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Originally Posted by justinsain
While I absolutely loved the movie I just don't understand why so many people admire
Tony Montana like he was some kind of God when in fact he was the biggest loser.
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Of course he was a bad guy but there were aspects of his persona that people, regardless of their background, could relate to in their pursuit of the American Dream. While no one's condoning rushing out and slinging yeyo for a living, something's gotta be said about coming from dirt poor / nowhere backgrounds and making it in the US through self-confidence, pluck, and hard work. It's the American story. Just as true for the kid born in a shack in the Ozarks to the kid on a banana boat to Florida escaping from Cuba to the kid in a Haitian raft to the Filipino kid on a plane to Hawaii. I ought to know, I was that Filipino kid in the 70s.
They all have America's promise in their eyes and a burning desire to make it. While HOW we choose to make it subjects us to MORAL judgment, and HOW Montana made it made him a bad character, its the promise of the American dream and the triumph of the individual regardless of caste/background that makes the American story burn even brighter
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