Time Network Special Report A short-sized person, a strong aura, innocent and full of power in his eyes, delicate performance skills and breed explosive power... In " Irish ", our familiar "godfather" Al Pacino is back.
"The Irishman" Pacino's performance special
With this work, Pacino won almost nominations for all supporting actor awards at the outpost for the awards season. After " Smelling the Scent of the Scent and Knowing Women ", can the 79-year-old win another Little Golden Man?
The street gangster who was born at the bottom of the house
Al Pacino was originally named Alfredo James Pacino. He was born in 1940 in the Italian immigrant gathering community in East Harlem, New York City.
Children Pacino
html When he was 02 years old, his parents divorced and his father went to California to work. The young Pacino and his mother moved to Bronx and lived with their grandparents. The Bronx was once a famous slum in New York, with chaotic public security and crime rates among the United States.When I was a child, my family often took Pacino to the cinema and then went to visit my father, Pacino imitated the plot of the movie and talked with the actors to win the attention and recognition of his father.
Pacino later appeared in many classic gangster films, but in fact he was a small gang leader when he was a child. Pacino's neighbor and later became the screenwriter of "City Hall", Ken Liper revealed that Pacino was the leader of their little boy gang, with a flamboyant personality and often fought with other small gangs to protect their own people.
He started smoking and drinking at the age of 9 and was exposed to marijuana at the age of 13. Fortunately, he controlled himself and did not further contact with more severe drugs. The two best childhood friends who died of drugs at the age of 19 and 30 respectively because they could not control themselves.
Pacino and his father
Pacino grew up in poverty and chaos, but he was not lacking in love. His mother and grandmother loved him very much. Of course, he never lacks attention, and he has many tricks. Little Pacino once pretended to be blind and asked people for help along the street. Passers-by would give him some money, which would make his companions laugh in the distance.
At that time, he was just for fun. When he grew up, he won the Oscar for the Best Actor in "Smelling the Scent of the Scent" - . All of this seemed to be the arrangement of fate.
When I was very young, Pacino was determined to become a baseball player and actor. He passed the audition and was admitted to the famous "Performing Arts High School" in New York. However, due to the crisis in the health of my mother, the family was financially struggling and dropped out of school at the age of 16.
He came to Greenwich Village where artists gathered, and did some odd jobs while doing behind-the-scenes work in the "Experimental Life Theater". After being rejected by the famous "Actor Studio", he entered HB Studio and studied under the Academy Awards Charles Lawton . During this period, he still worked odd jobs, often unemployed, had no fixed place to live, sometimes sleeping at friends' houses, sometimes sleeping on the streets and in theaters.
22 years old, Pacino struggled with his dream while encountering the misfortune of his mother and grandfather's death one after another, and his life reached its lowest point. decades later, this is still a time that I can’t bear to look back on. “It makes people vulnerable,” he said. "It's really hard to talk about these things."
Pacino and his mentor Lee Strasberg
After studying in HB studio for 4 years, he applied for the actor studio again, and this time he was admitted. Here, he studied under the "Method School" performance master Lee Strasberg, not only improving his acting skills, but the actor studio also provided excellent resources and platforms for his future acting career, paving the way for him to become a "godfather".
Obsessed with drama, love-loving Shakespeare
Before starring in "The Godfather", Al Pacino had won the Tony Award in the highest honor in the American Drama. To this day, Shakespeare is still his favorite topic.
Pacino performed Shakesaw drama " Venetian Businessman "
Al Pacino's acting career began on the stage. He said the performance was a liberation for him.He described how he felt when he first said those serious dramatic lines: "For the first time, I felt that I could speak. The characters would say things I would never say, some things I always wanted to say, which was a kind of liberation for me. The performance of liberated me , and it really made me feel good."
In 1967, 27-year-old Al Pacino received his first stable salary in his life for his role in the drama "Awakening and Singing".
Pacino performs the drama "The Indians Need the Bronx"
plays a different role from himself. For Pacino, it is also an opportunity to discover and understand himself. He recalled the audition process of "The Indiana People Need the Bronx": "When they first invited me to audition, they wanted me to play another person, a gentler person. But in the end, they wanted me to play Murphy because Murphy is a more troublesome and explosive role. In the process of performing this role, I discovered a kind of explosive power in myself . This is something I didn't know before."
In 1968, "The Indiana People Need the Bronx" performed 177 times. Because of the role of the crazy boy Murphy, Pacino won the Obi Award for "Best Actor Outside Broadway" and also met his agent Martin Breman during this period.
In the subsequent half-century performance career, Pacino polished this "explosion" to become more relaxed and perfect, becoming the iconic style of his performance.
