Word: deniro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this relic--though a cynic might posit that this early film by now-recognizable stars might be a safe box-office bet. Although the movie reveals the then-burgeoning talents of co-director DePalma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out), actress Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman), and Robert DeNiro (The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull), the film doesn't warrant renewed interest as if it were a resurrected unified piece of art. The public forgot it easily enough in 1969, and--not so strangely--it's as unremarkable...
...couple is currently collaborating on the screenplay for Vegas, having done four motion pictures together previously, including the film version of her novel Play It As It Lays. Their most recent joint effort, True Confessions, based on his book of the same name, starred Robert Duvall and Robert DeNiro as brothers, one a priest, the other a police officer. DeNiro, working on Raging Bull when True Confessions was being cast, accepted the lead after 13 other actors refused it. Dunne, however, professes great satisfaction with the movie, and refers to DeNiro affectionately as "Bobby...
...Directions; Other Possible Openings--Nobody lives like that. Heros. Name two. Name one. We'll give you DeNiro...
...Monsignor Spellacy there is none of the explosiveness of earlier DeNiro roles. The smoldering fire is banked, and DeNiro reins himself in until he is the most potent presence on the screen because the others sense his premendous superiority as a contained, pressurized neutron bomb. But it is still a matter of who is the better man, the most commanding man, and though DeNiro is a celibate priest, he is the winner. He has that intangible, the almost spiritual worldliness of great character, of a Caesar or a Kennedy. It compels everyone he meets. This priest is not only...
Possible Ending #1--That damnable ineloquence. These things never translate. You can't talk about them. DeNiro. Dean. No memorable lines. Just a memorable style; faces, gestures, shrugs. The beauty of futility...