How Much Money Was Tony Monatana Making In Scarface

Character in Scarface

Tony Montana
Al Pacino as Tony Montana in the 1983 film
First advent	Scarface (1983)
Terminal appearance	Payday 2 (2016)
Created past	Oliver Stone
Portrayed by	Al Pacino
In-universe information
Full name	Antonio Montana
Occupation	Soldier (formerly) Drug lord
Family unit	Gina Montana (sis) Georgina Montana (mother)
Spouse	Elvira Hancock
Nationality	Cuban

Antonio Montana is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1983 film Scarface. He is portrayed by Al Pacino in the picture and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours. Embodying the rising from the bottom to the acme, Tony Montana has get a cultural icon and is one of the nigh famous movie characters of all time. In 2008, Montana was named the 27th Greatest Movie Character past Empire magazine.^[1] He is partly based on Tony Camonte, the protagonist of the original novel and the 1932 motion picture accommodation. According to Oliver Stone, Tony's last name was inspired past former NFL quarterback Joe Montana, Rock's favorite player. A prequel novel, Scarface: The Beginning, written by 50. A. Banks, was published in 2006.^[ii] ^[3] Montana besides has a big scar on the side of his face, which explains why he is known every bit Scarface.^[4]

Casting [edit]

Pacino insisted on taking the lead office every bit Tony Montana, although Robert De Niro had been offered information technology and had turned it down.^[v] ^[vi] Pacino worked with experts in knife gainsay, trainers, and boxer Roberto Durán to attain the body type that he wanted for the office. Durán also helped inspire the character, who had "a sure lion in him", according to Pacino. Meryl Streep'southward immigrant grapheme in Sophie'due south Choice (1982) also influenced Pacino'south portrayal of Tony Montana. His co-star Steven Bauer and a dialect omnibus helped him learn aspects of the Cuban Dialect and pronunciation.^[7]

Fictional character biography [edit]

In May 1980, Tony is one of the 125,000 Cubans who wound up on the Mariel boatlift to Miami. When he gets there, he is questioned by U.Due south. officials; he says that he was a "political prisoner" and that because he had an American begetter, he has the right to a light-green card. However, because of a trident-way tattoo on his right hand, which indicates that he was an assassin in prison, his request is denied.

Tony and his friend Manolo "Manny" Ribera are sent to "Freedomtown", a refugee camp that holds Cuban immigrants without green cards. After ane month in the camp, Frank Lopez, head of a Miami drug dare, offers to obtain green cards in return for murdering Emilio Rebenga. Before long after Rebenga arrives at the camp, Manny, Tony, and Angel Fernandez have reward of the August 11 riot, where Tony stabs Rebenga. Tony and Manny are granted green cards and released, and the two get jobs as dishwashers for a modest food stand in Piffling Havana. In August 1980, Frank sends his correct-hand human, Omar Suarez, to offering them a job which pays $500 to each of Tony and Manny for a few hours piece of work unloading a gunkhole of its illegally smuggled marijuana cargo. While Manny is impressed with the offering, Tony demands more pay, and he and Omar quarrel. On the advice of his compatriot, Omar then offers Tony and Manny $5,000 to buy cocaine from a new supplier, which is riskier than the marijuana deal just volition pay much more than, as information technology is dealing with fierce Colombians.

A few days later on, Tony, Manny, and their associates Angel and Chi Chi drive to a hotel in Miami Beach to make the deal with a grouping of Colombians. The deal goes bad; a couple of Colombian enforcers handcuff Tony and Angel to a shower pole at gunpoint, threatening to kill them with a chainsaw if Tony does not reveal the location of the drug coin. Tony refuses to talk, and Hector, the enforcers' leader, dismembers Angel. Before Hector tin do the same to Tony, Manny bursts in the room, shooting a machine pistol. A short gunfight ensues in which Manny is shot in the arm, and Tony kills the Colombians. Tony, Manny, and Chi Chi escape with the cocaine and the coin. Tony, who no longer trusts Omar, takes it to Frank personally. Frank is impressed, and he and Manny end up working for him, during which fourth dimension Tony takes an interest in Frank'southward girlfriend, Elvira Hancock.

Three months later, Tony pays a visit to his mother Georgina and younger sis Gina, neither of whom he has seen for 5 years. Gina is excited to see Tony, but his mother is ashamed of him, having long ago learned of his life of crime. When he gives his mother $1,000, his mother angrily rejects the gift and throws him out. Tony leaves, but Gina runs subsequently him and hugs him, telling Tony she has been going to hairdressing schoolhouse and helping out Mama. Tony says that a poor girl like Gina deserves to accept a little fun; he slips her the $one,000 secretly and orders her not to tell Mama about it, only that Mama gets a little bit of information technology from fourth dimension to fourth dimension, through using some of it for grocery shopping or paying a utility bill.

Later, while in Bolivia, Tony and Omar go on Frank's behalf to see drug cartel lord Alejandro Sosa. Sosa has Omar killed for being a police force informant and makes Tony his business partner. At The Babylon nightclub, Tony is shaken down by corrupt narcotics detective Mel Bernstein, who informs him he has evidence linking Tony to the murders of Rebenga and the Colombian drug dealers. Bernstein proposes to "tax" Tony on his transactions in render for police protection and data. Tony is convinced Frank sent Bernstein considering only Frank would know details about the murders. While talking to Bernstein, Tony sees Gina dancing with a low-level drug dealer. Enraged, Tony beats the dealer and slaps Gina, stopping just after Manny calms him down. Manny drives Gina home and tells her she can exercise improve than those lowlifes and that Tony is only looking out for her. Still, when Gina admits an interest in Manny, he freezes, fearing Tony'due south wrath.

