Tony Montana Quotes

Tony is very smart but also quite poor. His family didn't have enough money to send him to school but since he was smart and the nuns had faith in him they were able to provide him with a scholarship: “His family could not afford to send him to school. But the nuns believed in him because he was smart and a good boy.” (McKay 44). This shows how tony was viewed as a person before everything with the LRA happened. Tony also had a dream to become a priest when he was older. He never openly said it but it was very obvious to others; “ He has never actually said to his friends, but everyone knew that tony really wanted to become a priest.” (McKay 45). This shows that Tony wanted to go to school to repay god and how much of a good kid we was and how he didn't deserve to have to become a rebel soldier.

Tony, Wes's older brother, serves as his primary role model throughout his life. As a child, Wes looks up to the Tony, who holds his own street corner and sells drugs. "To Wes, Tony was a 'certified gangsta.' Tony had started dealing drugs... before he was ten. By the time he was fourteen, Tony had built a fierce reputation in the neighborhood. Despite his skinny frame and a baby face, his eyes were lifeless and hooded, without a spark of optimism" (27). All Wes wants is to be like Tony. He looks up to his older brother and is incapable of seeing his flaws with the drug dealing and violence in his life. By the time Tony is a teenager, the drug game has made him "lifeless". Wes decides to look up to this lifeless figure, even though Tony has barely any hope for his future. Wes respects Tony's "fierce reputation". Tony, instead of working hard to gain his respect, intimidates and threatens others for it. Wes is taught that this is the only way to gain respect, because there is no one else in his life who shows him the right

Tony being afraid of the extended mob family run by Nick Calabrese Tony agrees to be a government witness for district attorney Sean Kierny (intends to rat out the mob in order to keep safe.), the district attorney Sean Kierny intends to bring down

Tony’s family expectations were not very fond of his interests because that was not what normal for an Indian male was defined as. He did not end up telling his family for the feeling of reject that was going to accompany him. Instead he asked Jess’s hand in marriage so she could go and play professional soccer in America, but Jess denied and said that he was lying. Although Jess was able to convince her parents about letting her play soccer in America, Tony’s

     Although the characters believed they lived a good life, in my own perspective I saw the exact opposite. The good life is demonstrated through success, success through a career, education, goals, and love. The gangs only had one another and without the support of that gang, these boys would not exist as individual human beings. The Jets did not want to have jobs, and they mocked the ex-gang member, Tony, for leaving the gang to make a future for himself. Life outside the gang was not an option for the Jets. None of the boys had any future plans or felt the need for anything else in their lives. Tony did not live the good life, but he did have dreams. He knew there was a better life for him out there, and parting from the gang allowed him to search for that life. He wanted to get away from the city, have a peaceful home, and a wonderful wife. His future was important to him; he wanted to be a successful man. Tony’s character contradicts the beliefs of the Jets, allowing viewers to see into the minds of the gang members and their beliefs about the good life.

Tony grew up with to the best upbringing and home life. When he was younger his father left him and his family behind and he has not had ay contact with

Since another Wes Moore's just tutor was his sibling, he was directed far from a "safe life". Despite the fact that Tony had attempted to keep Wes in school and far from drugs for as far back as Wes could remember, Tony was still somewhere involved in that game. Obviously Tony didn't have any better thoughts. Without a valid version of "manhood" that reflected trustworthiness for another Wes Moore to admire, it would be about unthinkable for him to do that for

This little decision he made affect his life significantly because Tony dose drugs and all this other stuff and Wes is going to do the same thing that Tony is doing. The young Wes Moore was just coming back home when Tony stops him. Tony ask where is all this money coming from. Other young Wes response by saying he was a D.J. Tony get really mad and starts to beat up other young Wes because he knows he was dealing drugs. The mother of the young Wes stop Tony from beating him up any longer. Then Wes got up and the mother says that "Wes wanted to be just like Tony" (Moore 72). The other young Wes more affect his life big time because he made the small decisions to be just like Tony. Tony has done a lot of drugs and other bad actions. It was Wes little decision to be like Tony and not him

3). Tony has been in and out of jail since he was an adolescent. He hits, steals, and he destroys property and says he enjoys doing so "because people are stupid". He shows little remorse for his crimes, behaves impulsively, and lacks empathy for the rights and feelings of others.

