political refugee". However, because of a tattoo on his left hand which indicated that he was once an assassin, he is not granted a green card. Tony Montana and his friend Manny Ribera are then shipped to "Freedomtown", a refugee camp Shaz that holds Cuban immigrants(Nayanan) without green cards. While there, Manny explains to Tony that he knows a man, Frank Lopez, that could get them out of the camp and acquire green cards for them. In return, Lopez wants Emilio Rebenga, an ex-politician who worked for Castro, killed. During a riot, Tony stabs Rebenga in the confusion. Tony and Manny are released, and Manny gets them jobs as cooks for a small foodstand. Soon a man named Omar Suarez, who works for Frank Lopez, arrives and explains to Tony and Manny that they could make $500 working for Lopez. Tony, however, disagrees and insults Omar, leading to Omar threatening Tony's life. Eventually, Omar explains that Tony could do a cocaine deal for him for $5,000, and Tony accepts. A few days later, Tony and Manny, along with Angel and Chi Chi, two other associates from Cuba who spent time in Freedomtown, drive to a small hotel in Miami Beach to meet with a man named Hector for the drug deal. Tony meets with Hector, but Hector says he doesn't have the cocaine with him; Tony replies that he doesn't have the money. Suddenly, the deal goes bad and Angel and Tony are handcuffed to a shower pole. Hector demands the money, but Tony refuses. Hector then kills Angel with a chainsaw. Manny hears the motor, and bursts through the door with a submachine gun. After a gunfight, Tony, Manny, and Chi Chi escape with the cocaine and the money after killing Hector and his associates. Instead of allowing Omar to take the cocaine to Frank, Tony takes it to Frank personally, already distrustful of Omar. Frank takes a liking to Tony, but later points out to Manny that he may be too "soft" to be a major player for long. Tony and Manny end up working under Frank in the drug dealing business. Meanwhile, Tony takes an interest in Frank's girlfriend, Elvira Hancock. Frank takes Tony, Manny and his associates out to the Babylon Nightclub which Frank frequently attends. Although Tony flirts with Elvira, she doesn't show any interest in him. A few months later, Tony pays a visit to his estranged family's home. It is implied that Tony's father left the family years ago, but his mother and his younger sister Gina are home. Gina is excited to see Tony (who hasn't seen the family in five years), while his mother isn't as thrilled, aware and ashamed of his criminal history. When he offers his mother $1,000 while claiming he is in charge of an "Anti-Castro" group, his mother angrily rejects the gift. She believes he's become a criminal, and asks him to leave. Tony leaves, but Gina runs after him. He slips her the $1,000 secretly, and tells her to spend it on whatever she wants and to give his mother a little from time to time. Some time later, while in Bolivia, Tony and Omar begin discussing business plans with plantation owner and drug kingpin Alejandro Sosa on the behalf of Frank, who couldn't make it down due to a pending criminal trial. Tony begins making major decisions about distribution of the drugs, angering Omar, who believes only Frank has authority to make such decisions. Omar and Tony begin arguing over the matter, while Sosa offers Omar a quick helicopter ride back home to talk over the transaction with Frank. Sosa then orders his enforcer, the Skull, to hang and kill Omar, explaining to Tony that he was a police informant some years back. However, Sosa believes that Tony is trustworthy and makes him one of his business partners, but warns Tony never to cross him. After returning to Florida, Tony comes under heat by Frank, who is angry about what happened to Omar, as well as Tony's new setup with Sosa. Frank warns Tony that Sosa is a traitor and cannot be trusted. Tony and Frank end their business relationship, while Tony begins making bolder passes at Elvira, one of them right in front of Frank. At the Babylon Nightclub, Tony is shaken down by a corrupt Miami narcotics detective, Mel Bernstein, who informs him he has evidence linking Tony to the murders of Rebenga and the Colombian drug dealers. Forced to talk with Bernstein, the crooked cop proposes to "tax" Tony on his transactions in return for police protection and information. Bernstein negotiates a large bribe and two first-class airline tickets to London. Tony is convinced Frank sent Bernstein because only Frank would know details about the murders. While talking to Bernstein, Tony is distracted by the sight of his sister Gina dancing with a low-level drug dealer. Tony sees him take her into the men's restroom to make out with her in the stall. Tony beats the man and berates Gina. Gina tells Tony she is old enough to do whatever she wants including going into the men's restroom with a man, which prompts Tony to slap her. While at the Babylon club, Tony is nearly killed by two hitmen. He escapes, wounded but alive, and is convinced that Frank is responsible for the hit. Tony instructs two of his men to call Frank at exactly 3 a.m. at his office with the words: "We fucked up. He