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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 17, 2020 2:49:36 GMT
Really one of those perfect marriages of actor and role. Despite Brando winning Best Actor for the first movie, it really was Pacino’s movie. The garden scene between the two of them is probably my favorite scene from the first movie. His character arc from returning soldier to cold hearted bastard feels completely natural. And to think, Paramount didn’t want him for the role. Anyway, that’s enough fawning from me.   |
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Post by ck100 on Oct 17, 2020 2:52:32 GMT
How do you feel about his subsequent work in #2 and #3?
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 17, 2020 3:02:40 GMT
How do you feel about his subsequent work in #2 and #3? Well, Part II is in my top 3 favorite movies. He continues his excellent work here in Michael’s further damnation. By part III, Pacino was well into his shouty ways and seemed far removed from the often restrained evil in the earlier films. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 17, 2020 3:09:03 GMT
And to think, Paramount didn’t want him for the role. Partly* because his scenes were being shot in sequence and they thought he was underacting...to think there was a time Pacino and "underacting" could be used in the same sentence. They shut the fuck up after he filmed the restaurant scene, which for my money is the best acted scene in the film. That's when they realized his understated performance earlier was on purpose. Him in the second film is possibly my favorite performance ever. Then he's basically the only good thing about III even though I have issues with where they took the character. *I say "partly* because it sounds like they also thought he was a little too Italian looking for their movie about Italians...they originally wanted someone like Robert Redford, who's about as Italian as an Olive Garden in Owensboro Kentucky.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 17, 2020 13:28:52 GMT
Fawn away. Not many actors can send chills down the spine simply with a look. He has experience etched into his face, not all of it good.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Oct 17, 2020 19:13:13 GMT
I loved Pacino in the first two Godfather movies. He was so on. So different from his later roles and acting methods. ::no::
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Post by millar70 on Oct 17, 2020 20:48:43 GMT
I love the scene where Michael and Kay walk past the newsstand and Kay sees the newspaper with Vito's story on the front page.
You can literally see the total change on Pacino's face from the one side of the newsstand to the other. Michael becomes a whole different man in that one instance.
Brilliant acting.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 17, 2020 21:13:17 GMT
Really one of those perfect marriages of actor and role. Despite Brando winning Best Actor for the first movie, it really was Pacino’s movie. The garden scene between the two of them is probably my favorite scene from the first movie. His character arc from returning soldier to cold hearted bastard feels completely natural. And to think, Paramount didn’t want him for the role. Anyway, that’s enough fawning from me. my no. 2 actor.
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Post by Marv on Oct 17, 2020 21:15:06 GMT
So many great performances in these films. At least the first 2...ive only seen the 3rd film once or twice.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 17, 2020 21:15:33 GMT
James Caan doesn't get really enough love.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 17, 2020 21:37:17 GMT
Do any of you plan on watching the director's cut of Godfather III when it comes out in December?
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 17, 2020 22:52:09 GMT
James Caan doesn't get really enough love. 
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 17, 2020 22:58:55 GMT
Tremendous in part 1. Exceptional in part 2 - one of my top 5 performances.
Watch this silly behind the scenes clip & tell me his stoicism isn't real on camera when it counts.
That vid is so disarming of all 3 Pacino, Duvall, & Caan alike. We're programmed to see them together all strong & quiet or fired up... not dressed down having a lark at a table like this.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 18, 2020 1:16:00 GMT
James Caan doesn't get really enough love. 
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Post by millar70 on Oct 18, 2020 2:11:57 GMT
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Post by jcush on Oct 18, 2020 5:59:54 GMT
His performances in Part 1 and 2 are masterful to say the least. He's still good in Part III, but nowhere near the level of the first two.
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Post by jcush on Oct 18, 2020 6:00:40 GMT
Tremendous in part 1. Exceptional in part 2 - one of my top 5 performances. Watch this silly behind the scenes clip & tell me his stoicism isn't real on camera when it counts. That vid is so disarming of all 3 Pacino, Duvall, & Caan alike. We're programmed to see them together all strong & quiet or fired up... not dressed down having a lark at a table like this. Never seen that clip before. Thanks for posting it.
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Post by quagsjonny on Oct 18, 2020 6:43:54 GMT
For me it's the cast. Pacino/ Brando and everyone in Godfather
II was a different film, no problem with DE Niro.
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Post by quagsjonny on Oct 18, 2020 6:47:45 GMT
I think Pacino was brilliant in all three films. Yes, the Vatican scenes in film 3.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 18, 2020 7:21:14 GMT
I thought I was OUT! But they pulled me back in!!!
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