1969, Pacino starred in the drama "Does the Tiger Tie?" 》 made its debut on Broadway. The drama stopped after 39 performances, but Pacino's performance left a deep impression. In April of the same year, he won the Tony Award for this role.
In the early 1970s, Pacino became famous in Hollywood with two "The Godfather". But after becoming famous, he found that reputation did not bring what he wanted, and also hindered what he really wanted to do. So he chose to return to the stage and won the second Tony Award in 1977.
Al Pacino was asked about the motto that can represent his philosophy of life. He quoted a high-altitude walking artist, "Life only exists on the steel wire, and other time is waiting."
" stage is my steel wire ." Pacino said.
Whenever you feel lost and anxious, Pacino will return to his "wire". His spiritual therapy was joked by people around him as " Shakespeare therapy ". He would organize non-public reading meetings from time to time to read his favorite "Hamlet", "Richard III", " Othello ", etc.
He will also call the university's drama department in advance to inform them that they want to do drama reading. He would also sneak into the campus, take a few books on an empty land, start talking about Hamlet, read dialogues, and answer students' questions.
On the other hand, Pacino is also constantly trying to let more people feel Shakespeare through movies.
" Looking for Richard III " poster
In 1996, Al Pacino served as the film director for the first time, directing the documentary " Looking for Richard III ", which records the entire process of rehearsing the Shakesaw drama "Richard III" with other actors. Later, he played Sherlock in the Shakesaw drama adaptation of the movie "The Merchant of Venice" and was a great success. Recently, he and the producers of "The Merchant of Venice" once again joined forces to star in the movie "King Lear", and once again showed his love for Shakespeare.
love to play the troubled character on the verge of madness
Looking at all kinds of characters created by Al Pacino, he especially likes to play the troubled character on the verge of madness: the young policeman who caused himself trouble in "Conflict", the robber who wanted to raise money to perform sex change surgery on homosexuals and went to rob banks, the vulgar and irritable Cuban gangster in " Scarface ";
" Supreme Detective " is a powerful leader who often roars to the sound of breaking the sound, a former Vietnam War soldier who is free from fantasy and reality in "Smelling the Fragrance to Know the Woman", an agent Hanna who is brave in "Handling the Fragrance to Know the Fragrance to Know the Fragrance to Know the Fragrance to Be Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Dead... and a union leader who is proud of his paranoia and ultimately ruins himself at the gun of his confidant.
1995 "The Story of Fire" Pacino vs. De Niro
In this way, Michael in the "Godfather" series is the more calm and restrained character he has portrayed.
However, the story behind "The Godfather" is very exciting. The director of the year, Coppola , took the script of "The Godfather" and called Pacino and asked him to play Michael. Pacino's first reaction was "he had a brain disease." "Why did I let me play? Why do I play this role with so many excellent actors? Did he think wrong?" Pacino recalled his thoughts at that time.
, and the producer Paramount is also very dissatisfied with Pacino, thinking that he is too weak to support the role. Until the filming started, Paramount wanted to fire Pacino several times.
"The Godfather" set photo: Director Coppola, Marlon Brando , Al Pacino
Before "The Godfather", Pacino was mainly active on Broadway, and only one movie that can be found is " Poisonous Sea Mandarin Duck ". He brought the performance methods used on the theatrical stage to the movie, insisting on keeping a distance from the character, and insisting on shaping the character is a "process".
But the "slow-hot" character shaping method of initially made Paramount think that he did not have the ability to shape the character. "They looked at the crowd in a hurry every day, looked at me again, and asked, 'What is this kid doing? Who is this kid?' Everyone thought I would be fired, including Brando - even though he was very nice to me." Pacino once recalled the situation at that time.
It was not until the scene where Michael shot the police and the energy in his body really exploded, and he completely convinced the producer and saved the character.
The great success of the two "The Godfather" made Pacino's life reach the peak, but just like the kind of characters he loves to portray the most, he likes to challenge, take risks, and likes to cause trouble for himself.
Amid the doubts of relatives and friends, he took on the role of a gay robber in "Hot afternoon" - and he won the Oscar nomination. In order not to lose himself in fame and fortune, he insisted on acting in dramas - he ended up winning another Tony trophy in his life.
The film industry has been in the 50 years without saying retirement
In more than half a century of acting career, Pacino has created shocking screen images, won an Oscar winner, and won 7 Oscar nominations.
He is an unquestionable god of acting and a legend in the film industry, but his career has not been smooth sailing. There are two obvious troughs, one in the 1980s and the other in the past decade.
