Talk:Tony Montana/Archive 1

WTF is Car Scum
I searched IMDB and found nothing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.121.174 (talk) 06:34, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

non-canon info?
There's a lot of info that could be added from what might be non-canon material. Like in the game it shows Montana went through boot camp, or in commentaries it says he used to be a hitman and he got his scar from a knife fight. I'm sure the books have some stuff too. I'm just not sure if it would be considered appropriate or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.225.81.35 (talk) 01:24, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Body count
Could we have a "kill count", meaning the number of people he has killed? Somewhere in the that little box. That's not possible. It's never specific about how many people he killed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.167.44.0 (talk) 17:57, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 05:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Dates of birth and death
This article makes no sense and the dates are all fucked up. According to the article, he's over 40 years old when the events of Scarface take place, and he dies before the Mariel harbor event takes place. Someone correct this, it's just wrong and cites no sources.

That has been changed. it now says that he died in 1983, and was 30 years old


 * If the opening line is so confident about his birth date, then the infobox is wrong; 1983 - 1950 = 33. For now I've changed his age to 33 in the infobox; it looks less ridiculous this way. If anybody can find a source that says he was born in 1940 (or anything else) and not 1950, step up. Rotten Venetic 00:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

It still lists his birthdate at 1940, I'm assuming because Al Pacino was born in 1940. However, that would make Tony 40 when he came to Florida. Gimme a break. I think it's obvious Pacino is portraying a much younger man here. A birthdate in the early 1950s would be reasonable, but his exact date of birth is unknown. At any rate, Tony Montana is obviously a baby boomer (unshakable confidence, narcissism). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.4.50.37 (talk) 13:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 01:49, 4 August 2005 (UTC) dude shut up you sound like a girl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.89.50 (talk) 09:14, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Needs work
While I can see why this survived deletion, it isn't quite up to being a good article. Right now 95% of the article is spent rehashing the movie (which is better spent in the actual Scarface article, with only a passing mention of the character's influence on gansta rap and other cultures that laud criminal behavior. Also, no mention is made of the character's appearences in other mediums (in the debate on deletion, someone cited a video game) Bobak 15:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

The whole article is written in very inconsistent tense --sometimes past, sometimes present. Synopsises (sp?) should ALWAYS always be written in present tense. -Dawn (don't know how to sign this)

Yeah they made a Scarface video game did you know that? Three to be exact! But now to think of it this page dose need to list the stuff you said. Yeah this article needs a little clean up.--Tommy Montana ~The World Chico and everything in it~ 05:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Too many quotes?
I think quotes should be cut down and leave the most memorable ones up for view. It's getting ridiculous at how many people keep trying to put up ones that made no impact. Maybe also expand the article a bit? Seems kind of tedious for such a well known movie character.--The Scourge 17:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * The quotes have been replaced with a relevant link to wikiquote, they were not contributing to the encyclopedic value of this article and were more appropriate for Wikiquote. Yamaguchi先生 21:26, 24 September 2006

What purpose does this article serve?
All it does is repeat information already posted on the Scarface (1983 film) article. Buzda 04:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I've got to second this one. This whole article sounds like a "so then he says, then she says, then he goes there..." retelling of the movie. If that's all it is then simply sweep it together with Scarface. I really don't know anything about the subject but saw the movie. To be honest, I can't even tell from this if the guy really existed, is invented for the movie, existed as a farcical character in other works? If it's just a re-take of the movie with bogus birthdays and nationalities and personalities then this is really sad. I can read on Goodfellas, by contrast, and tell what is movie, what and who are real, and where the line is blurry. With this article I can't even tell if there is a line. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.124.75.110 (talk) 03:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Edits
I found this article to be quite poorly written, and took the page, and rewrote the plot. It still expresses the same thing, though some time-line errors have been cleared up, and I think it looks much better overall, even if it is useless. 12.107.247.35 00:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine to me I don't see anything wrong with the article? What do you mean it looks poorly written?--Tommy Montana ~The World Chico and everything in it~ 05:52, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Wha-?
This article is decent towards the begining, but looks terrible at the end. Do we need $75 million written THREE different ways? And as for the "Famouse Quote" section, do we need all the quotes written in sentence form, especially when they are all on Wikiquote. It seems to me this article has been edited by a fan who has no idea how Wiki articles work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.142.169.44 (talk) 14:46, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Scarfaceinthefall.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:Riley scarface.jpg
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Unique Character* (* THE one who has his own page)
If you're so confident of only one character of each film or game having his own article, then why don't you go looking and come across Indiana Jones. The Indiana Jones franchise has FOUR characters having their own pages! (Honestly, look here.) So, why let Tony Montana have his own page? You could also recreate Alejandro Sosa's and make it more notable for Wikipedia. An answer should be given soon.  20000  Talk/Contributions 14:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

colombians
what's the deal with Tony and the colombians? why does he hate them so much? they never elaborate on his hatred for the colombians, i like to think that something happened to him while in CUBA the speculation of that type of background is so intriguing to me that i believe that if there was ever another movie that was made about the scar face saga that this would be the best way to approach a story that would not only do justice to one of the best gangster films of all time, but also to elaborate on Tony's history his youth his anger, etc... and it also connects the story with the original movie. so that as a fan we can really get excited and interested in the new story, plot twist etc.. mabye they can get some really good young actor to play a younger Tony. either way the idea of a sequel is a scary one, because there are many scarface fans like myself who will be hard to please. mabye we can get Brian Depalma and Oliver stone as writer director and martin Bregman to produce it. it's a pipe dream but it's such a damn good screenplay and a damn good piece of cinematography it's hard to even imagine someone screwing up a classic flick like Scarface, i already know the video game programmers messed up what possibly could have been a great game, it just didn't capture the feeling of the movie the way we would like it to have. well either way people hit me back with your thought's on a new story/screenplay or do you feel like we should just keep things the way they are? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shootload1911 (talk • contribs) 09:32, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

203.55.90.223 (talk) 03:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC) removed non-NPOV info and "vandalism" - specificly: "mohammed arslan raza be the next scarface"

My Daddy
Why do the words "My Daddy" appear above the picture of Tony Montana? Am I missing something or is this some old vandalism? Thepm (talk) 08:21, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

why?
why did you reverse my edit? it was a factual error that i corrected. ok, if you watched the film, you'd know that "never get high on your own supply" is rule number 2! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.195.140.52 (talk) 01:48, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Howard Hawks
I'd like to put forward that Howard Hawks has invented Tony Montana before Brian De Palma did.


 * I'd like to point out that Tony Camonte was of Italian descent, not Cuban. --84.74.139.84 (talk) 11:53, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

"Last Appearance"?
Should the "last appearance" section be changed, now that the character is in the video game Payday 2? SalaComMander (talk) 04:16, 15 December 2016 (UTC)