That dark, two men effort to impale Tony. He escapes and becomes convinced that Frank ordered his death. Armed with silenced pistols, Tony and Manny rail Frank down to his car dealership, killing him and Bernstein. Later, Tony goes to Frank's house, telling Elvira that her lover is dead and that he wants her. Over the adjacent yr-and-a-half, Tony makes $75 million off of 2,000 kilograms of cocaine that he brings to America, and is soon making $10–15 meg every month in profits from his business concern relationship with Sosa. He marries Elvira and takes over Frank's empire, purchasing a large mansion equally well as ornate luxuries such as a pet tiger. Tony too creates many legal businesses as fronts, including a hairdresser'south managed by Gina. However, cracks in Tony'due south "American dream" begin to form as both he and Elvira become addicted to cocaine. Meanwhile, Manny and Gina begin dating behind her brother'due south back, afraid of Tony's wrath should he find out.

Later Tony is arrested for taxation evasion and coin laundering. Tony'southward lawyer, George Sheffield, tells him that although he can plea bargain away almost of the time Tony faces, he will still end up serving at least 3 years in prison. Sosa 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. In exchange, Sosa will use his contacts in the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., to keep Tony out of prison. Later returning to Miami, Tony does non tell Manny well-nigh the hit, although Manny tries to talk Tony out of going to New York, simply citing a bad premonition he has about it. Not long after, Elvira leaves Tony for good after he insults her in a local restaurant. An intoxicated Tony starts yelling at the patrons: he tells them that they need people like him to blame—a "bad guy".

Tony and Sosa's associate Alberto travel to New York to electrocute the activist. Alberto plants a bomb under the activist's car and is ordered to detonate it earlier the activist can implicate Sosa's criminal network in a speech at the United nations Edifice. On the twenty-four hour period of the bump-off, a woman and two children are unexpectedly seen getting into the target'due south automobile. Tony now objects to carrying out the hitting, preferring to only impale the intended target. Alberto reminds Tony of Sosa's demands and Tony reluctantly begins to tail the target. Tony's disgust at the idea of killing an innocent woman with her two kids grows, yet, while Alberto concentrates on activating the explosive. Before Alberto is able to detonate the automobile bomb, Tony shoots and kills Alberto, thus double-crossing Sosa.

Tony returns to Florida and receives a telephone call from a furious Sosa, who admonishes him for the hit's failure. Tony attempts to locate Manny, and finds him and Gina together, both wearing goose egg but bathrobes. Tony shoots and kills him in a cocaine-fueled rage earlier Gina reveals that they had just married and were going to announce their matrimony to Tony. Tony and his men take a distraught Gina dorsum to his mansion. Meanwhile, a big grouping of assassins sent by Sosa surround the mansion. While a distraught Tony sits in his office, snorting vast quantities of cocaine, the gunmen begin killing his guards outside. Gina enters Tony'south office wielding a Smith & Wesson Model 36, accusing him of wanting her for himself, earlier shooting him in the leg. Tony attempts to calm her downward before one of the assassins enters the part through the window and opens fire, killing Gina. Tony immediately kills the assassin, creating a mayhem.

Deprived of the element of surprise, Sosa's gunmen directly attack Tony'southward mansion. Tony bursts from his office wielding a M16 rifle with a M203 grenade launcher zipper. He yells "Say hello to my little friend!" and opens fire on the henchmen, killing dozens of them, despite being heavily wounded himself by return burn down. The carnage continues until Sosa's top assassin ("the Skull") sneaks upward behind him and shoots him in the back with a shotgun. Tony falls from his balcony into a fountain in the vestibule below, floating confront-down dead in a pool of blood and water beneath a statue of the world conveying the inscription "The Earth Is Yours".

Video games [edit]

The 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours is a pseudo-sequel to the film, which features an alternate ending wherein Tony kills the Skull and manages to escape from his mansion before it is overrun past Sosa'southward men and the police, though he loses all his money and drugs. Presumed dead, he goes into hiding in a pocket-sized shack about Virginia Key Beach, where he laments the deaths of Manny and Gina, curses himself for not listening to the advice of others due to his stubbornness, determines to quit cocaine, and plots his revenge confronting Sosa. Iii months later, Tony comes out of hiding to rebuild his criminal empire and makes $x,000 in a single 24-hour interval of selling drugs, which he uses to bribe several undercover law officers, who have seized his mansion, to allow him to motion back. From there, he goes on to expand his empire and eliminate multiple rivals who are eager to have over. He still faces opposition from Sosa and Gaspar Gomez, who have teamed up to form a drug monopoly and set their prices unreasonably high. Tony is also betrayed by his lawyer, George Sheffield, who is in a secret alliance with Sosa and Gomez and leads him into a trap, from which he barely escapes. Eventually, Tony is able to eliminate all his contest in Miami and reestablish his empire, before travelling to the Caribbean area to help a cocaine producer called "The Sandman", who in plow sells him his plantation. During this fourth dimension, Tony as well meets The Sandman'southward ex-girlfriend Venus, with whom he enters into a human relationship. Now the nearly powerful drug lord in Miami, Tony sets out to exact his revenge on Sosa, Gomez, and Sheffield, and attacks the former'due south mansion, where he kills all three of them. On his manner out, he stumbles upon ane of Sosa's surviving goons, whom he spares and hires as his butler. The game ends with Tony married to Venus and living in luxury, feeling that he finally got what was coming to him: the world.

Tony also appears in the 2006 video game Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.

Tony appears in the video game Payday 2 every bit a playable character named "Scarface", included in the Scarface Character Pack released in 2016. He is voiced past André Sogliuzzo, who previously voiced him in Scarface: The Globe Is Yours. The DLC also included a heist that takes identify at Tony'south mansion in Miami.^[8]

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