Guanabee Presents the #1 Latino Movie Slacker: Scarface From “Half Baked”

The front page of the L.A. Times‘ website for entertainment news features a photo gallery cleverly titled, “Top 10 movie slackers: These deadbeats make laziness look cool.” Able to relate, we checked out the images and chuckled mildly at these highlights among lowlifes: Sean Penn’s Spicoli from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, Rory Cochrane’s Slater from “Dazed and Confused”, and Jeff Bridges’ The Dude from “The Big Lebowski”. Then it dawned on us that something was missing: Latino representation! We, too, want to be associated with slackers, deadbeats, and lowlifes.

Have no fear, as Guanabee submits an honorable mention to the Times‘ collection of silverscreen goof-offs. He’s Scarface from stoner tour de force “Half Baked”, played by Guillermo Díaz. (We had to look him up, too.)

For starters, Scarface goes by such a notorious nickname expressly for being Cuban, not for being as ambitious as the Cuban coke lord from the Oliver Stone classic of the same name. In fact, the only thing he pushes is burger patties at a fast food gig he winds up quitting in arguably the best scene of the entire movie [featuring a Latino]:

But like all macho slackers, Díaz’s Scarface has a soft side. He develops an intimate bond with the rottweiler he purchases to help guard the headquarters for ‘Mr. Nice Guy’, a weed courier service Scarface has established with the movie’s two other main characters to raise bail money for their buddy Kenny. When Killer (that’s the pooch) winds up dead at the hands of rival pot-dealer Samson, Scarface plunges into denial and tearfully utters his favorite command to the corpse of his fallen friend: “Killer, kill, b!”

Your memory lives on, Killer! As does our love for #1 Latino Movie Slacker, Scarface.

[Ed. Note: if you, the reader, have any suggestions for other good-for-nothing Hispanics on film, feel free to submit them in our comments box.]

Image [PhotoBucket.com]
Top 10 movie slackers [L.A. Times]
quitting the right way [YouTube]