Word: gangsterisms
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...Signs all over McCarran Airport declare it a nonsmoking building, yet just as noticeable as the banks of slot machines is the reek of old cigarettes. It strikes almost no one as ironic that the patron of the M.B. Dalitz Religious School is the late Moe Dalitz, the celebrated gangster...
...member of the audience asked whether Pacino took his portrayal of Richard III from any former gangster role. "Where else?" Pacino responded...
Cinema: Al Pacino is a rehabbing gangster in Carlito...
...told more than once, Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) gained his education almost entirely on the streets of Spanish Harlem. That is too bad. If he had spent more time at home watching the old Late Show, he would have known from the early gangster movies (especially James Cagney's) that there comes a moment in any criminal career when it becomes impossible to go straight, no matter how much you want to. It's an image problem with tragic dimensions...
...course, seen Angels with Dirty Faces and The Roaring Twenties. No director knows the traditions of the violent genres better or is better at bringing them back to rushing life. And in Carlito's Way David Koepp has given him a script that works smart variants on the gangster film's classic conventions. Early on we find Carlito in court, about to be sprung after serving just five years of a 30-year rap, making a grandiose speech thanking everyone who has helped him. It's a fine bit, which, as the judge sourly comments, sounds a little too much...