This is one of the most striking scenes in cinema: this death has become iconic for an entire generation

If you’ve seen Scarface, you’ll remember its final shooting scene, where Tony Montana, a cocaine addict to the last degree, grabs a rifle with a grenade launcher and kills Sosa’s men, a cocaine producer. with him

After a fierce battle, Tony Montana ends up dying, then is shot down by a fatal shotgun blast in the back. Then he flips over the railing and plunges his head into the pool, in front of which his statue still sits with the famous neon sign “The world is yours”, “Le Monde est à vous”. Crime does not pay.

An iconic death that has captivated several generations since the film was released in 1983.

This ends the gangsters, but also the dream of a better life. Montana started from nothing (along with Manny, he starts the movie diving) and one by one he worked his way up the ranks of the drug trade to become his own boss, keeping himself out of trouble. But it’s Tony’s ambition who wants it “The World and Everything in It” Which leads him down a path that will be fatal for him.

Because of the character’s death, his saying “the world is yours” is ultimately quite ironic, as Tony thought the world belonged to him, but “the world” came to tell him it didn’t. A cynical moral that still resonates today.

If the film marked the “gangster” genre in cinema, its influence in other areas is also noticeable. For example, many rap artists have mentioned Tony Montana in their lyrics, either to praise the financial success of this ambitious and hardworking character, or to criticize his choices and point to his tragic end.

In French rap we find Booba and Gradur through Stomy Bugsy, Rohff, PNL or Oxmo Puccino. He wrote in 1997: “I won’t end up like Scarface / Piercings all over / Blaze in coke / Screaming, ‘Fuck, Motherfucker.’

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