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...Lion (Al Pacino) is an innocent, and Max (Gene Hackman) a combative cynic of the open road. Like George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men−rather too much like them, in fact−Lion and Max fall in with each other while hitchhiking on a lonely country road. Max has spent six years in stir at San Quentin; Lion has been at sea in the merchant marine for five, fleeing the strangulating responsibilities of family and a 9-to-5 job. Lion is on his way to Detroit to see his wife and the child she was about...
Richard III, with Al Pacino. Murder as introspection. Church of the Covenant, Boston...
...Pacino is performing a brilliant solo with variations in front of the supporting cast of the Theater Company of Boston. Only Linda Selman, as Edward's Queen, is strong enough to hold a scene against him. Still, he is not simply another Big Name using Shakespeare as his showcase...
...Pacino's virtuosity rests upon a profound insight: that Richard is primarily an actor himself. Deprived of the gift of normal humanity, the crippled killer role-plays with savage, self-mocking ingenuity at the parts other men confidently assume: seductive lover, charismatic leader, gallant warrior. In Pacino's conception, Richard's ultimate triumph is not to become King but to put on the whole world. His ultimate tragedy is that he cannot deceive himself. But with what energy - with what charm, with what venom - does Pacino stretch Richard toward his illusions, like a Pirandello character trying...
This Richard may be a monster. Yet how heroic and finally touching a monster Pacino makes him, trapped between his unappeasable self-contempt and his perverse ambition to have others honor him as supreme human being, as King - even if he has to kill half of England in order to stage what he, more than all other men, knows to be a hollow charade...