The first automatic weapon we meet in the film is a MAC-10, complete with suppressor. Surprising Frank and corrupt Miami Detective Mel Bernstein after the botched hit, Tony and his sidekick Manny dispatch the pair in a classic scene. It’s the pistol he pulls on Frank Lopez, the cocaine kingpin who first gave Tony his start in the drug business, but then who later tried to have Tony killed at the disco. Tony Montana wore a sidearm, a Beretta Model 81, as normally as he wore clothes. Let’s reminisce and meet them all, shall we? The result is some serious carnage think Animal House meets Apocalypse Now! Anyway, in high school in 1983 when the film came out, we couldn’t get enough of it and “Say hello to my little friend” became our tag line for all kinds of goofiness-some of it funny, most of it crude.īut the M16A1, the film’s little friend, had a whole host of buddies who went bang as well. He says it in the film’s climatic, gun-orgy-of-a-scene as he introduces a double-clipped M16A1 with attached M203 40mm grenade launcher to his “house guests”, a squad of heavily armed assassins sent by Alejandro Sosa (Paul Shenar), the Bolivian cocaine kingpin. It belongs, of course, to Al Pacino’s character, Tony Montana, aka Scarface. 44 Magnum bit in Dirty Harry, this line is a good contender for the most famous yet delivered about a firearm in all of filmdom. Spoiler Alert: While it’s highly unlikely anyone on this site hasn’t seen this movie, the following article gives away its ending.
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