Oliver Stone, Brian DePalma and Al Pacino tapped into Miami dope culture of fast cars and fast women and studied real life drug dealers to create the iconic Tony Montana character
That’s the order of operations that comes to mind when I think about my hometown of Miami’s love-hate relationship with the notorious 1983 film Scarface – the fictionalized story of Cuban rafter turned drug lord Tony Montana’s spectacular rise and fall in Miami’s 1980s cocaine heyday.
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