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Post by bravomailer on Oct 5, 2018 23:27:49 GMT
If I remember correctly, F, Murray Abraham is the cop with Serpico when he is shot. Good movie, but the score seemed out of place with the visuals...but maybe that was the point. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 15:34:21 GMT
I didn‘t particularly like it, especially for the main character‘s uncontrolled temperamental outbursts, which must have been more than only Pacino‘s interpretation, as he had spent several weeks with real life Frank Serpico before filming.
The „love the garden - love the man“ sequence is heartwarming.
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Post by bravomailer on Oct 6, 2018 15:39:17 GMT
One of the more ominous scenes comes when Serpico realizes his colleagues are against him and goes to the pistol range to prepare himself.
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Oct 6, 2018 15:58:52 GMT
Good solid movie, very 70's style. What ruins it for me now, is the hijinks of the real Frank Serpico in the years after the movie.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Apr 22, 2019 19:18:48 GMT
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Apr 22, 2019 22:35:24 GMT
That was my reaction as I just was listening to the soundtrack album. Why the Greek sound to it ? Nice but … something seemed "off".
I find the score works well for me in 'Serpico'. It's also very beautiful and evocative music when listened to independent of the film.
I think Sidney Lumet's powerful crime drama 'Q & A' (1990) suffers from an odd, intrusive music score by Ruben Blades. It occasionally derails the tension and compounds Lumet's poor decision to cast his daughter Jenny in a key role (she's become an accomplished screenwriter but flounders here a la Sofia Coppola in 'The Godfather Part III'). Otherwise, I feel 'Q & A' would have been up there with the very best of his crime output (- it's still a substantial work worth investigating for anyone who holds even a passing interest in Lumet's crime cinema).
Just bought 'Q & A'. Helluva performance by Nolte
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Post by petrolino on Sept 3, 2021 19:16:15 GMT
Good movie, but the score seemed out of place with the visuals...but maybe that was the point. That was my reaction as I just was listening to the soundtrack album. Why the Greek sound to it ? Nice but … something seemed "off".
Greek composer, Mikis Theodorakis. Sidney Lumet admired Theodorakis' work with Greek political filmmaker Costa-Gavras. Both directors tackled themes of injustice and corruption in their work. I also think the feeling may have been mutual as Costa-Gavras' 'Mad City' (1997) is said to have drawn a degree of inspiration from Lumet's 'Network' (1976).
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Post by Rufus-T on Sept 3, 2021 20:15:15 GMT
Great movie. I read the book too. Al Pacino had some streak of great movies in the 70s.
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Post by marshamae on Sept 3, 2021 20:27:58 GMT
Fine Pacino performance that nailed his presence as a top movie actor. He showed a rounded character, romantic, funny,scared, unable to back down
What happened to the real serpico would make a good movie, about a man who trods a road to heroism, but cannot and does not live on that mountain top.
Pacino could not stay on that height as an actor either, but the glory of film is that we have these great movies and some others to enjoy.
I am a huge Pacino fan, but I like his comic ,romantic performances as much as his tragic dramas.
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Post by phantomparticle on Sept 3, 2021 23:21:09 GMT
I saw the movie on cable and during my next trip to the vidi store, purchased the dvd. As others have said, Pacino does some of his best work here.
One of the perks for me, having lived in NYC, is occasionally hitting the pause button when a familiar location comes up. I'm not a native New Yorker and left the city a couple of decades ago, but the city never left me.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 4, 2021 23:54:53 GMT
Reading back what I wrote 3 years ago.
Well since then I've seen the movie, I think I wrote it down, but like many times I forget who gave me the idea.
It's a cracking great movie and I thank everyone who made me watch it.
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