Al Pacino in Scarface: Tony Montana’s Red Tiger-Print Shirt
Vitals Al Pacino as Tony Montana, fearless dishwasher-turned-drug courier Miami Beach, Spring 1981 Film: Scarface Release Date: December 9, 1983 Director: Brian De Palma Costume Designer: Patricia Norris WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Backg…
Al Pacino as Tony Montana, fearless dishwasher-turned-drug courier
Miami Beach, Spring 1981
Film:Scarface Release Date: December 9, 1983 Director: Brian De Palma Costume Designer: Patricia Norris
WARNING! Spoilers ahead!
Background
As this hot summer stretches into the first "Aloha Friday" of August, let's flashback to the '80s and Al Pacino's explosive performance in Brian De Palma's crime classic Scarface. The film was actually a remake of a 1932 gangster classic of the same name, which had been adapted from Armitage Trail's contemporary novel... and which itself was loosely inspired by the infamous Al Capone. Oliver Stone's screenplay updated the story for the '80s by conceptualizing Pacino's criminal protagonist Tony Montana as one of the approximately 125,000 Cuban refugees who arrived in Miami during the 1980 Mariel boatlift.
Failing to envision his low-wage dishwashing job as a step on the path toward money and power, Tony enlists his charismatic comrade Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer) to take a job by the hotheaded Omar Suarez (F. Murray Abraham) to broker a cocaine deal at the oceanside Sunray Motel in Miami Beach.
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