[ad_1]
Today is the year 80 of the great and terrible Al Pacino. Brilliantly becoming a ruthless mob boss or honest cop, touching the audience in the form of a blind colonel, or taunting him as an unsuccessful thief that even the role of the devil himself is impossible for him, writes BNR.
And his life is not easy. For real. There are no simple coincidences, said American gangster Al Capone. At least in Al Pacino’s life for sure. For example, the actor’s grandfather and grandmother came to America from the Sicilian city of Corleone, and later, a character of the same surname, Michael del Padrino, turned a theater actor, unknown to the general public, into a world celebrity.
Little Alfredo, along with his mother and many relatives, lived in the Bronx, an area that was extremely criminal at the time. His father left them when the boy was two years old. There’s never enough money, and entertainment takes a rare walk to the movies. After a screening in front of his family and neighbors, Sonny (as his friends called him) played the movie he saw. The adolescent’s talent has not gone unnoticed: the roles begin to be entrusted to him in school plays. Once after the play, one of the spectators approached her mother: “This is the future Brando!” Al, standing nearby, animated, “Who’s Brando?”
After several failed attempts, Sonny still enters the renowned Performance Studio, where he learns his skills according to the Stanislavsky system. Although he did not complete his studies, he appeared on Broadway and was honored with the prestigious Tony Award. “Some actors play their hero. Pacino becomes him,” said his mentor, Lee Strasberg. Leaving the role of Al is painful: when he expresses his admiration for Jacqueline Kennedy after the play Ricardo III in his dressing room, he doesn’t even get up from his chair, “He was still the King,” recalls the actor.
Pacino’s first role in the movie, the junkie Bobby in the movie “Panic in Needle Park,” was so memorable by Francis Ford Coppola that he gave the producers of the movie The Godfather an ultimatum – it’s Michael Corleone, period. And the role is claimed by Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and young Robert De Niro. Suddenly, the dwarf (nicknamed for his height) is the author of the book, Mario Puzo. The relationships in the set are complex. He does everything his way, and the bosses are about to fire him, but then they see the scene where Michael killed Captain McLusky and Virgil Solozo – Turchin, he changed his mind.
The godfather brought the actor his first Oscar nomination. Al ignored the ceremony: he was fed up with academics considering his Michael a minor character, and all attention went to Marlon Brando. Pacino still received the coveted statuette, but only after 20 years, and from his eighth experience, he played the role of a blind retired military man in the drama “Feeling for a Woman.” The famous tango scene from this movie was rehearsed for a week and filmed for three days.
[ad_2]
