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Our relationship with Al Pacino is quite one-sided. I’ve known him for forty years, I mean, from movies and television, unfortunately not from the stage, because I rarely walk down Broadway just when he plays something. He doesn’t know me, and while he had a great opportunity to change that during at least a quarter of an hour of interview, when HBO promoted the Dr. Death miniseries at the Monte Carlo TV Festival, he canceled it all at the last minute.
Not just me, but the whole festival, which I regretted a bit because it would have been more personal. In the Dr. Jack Kevorkian series, Pacino was as good as most of his roles anyway, the transcendence was great, we didn’t see the actor, but the euthanasia fighter mocked Dr. Death. He was 80 years old on April 25 of this year.
I am over seventy years old, that is, I was born in 1970, when Alfredo James Pacino, 30, was already managed by producer Martin Bergman because The Indian wants the Bronx He saw what Coppola, Schatzberg, Lumet, Jewison, De Palma and the whole world later saw, that this terrifyingly intense, not-too-tall, character-faced cock had mastered Lee Strasberg’s “acting method” so well that he dove like a real chameleon and disappeared in his roles, be it a thief, a mob boss, a lawyer, a Cuban coconut king or a Venetian squid. Bergman recommended his first leading role in Panic in the Needle Park drama (his 1969 debut was I nataliein), after which the Godfather came. It was such a big leap for a completely unknown actor in Hollywood like, for example, Dora Sztarenki a therapy after the Captain marvel they would have given him the lead role.
the Godfather I-II It was the first two movies I saw. I was thirteen, so I wasn’t necessarily the target audience, but when Sonny Corleone was shot in front of my eyes at the gas station, I’d already seen a lot of things that weren’t used to at this age. Nigeria was not an easy place in the 1980s. On the other hand, there was a club where Hungarians, Germans, and English had a happy and joyful drink, children played tennis on well-maintained and well-lit scum courts, or watched movies about pirated VHS or Betamax videocassettes from the local market in the clubhouse. Michael Corleone’s character burned me on those nights (there wasn’t a movie every day and there wasn’t a new movie for every occasion) that after a while I could literally remember his dialogues and pick up on what I know little Italian here. Fun fact: my Italian pronunciation is almost as embarrassing as Brad Pitt’s In dishonest brigades.
Pacino got enough into the godfather, the studio didn’t know him, and whoever asked about him just shrugged, kind of like a squat from a movie, big nose. It also didn’t help that Pacino’s grandfather was really Corleone. Coppola, on the other hand, needed it and confused the actors Paramount had taken upon him, p. Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Robert Redford. Robert De Niro was also heard about the role of Michael Corleone, but Coppola remained steadfast, and as Paramount continued to toughen up, he announced that he would go later, a greater success. The rest of the story, as well as how Pacino exploded in the film world, albeit quite late, at the age of 31. For his eight films shot in the 1970s (Needle Park Panic, Godfather I, Scarecrow, Serpico, Godfather II, Heat Wave Afternoon, Bobby Deefield, The Truth For All) received five Oscar nominations, four BAFTAs and six Golden Globe nominations, no one has had that decade since.
After Godfather I-II, there wasn’t a Pacino movie in the Ibadan video repository for a while, it was Star Wars and Battle beyond the stars, and a lot of war movies, but I didn’t run out of Al for long. On the shelf I found Serpico, published in the 1979 Albatros book series, on whose cover Pacino, dressed as a fishing hat, bearded hippie, is sitting on a motorcycle. I’ve loved Peter Maas’s book ever since, as have the movie and the catfish mustache, the latter of which I’ve tried to grow for a long time, with little success. The next time, I met him as an adult, first a Snake, in which he disguises himself as corrupt policemen and then On the marked face, a more violent movie that I hadn’t seen much before (Evil Dead doesn’t matter!). Pacino radiated so much cock energy through himself in the De Palma remake that that shit, his character, and drug dealer Tony Montana, were once among the greatest heroes in film history.
