I love that movie and I must have watched at least 10 times. It's an interesting storyline; Tony Montana is a very charismatic self-made character who started from nothing but ends up sabotaging himself due to his own greed. I love how everything feels like a snapshot of that particular era; the sets, the super over the top houses. Some people don't like the soundtrack but I like the synth heavy sounds.
I also don't understand or even see why people think that Tony has an incestuous kind of love for his sister; it's pretty obvious in every scene that he's incredibly super over-protective of her. He doesn't want her to date thugs like him; he does not want her to become like him or the people he rolls with.
I don't think that he kills Manolo out of anger because 'he's doing his sister', its just out of being pissed off because she's dating a thug like him, that all of this has been happening behind his back while he trusted Manolo to take care of her, and while all this has been happening, he's been having troubles with that cartel guy and screwed the bomb mission. Manolo wasn't there with him when this happened to back him up. And of course all this stress + cartel guy problems + drugs leads to Tony losing hsi mind and killing his best friend. WIthout Manolo, Tony is nothing. He kept him grounded. You can tell he regrets killing him.
He's a very conflicted character which makes it great. He's not an hero, and the movie does not glorify his lifestyle. You think that he's going to make it, he's so convinced he's smarter than everybody, so rich, so invincible, he finally has it all, but he ends up getting himself, his sister, his best friend, all of his boys from Cuba horribly killed by the cartel commandos. It's all his own damn fault and he ended up getting killed by another bigger lion; in a similar way to how he killed his own boss. After all, he is nothing special. He's just a bigger pawn than the others in the underworld and that's it.
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I also don't understand or even see why people think that Tony has an incestuous kind of love for his sister; it's pretty obvious in every scene that he's incredibly super over-protective of her. He doesn't want her to date thugs like him; he does not want her to become like him or the people he rolls with.
I don't think that he kills Manolo out of anger because 'he's doing his sister', its just out of being pissed off because she's dating a thug like him, that all of this has been happening behind his back while he trusted Manolo to take care of her, and while all this has been happening, he's been having troubles with that cartel guy and screwed the bomb mission. Manolo wasn't there with him when this happened to back him up. And of course all this stress + cartel guy problems + drugs leads to Tony losing hsi mind and killing his best friend. WIthout Manolo, Tony is nothing. He kept him grounded. You can tell he regrets killing him.
He's a very conflicted character which makes it great. He's not an hero, and the movie does not glorify his lifestyle. You think that he's going to make it, he's so convinced he's smarter than everybody, so rich, so invincible, he finally has it all, but he ends up getting himself, his sister, his best friend, all of his boys from Cuba horribly killed by the cartel commandos. It's all his own damn fault and he ended up getting killed by another bigger lion; in a similar way to how he killed his own boss. After all, he is nothing special. He's just a bigger pawn than the others in the underworld and that's it.
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