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Sosa's associate saw Omar at lunch and recognized him as a police informer. At least, that's what he tells Tony.

It is also to send a signal to everyone around, this is what happens if you snitch or do something you're not supposed to.

It could be that Sosa saw that Tony was going to help him shift more product than Omar would allow him to, and hence he takes Omar out of the picture.

As for why Omar was hanged from a helicopter, it's likely that the helicopter is what they used to get to and from the airstrip. So they boarded the chopper, took off to keep Omar feeling at ease. Once in the air, they beat Omar and threw him out of the chopper.

Arrogant Cuban thug Tony Montana (Al Pacino) immigrates to Miami, Florida. Upon arrival, Tony and his best friend, partner in crime and womanizer Manny Riberia (Steven Bauer) are sent to a detention camp called "Freedomtown". After Tony willingly eliminates Emilio Rebenga (Roberto Contreras) Fidel Castro's former assistant, Tony, Manny and their cronies are released. After Omar Suarez (F. Murray Abraham) right-hand man of cocaine kingpin Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) whom hired Tony to kill Rebenga sends Tony, Manny and their cronies to do a drug deal with the Colombians which goes wrong and Angel Fernandez (Pepe Serna) is brutally killed. Tony and Manny meet Frank Lopez and become his employees and Tony develops forbidden romantic feelings for Lopez's girlfriend Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer). But, things begin to change when Tony reunites with his beautiful sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantino) and Tony meets the ruthless and dangerous Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar) and makes a unauthorized business deal which displeases Frank whom warns Tony about Sosa. After an assassination attempt on his own life and discovering Frank sent them which Tony kills him in retaliation, Tony takes over and becomes the new cocaine kingpin. But, things soon start going out of control when Frank becomes a cocaine addict and Sosa sends Tony to NYC to assassinate a journalist, but Tony refuses to kill him and things get much worse when Tony returns to Miami and kills Manny when he learns Manny and Gina got married and Manny broke his promise to Tony that he wouldn't get sexually involved with Gina and Tony brings Gina back to his mansion unaware Sosa has sent an army of assassins to the mansion to get rid of Tony.

Tony lives by a code. Tony is willing to kill those who wronged him or those he's hired to kill. He will not kill innocent women or children. Tony's target was the journalist and not the wife and children. Had Sosa ordered Tony to kill the wife and children, Tony would likely have flat-out refused the order.

Because he was hired to. This is clearly explained.

Who says they didn't? A chainsaw may be a peculiar sound coming from a beach front motel room, but most people would probably dismiss it as someone doing renovations or coming from behind the motel (such as trimming back tree branches). Angel's screams were muffled by the duct tape on his mouth and the TV being turned up loud. Otherwise people may have just decided to mind their own business.

Because when Rebenga was part of Castro's regime, he had Frank's brother tortured and killed. So Frank hired Tony and Manny to kill Rebenga. Tony was essentially telling Rebenga he was killing him as a favor to Tony's friend that Rebenga has wronged.

Yes, Frank tried to have Tony killed because Tony made a deal with Sosa without Frank's permission. Frank saw Tony as a threat, because if Tony is making more money for Sosa than Frank is, how long before Sosa feels he doesn't need Frank anymore? Not to mention, Tony was clearly going after Elvira, so that was yet another reason for Frank to want Tony dead.

After the attempt on Tony, he knows Frank did it. But needed proof before he retaliated. That's why Tony told Nick The Pig to call Frank's office at 3AM and say "We fucked up, he got away.". If Frank answered and said "Who the hell is this?" Or "What are you talking about?" Then Tony would have known it wasn't Frank that ordered it. However, because Frank tried to play it off as Elvira calling and wondering when he was coming home, Tony had all the proof he needed that Frank ordered the hit. After being pressed by Tony, Frank confesses.

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Scarface (1983) is a remake of Scarface (1932), which was adapted by American playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht from the novel Scarface (1930), written by American author Maurice Coons (1902-1930) under the pen name Armitage Trail. The original film, however, is set in Chicago during the era of Prohibition (1920 to 1933) and features Italian-American mobsters (not explicitly identified as Mafia).

This film never goes into detail about this theme. Some people lean towards a yes. A logical answer would be that it is very unlikely that Tony is sexually attracted to Gina because in the film, Tony expresses interest in conceiving children with Elvira, telling her how beautiful he thinks she is and wanting to marry her. Most viewers agree that Tony is overprotective of Gina, refusing to let her have a boyfriend and threatening to kill anyone who expresses interest in her. At the end of the film Gina herself suggests Tony must indeed want her because he can't stand for another man to be with her. Tony has a genuine look of confusion on his face and even asks what she's talking about. Therefore he likely did not have sexual feelings towards her. Most likely he didn't want her to be around his kind of people, drug dealers, low-lifes, etc. but of course by trying his hardest to keep her away from such things, pushed her even closer to them. However numerous times in the film we see Tony almost leering at her in a way a brother would not normally act. It seems as though he is attracted to his sister. When these feelings arise they anger and confuse Tony causing him to become violent numerous times; i.e. shooting Manny and beating up Gina's boyfriend in the bathroom of the club. This combined with the fact that the original film displays similar themes does point to Tony's unhealthy attraction to Gina.