1983, Pacino starred in the remake of "Scarface". The film was first released and was well received, but later it was successful in the box office. Now it has proven to be one of the classics of gangsters as time goes by.
Time Network Special Report A short-sized person, a strong aura, innocent and full of power in his eyes, delicate performance skills and breed explosive power... In " Irish ", our familiar "godfather" Al Pacino is back.
"The Irishman" Pacino's performance special
With this work, Pacino won almost nominations for all supporting actor awards at the outpost for the awards season. After " Smelling the Scent of the Scent and Knowing Women ", can the 79-year-old win another Little Golden Man?
The street gangster who was born at the bottom of the house
Al Pacino was originally named Alfredo James Pacino. He was born in 1940 in the Italian immigrant gathering community in East Harlem, New York City.
Children Pacino
html When he was 02 years old, his parents divorced and his father went to California to work. The young Pacino and his mother moved to Bronx and lived with their grandparents. The Bronx was once a famous slum in New York, with chaotic public security and crime rates among the United States.When I was a child, my family often took Pacino to the cinema and then went to visit my father, Pacino imitated the plot of the movie and talked with the actors to win the attention and recognition of his father.
Pacino later appeared in many classic gangster films, but in fact he was a small gang leader when he was a child. Pacino's neighbor and later became the screenwriter of "City Hall", Ken Liper revealed that Pacino was the leader of their little boy gang, with a flamboyant personality and often fought with other small gangs to protect their own people.
He started smoking and drinking at the age of 9 and was exposed to marijuana at the age of 13. Fortunately, he controlled himself and did not further contact with more severe drugs. The two best childhood friends who died of drugs at the age of 19 and 30 respectively because they could not control themselves.
Pacino and his father
Pacino grew up in poverty and chaos, but he was not lacking in love. His mother and grandmother loved him very much. Of course, he never lacks attention, and he has many tricks. Little Pacino once pretended to be blind and asked people for help along the street. Passers-by would give him some money, which would make his companions laugh in the distance.
At that time, he was just for fun. When he grew up, he won the Oscar for the Best Actor in "Smelling the Scent of the Scent" - . All of this seemed to be the arrangement of fate.
When I was very young, Pacino was determined to become a baseball player and actor. He passed the audition and was admitted to the famous "Performing Arts High School" in New York. However, due to the crisis in the health of my mother, the family was financially struggling and dropped out of school at the age of 16.
He came to Greenwich Village where artists gathered, and did some odd jobs while doing behind-the-scenes work in the "Experimental Life Theater". After being rejected by the famous "Actor Studio", he entered HB Studio and studied under the Academy Awards Charles Lawton . During this period, he still worked odd jobs, often unemployed, had no fixed place to live, sometimes sleeping at friends' houses, sometimes sleeping on the streets and in theaters.
22 years old, Pacino struggled with his dream while encountering the misfortune of his mother and grandfather's death one after another, and his life reached its lowest point. decades later, this is still a time that I can’t bear to look back on. “It makes people vulnerable,” he said. "It's really hard to talk about these things."
Pacino and his mentor Lee Strasberg
After studying in HB studio for 4 years, he applied for the actor studio again, and this time he was admitted. Here, he studied under the "Method School" performance master Lee Strasberg, not only improving his acting skills, but the actor studio also provided excellent resources and platforms for his future acting career, paving the way for him to become a "godfather".
Obsessed with drama, love-loving Shakespeare
Before starring in "The Godfather", Al Pacino had won the Tony Award in the highest honor in the American Drama. To this day, Shakespeare is still his favorite topic.
Pacino performed Shakesaw drama " Venetian Businessman "
Al Pacino's acting career began on the stage. He said the performance was a liberation for him.He described how he felt when he first said those serious dramatic lines: "For the first time, I felt that I could speak. The characters would say things I would never say, some things I always wanted to say, which was a kind of liberation for me. The performance of liberated me , and it really made me feel good."
In 1967, 27-year-old Al Pacino received his first stable salary in his life for his role in the drama "Awakening and Singing".
Pacino performs the drama "The Indians Need the Bronx"
plays a different role from himself. For Pacino, it is also an opportunity to discover and understand himself. He recalled the audition process of "The Indiana People Need the Bronx": "When they first invited me to audition, they wanted me to play another person, a gentler person. But in the end, they wanted me to play Murphy because Murphy is a more troublesome and explosive role. In the process of performing this role, I discovered a kind of explosive power in myself . This is something I didn't know before."
