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Tony Montana Was Based On This Man — The Real Scarface Story Is Darker

Tony Montana stands at the top of his staircase with a machine gun and goes out in a blaze of glory. It is one of the most iconic endings in movie history. Now here is the real ending. A forty-eight year old man dying in a Palm Island bedroom, calling out for people who are not in the room, with the officially documented mental capacity of a twelve year old child. His wife holds his hand. His heart stops at eight thirty in the evening. His name is Al Capone. And he is the real Tony Montana. Not loosely. Not metaphorically. When Brian De Palma made Scarface in nineteen eighty-three, Tony Montana was a fictional reconstruction built on the bones of Al Capone's actual life. The immigrant who arrives with nothing. The violent climb. The empire built on a product everyone wants but cannot legally buy. The corruption of an entire city. The paranoia. The isolation. The fall. They changed Chicago to Miami, bootleg alcohol to cocaine, Italian to Cuban. They gave him a cinematic death. Because the real death was too dark and too sad for Hollywood to use. What you will learn: The direct connections between Tony Montana and Al Capone — scene by scene, decision by decision, how the fictional character maps onto the real man's documented life Who Al Capone actually was — born in a four dollar a month Brooklyn tenement in eighteen ninety-nine, expelled from school at fourteen for hitting a teacher, mentored by Johnny Torrio through the Five Points Gang before arriving in Chicago with nothing The scars — Frank Galluccio, his sister Lena, the Harvard Inn in Coney Island, the knife, and the lie Capone told for the rest of his life that the wounds came from combat in France during World War One The empire — one hundred million dollars a year at peak, sixty million from gambling alone, one thousand armed men, an entire suburb's government under his control, and Time magazine putting him on the cover The Valentine's Day Massacre — the fake police car, seventy rounds in a Lincoln Park garage, Frank Gusenberg taking fourteen bullets and refusing to name anyone, the dog Highball found alive and howling at his axle, and Bugs Moran safe in a diner because he arrived three minutes late The disease — syphilis contracted in nineteen nineteen and never treated out of embarrassment, moving through his brain while he ran his empire, producing the dementia that put him in Alcatraz wearing a winter coat in a heated cell and playing banjo on Sunday afternoons The real ending — Palm Island, the mentality of a twelve year old, the invisible guests, and the death that no movie would dare to use Verified Sources: Wikipedia: Al Capone, St Valentine's Day Massacre, Scarface 1983 film; FBI.gov Famous Cases; PBS; History.com; Britannica; Smithsonian Magazine; Biography.com; The Mob Museum; Crime Museum Subscribe and comment: which ending hits harder — Tony Montana on the staircase or the real Al Capone in that Palm Island bedroom?