dir: Brian DePalma
SCARRED FACE
MAD #248, July 1984
w: Larry Siegel
a: Jack Davis
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Scarface is the story of Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and his rise and fall as America's biggest cocaine dealer.It starts in 1980 when the U.S. allows Cuban refugees in and the ones premier Castro sends are Cuba's worst criminals. Tony and his friend Manny (Steven Bauer) are sprung from refugee camp by kingpin Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) on the condition that he take out Frank's political enemy in there.
Tony and Manny are working at a restaurant in Miami and given a job by Frank to pick up cocaine at a hotel room. The dealers there are killer psychos who don't trust Tony and Manny, but they manage to escape the dealers' wrath.
Tony gets to meet Frank Lopez and his apathetic trophy wife Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer). He tries to move in on her, but she's even less interested in him and his unsophisicated ways. Now that he's working for Frank, Tony's now living the American dream and goes to his family to share his success with them. Tony's mother (Miriam Colon) doesn't want his dirty money and he secretly tells his sister Gina (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) to float some bucks to their mother and live it up a little (but not too much as we'll later see). Tony continues to woo Elvira and move in on Frank's business.
I searched idly for Scarface parodies, and I came across a contemporaneous spoof from a sketch show I'd never heard of. It was called The New Show, which is a lousy name, and it was never given the chance to become an old one, as it was cancelled after only 9 episodes. I don't know why it flopped so hard, given all of the talent involved; it was helmed by Lorne Michaels during his exile from SNL, and included a lot of veterans of SNL and SCTV. Case in point, this sketch stars Raul Julia, Penny Marshall, Dave Thomas, and Buck Henry.
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