In 1968, "The Indiana People Need the Bronx" performed 177 times. Because of the role of the crazy boy Murphy, Pacino won the Obi Award for "Best Actor Outside Broadway" and also met his agent Martin Breman during this period.
In the subsequent half-century performance career, Pacino polished this "explosion" to become more relaxed and perfect, becoming the iconic style of his performance.
1969, Pacino starred in the drama "Does the Tiger Tie?" 》 made its debut on Broadway. The drama stopped after 39 performances, but Pacino's performance left a deep impression. In April of the same year, he won the Tony Award for this role.
In the early 1970s, Pacino became famous in Hollywood with two "The Godfather". But after becoming famous, he found that reputation did not bring what he wanted, and also hindered what he really wanted to do. So he chose to return to the stage and won the second Tony Award in 1977.
Al Pacino was asked about the motto that can represent his philosophy of life. He quoted a high-altitude walking artist, "Life only exists on the steel wire, and other time is waiting."
" stage is my steel wire ." Pacino said.
Whenever you feel lost and anxious, Pacino will return to his "wire". His spiritual therapy was joked by people around him as " Shakespeare therapy ". He would organize non-public reading meetings from time to time to read his favorite "Hamlet", "Richard III", " Othello ", etc.
He will also call the university's drama department in advance to inform them that they want to do drama reading. He would also sneak into the campus, take a few books on an empty land, start talking about Hamlet, read dialogues, and answer students' questions.
On the other hand, Pacino is also constantly trying to let more people feel Shakespeare through movies.
" Looking for Richard III " poster
In 1996, Al Pacino served as the film director for the first time, directing the documentary " Looking for Richard III ", which records the entire process of rehearsing the Shakesaw drama "Richard III" with other actors. Later, he played Sherlock in the Shakesaw drama adaptation of the movie "The Merchant of Venice" and was a great success. Recently, he and the producers of "The Merchant of Venice" once again joined forces to star in the movie "King Lear", and once again showed his love for Shakespeare.
love to play the troubled character on the verge of madness
Looking at all kinds of characters created by Al Pacino, he especially likes to play the troubled character on the verge of madness: the young policeman who caused himself trouble in "Conflict", the robber who wanted to raise money to perform sex change surgery on homosexuals and went to rob banks, the vulgar and irritable Cuban gangster in " Scarface ";
" Supreme Detective " is a powerful leader who often roars to the sound of breaking the sound, a former Vietnam War soldier who is free from fantasy and reality in "Smelling the Fragrance to Know the Woman", an agent Hanna who is brave in "Handling the Fragrance to Know the Fragrance to Know the Fragrance to Know the Fragrance to Be Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Face to Dead... and a union leader who is proud of his paranoia and ultimately ruins himself at the gun of his confidant.
1995 "The Story of Fire" Pacino vs. De Niro
In this way, Michael in the "Godfather" series is the more calm and restrained character he has portrayed.
However, the story behind "The Godfather" is very exciting. The director of the year, Coppola , took the script of "The Godfather" and called Pacino and asked him to play Michael. Pacino's first reaction was "he had a brain disease." "Why did I let me play? Why do I play this role with so many excellent actors? Did he think wrong?" Pacino recalled his thoughts at that time.
, and the producer Paramount is also very dissatisfied with Pacino, thinking that he is too weak to support the role. Until the filming started, Paramount wanted to fire Pacino several times.
"The Godfather" set photo: Director Coppola, Marlon Brando , Al Pacino
Before "The Godfather", Pacino was mainly active on Broadway, and only one movie that can be found is " Poisonous Sea Mandarin Duck ". He brought the performance methods used on the theatrical stage to the movie, insisting on keeping a distance from the character, and insisting on shaping the character is a "process".
But the "slow-hot" character shaping method of initially made Paramount think that he did not have the ability to shape the character. "They looked at the crowd in a hurry every day, looked at me again, and asked, 'What is this kid doing? Who is this kid?' Everyone thought I would be fired, including Brando - even though he was very nice to me." Pacino once recalled the situation at that time.
It was not until the scene where Michael shot the police and the energy in his body really exploded, and he completely convinced the producer and saved the character.
The great success of the two "The Godfather" made Pacino's life reach the peak, but just like the kind of characters he loves to portray the most, he likes to challenge, take risks, and likes to cause trouble for himself.
Amid the doubts of relatives and friends, he took on the role of a gay robber in "Hot afternoon" - and he won the Oscar nomination. In order not to lose himself in fame and fortune, he insisted on acting in dramas - he ended up winning another Tony trophy in his life.
The film industry has been in the 50 years without saying retirement
In more than half a century of acting career, Pacino has created shocking screen images, won an Oscar winner, and won 7 Oscar nominations.