got away." Tony and Manny track Frank down to his car dealership, and find Frank in the middle of a meeting with Bernstein. Tony tricks Frank into confirming he was behind the attempted hit. Admitting what he did, Frank then begs for mercy at Tony's feet, even offering $10,000,000. Manny kills Frank on Tony's order, and Tony kills Bernstein. Afterward, Tony goes to Elvira's house, telling her that Frank is dead and that he wants to be with her. Stepping out onto Elvira's balcony, Tony looks into the sky and sees a blimp with the words "The World Is Yours." Tony makes $75,000,000 off of 2,000 kilos of cocaine and is soon making 10-15 million dollars a month in profits from his business arrangement with Sosa. He marries Elvira and takes over Frank's empire. He purchases a huge mansion, complete with luxury items, a tiger, as well as surveillance camera monitors. He makes Manny his second-in-command and in charge of security at his warehouses and mansion. However, cracks in Tony's "perfect life" begin to form as both he and Elvira become heavily addicted to cocaine. He becomes more paranoid and distrusting of those around him, and she becomes bored and distant. Tony becomes greedy and selfish with his wealth, while the bank that launders his illegal money wants higher and higher fees. Manny and Gina begin dating behind Tony's back, afraid of what his reaction would be if he found out. Tony is arrested for laundering 1.3 million dollars and tax evasion by Mel Seidenbaum, a local money launderer who turns out to be an undercover cop. Tony posts bail and is out of jail while awaiting trial. Tony's lawyer tells him that although he can plea bargain away most of the time Tony faces, he will still end up serving at least three years in prison for evading income taxes. Sosa, not wanting to lose his main distributor, calls Tony down to Bolivia and asks him for help assassinating a Bolivian anti-government activist who is exposing Sosa's dealings with Bolivian leaders on television. In exchange, Sosa will use his contacts in the US Justice Department to keep Tony out of prison. Tony is reluctant to kill a civilian, but seeing no other options, agrees to the deal. Manny tries to talk Tony out of going to New York, even though Tony doesn't tell him about the hit, because he has a bad feeling about it. Soon, Elvira leaves Tony after they have a fight at a restaurant. Afterward, an intoxicated Tony starts yelling at the patrons for looking at him in disgust. He tells them that they need to look down on a man like him — a "bad guy" — in order to feel better about themselves. After his tirade, Tony storms out of the restaurant with Ernie in tow. Tony and Alberto, Sosa's best henchman, travel to New York looking for the activist. Alberto plants a bomb under the activist's car, planning to detonate it before he drives to the United Nations Building to give a speech about his activist work. On the day the assassination is to take place, Tony orders Alberto not to set off the bomb once he finds out his wife and children are in the car as well. When Alberto ignores him, Tony shoots him in the head, thus double crossing Sosa in the process. Tony returns to Florida to find his mother accusing Tony of corrupting Gina, and a furious Sosa threatening to kill him for not going through with the plan. Tony goes to find Gina, and finds her and Manny together. Realizing Manny has slept with his sister, Tony shoots and kills him in a cocaine-fueled rage, before Gina reveals that they had just married. Tony and his men take a distraught Gina back to his mansion. Meanwhile, a group of gun-toting assassins sent by Sosa surround the mansion. While Tony sits in his office snorting vast quantities of cocaine, the gunmen begin quietly killing Tony's guards outside. Gina enters Tony's office wielding a gun, accusing him of wanting her for himself before shooting him in the leg. One of the assassins enter the office through the window and opens fire, accidentally killing Gina. Robbed of the element of surprise, Sosa's gunmen launch an all-out assault on Tony's mansion as he cradles Gina's body in his arms. Tony bursts from his office with a M16 assault rifle with an M203 grenade launcher attachment and begins shooting wildly at the henchmen, killing dozens of them despite being mortally wounded himself. The carnage continues until the Skull shoots Tony in the back with a sawed-off shotgun. Tony falls from the balcony into a small pool in the lobby below, floating face-down in the water beneath a statue carrying the inscription "The World Is Yours". [edit] Scarface: The World Is Yours
The video game titled Scarface: The World Is Yours, a quasi-sequel to the film, features an alternate ending in which Tony escapes Sosa's assassins only to see his mansion seized by the "Vice". 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 get revenge on Sosa. During this quest for vengeance, Tony has to take down several rivals who are eager to take over his empire after the assassination attempt, among them Gaspar Gomez, the Diaz brothers and other figures from the movies. [edit] In popular culture
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