Al Pacino as Tony Montana, “Scarface”
Credit:Universal/The Kobal Collection
What Pacino conceals in the “Godfather” movies gets let loose in “Scarface” in the form of a drug-addled, ego-fueled monster of the night. Tony wants money and power, and is willing to sell his soul as a drug kingpin to attain it all. And yet when he finally reaches that promised land, it doesn’t quite satisfy. He plunges his head into a mountain of cocaine, desperate to feel anything, and turns to guns to reassert his power even after he’s amassed a small fortune. He gets everything he wants, but still needs more—proving that the gangster lifestyle is not a means to an end, but a fatally flawed, ego-driven end in and of itself.
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