He is an unquestionable god of acting and a legend in the film industry, but his career has not been smooth sailing. There are two obvious troughs, one in the 1980s and the other in the past decade.
1983, Pacino starred in the remake of "Scarface". The film was first released and was well received, but later it was successful in the box office. Now it has proven to be one of the classics of gangsters as time goes by.
In 1985, the film "Revolution" starring him suffered a double Waterloo of box office and reputation, and his career fell. Pacino briefly took a break in filming for four years and focused on drama. It was not until 1989 that he made a comeback with "Midnight Love", playing the injured policeman who numbs himself with alcohol and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award.
Exaggerated style in "The Supreme Detective"
The so-called "bottom-back". After experiencing the trough of the 1980s, in the early 1990s, Pacino successively brought films such as "The Supreme Detective", "The Gold-worship Clan", " Godfather 3", and "Smelling the Fragrance to Know the Woman", and his career ushered in the second climax, and he won the Oscar for the first time with "Smelling the Fragrance to Know the Woman".
And in the past decade, his career seems to have fallen into a trough again. After "Doctor Death" in 2010, except for the two "Salome" movies directed and starred by him, there is no truly significant work. The 2016 "Missary of Duel" and the 2017 " Hanging Game " Time Network scored 5.5 and 5.4 points, which can be mercilessly classified as the "bad movies".
Why should Pacino, whose life has entered his old age, take on these works that cannot contribute to his life experience? Recently, when asked by the media, he said, " I want to make some not-so-good movies and try to make them better. This has become my challenge. ." He also said that he has been trying to control himself recently and let go of this urge to "save bad movies".
However, it is actually an overly harsh thing to call Al Pacino's career "falling into a trough" in the past decade. For a 79-year-old, he can still be active on the screen and insist on "never retire". This spirit is worthy of respect.
It’s not that Al Pacino is not playing well, but that there are not so many suitable roles in the circle for him to play.
The other three of the "Four Heavenly Kings" in New Hollywood are not the same - Robert De Niro , who plays dad and grandfather everywhere, and their main works are Dustin Hoffman , dubbed by "Kung Fu Panda", and semi-retired Jack Nicholson.
Fortunately, after ten years of twists and turns, "The Irishman" finally came, and the flag bearers of the Golden Hollywood era reunited to recreate the style of old-school gangster films.
Al Pacino is not tall, has a strong aura, innocent and powerful eyes, delicate acting skills and full of explosive power... This is still the most familiar Pacino, the eternal "godfather" we are.
Attachment: Interview record
Time Network: Many people are discussing the age-reducing special effects in this film. I want to know if this affects your performance method?
"The Irishman" Ultimate trailer
Pacino: No. This technology is very controversial, and I don't understand it very well. It does have an impact and will continue to have an impact, because it is an attempt, but it is obviously very effective.
If you want to present a very huge age difference, you must use special effects, but the audience knows that it is you, you are just younger, so... how to say it, so it is a bit controversial.
Time Network: But is it helpful for narrative?
Pacino : Yes, as long as it helps the narrative.
Time Network: How does it feel to meet again with Robert De Niro?
Pacino : It's important to me, when I learned that Robert was going to make this movie and hoped that I would play Jimmy Hoffa, you have to know that this opportunity is not without, but it's hard to achieve, it takes a long process.
But Robert was determined to make this movie, so he pulled Martin, and then Robert and Martin Scorses came to me again and I sat with them and had a great time chatting. But at that time I still felt that it might be ruined. It took a full ten years to shoot this film, so when the filming finally started, we had to use the age-reducing special effect.
Time Network: There is a scene in Jimmy Hoffa, you play. He gets angry because the person you have to wait for is not coming. How long will you wait for someone in real life?
Pacino : I think it's really rude to make people wait for you all the time. I did the same thing when I was recording a show.Hoffa got angry because others were late, but I was late myself and asked them to wait for me because it was late for lunch.
When I arrived, I found two actors, Robert De Niro, were inside, and they were both sitting on the sofa waiting for me, so I joked with them as I entered the door. But if I'm too late, I'd be embarrassed. But if others ask me to wait, it depends on how long I have to wait. They also talked about this issue in the film.
Hoffa got angry because others were late, but I was late myself and asked them to wait for me because it was late for lunch.When I arrived, I found two actors, Robert De Niro, were inside, and they were both sitting on the sofa waiting for me, so I joked with them as I entered the door. But if I'm too late, I'd be embarrassed. But if others ask me to wait, it depends on how long I have to wait. They also talked about this issue in the film.
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