Tony believes that to get respect or women in America you need money first, and then you will get women. It is proven as he takes Elvira away from Frank, but not until he had money

The lighting in Scarface is very interesting, for this type of film you would expect the lighting to be dark and creepy, however, for much of the movie there is very good bright lighting around almost all of the characters. Tony is always shown in decent lighting with perhaps a great deal of shadows aroud his face perhaps to create mystery or depth to his character. These shadows around Tony may represent his many sides and his hidden goals and intense greed.

The flim Scaface shows the climb of one Cuban refugee toward his American Dream, however this climb is influenced by greed and impatience which ultimately leads to the demise of Tony Montana. Throught narration, setting, lighing and costuming the rise and fall of Tony Monatana and his friends is shown in great detail.

This film used both restricted and unrestricted narration to tell the story and keep the suspence on a high level. This is very important to the film in order the keep the viewer guessing and the tension high. In the nightclub where Frank attempts to have Tony killed there is a good example of unrestricted narration. There are two guys sitting at a dining table with machine guns under their napkins under the table, the camera continuously shifts from Tony drunk at his table to the men with guns. When the spotlight lands on Tony the guys start shooting. The viewing audience knows that those guys are going to try to kill him, however, Tony has no idea. There are several other times when unrestricted narration is used, especially in the end of the movie. Tony has just killed his partner and has severely aggravated Mr. Sosa a drug lord in Bolivia and his associates by not killing a politician when he was told. Due to his inability to kill the politician Sosa sends men to his house to kill him. Tony Montana has ground surveillance all over his property but is too deep in grief to see that men have swarmed his property and are killing his guards on the television screens. The audience sees what is going on with mounting anticipation but Tony has no idea, he is too coked up to pay attention. There are also several scenes with restricted narration. A key scene with this is when Tony and Omar are in Bolivia ma

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