Al Pacino has earned his place among Hollywood’s most revered actors of the 20th century. His career in acting, producing and directing has earned him numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and two Primetime Emmys.
Pacino is one of the few actors who have achieved the so-called Triple crown of the interpretation.
This New Yorker studied the method at HB Studio and the Actors Studio under the expert guidance of Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg.
After a successful stage career in the late 1960s, Pacino made his film debut with a small role in I, Natalie, by Fred Coean independent film starring Patty Duke.
This modest addition landed him a contract with Creative Management Associates in 1970, which landed him his first lead role in Jerry Schatzberg’s 1971 drama, Panic in Needle Park.
Al Pacino meeting Francis Ford Coppola
The director, who saw enormous potential in the 30-year-old actor, without hesitation cast him in the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather.
Pacino felt a lot of pressure for the role, having landed the likes of Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and the lesser known Robert De Niro, despite reservations from studio execs who wanted him one of the more established names. for the role.
“I did it Panic in Needle Park like my first film,” Pacino said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. I think that’s why The Godfather kept me, because they were going to let me go. They didn’t want me in that film, Coppola did, even when I thought: ‘Why does he love me? Then they screened eight minutes of Panic in Needle Park, and the producers and the studio accepted me. I was very lucky, because it changed everything.”
The Godfather, as Pacino put it, “changed everything.” Throughout the 1970s, his status in Hollywood grew with his catalog, which at the turn of the millennium included such classics as snake, Scarface, canine afternoon, Heat, Match AND Women’s perfume.
Top three movies Al Pacino worked on
One of the actor’s favorite films is Looking for Ricardo (1996) because it was his directorial debut,
This film is a documentary/drama in which he also starred. There she recruited Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder and Penelope Allen, among others. With them Pacino sought the blend between drama and documentary.
The film included selected scenes from Richard IIIby William Shakespeare, along with a documentary element exploring the current relevance of the British bard in Western pop culture.
“I did it Looking for Ricardowhich worked relatively well, compared to the other films I’ve made myself that no one has seen, and it’s one of my favorites,” Pacino said of the film.
Although the film was unable to attract an audience like that of The GodfatherPacino was proud that he achieved what he set out to do during the project.
Looking for Ricardo it screened at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 1996 and earned the aspiring filmmaker the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Direction of a Documentary.
local stigma
The next film on the “Best of Pacino” list was local stigmaa lesser-known short based on Heathcote Williams’ play of the same name, directed by David Wheeler and co-produced by Pacino.
The film follows the story of two working-class Englishmen who spend their free time discussing greyhound racing and Winston Churchill.. The narrative culminates in a violent altercation with a movie star in a bar.
The film premiered as an installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in March 1990, but was never released theatrically. It was finally released on DVD in 2007 as part of The Al Pacino Box Set.
“local stigma it’s a 52-minute film that’s not for everyone, but it was personal,” Pacino told The Hollywood Reporter. here and think. And maybe it would get everyone’s attention.”
The short film, as Pacino said, is not for everyone. The most widespread criticism is that the film was based on a challenging screenplay by Williams.
Serpico
The third and last film Pacino chose from his catalog was snakesince 1973.
Unlike the first two, snake it is considered one of Pacino’s best contributions to cinema. With the mighty wind of Coppola’s Godfather in his sails, Pacino didn’t have much trouble finding work in the mid-1970s.
Impressed by the first film of The Godfatherdirector Sidney Lumet cast Pacino in his successful biopic crime film.
snake follows the story of Pacino’s character Frank Serpico, an exemplary NYPD officer who begins to fight against the force’s encroaching corruption.
“I thought Serpico was a pretty good movie,” Pacino said during the selection.
For their work on Serpico, Pacino and Lumet were nominated for Academy Awards, while Pacino took home the Golden Globe for ‘Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama’.
Source: Clarin
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