These words reflect the answer of the man that we came to know as Scarface played by Al Pacino in the 1983 Brian DePalma movie Scarface. During this whole interview process with immigration authorities, you see his “machismo” which is a basic stereotype of a Hispanic male. Tony is a Cuban refugee sent over to the United States by Fidel Castro along with many other refugees in the 1980’s. As the movie progresses you see them being held in a “freedom camp” in Miami like animals locked up behind gates (cages). In one scene you see a violent stabbing of a political person by Tony showcasing the violence that eventually escalates throughout the movie. He soon starts working for a drug dealer and eventually branches off and by the end of the movie he becomes a powerful drug kingpin while leaving death

Antonio "Tony" Montana was born in Cuba on May 5, 1996, to a Cuban mother and an American father. The marriage produced two children, Antonio and Gina, his little sister. Tony recalled having a pretty good relationship with his father, who taught him English and took him to American films where he saw such big stars as Humphrey Bogart. While Tony's father had a good relation with his kids, he did not have an ideal relationship as a husband and head of the household. One day Tony's father abandoned his family, so Mrs. Montana raises Tony and Gina alone. However, Tony proves somewhat a copycat of his father, abandoning them 5 years. It was later explained that one reason for the estragment was that Tony had admired the Cuban gangsters, who often

Now, there are a ton of similarities in the two movies. From being almost half a century apart, the remake obviously had to be modernized and familiar with the materialistic 80s style the audience during that time looked for. The story lines are related. They both follow the rise and fall of a gangster. Both men, who act as tony, portray him in a terrifying and destructive way. Each main characters have very interesting relationships with their mothers and sisters. Both are extremely protective and obsessive. Audiences see this as creepy and twisted compared to a normal relationship with a sister. Tony gets so protective of his sister, that in both the movies he kills his best friend for being with his sister. For tony’s relationship with

One day, when Tony and Louis were together in Tony 's car, Tony shot Louis in the head and then shot himself in the arm. He went immediately to Tony 's mansion and told everyone that they had been shot by a group of gangsters. Everyone believed the story except Nick which still believed that something else had happened. Soon after, it was decided that Tony Montana was going to replace Louis. Tony had realized his goal. For the next 6 months, everything was perfect. He continued the drug business and moved to the mansion with his wife. Nick was his top dealer but he still sensed some bitterness from Nick 's part. Nick believed that Montana was the murderer but couldn 't prove it. Montana kept getting more money each day and Lady Montana was happy buying all the clothes and jewelry she could.

Don Corleone of The Godfather holds extravagant weddings and parties for his guests and organization members, he even promises to do some favors on the day of his daughter’s wedding (Sallamon 59). In Goodfellas Pauly is seen as a hero in his neighborhood community and helps out businesses not doing so well, of course requiring some kind of cut. There is no such nobility shown in Tony Montana’s character, neither in his background or when he does rise to power. Tony arrives to America during the Mariel boat lift, a mass migration of Cubans to America after an unpopular communist government gained power. While most of the 125,000 immigrants were farmers or blue collar workers, and political refugees, it was discovered that Cuban President Fidel Castro had allowed unknown figures of convicts and detainees from mental institutions to take part in the migration. It is made apparent in the very first scene of the film that Tony Montana is one of these undesirables. The shot is of Tony being questioned by immigration officers on aspects of his past life in Cuba such as his job, use of drugs, and if he had ever been in jail before. The conversation heats up and one of the officers demands to know what a small tattoo on the skin between Montana’s thumb and index

The extent of his damage includes his broken form of rationalization, his already established damaged relationships, his lack of self accountability, his judgement of those around him. From the beginning of the novel, it is shown that Tony and his friends are different because of their philosophical ideas and discussions. Although nothing is wrong with philosophical questioning and reasoning, the problem arises when every answer to every question must be explained fundamentally. Philosophy has unanswered questions all the time, if it did not then there would be no more questions to discuss because everyone would already have all of the answers. Tony taught that he needed an answer to every question. With this mindset he could not possibly love or form relationships properly because everything that he did had to have rhyme or reason. Where there is induction and deduction he could only make out deduction. This is one of the bases of his damage, rationalizing things that have no answer to their questions. What arises falsely as an answer when there is none, is an assumption. “Old Joe Hunt said… that mental states can be inferred from actions… Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states” (48). Tony believes that you can recognize one’s entire complex lifetime, simply by looking at who