Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy
SCARFACE Directed by Brian De Palma; Screenplay by Oliver Stone
So the feds in Miami ask this Tony Montana where he picked up his pretty good English, and Tony, a Cuban washed ashore in the 1980 wave of 125,000 refugees, smiles up at them roguishly and says, "My father ta'e me to the movies. I watch the guys like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, I learn how to spe' from those guys. I li'e those guys." To each his own American dream. Tony (Al Pacino) and his pal Manolo (Steven Bauer) have different takes on that...
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