TONY MONTANA Antonio "Tony" Montana is a fictional character in the Brian DePalma film Scarface and the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours‚ portrayed by Al Pacino. Oliver Stone came up with the name by combining the last name of his then-favorite football player (Joe Montana) and the first name from the main character of the 1932 film version‚ played by Paul Muni. Tony Montana shows up in Miami from his native Cuba on the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. He is questioned by U.S. customs officials
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by Adrienne Rich during the first months of her own marriage and conveys her own disappointment in what is left after the romantic prelude. To understand the poem one must notice that it is wholly built on the contrasts the author uses from sentence to sentence. The most evident contrast resides in the mood of the heroes: the indifferent‚ careless husband (‘he‚ with a yawn…’) who seems not to notice the miserable surroundings and only shrugs his shoulders at the mirror admitting the piano out of
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The first screen write attempt for Scarface was with David Rabe. Martin felt the screenplay with Rabe was not going in the direction that he had in mind. Rabe left the script writing and Martin then approach Oliver Stone with Scarface. Oliver was hesitant but Martin had mentioned Sidney Lumet was getting involved to direct and got on board. When Oliver was approach for the screen writing‚ he was at a tough place at that point in his life‚ he was getting ready to leave America and move to Europe
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surveillance. The objects are often distant‚ small and their signatures have low contrast against the background. Traditional methods based on the analysis of the difference between successive frames and a background frame will do not work. In this paper‚ a novel real time object detection algorithm is proposed for night-time visual surveillance. The algorithm is based on contrast analysis. In the first stage‚ the contrast in local change over time is used to detect potential moving objects. Then motion
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The aim of the study was to determine possible techniques for a non-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography method for preoperative evaluation of the pelvic vessels prior to kidney transplantation in which it provides a satisfactory image quality as well. This is a comparative study of the different magnetic resonance angiography sequences used in the study conducted on 54 patients‚ which were undergoing evaluations prior to the transplantation. The introduction does not give basic background
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consider Tony Montana of Scarface to be the hardest‚ roughest gangster to ever appear on the movie screen. But what characteristics make this so? Is it because he was able to take over a drug cartel by violence to become the single most made man in Miami? Was it his ruthless business tactics‚ which ultimately led to his death that justify such a bold statement? There exist certain elements of gangster movies that make it memorable. Either it’s recklessly violent like Scarface‚ or it’s criminally success
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used by itself is toxic‚ but when it is used in contrast agents it bonds with a molecule called a chelating agent. This controls the distribution throughout the body. The chelating agent controls the toxicity of the contrast and helps maintain the magnetic properties.
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Yes family always matters. It is necessary to have some sort of family structure in order to have a stable foundation. This need for stability and structure is how the family survives and the children find safety. In the movies The Godfather and Scarface we will discover how the two differ when it comes to family and family business. These two patriarchs have different views on family and how the family is involved in the business. In this discovery one struggles to gain and maintain power but looses
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who at one point in his career was nominated for an Academy Award in four consecutive years‚ which is an Academy Award record. His list of films reads like a bucket list of movies to watch before you die. The Godfather I and II‚ Dog Day Afternoon‚ Scarface‚ and Scent of a Woman is just a small sample of films which have earned this man critical acclaim and box office fame. It is with great pleasure and reverence I present to you‚ Al Pacino. 2) Al Pacino was born on April 25‚ 1940 in Manhattan
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American is the 1983 Brian DePalma gangster movie classic‚ Scarface. Scarface is the tale of Tony Montana and his journey through his new life in America in the early 80’s Cuban immigrant movement. The movie depicts the American dream‚ to be successful‚ perfectly. Scarface and its main star‚ Al Pacino‚ also shows movie watchers in detail‚ the process of going from "rags-to-riches" since that is what he did in the feature. Lastly‚ Scarface is perhaps the best movie to ever be made because it basically
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