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"Mature Content Warning!" |
| NOTE: This Is About His 1983 Remake Version Of Him as His 1932 film Version Is NPE. |
| “ | Say hello to my little friend! | „ |
| ~ Tony Montana's most famous quote |
| “ | What you looking at? You're all a bunch of f-ckin' assholes. You know why? You don't got the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. YOU NEED PEOPLE LIKE ME SO YOU CAN POINT YOUR F-CKING FINGERS... AND SAY "THAT'S THE BAD GUY!"! | „ |
| ~ Tony Montana's drunken rant to people at a restaurant. |
Antonio "Tony" Montana is the titular main protagonist of the 1983 epic crime drama film Scarface, which is a loose remake of the 1932 film of the same name.
At first, he started off as a humble refugee from Cuba, but as the film progressed, he proceeded to climb the ranks of the criminal underworld to become one of the most powerful drug kingpins in Miami.
He was portrayed by Al Pacino, who also played Michael Corleone in the The Godfather film trilogy.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He killed Emilio by stabbing him in the stomach as an assassin.
- After he reneged on the deal, Tony killed Hector by shooting him in the head and killed one of his henchmen beforehand. Though to be fair, Hector deserved it for brutally killing Tony's friend, Angel, by mutilating him with a chainsaw and for trying to rob them with his goons.
- Upon spotting his sister, Gina, in a club going into the restroom with a man, he forcefully splits them up and proceeds to abuse Gina by smacking her to the floor, though this was out of overprotective instincts before having Manny take her to the car.
- After killing 2 assassins who were hired by Frank to kill him, Tony had Manny kill Frank in cold blood even after he begged for mercy before proceeding to kill Mel Bernstein himself afterwards. Although to be fair both of them tried to kill Tony.
- After taking over Frank's business, he became a powerful drug lord with an infamous reputation for his ruthlessness.
- After marrying Elvira, he would get into a bit of a toxic relationship with her, often getting into arguments with her and began ruining her by activating her addiction to cocaine. He eventually complains at her for being so depressed, causing her to throw a meltdown at him at a restaurant in an argument with him.
- After Elvira leaves after her meltdown, Tony calls out the crowd saying that they need people like him to feel better about themselves which was unneeded.
- When Alejandro hires him to help one of his assassins kill a journalist who was going to expose their criminal activities, Tony accepts the job. While he ends up saving the journalist due to him bringing his wife and kids with him, it's worth noting that this indicates that Tony would have gone through with the act had he not brought them with him.
- He shoots Alberto in the head, though to be fair, he deserved it for being willing to kill the journalist with his wife and kids.
- When he sees Gina with his best friend, Manny, he kills him by shooting him twice out of anger.
- After Sosa's men end up breaking into the mansion and killing his guards, Tony allows his most trusted right-hand, Chi-Chi, to die at their hands even though he was right at his door.
- He kills multiple of the men that Sosa sent to his house. While this is technically out of self-defense, he did willingly engage in it by challenging Sosa while talking to him on the phone and challenges some of the men himself rather than looking for a way to get out of the situation and kills some who were already down, so it's not in a way that would negate the heinousness of this act. Although they all deserved it.
- Overall, he has the highest number of kills and sets the heinous standards of the film.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He has a genuine tragedy, with his father having left him when he was young, leaving the family to grow up in poverty, and Tony ending up becoming a prisoner of war, with these factors seeming to serve as motivating ones for his actions and his greed throughout the movie.
- He has people he genuinely cares for, such as his mother and his sister, Gina. He was shown visiting them and gave them some money to help them out with their poverty and did not fight against his mother when she yelled at him and demanded him to leave and while he would get abusive towards Gina later on, it is out of overprotective instincts and also because he doesn't want her to be with a man who would ruin her future and send her down the path he went to. He also mourned her when she died and her death served as a factor as to him killing the men who were responsible for it.
- He has a genuine friendship with some as shown by his interactions with Angel, instantly killing Hector after escaping his clutches to avenge his death and as shown by his interactions with Manny, showing genuine remorse for having killed him.
- He is shown to be genuinely in love with Elvira, having married her with a desire to have children with her and while their relationship would end up becoming a bit toxic, he still shows signs of love for her, telling one of his men to tell her that he loves her in case she calls.
- He has a sense of honor, giving Frank the money that he was supposed to use to buy the yeyo with while telling him that it cost Angel his life and his shown to be a man of his word throughout the film.
- He was shown to be loyal to Frank at first, trying to help him increase his distribution.
- He displays a bit of a pet-the-dog moment, allowing Ernie to get a job and join his crew after killing off Frank and Mel with no pragmatic explanation being given for this.
- He has standards against killing families, especially wives and children, as he furiously killed Alberto to stop him from blowing up the car the journalist was in after discovering that he brought his wife and children with him, declaring that he would not kill wives nor children.
- His death was somewhat played for sympathy with there being dramatic music over his death as the camera went up from showing his body to the statue that says "The World Is Yours", showing that he did get what he wanted but not in the way he wanted, with it being indicated that his fall into villainy as a whole is played for sympathy.
External Links[]
- Tony Montana on the Villains Wiki
- Tony Montana on the Scarface Wiki
- Tony Montana on the Wikipedia
