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You can't deny that there are some satisfying moments in Scarface, since it deals with how one immigrant got rich... even if it was through the wrong methods.


  • Tony's epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards the people in the fancy restaurant after he gets dumped by Elvira. While he's severely drunk.
    Tony: What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
    • Hell, before that was just as awesome. After taking enough of Tony's horrific and public verbal abuse, Elvira gives him a "Reason You Suck" Speech that's just as epic, calling him out as the wretched scumbag he is.
  • By far, the moment in which Tony executes the bastard who tortured and murdered Angel. The only thing that would have made it more satisfying would have been if Tony shot him many times through his body or tortured him before killing him.
  • Even Gina has one when she shoots Tony's cocaine and in the leg while begging him to have sex with her.
  • "Maybe you can handle yourself one of them first class tickets to the resurrection."
  • Rebenga's assassination. How Manny and Tony were able to use the Freedom Town riots to their advantage and corner and kill Rebenga. Manny especially rousing the rioting crowd into chanting "Libertad" (Freedom), to make Rebenga think that everyone was out to get him. Once he made it through the tent, out pops Tony who stabs him in the stomach.
  • For all his wrongdoing, Tony Wouldn't Hurt a Child; when someone tries to break it, Tony shoots him in the head from the driver's seat.
    "I told you, no fucking kids! But you wouldn't listen! Well, you stupid fuck, look at you now!"
  • The finale. Tony, high on cocaine and enraged by an army of Sosa's hitmen invading his mansion and killing his sister, brings out an M-16 assault rifle and M-203 grenade launcher and makes a last stand, shouting the now iconic line "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" before using it to blow away the men about to storm his office. He marches out and confronts the hitmen directly, killing many of them, including with another grenade. He takes bullet after bullet, but continues to fight. Even as more hitmen storm in and shoot him to the point where he drops his weapon, he continues to stand while screaming insults and taunts at them. It takes a point-blank double barrel shotgun blast to the back by The Skull to finally bring Tony down.
    Tony: YOU FUCK WITH ME, YOU FUCKING WITH THE BEST!
    • That gun was blasting so hot, even firing blanks, that Al Pacino burned his hand on the barrel. He kept going, just like Tony.
  • Another moment of awesome from Gina is when she defies her mother in not seeing Tony anymore for being the criminal that he is by pushing through her, all the while ignoring her protests.
    • Alternately, the awesome moment belongs to the mother herself, for calling out Tony as the evil man he is to his face and doing her best to keep her daughter from being drawn into his toxic orbit. Her pleas fall on deaf hears, but by the end of the film she's proven right in that both her children got involved in the criminal underworld to their own destruction.

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