8 Interesting Facts About Tony Montana

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#001
Oliver Stone, the film's screenwriter, was initially asked to write the game's script, but he declined, and Radical Entertainment turned to David McKenna, who wrote American History X (1998) and Blow (2001). McKenna took the job because he was a fan of the film and set out to carry over the sense of humor that made Tony Montana famous.
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#002
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When Tony Montana dies, the globe reads "The World is Yours" — the same slogan that flashed on a billboard at the death of Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) in the original Scarface (1932), and that the blimp displays in an earlier scene.
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#003
The developers originally wanted Scarface: The World is Yours to adapt the film, but two problems ruled that out: the original script was so good that it could not be recreated literally in a game, and Tony Montana dies in the final scene, so players would already know the fatal fate he was doomed to from the start and could not follow his development. It was ultimately decided that the game would tell an original story set after the film's events, as an alternative version of the movie.
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#004
Tony Montana calls cocaine "yeyo." Al Pacino picked up the slang while studying the Cuban accent and improvised it in the chainsaw scene; Brian De Palma liked it so much that he kept it in the rest of the film.
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Steven Spielberg and De Palma had been friends since they both started making studio films in the mid-1970s and regularly visited each other's sets. Spielberg was present on one of the days when the Bolivians' first assault on Tony Montana's house was shot at the end of the film, so De Palma let him direct the low-angle shot of the attackers entering the house.
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#006
Despite the title, Tony Montana is called "Scarface" only once in the entire film, and in Spanish at that ("Cara cicatriz").
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#007
Tony Montana is meant to be Cuban, with Spanish as his first language, yet he speaks only three lines of Spanish in the whole film.
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#008
During the opening scene between Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and the immigration officers, one officer's lines are plainly dubbed with Charles Durning's voice. A second officer is voiced by Dennis Franz, a regular in Brian De Palma's films. Pacino himself also had to re-record his own dialogue at 3 or 4 points in that same scene.
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