As someone who literally stood in front of that huge oil painting of Tony Montana and Elvira in the spring of ‘83, having snuck onto the Universal sound stage where a large portion of Tony’s gaudy Miami mansion had been built…it only just hit me today that the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip of the painting in Scarface is not quite the same as the bullet-strafed photo of same that we’re all familiar with…compare Michelle Pfeiffer’s eyes…they’re gazing in different directions plus her top expression conveys an air of contentment while she looks vaguely sullen and frosty in the alternate. Al Pacino looks chillier also in the below photo.
