Scarface was one of director Brian DePalma's most difficult, but also most career boosting movies. The script was written by Oliver Stone who said, "I wrote SCARFACE basically as an adieu to cocaine. It had beaten the hell out of me, but I got my revenge by writing about it." Oliver Stone used to be addicted to cocaine, which is what influenced him to write the movie. Before Stone began to write the script he researched the crime scene in south Florida, and also traced drug export routes back to Latin America. Stone spent time in Bimini a Caribbean island, part of the drug chain to track down drug dealers he was gathering information about. Stone ended up snorting cocaine with the group of drug dealers, and he accidentally dropped the name of a defense lawyer he knew, who happened to have been a prosecutor of one of the guys he was with. Stone had to convince them that he was a script writer, because they all thought that Stone was setting them up to get busted again. Stone tried to include this into the chainsaw scene from the movie.
The main character Tony Montana (scarface) was played by Al Pacino. To prepare for the movie Al Pacino had to become used to local customs, the local style, and speech patterns. Pacino would prepare for his role by using his accent and communicating in Spanish to the director of photography John A. Alonzo. Also in addition to just learning the culture, he had to go through a lot of physical training. Pacino worked with a combat expert to help with his role in the movie. Another actor in the film was Steven Bauer, who played Tony's friend and partner in the movie. Bauer was chosen because he was a Cuban born actor, and he was just one of many of the Latin American actors chosen.
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