While the film contains a number of memorable action sequences, the final shootout is a true sight to behold. 'In the past, I've talked about 'Scarface' as being a farewell love letter to cocaine, but it's really me taking my revenge on the drug.' it had taken so much of my money that now I needed to take my revenge and so I wrote 'Scarface',' he recalled in 2017. Although technically a remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson film of the same name, the films have little in common a wild screenplay by Oliver Stone -which includes everything from a pet tiger to a chainsaw murder to a man being thrown from a helicopter with a noose around his neck - reportedly used his real-life cocaine addiction as a source of motivation for the story. Pacino plays Tony Montana as a violent, explosive gangster who rises from nothing to become the cocaine kingpin of Miami.