Tony lied about his mother being dead because he knew that if he had told the immigration agents that his mother was alive and living in America, they would very likely have contacted her for information about Tony, and she would no doubt tell them what a bad person she thought he was, therefore refusing him entry into the United States.

Yes. In 2006, two games based directly on the film were made—Scarface: The World Is Yours for Playstation 2, Xbox, PC and Wii; and Scarface: Money. Power. Respect. for the Playstation Portable. In addition to those games, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) takes a lot of inspiration from the film. The look and feel of Vice City closely resembles Miami as it looks in the film. The city's nightclub—the Malibu Club—is almost identical to the club Tony visits, and the player can visit a hidden bathroom with blood on the wall next to the bathtub—an obvious reference to the chainsaw scene. Also the Diaz mansion that Tommy, the protagonist, later inherits is obviously heavily inspired by Tony's mansion. The story incorporates a lot of features from the film (such as working your way to the top of the city's crime ranks, and even taking over a mansion from a former boss. The mansion a near exact replica of Tony's). Although not primarily inspired by the classic film, Grand Theft Auto V has a protagonist whose "special ability" is reminiscent if not inspired by Tony's resilience and adeptness when defending his home at the end of Scarface.

The events of Tony being sent to America from Cuba happen in May, 1980, and Tony is sent to "freedom town" it's unknown how long he was there, but likely 2 or 3 weeks. Once being released from "Freedom Town", Tony starts working for Frank within a few weeks of this. We can assume he worked for Frank for about a year before their falling out, then Tony builds his empire. In the scene before the inauguration of the beauty salon, where the Montana Travel Co. building and the "World is Yours" fountain are showed, behind the trees, you can see a huge advertisement for the new Corvette C4 in red color. That ad started to be published in late 1983. Then, in the last moments when Tony is in NYC, there's a bus with an advertisement on the side: "There's only one way to play it" from Kool Cigarettes, and that ad was last posted in 1984. So the movie covers at least 3.5 years.

In order to receive a rating of 18 or lower by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and be screened publicly in the UK accordingly back in the day, initial releases there were trimmed. Brian De Palma's action classic was cut for the VHS release by CIC and so was the First Edition by Universal. Both versions lacks one scene, namely the chainsaw butchery. The theatrical version in the UK was equally cut. Any other edition in the UK is uncut.

It became clogged with Angel (Pepe Serna)'s blood and tissue which temporarily stalled the engine long enough for Manny (Steven Bauer) and Chi-Chi (Ángel Salazar) to intervene.

The cinematic answer is that he'd snorted so much cocaine in the few minutes prior that it gave him the strength to keep upright and taunt his attackers even though they'd riddled him with dozens of bullets. In reality Tony couldn't have possibly remained standing upright despite how much cocaine he'd snorted beforehand. The scene is simply there to add to the fact that Tony has balls of steel.

While it is never fully explained if Omar Suarez (F. Murray Abraham) was in league with Hector the Toad (Al Israel) and the Colombians to kill Tony, or if it was just a coincidence, both Tony and Omar do not like each other when they first meet. Tony later explains to Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar) that he never liked or trusted Omar from the very start and suspects that Omar set him up with the drug deal in Miami where Angel Fernandez (Pepe Serna) was killed (with a chainsaw). In the first scene with Tony and Omar, when Manny introduces Tony, Omar offers them both a low-risk job of unloading marijuana from a boat for $500 ($1,578.56 in 2024 adjusted for inflation). Tony (clearly acting out of greed) balks at the offer and demands at least $1,000 ($3157.12 in 2024) for the work. The argument nearly turns violent when Omar prepares to pull a gun on Tony, when suddenly Waldo (Santos Morales) (the driver and other man in the car with Omar) stops him and whispers something to Omar which the tail end of it is heard as: "... he can do the Colombians, man." This implies that Omar might have known about the mechanical nature of Hector the Toad (i.e., rumors that Hector savagely kills people who attempt to buy his cocaine in order to steal their money). Waldo was clearly mentioning to Omar that he does not need to threaten Tony, but that if he arranges a cocaine purchase deal with Hector, it may result that Hector and his men would probably kill Tony for them.