convicts, as seen in the prison riot scenes. They are angry and dirty, yelling and reeking havoc on.
their authority figures. The Cubans are also seen as habitual drug users, who not only use drugs,.
but sell them as well, and when a drug deal goes arry these Cubans see no problem with pulling.
out a chain saw and cutting off a mans arms. In the movie Scarface, going on stereotypes alone,.
you would see these people as having no conscience and being the devil incarnate. Now when.
somebody asks me personally if I see all Cubans as being the devil because I have seen Scarface.
I would have to answer no. But was the stereotyping necessary? I would have to answer yes.
Oliver Stone tells the story of Tony Montana, a Cuban convict who worms his way out of.
a prison and comes to Florida poor, working at a foodstand as a kitchen cook. He sees white rich.
Americans and wants all that they have. He sees other Cuban drug lords as having money and.
power wearing nice suits and driving fancy cars, and he knows he too could have everything that.
they have. He works his way up through the belly of the underworld by selling drugs and.
committing murders until he is so feared and powerful that his own boss is surpassed by his.
power. One could say that a pivotal point in this movie is when he marries Elvira, played by.
Michelle Pfeiffer. Elvira is a rich white woman who was the mistress of his boss Sosa, played by.
Robert Loggia. This event in the movie signifies Tony's height of power because not only was.
he the most powerful man that she could marry but his dream of being seen as an equal in the.
white world was now accomplished. Tony had raised himself from the scum of the earth which.
was basically a common Cuban to being everything that a rich white man could have but he had.
done this through a life of crime and murder.
Scarface shows the Cuban family as extremely poor searching for an American dream. .
Tony's own mother would remain poor because she stuck to her strict religious values but his.
