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...Harvey Keitel, the star of the film, was originally scheduled to attend the event, but instead appeared via a taped interview from Los Angeles...
...Fingers happened because there was no access to Hollywood,” Keitel said. “We probably would have tried to make an explicitly Hollywood film, but we’d never have made our Fingers. I’m glad we didn’t fulfill our original goal and conquer Hollywood...
...film had “permanent significance” both for its director and lead star. According to Toback, Keitel still tells him, “We have to do another Fingers...
...film is anchored around lead character Jimmy “Fingers” Angelelli (Keitel), a classical pianist and debt collector for the mob. In the opening scenes, he ecstatically plays a Bach toccata in his New York apartment, then meets with his raspy-voiced mobster father for his next assignment. The film traces his descent into criminality as the divisions in his character lead to the destruction of his dreams...
...words for previous Passion films. Mention Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (which, like Gibson's location shots, was filmed in the Italian town of Matera), and he fakes a big yawn. On Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ: "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying"--and here Gibson shifts into a Brooklyn accent--"'Hey, you ovah dere...