Brian De Palma's new 1983 version of Scarface suggests and strongly pushes the fact that what goes up must always come down. It portrays the ideology of the American Dream as viewed from a select Cuban refugees plight. Scarface depicts the ideology that happiness is earned through hard honest work, not killing or breaking the law to get to the top. This refugee, Tony Montana is unsatisfied with his status and works his way from a small time drug help to the top of the Florida/Miami cocaine drug industry. Tony has absolutely no compunction about murdering for profit, which quickly endears him to a Batista Cuban refugee who is the chief of the Bolivia to Florida cocaine traffic. He follows his motto and version of the American Dream, which is shown over and over in the film in different places and most obviously in the end of the movie above a fountain on a globe, the words "The World is Yours". Tony could not wait for the American Dream to be his and tries to get everything at once, which leads to his greed and eventually to his death. .
Tony believes that to get respect or women in America you need money first, and then you will get women. It is proven as he takes Elvira away from Frank, but not until he had money and control over most of the industry. Tony would do anything to gain wealth; he has no shame in killing or putting himself on the line to get what he wants. In the beginning he starts off as a dishwasher and works himself up to the top of the drug lord chain and then greed leads to his demise.
This film used both restricted and unrestricted narration to tell the story and keep the suspence on a high level. This is very important to the film in order the keep the viewer guessing and the tension high. In the nightclub where Frank attempts to have Tony killed there is a good example of unrestricted narration. There are two guys sitting at a dining table with machine guns under their napkins under the table, the camera continuously shifts from Tony drunk at his table to the men with guns.
