Posted by: Captain Haddock August 15, 2007
Cafe 'N' - Episode # 14
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For those not familiar with Tony Montana, this from wikipedia: Antonio "Tony" Montana is a fictitious character in the Brian DePalma classic "Scarface," and portrayed by Al Pacino, in what is widely regarded as one of the most mimicked gangster characters, with memorable quotes like; "say hello to my little friend." Oliver Stone came up with the name by combining the last name of his then-favourite football player (Joe Montana) and the first name from the main character of the movie Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, made in 1932. The rise and fall of Tony Montana —a Havana prison convict expelled from Cuba in 1980—begins with him being questioned by US custom officials after having arrived in Miami. His scars and gang tattoos marking him as an assassin, don’t go unnoticed and he is refused entry and sent along with his best friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer) to a make shift detention camp, Freedom Town. In the camp, Tony carries out a mob hit that earns him and his friends an early release, green cards and a job washing dishes at a tiny food stand. Tony and Manny soon quit their jobs after getting their first break to enter Miami's underworld, when Omar (F. Murray Abraham) offers them a job to do a cocaine exchange with some dangerous Colombians led by "Hector the Toad" at the Sun Ray hotel. The deal goes horribly wrong. An associate is killed and Tony is lucky to survive. The drug deal gone bad however earns him and his associates the respect and admiration of a powerful yet affable drug kingpin, Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), who offers them jobs. Unlike Manny, Tony is not satisfied with their change in fortune, and driven by a lust for wealth and power, he sets to establish himself as a major player in the cocaine industry, and even has his sights on taking Lopez's beautiful mistress Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer), and realize a dream he once thought was impossible: to have "the world and everything in it." Tony's unpretentious and courageous style "all I have in this world are my balls, and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one" wins the trust of the sauve Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar) a Bolivian drug baron of a vast cocaine operation. Through his dealings with Sosa, he quickly rises in Miami's underworld, survives an assassination attempt, violently overthrows his boss Lopez and eventually marries Elvira. Yet the very trait that brought him success as an underworld boss -- a refusal to trust anyone-- destroys’s the relationships with those close to him and sows the seeds of his own downfall. He sees Elvira as nothing more than a possession, while his obsessive love and over protectiveness for his younger sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), leads to her corruption, and the senseless killing of his best friend Manny. Added to this is a false sense of invincibility fuelled by cocaine addiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Montana
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