Throughout the whole movie Tony has a chip on his shoulder that someone always owes him something and that someone is always after him. So throughout this movie you get an eery sense that something can always happen or might occur. Sosa's men in this particular part of the movie break into Tony's compound which can be seen on the monitors in Tony's office foreshadowing what we all think is going to happen. Tony is so high on cocaine that he is unaware of the events that are occurring around him while his men outside are getting slaughtered.
When we get into the scene Tony has finally realized that he is under attack and they have gotten inside of his house. I want to look at the scene and analyze different aspects of the scene that I think makes this ending one of the best of all time. First of all the clips going from outside the house showing the struggle on the outside of the house for power. I love how we can see what is going on through the cameras as well, and in our minds have an idea of what already is going to happen to our villain. Tony lived the American dream coming up from the slums but its not the right way to get the American dream so in the end as the audience we realize that Tony will end up paying for the way he has lived.
I also love the use of Tony's office in this scene and the colors that are involved with it. The colors are very dark inside his office, the desk and all the furniture are black which gives the room an eery presence such as that this is his lair and it gives the room a dark feeling. Also the other color in the room is a very dark red which to me either represents the color of blood or almost a color of fire which in turn makes me think about hell because of the bad things that he has done. Such as the massive amount of cocaine that is on his desk and all over his suit as well. The dark surroundings in the mansion give it a foreshadowing that everything is not going to end good.
You literally can not take your eyes off the screen when one person gets killed he turns to the staircase which is double sided and kills someone on the other side. The staircase is like they are coming at him from all angles and his death is inevitable but he seems to keep hanging on. We then see the part that Tony has not seen himself the quiet assassin that has snuck through the window to eventually end up behind him killing him. I feel that the assassin is ironic in the point that he is finally getting killed from something that he never even saw coming. This is one of my all time favorite ending and a very action packed one as well.
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References
Mason, F. (2002). American gangster cinema: from Little Caesar to Pulp fiction. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Scarface (1983) - IMDb. (n.d.). The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved December 5, 2011, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/
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