Word: pacino
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...Pacino said the film was "originally aimed at universities...but now [I wonder] if it can reach a wider audience." He said he hopes that it will eventually reach network television...
...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...
...breath is a useful condition to impose on Pacino. Really good movie actors force you to lean in a little in order to catch their meaning. Pacino, + instead, leans on you, and though his boldness is sometimes impressive, in its calculated way there is also something overweening about it. There's almost no vulnerability about him, and that quality was what kept Cagney in a viewer's good graces. It is why Cagney's hoodlums seemed touched by tragedy, while Carlito seems touched only by technique. There is an irony here: an actor's bruising desire to transcend type...