Scarface

In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened

the harbor at Mariel, Cuba,

with the apparent intention

of letting some of his people

join their relatives

in the United States.

Within seventy-two hours, 3,000

U.S. Boats were headed for Cuba.

It soon became evident that Castro

was forcing the boat owners

to carry back with them

not only their relatives

but the dregs of his jails.

Of the 125,000 refugees

that landed in Florida,

an estimated 25,000

had criminal records.

...they are unwilling to adapt

to the spirit of our revolution.

We don't want them!

We don't need them!

MARIEL HARBOUR, CUBA

What do you call yourself?

Antonio Montana.

And you, what you call yourself?

Where'd you learn English, Tony?

In school.

And my father,

he was from the United States.

Just like you, you know?

He was a Yankee.

He used to take me a lot

to the movies.

I learned.

I watch the guys

like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney.

They teach me to talk.

I like those guys.

I always know one day

I'm coming here, United States.

So where's your old man now?

He dead. He die.

Sometime. Somewhere.

Mother?

She dead, too.

What work you do in Cuba?

You know, things.

I was this, that.

Construction business.

I work a lot with my hands.

I was in the Army.

Any family in the States?

Cousins, brother-in-law?

Nobody. Everybody's dead.

You ever been to jail, Tony?

Me? Jail? No way, no.

Been in a mental hospital?

Yeah. On the boat coming over.

What about homosexuality, Tony?

You like men?

You like to dress up like a woman?

What is wrong with this guy?

He kidding me or what?

Just answer the questions, Tony.

Okay. No.

F***, no.

Arrested for vagrancy? Marijuana?

Never, man.

Heroin?

Cocaine?

No.

Where'd you get the beauty

scar, tough guy? Eating p*ssy?

How am I gonna get a scar like that

eating p*ssy?

This was when I was a kid, you know?

You should see the other kid.

You can't recognize him.

And this?

What? That's nothing.

That's from my sweetheart.

Sweetheart, my ass! We've

been seeing more and more of these.

Some kind of code

these guys used in the can.

Pitchfork means an assassin

or something.

You want to tell us about it...

or you want to take a trip

to the detention centre?

Okay, you got me.

I was in the can one time.

For buying dollars. Big deal.

That's pretty funny, Tony.

That's true.

It was a Canadian tourist.

Did you mug him first?

Get him out of here!

Come on!

So I f*** up!

Let me talk to this guy. Please!

Let me talk to him a minute.

You a Communist?

How'd you like it?

They tell you always what to do,

what to think, what to feel.

Do you want to be like a sheep?

Like all those other people?

I don't have to listen to this!

You wanna work 8, 10 f***ing hours?

You own nothing, you got nothing!

Do you want a chivato

on every corner...

watching everything you do?

Everything you say, man?

You know I eat octopus

three times a day?

I got f***ing octopus

coming out of my ears.

I got f***ing Russian shoes,

my feet's coming through.

How'd you like that?

You want me to stay there

and do nothing?

I'm no f***ing criminal, man.

I'm no puta or thief.

I'm Tony Montana,

a political prisoner from Cuba.

I want my f***ing human rights, now!

Like President Jimmy Carter says.

Okay?

Carter should see this human right.

He's really good.

- What do you say?

- I don't believe any of this sh*t!

They all sound alike to me.

That Castro is shitting all over us.

Send the bastard to Freedom Town.

Let them see him.

Get him out of here.

Know something?

You can send me anywhere.

Here, there, this, that.

It don't matter.

There's nothing you can do to me

that Castro hasn't done...

Get him out of here!

So?

So?

What'd you tell them?

What you told me to tell them.

That we... I was in sanitation.

They didn't go for it.

- Sanitation?

- Yeah.

I told you to tell them you was

in a sanatarium, not sanitation.

- Sanatarium. Yeah.

- You didn't tell me that.

No, I told you to say you had TB

and you was in a sanatarium.

You was cured.

- When did you tell me that?

- You should've kept your mouth shut.

They'd think you was a horse

and let you out.

ONE MONTH LATER:

Tony! Montana!

Tony Montana! Come here.

Come here, man. I gotta talk to you.

Come on, man. It's important.

So close, man.

Come on.

- I gotta talk to you.

- Where are you going?

- Leave him alone.

- I got better things to do.

You're chicken, man.

You almost made it.

Are you ready for some good news?

Sure. What you got, man?

We can be outta this place

in 30 days.

Not only that, but we got

a green card and a job in Miami.

Now are we made or are we made, man?

What do we gotta do?

Go to Cuba and hit the Beard?

- No, man, somebody else.

- You're kidding?

- No.

- You're not kidding?

Guy named Rebenga, man.

Emilio Rebenga.

Rebenga?

- I know that name.

- Yeah?

- He's political.

- Yeah.

Well, he's coming in here

today. Castro just sprung him.

This guy was one of the top dogs

for Fidel in the early days.

Castro felt he couldn't trust him

and threw him in jail.

But while he was on top,

he tortured a few guys to death.

One of the guy's brothers

is a rich guy in Miami now.

He wants the favor repaid.

That's where we come in.

It's ugly, man.

Yeah.

You tell your guys in Miami,

your friend...

it'd be a pleasure.

I'd kill a Communist for fun...

but for a green card,

I gonna carve him up real nice.

MIAMI, FLORIDA, AUGUST 11, 1980.

HUNDREDS OF CUBAN REFUGEES

BEGAN RIOTING THIS MORNING

AT A DETENTION CENTRE SITUATED

UNDER INTERSTATE 95 IN NORTH MIAMI,

BURNING TENTS AND ATTACKING

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALISATION

GUARDS WITH PIPES, STICKS AND ROCKS.

Libertad! Libertad!

Rebenga!

From a friend you f***ed!

That face. That's nice.

- That doesn't look like me.

- That looks pretty, man.

F***!

Your big shot friend better

come up with something soon.

I didn't come to the U.S.

To break my f***ing back.

He's coming!

What do you want from me?

F***ing thing!

I told you.

What's wrong?

Look at that one.

That one in the pink.

She's beautiful.

Look at those titties.

Look at that punk with her.

What's he got that I don't have?

Well, he's very handsome,

for one thing, you know?

I mean, look at the way he dresses.

Come on.

That's style, flash, pizzazz.

And a little coke money

doesn't hurt nobody.

Look at this.

F***ing onions.

They ought to be picking gold

from the street.

There's two guys

looking for you out there.

That's him, man. That's El mono.

I told you.

Don't stay too f***ing long.

We've got a lot of work to do.

Waldo! Good to see you, man.

This is my friend, Tony Montana,

I've been telling you about.

Tony, that's Omar Suarez,

and that's Waldo Rojas over there.

I got something for you.

Yeah? What do we gotta do?

Gotta unload a boat. Marijuana.

- $500? That's great.

- You gotta be kidding.

$500?

Who do you think we are,

baggage handlers?

The going rate on a boat

is $1,000 a night.

You know that.

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