There was a time when I had a hard time telling Robert de Niro apart from Al Pacino. Nowadays it is easier because it is clear that De Niro is the one who is dedicated to starring in worse roles. Someday we will talk about poor Robert and his unpredictable decline when not so long ago he was in charge of putting a face to the most sophisticated and magnetic characters on the big screen. Even competing directly with Al Pacino in The Godfather II…
The point is that Al Pacino is still today one of the greats from that vocation that led him to surrender to his passion for acting at all costs. Because initial miseries through, which surely ended up tanning him and giving him a very typical characterization, Al Pacino never gave up on his will for public and critical recognition.
Al Pacino has a suggestive set of roles that fit perfectly into a range of roles between the dark and the disturbing. From antihero to gangster or criminal, to the devil himself or any character capable of harboring deep secrets that can be sensed in the brilliance of his eyes. Something like Pandora's box just before it opens and displays the evils of the world and the underworld.
But the best thing is that sometimes that countenance of his also knows how to adapt it to parody and even humor. Because of the fact that opposite poles attract each other as long as one knows how to handle himself, like the good actor that Al Pacino is, in disparate characterizations.
Top 3 Recommended Al Pacino Movies
The Godfather
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:We could certainly do the 3 installments of The Godfather the podium of the best of Al Pacino. But beyond this superb interpretation continued over time, I like to rescue other films where we come across an Al Pacino outside of pigeonholing as glorious as it is limiting. Furthermore, the third part fell a little short for Coppola and left good old Al Pacino quite far from what was expected due to "script demands."
In any case, there is little more to say about Al Pacino's performance in any of the deliveries... perhaps simply recreation, the exhaustive recognition of his figure as the emblem that he supposed and supposes for the approach to a world of the mafia that Mario Puzo put on paper with a shocking fidelity. Then guys like Marlon Brando and Al Pacino finished off the big screen with stratospheric characterization.
Waiting for a fourth installment that is always in the air, for which even DiCaprio, we all associate the trilogy with Al Pacino. In part because Don Vito, the good Marlon Brando, perhaps was not for remakes and retired at the first change. The point is that his son (Al Pacino) inherited Don Vito's legacy in fiction, which they already managed interpretively at the same time in the first part.
Giant from the start as the son named Michael Corleone who carries in his genes and in his learning all the cruelty of business. As well as the disconcerting imprint of the familiar as a contrast to a world of the underworld where any affront could be solved with bullets.
The devil's lawyer
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:I was blown away by Al Pacino in this movie where he was not the absolute protagonist and yet he ruled every scene. Few horror movies, or at least suspense, where the figure of a character inhabits all scenes as capable of transfiguring every second.
It's okay that Al Pacino was the devil himself and that Keanu Reeves assumed his role as an ambitious but scary guy alongside a Charlize Theron who is suffering the most maddening diabolical temptations in her flesh. But he is always there, like listening to them after dinner or watching them at the foot of his bed.
A film to discover how an actor can convey much more than his gestures and words. Al Pacino has a look, a kind smile, with a perfidious touch that at all times predicts a downfall for the man who finally gives in to ambitions.
The plot becomes intricate from personal aspects of the worldly protagonists. Meanwhile, Al Pacino is closing a plan that only the free will that the human being can make as a choice freed from all burdens against evil can undo. The dilemma remains there, with the devil you always lose and the temptations are too striking to burn vanities and even the soul.
The dilemma
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:In another spectacular tandem with Russell Crowe, Al Pacino becomes a journalist named Lowell Bergman, in charge of giving voice to Jeffrey Wigand (Crowe), a chemist fired from a large tobacco company for questioning some practices with which to ensure chemical fidelity of the smoking customers.
It sounds like a very real issue and it is. A film that reveals the atrocities of an industry that has fallen into disrepair, but capable of anything to maintain market shares that were increasingly prohibited at the time the film was broadcast, back in 1999. In such a real matter, the personality of Lowell Bergman is It moves between media interest with which to raise its audience and true interest in an issue that makes your hair stand on end.
David against Goliath. Two characters against an entire industry. Only this time fiction elevates what happened in reality from that closer, absolutely mimetic sensation of these two protagonists. In his role between the mere interest in the share and the most certain continuous involvement in the matter, we find an Al Pacino who wins us over with that intensity of the transformation of his character.
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