History Film / CarlitosWay

-->''"Maybe I don't give a shit! Maybe I don't remember the last time I blew my nose either.. Who the fuck are you? I should remember you? What, you think you like me? You ain't like me motherfucker, you a punk. I've been with made people, connected people. Who've you been with? Chain snatching, jive-ass, maricón motherfuckers. Why don't you get out of here and go snatch a purse."''

* DisappointedInYou: Carlito feels something between disappointment and pity whenever he sees Kleinfeld slipping into some completely needless asshole behavior, like snorting coke, treating women badly, making an ass of himself or [[spoile: killing a mob boss]]. [[spoiler: Even when he finds out Dave betrayed him, his reaction is not to get mad, but to berate him, covertly unload his gun and sarcastically tell him that he has a "beautiful future" ahead of himself.]]

** In ''Film/Scarface1983'', Tony Montana is utterly incensed by someone dancing with his sister, his... [[BrotherSisterIncest ''love'' interest]]. Here, he takes pleasure in watching his ''actual'' love interest dance with a man who's similarly skilled, and comments on appreciating the beauty of their movement. Of course, it's Kleinfeld who takes offence to this...

* ExactWords: Benny told Carlito that if he didn’t kill him outside of the club that if he ever saw him again, he was going to kill him and boy he wasn’t lying.......

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Carlito gets away from the Italian mobsters chasing him and it looks like he's going to make it to the train, but then Benny Blanco from the Bronx does Carlito in from petty revenge...]]

* NotSoDifferent: A strange kind. Benny Blanco is not assuming more than anyone else [[ReformedButRejected that Carlito never changed]], and tries to treat him with the utmost respect. Carlito however still thinks he is trying to pull this off and violently rejects him, obviously because of[[IHatePastMe how much Benny reminds him of himself at the peak of his younger criminal days]].

* NotSoDifferent: A strange kind. Benny Blanco is not assuming more than anyone else [[ReformedButRejected that Carlito never changed]], and tries to treat him with the utmost respect. Carlito however still thinks he is trying to pull this off and violently rejects him, obviously because of[[IHatePastMe how much Benny reminds him of himself at the peak of his younger criminal days]].

* NotSoDifferent: A strange kind. Benny Blanco is not assuming more than anyone else [[ReformedButRejected that Carlito never changed]], and tries to treat him with the utmost respect. Carlito however still thinks he is trying to pull this off and violently rejects him, obviously because of [[Irony how much Benny reminds him of himself]] [[IHatePastMe at the peak of his younger criminal days]].

* NotSoDifferent: A strange kind. Benny Blanco is not assuming more than anyone else [[ReformedButRejected that Carlito never changed]], and tries to treat him with the utmost respect. Carlito however still thinks he is trying to pull this off and violently rebukes him, obviously because of [[Irony how much Benny reminds him of himself]] [[IHatePastMe at the peak of his younger criminal days]].

* NotSoDifferent: A strange kind. Benny Blanco is not assuming more than anyone else [[ReformedButRejected that Carlito never changed]], and tries to treat him with the utmost respect. Carlito however still thinks he is trying to pull this off and violently rebukes him, obviously because of [[IHatePastMe hom much Benny reminds him of himself at the peak of his younger criminal days]].

* NotSoDifferent: A strange kind. Benny Blanco is not assuming more than anyone else [[ReformedButRejected that Carlito never changed]], and tries to treat him with the utmost respect. Carlito however still thinks he is trying to pull this off and violently rebukes him, obviously because of [[IHatePastMe hom much Benny reminds him of how himself was at the peak of his younger criminal days]].

** '''B'''enny '''B'''lanco from the Bronx.

* BrooklynRage: Tony T., despite being Italian, is this flavor of threatening, being a stocky, brutish, meat-headed GutturalGrowler with a NooYawk accent who promises Kleinfeld to "snap [his] neck like a breadstick".

* SpiritualSuccessor: As noted above, it's practically a complete inversion of ''Film/Scarface1983'', including by way of a ShoutOut:

** In ''Film/Scarface1983'', Tony Montana is utterly incensed by someone dancing with his sister, his... [[BrotherSisterIncest ''love'' interest]]. Here, he takes pleasure in watching his ''actual'' love interest dance with a man who's similarly skilled, and comments on appreciating the beauty of their movement. Of course it's Kleinfeld who takes offence to this...

''Carlito's Way'' is a 1993 Creator/BrianDePalma film in which Creator/AlPacino plays a Puerto Rican gangster hoping to reconcile and start a new life after his five-year stint in jail. It's a far cry from being another ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'', though ''Carlito's Way'' may be seen as its [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual successor.]] Indeed, the two films are nearly inversions of each other; whereas Tony Montana rises from [[FromNobodyToNightmare a nobody to a prominent drug lord]], Carlito Brigante [[IJustWantToBeNormal attempts to reform]] after a life of notoriety. Both films however, go their way to show that gangster life is not all it's cracked up to be.

Unfortunately, Carlito's criminal past catches up with him - his former associates, along with an up and coming gangster [[IJustWantToBeBadass Benny Blanco from the Bronx]], attempt to cajole him back into the gangster life. Further complicating things, the FBI wishes to see Carlito Brigante put back in jail. But the biggest obstacle is David Kleinfeld's dilemma with a mafioso boss 'Tony T.' who is locked up inside [[TheAlcatraz Rikers Island]]; Tony T. wants Kleinfield to spring him out, and Kleinfeld isn't sure of [[DisposingOfABody what other plans]] Tony T. has in mind for him afterwards..

* AmoralAttorney: Kleinfeld is probably the worst kind of crooked lawyer. He steals $1 million from his own mob boss client, Tony Tagliucci, then double crosses and murders him and his son. He also snitches on Carlito.

** Benny Blanco from the Bronx.
** And Tony T.