Until 1990, we got to know each other a lot on TV, in movies, and on pirated videos because I enthusiastically made up for lost movies from the 1970s and 1980s. it was something I really didn’t like (raids. scarecrow) was something I had no problem with (The sea of love), there was something I didn’t understand (Author, author!) and something I really regretted (America in arms). Due to the fall of the latter, Pacino was so offended that he did not film anything for four years, although it was not a bad movie, he just fell apart a little and crashed between big and bad. There’s another story about the insult: Godfather, I was nominated only for the best supporting cast, while Brando was nominated for the lead role. Pacino was nervous because Michael Corleone starred more in the film than Don Vito and felt that he did not deserve to be released only in the smaller actor category, so he did not even go to the gala. Neither did Brando (let’s say for political reasons), so he won.
In a face-to-face scene in 1999.
Pacino’s second golden age could date back to the 1990s, and not because it brought the blind colonel to Oscar. In the scent of a woman In 1992, but because the Godfather trilogy closed in 1990; In 1991 a Dick in Tracy provided something surprising in the ugliest mask in the world, the Krumplirozsában and he showed what it is to be in a romantic mood; In 1992, he was introduced to David Mamet, who Glengarry Glen Ross He wrote a movie about real estate agents from his own drama and taught me more about English in two hours than anything and anyone before him; In 1993, he finally played the role of Carlito Brigante, with whom he had been flirting since 1973 (Carlito’s way); In 1995, under the direction of Michael Mann, he made the cult film, Face to face clever thief crime, in which he finally got a joint scene with De Niro. I saw this movie at the Víg de Debrecen cinema, in a morning presentation, and I will never forget the way Mann played with the voice in that brilliant street fight. Each weapon had a well identifiable voice, it was also possible to know who was firing only if we had only heard and seen the character. The Comedian, if I remember correctly, got a new Dolby sound system at the time, and my son said that when I came out, I changed a ticket for the next performance because I wanted to hear it again.
The second half of the decade was not weaker either, the First of all suspicion (1995) on political corruption, 1997 The devil’s lawyer and Pacino, who is De Niro Angyalszívben He was the best demon in cinema since he played Louis Cyphre, and he also got a legendary monologue in the movie that has been cited on the road and on the road ever since. But if they were monologues and hotel verbs, the three films of the nineties were full of them: Donnie in Brasco played the mentor of a mob-based agent, a mediocre villain who could never cross his own shadow, Lefty, and became a hostel due to “fuggedaboutit” (an Italian-American term that can be both approval and disbelief, more here). 1999 also brought two movies, one based on a true story, Insider information, in which Russel Crowe stars as a scientist working in the tobacco industry, Pacino, and the producer of the research program 60 Minutes, who convinces him to submerge tobacco factories. Pacino excels in film and makes the second best monologue of his career.
Only the second, because the best of what Every week there is war in a movie about American football. Oliver Stone’s movie is considered the worst NFL job of all time, which didn’t particularly bother me for using it at my language school in Debrecen, where I worked upwards, from my intermediate groups to illustrate the need to speak English. . Pacino’s inspiring speech, the way he plays with his voice, is itself the perfect manifesto against dubbing, no one will ever explain to me that the Hungarian version is as good as the original. But do not believe me, but your ears, here is the English and here is the dubbed version.
Since the 2000s, the past twenty years, Pacino has appeared in two notable works in film, one of insomnia Christophe Nolan’s film, which does not necessarily remain in one’s mind, is that Pacino sells to a great police officer who is increasingly disintegrating due to insomnia, but Robin Williams, who we don’t even think could bring so much evil. The other is 2019 The Irishand includes the role of the award-winning game, Jimmy Hoffa. We preferred to leave the rest, he had a movie, not one that I put aside, because it was terribly embarrassing to see his boring roar, and the fact that he shot with De Niro again didn’t help either. In the 2010s, television was also very good in two major HBO miniseries (Angels in America, Dr. Death), a third regular series (Jewish Nazi hunters in New York in the 1980s hunters And Amazon did it: If you want to deduce it that way, do it, I can’t wait to continue.
Cover photo: Al Pacino on the set of Dr. Death in Brooklyn, 2009. Photo by Bobby Bank / Wireimage
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