Scarface premiered on December 1, 1983, in New York City, where it was initially greeted with mixed reaction. The film's two stars, Al Pacino and Steven Bauer, were joined in attendance by Burt and Diane Lane, Melanie Griffith, Raquel Welch, Joan Collins, her boyfriend Peter Holm, and Eddie Murphy, among others. [50] It was then given a wide release on December 9. An unfortunate icon". The Guardian. December 10, 2008. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020 . Retrieved June 11, 2020. Pacino insisted on taking the lead role as Tony Montana, although Robert De Niro had been offered it and had turned it down. [23] [30] Pacino worked with experts in knife combat, trainers, and boxer Roberto Durán to attain the body type that he wanted for the role. Durán also helped inspire the character, who had "a certain lion in him", according to Pacino. Meryl Streep's immigrant character in Sophie's Choice (1982) also influenced Pacino's portrayal of Tony Montana. Bauer and a dialect coach helped him learn aspects of the Cuban Spanish language and pronunciation. [24] The paint job on this figure is also very impressive, he has a nice dry brush affect all over his armor to bring out highlights and details. I was especially impressed with the paint on the unmasked head, it catches all the little details and looks really good on display.

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EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Man 4 Circling John Malkovich, Anne Hathaway". The Wrap. Santa Monica, California: The Wrap News Inc. March 24, 2014. Archived from the original on April 21, 2014 . Retrieved March 24, 2014. The drama is centered on Tony’s effort to take over the crime family of Chicago, headed by Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins), in which Tony is an underling, and then to take over the city’s entire gangland empire. The story is based largely on real-life characters and incidents (its principal screenwriter, Ben Hecht, had been a journalist in Chicago and knew Capone and other gangland figures), and it’s mainly a tale of Tony’s overweening ambition being matched with the daringly insightful strategy and pathological amorality necessary to carry it out—and also his high-wattage personality, which enthralls his criminal cohorts and turns Tony into a modern figure of mass-media mythology. Scarface is among the films that served as inspiration for the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which took place in a representation of 1980s' Miami and featured a recreation of Montana's mansion. [111] [112] [113] The video for Mötley Crüe's song "Dr. Feelgood" echoes several elements of the film (the end of the video features a bloodless version of the climatic shootout where Tony Montana is killed) and the song itself describes a young man who rises to great power in the drug trade and then loses it all.