Antonio "Tony" Montana is a fictional character and the antihero protagonist of the 1983 film Scarface.
27 Facts About Tony Montana
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In 2008, Montana was named the 27th Greatest Movie Character by Empire magazine.
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The character is partly based on Tony Montana Camonte, the protagonist of the original novel and the 1932 film adaptation; Camonte was, in turn, an adaptation of Tony Montana Guarino from the 1929 novel, which in turn was a loose fictionalization of real-life Italian-American gangster Al Capone, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1899.
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In contrast to Guarino and Camonte, who were Italian immigrants, Tony Montana is a Cuban immigrant.
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Tony Montana has a large scar on his face, which explains why he is known as Scarface.
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Tony Montana obtained his signature scar fighting a Cuban army officer, who he killed with a shotgun when he was 13.
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In May 1980, Tony Montana was among the 125,000 Cubans on the Mariel boatlift to Miami.
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Manny and Angel Fernandez take advantage of the bedlam to stalk Rebenga, who leaves the tent where Tony Montana is waiting outside and stabs Rebenga in the stomach.
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Tony Montana refuses to talk and Hector, the enforcers' leader, dismembers Angel.
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Three months later, Tony Montana pays a visit to his mother, Georgina, and younger sister, Gina, neither of whom has seen him for five years.
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Tony Montana says a poor girl like Gina deserves a little fun.
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At The Babylon nightclub, Tony Montana is shaken down by corrupt narcotics detective Mel Bernstein, who informs him that he has evidence linking Tony Montana to the murders of Rebenga and the Colombian drug dealers.
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Tony Montana is convinced that Frank sent Bernstein because only Frank would know details about the murders.
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Enraged, Tony Montana beats the dealer and slaps Gina, stopping only after Manny calms him down.
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Manny drives Gina home and tells her she can do better than those lowlifes and that Tony Montana only looks out for her.
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Tony Montana marries Elvira and takes over Frank's empire, purchasing a large mansion and ornate luxuries, such as a pet tiger.
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Tony Montana creates many legal businesses as fronts, including a hair salon managed by Gina.
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When Tony Montana finds a new banker, he turns out to be an undercover policeman who arrests Tony Montana for money laundering and tax evasion.
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When Tony Montana makes a scene at a fancy restaurant by insulting Elvira's inability to bear children, let alone do anything else with her life, she lashes out and leaves him.
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The book has Sosa continuing his revenge against Tony Montana and provides some of Sosa's backstory, in which he employed poor villagers to make drugs in exchange for their financial support, a la Pablo Escobar.
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The 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours is a pseudo-sequel to the film, which features an alternate ending wherein Tony Montana kills the Skull and manages to escape from his mansion before Sosa's men and the police overrun it.
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Three months later, Tony Montana comes out of hiding to rebuild his criminal empire and makes $10,000 in a single day of selling drugs, which he uses to bribe several undercover police officers, who have seized his mansion, allowing him to move back.
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Tony Montana goes on to expand his empire and eliminate multiple rivals who are eager to take over.
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Tony Montana is betrayed by his lawyer, George Sheffield, who is in a secret alliance with Sosa and Gomez and leads him into a trap, which he barely escapes.
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The game ends with Tony Montana married to Venus and living in luxury, feeling that he finally got what was coming to him: the world.
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Tony Montana appears in the video game Payday 2 as a playable character named "Scarface", included in the Scarface Character Pack released in 2016.
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Tony Montana is voiced by Andre Sogliuzzo, who previously expressed him in Scarface: The World Is Yours.