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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.

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.

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.