With Manolo, splendidly played by Steven Bauer who, born Esteban Ernesto Echevarria, happens to be the only actual Cuban in a movie about Cuban immigrants to the US, things only appear to go better.

While Manolo ‘Manny’ Ribeira is presented as a player-like character, he sharess a character trait that is identica to one of his quasi-elderly brother, Tony: Manolo, too, is overly fond of women who are ‘taken’.

Manolo brings Scarface’s dating craze to a whole new level. Breaching through their quasi-vow of him never touching Gina (“Stay away from Gina – she not for you“), Manolo does, in fact, not stay away from Gina. Eventually, he pays with his life for tasting the forbidden fruit that is Tony’s sister: Tony shoots him, killing the only loyal friend he ever had.

Is there hidden wisdom to be found in Scarface at all? Isn’t Scarface, like so many others, just another story disgorged by the mind of a twisted Hollywood screenwriter? It surely is. In the case of Scarface it even was a special, twisted screenwriter.

It was Oliver Stone who wrote the script for the movie. In that sense, Scarface for a good part is a reflection upon a former stage of life of its creator: Stone has repeatedly stated in interviews that he made cocaine a major theme in the script as he himself was battling cocaine addiction in the early 1980s.

Dat’s Like A Bug Comin’ Outta Jou Mouth, Meng

With Scarface now exposed as a biographical anecdote of a former cocaine addict, little seems to be left, even more so when you look at the actual dating advice given in the film.

Here comes the essence of all dating advice to be found in Scarface: in one of the most popular scenes of the whole movie Manolo very vividly schools Tony on how to “pick up chicks” in “this country,” refering to the United States as their new-found home: Manolo sticks out his Tongue while bending the tip of it upward. Then, very quickly, he repeats the same motion so that it looks as if his toungue had come to life, lashing around in his mouth like it was a bug or a lizard.

“Women Love When You Suck The Pussy”

The reason for the uncalled-for tongue action? “The women in this country, when you do that, they know,” Manolo explains kowingly. “They know what?,” Tony asks.  “They understand. They go crazy” is all Manolo needs to reply to such a silly question, all the while he makes sure to pronounce crazy as creh-seh.

And that, Gentlemen, is all there is to it. The rest of the story is told rather quickly: Manolo tries his trademark move on a nearby girl wearing a bikini, he gets slapped in the face (“Beech! Lezbee-anne!“) and the dating bits in Scarface come to their end. The only real dating advice in Scarface–consists of a not-so-subtle hint at Cunnilingus.

Oliver Stone’s hilarious pickup-bit adds to the characters: Manny ‘Manolo’ Ribeira is shown as successful with women, but as unable to transfer that type of “killer instinct” into the field of business.

Tony Montana, on the other hand, is shown as being awful with women (“Jou wanna have ice cream? With me and my friend?“), while he is the born entrepreneur, recognizing commercial success as the ultimate door-opener (“In this country you gotta make the money first (…)“).

How do you actually apply Scarface to real life? The first thing we need to do is weed-out the silliness in Scarface’s pickup scene. Keep in mind that the silliness is not in sticking out one’s tongue when trying to meet women. It is in fact the reaction of the bikini girl to the tongue move that comes acoss a silly: as any man who has approached more than a handful of women in his lifetime will know, slapping is a type of reaction women will never engage in, no matter how inane the approach (if it was, you should be able to witness such a reaction quite regularly in every day life – are you?).

With this insight in mind we can now solve the puzzle about what a person sticking out their tongue really tells you about them.

Meet The Tongue-Face

Besides the well-known duckface, a facial expression where women purse their lips in order to appear “cute” in pictures, there is another type of expression that indicates a stable 9.0 on the Female Horniness Scale (FHS).

The Tongue Face, a deliberate facial expression where girls stick out their tongue to an upper corner of their mouth as if they were a 6 year-old absorbed by the task of painting a picture with wax crayons, is a fail-proof indicator of an above-average female libido.

While a rather rare sight with Western European females, the Tongue Face is a common phenomenon in the social media accounts of Eastern and Central European girls. Here, the tongue face is directly proportional to the amount of males found in all pictures with whom a female seems to be more than just friends.

In that sense, Oliver Stone was not entirely being silly. What he did was to simply confuse the parties sticking out their tongue. It is not the case that men can make women “go creh-seh” by sticking out their tongue to them, it is women sticking out their tongue to men who indicate that they indeed go creh-seh when it comes to romance.

Next time you are skimming through the female profiles on tinder or those in your best friend’s facebook list, keep an eye open for a Tongue Face. Who knows, it might just turn out in your favor.