- Description
Howard Hawks' classic drama The Scarface (1932), inspired by the fate of the famous Chicago gangster Al Capone, has received a new treatment after more than fifty years. However, screenwriter Oliver Stone and director Brian De Palma have shifted the plot to the present day, replacing the Italian criminal with a Cuban immigrant and alcohol smuggling with drug distribution. In the summer of 1980, 125,000 people emigrated from the Cuban port of Mariel with Fidel Castro's approval. About a fifth of them had criminal records, as Castro needed to get rid of 'undesirable' people.
About half of the refugees settled in and around Miami. This event forms the prologue to the new version of Scarface. One of the emigrants, Tony Montana (Al Pacino), adapts very quickly to the new conditions of the free world. He and his friend Manny (Steven Bauer, the only native Cuban among the main cast) do odd jobs in the local underworld, and in one drug deal they end up with stolen money, which Montana uses to build his own drug empire. But as his power and wealth grows, so does his ego and, above all, his paranoia that someone will rob him of his gains in the same way he did...
SCARFACE - TECHNICAL DATA
Music: Giorgio Moroder
Script: Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks (původní scénář), Ben Hecht (původní scénář)
Cinematography: John A. Alonzo
Production: Martin Bregman
