Al Pacino is an Academy Award winning film actor, renowned for his challenging roles and outstanding performance. Al Pacino went from an absolute nobody to an Academy Award nominee after his role as ‘Michael Corleone’ in the 1972 film ‘The Godfather’ based on a Mafia family. The movies had a sequel the 1974 movie ‘The Godfather Part II’. Thereafter, he did a string of successful movies, Scarface being one of them.
Scarface was released in 1983; story written by Oliver Stone. Stone took the help of the Miami police and the Drug Enforcement Agency and has incorporated many real life crimes into the film. It was a gangster movie, a rework of the 1932 Howard Hawke’s classic. Al Pacino plays the role of a fictitious Cuban defector, Tony Montana, in this Brian de Palma directed film. He takes refuge in Florida after he is deported out of Cuba for being an assassin. The year is 1980, the time of the criminal underworld and drug boom. Amidst all this, Tony becomes a gangster and slowly rises to the top and builds a powerful cocaine empire. His partner in crime is Manny Ray, his old friend from Havana whom he meets at detention camp.
Scarface is a hard hitting movie showcasing the violent abominations that pervade from insatiable greed and extreme power. It has since its release reached a cult status and the memorable dialogues have been quoted in many movies and television show such as ‘The Simpsons’, ‘South Park’, ‘Jane Austin’s Mafia!’, and many others. |
