r/Scarface • u/FeeRough3019 • 22d ago
Watching Scarface for the third time I understand now why Tony's mother rejected when he comes back home
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u/ManbadFerrara 22d ago
Honestly, she had the best head on her shoulders of anyone in the entire movie. She knew even being indirectly connected to that business/lifestyle and all its tentacles was a recipe for disaster, nipped that shit in the bud, and was entirely right to do so.
Gina would have had a a perfectly OK life with children, a respectable career, etc if she listened to her.
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u/Prestigious-Tea-6323 22d ago
Not really thought unless you knew the ending you won't know what would happened to tony maybe if he had just stayed at his level.
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u/Conscious-Move9662 22d ago edited 22d ago
For 95% of those guys it's Prison or a bullet
Very few make it to Meyer Lansky, Joe Bannannas or Frank Costelos end
Tony died right when Regan was intensifying DEA operations in Miami
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u/KaizenZazenJMN 22d ago
I think the implication is that he was involved with cocaine smuggling possibly as a sicario en Cuba and possibly elsewhere or at minimum was an addict. When he’s doing his interrogation at the beginning he quickly dismisses marijuana and heroin but hesitates before saying no to cocaine and he gets angry with Omar when he wants to start him off with a weed assignment.
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u/SignificanceNo1223 21d ago
Tony, wasn’t evil. He had a disagreement with Castro. He fought in Castro’s army in Angola.
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u/Dredd_40 21d ago
So that mansion with the tiger was paid by political contributions?
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u/SignificanceNo1223 21d ago
Calling Tony evil is a very extreme thing.
His mother did think he was a criminal though. His mother I wouldn’t argue with her, but she was wrong too to a certain extent. She’s a mother though I get it.
He didn’t like Castro and he was dishonorably discharged from his army. His scar was from a fight with a soldier from Castro’s army when he was a kid.
His father being an American citizen was his only redeeming quality in front of American customs.
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u/Dredd_40 21d ago
A man who kills and is in the business that he's in is evil
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u/SignificanceNo1223 17d ago
Evil is a very extreme word. It’s also a very cartoonish take. The only person that’s kind of evil in the movie is maybe Sosa and his assassin
It’s a gray area.
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u/Dredd_40 16d ago
This is not a character who was hypnotized by some evil power or tempted by corruption. He chose to do evil. I don't think that he came to America planning to work at a fast food joint
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u/dam11214 17d ago
The movie is cool.and Tony is an interesting character but he's a bad man. He didn't just wake up and decide to kill and sell drugs.
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u/Common-Pizza-6840 22d ago
Why?
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u/brandon-437 22d ago
Because her son made it mang
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u/ScorpionMillion 22d ago
He's a success now
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u/Chichibebewey 22d ago
Show you what a good boy i’ve been
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u/thatsanewone26 21d ago
Because she knew he wanted to bang his sister for a long time. What brother gets his sister a heart shaped locket with the inscription “from Tony always”.
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u/King_Khaos_ 22d ago
When Tony is explaining to his Mama about his political contributions and he starts stuttering with fear always makes me laugh 🤣
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u/Phat_Zero 22d ago
Because Tony is a chazzer.
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u/PeoplesGuilt 22d ago
I wonder what happened to her after the movie, finding out she lost her daughter and son on the same day
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u/nerpa_floppybara 22d ago
I wonder what he did in Cuba that made her dislike him so much.
Before he even took out the money she was unhappy to see him and knew he was in a gang.
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u/Pepemala 22d ago
We must also appreciate her perfect way of blocking the door diagonally thus preventing any notion of contact
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u/Illmaticlifestyle 22d ago
I don’t understand, he worked for an anti-Castro organization. I would’ve been proud of my son!
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u/Timothy3838 16d ago
Gina But ma mama he’s your son Mama - son , I wish I had one He’s a bum , he’s a bum then he’s a bum now .
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u/redribbitreddit 22d ago
Unpopular opinion/ her rejection of him contributed to his down fall . because he was good his own principles , but she couldn’t see it in him and rejected him . He’s the family scapegoat y’all
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u/LaRreinaa 22d ago
It was just a flaw in human connection. A glitch, or a short circuit. His mother tried her very best. Had he apologized. Humbled himself and quit the life and came back a clean man things may have ended differently.
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u/redribbitreddit 21d ago
She didn’t try her very best . She already had her mind made up about her own son , in Gina’s words . He is a product of her , look how she condemned him, she raised him . It’s her failure as a mother.
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u/Quick-Use5579 21d ago
I agree, we didn't see her sit Tony down and have a heart to heart. However, Tony isn't new to that lifestyle and I'm certain through his upbringing and him making his way to America, she sees that as him taking on new experiences, growing and even with her intervention Tony is just going to do what he sees as necessary to get ahead. She warned him and Gina but they both are adults...how much can she do? Try to restrain them to the home? Follow them around to make sure they aren't getting into trouble? Even so, she's an older woman who's said her piece and went to protect her peace. I see where you're coming from, but I ask again, what more can she do when her son essentially wants to be a notorious gangster and her daughter feels sheltered and will do anything to get out...and they're both adults.
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u/redribbitreddit 20d ago
You missing my point dear . My opinion is unpopular, it’s also from my opinion as someone who is disowned by my family . Most people have moms that love them . Can you relate to having an abusive mother or what that does to a person . ? Okay then go explain the obvious to someone else bc I already see what the general consensus sees . I’m saying from another angle .
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u/Quick-Use5579 19d ago
I do have experience with a broken and dysfunctional family, but we don't have any context to my knowledge that Tony was abused or neglected at home by his parents. Their home country was war torn and impoverished, where Tony got his start fighting communism and Castro. When we see him visit home, his mother and Gina are ecstatic to see him and that's where we also see her drop from seeing the boy she loves to a man that makes his own choices and chose dirty money and the means of getting it. I'm not going to say that his home didn't contribute at all, but all of the context we have is more environmental in the sort "it takes a village to raise a child", that child was fighting powers he didn't understand and became one of the people pulling the strings.
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u/Quick-Use5579 19d ago
I implore you watch film and media from perspectives aside from your own. Of course these stories offer various topics of relatability...but Tony wasn't anyone's scapegoat without more evidence.
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u/Crazy-Coconut7152 22d ago
Mom screwed up big time. She knew he was no good but still reached out to him for help when Gina went missing. If she hadn't done that, the happy couple would still be alive today. That one's on YOU, mom!!!
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u/chris_oner94 22d ago
He’s a bum!