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Scarface, Tony Montana (Al Pacino)

Site Rating: 90%
(ratings: 2)
Editor Rating: 85%
Writeup Rating: 80%
(ratings: 3)
Film: Scarface (1983)
Deceased Character: Tony Montana (Al Pacino)
Archetype: Ambivalent (Major)
Killed by: The Skull (Geno Silva)
Killed with: Shotgun


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Written by Mr. Mouseburger 5th May 2006

Kindly submitted by Mr Briggs Inc.

Tony Montana, Cuban immigrant and risen-through-the-ranks-mobster, knows that Alejandro Sosa's hitmen are coming after him. Unfortunately he has not followed the generous advice given to him by a companion to "not get high on high on your own supply" and so, as a result, is not in the best of mindsets.

Therefore, he does not notice the hitmen until one of them plant quite a few bullets into his sister Gina's back. In response, Tony quickly kills the first hitman, sending him off the balustrade, but in doing so, he fails to notice another, known as “The Skull”, climbing like a spider along the balcony on which Tony is standing.

Tony is heartbroken but demented at the same time, kneels over the cold, dead body of Gina and slowly rubs her face "Come on Gina, come off the floor. You're all dirty now, you need a bath, Mami's gonna be angry baby" Tony is so absorbed in his madness, he doesn't seem to notice that his buddy Chi-Chi, has been frantically pounding on the double doors to his room "ooh, is she gonna be mad at me! Come on open your eyes baby and give me a smile" finally he notices the knocks only to have Chi blown away by a grenade!

Furious, Tony takes more than a few guns out of a case on his wall muttering to himself "So, you wanna play rough, huh? O.K." he aims a launcher straight at the exit to his room where many hitmen have gathered on the other side! "SAY 'ELLO TO MY LI'L FREN'!" Tony screams as he fires his large gun, blowing the door, along with several hitmen to pieces! Still incandescent with rage, Tony throws caution into the wind and fires his Uzi at the malevolent crowd below.

"You think you can kill me with lousy bullets, huh?!" Tony persists, despite being hit with many bullets and he shouts, "I take you all to fucking hell! You need an army you hear! You need a fucking army to kill me!"

In response, he is hit with what seems to be thousands of bullets! However, he does not see the metaphorical TANK approaching menacingly behind him, and “The Skull” silently approaches Montana from behind.

"HAHAHAHAAAA! you whores! you scum! I piss in your faces! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!" he fires on, as his carapace is showered with machine gun shots! It finally seems certain he will die, his gun is forced out of his hand, and his bloodied suit is in shreds and tatters. Tony lets out a final defiant ROAR! "HAH! I'm still standin' I'm still standin!" However, he doesn't notice the shadow of death in the shape of “The Skull” sneakily growing in the background, stepping closer with every round of bullets, he poises his sawn-off shotgun and fires!

Tony Montana's spine explodes out of his stomach as he crashes through the white railing, face first into his pool below. Above him, a globe with the brightly illuminated words "The World is yours" shines into his now red-tinted pool. For a moment, we are left to think the world was truly his too, while we see his shattered estate looted top to bottom by wild hitmen.



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Tony Montana (Al Pacino)

This review has 6 comments. Reply to the comments
Comment 1 by 'Mr. Briggs Incorporated' (reply to this comment)
Looking at this death, I wonder why it's been overlooked by the masses, 15 views on the board, yeesh!

Perhaps I may sound a bit whiny, but I suppose I underrated this death, seeing as Montana's bloody blaze of glory takes second place to, um, Carter of Jurassic Park obscurity, (97% is a bit high!)

Oh, and "Drowning". Although I doubt he could have survived that barrage, drowning by your definition counts.
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Often a character is likely to already be dead by the time they hit the water, but if a corpse ends up immersed, their death will still appear in this category.
I want an apology for Zorin!

Comment 2 by 'Andrew' (reply to this comment)
Actually, the gun that Tony Montana uses is an M16A1 assault rifle with an M203 underbarrel grenade launcher. Not to be picky, just a little tidbit.
Comment 3 by 'Mr. Briggs Inc.' (reply to this comment)
I'm not surprised that I missed this seeing as I messed up most of the write-up. (I quickly noticed after seeing it again.)

My fault for using the script as a guide!
Comment 4 by 'MajorBaxter' (reply to this comment)
Is this Tempting Fate?
Comment 5 by 'Mr. Briggs Inc.' (reply to this comment)
Yeah, but usually tempting fate is more humorous, what do the rest of you think? Ms. Kellary? Mr. Eicholtz?
Comment 6 by 'MajorBaxter' (reply to this comment)
Yeah, I think I might have been taking the name of the tempting fate category a little too literally. This doesn't really fit with how it is defined.