What's his best performance

Scent of a Woman but his performance is kinda ruined by the overall mediocre movie.

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The Godfather Part I and II, no doubt about it. Scarface comes close, though.

Apparently that character had a cocaine addiction subplot that was cut from the movie. So that's why he's pretty goofy in some scenes. Also my favorite Pacino movie, he got meme'd too hard after Godfather and never really got good parts.

I thought he was better in King of Comedy myself. Very underrated.

(Serpico)

Scarface, without a doubt

I know they look alike a lot, but he's Al Pacino not Robert Deniro

Sonny in dog day afternon

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I wasn't being facetious.

I think that's his best role.

Vincent Hanna wasn't a coke addict, but used it as a means to get the edge over the criminals he pursued. He was dedicated, and then some. It's actually written into the script, the fact that he doesn't sleep, and just hunts all the time when the cases are hot and they come to him.

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Actually they don’t look anything alike. Pacino looks like young Stallone tho.

I think it may be his best role but it’s not his best acting. I felt like he tried to go over the top to compete with De Niro.

1000 percent dunkacino

Not the guy you responded to, and I loved Pacino in Heat, but never took him for a coke addict. Always thought of him as real police and a jaded fuck that can't stand the criminal scum he has to deal with.

I don't think so.

They needed to convey that the hunt prowess comes at a cost. The obvious part in the script via the story is the fact that he is emotionally unavailable for his girlfriend and that relationship goes nowhere (deleted scene).

But it also needed to be conveyed that the price he pays is the fact that he comes off unhinged, and is really unhinged, personality wise because his focus offsets his sanity to a degree.

I'm not sure there would've been ways to convey that in another way. They could've gone the "I'm so depressed" route, him acting sad, but that wouldn't mesh with him being on top of his game to catch the villains.

So over the top actually worked better I believe.

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Dog Day Afternoon. I'm partial to Scarface, but it's not a great performance quality wise.

They had an interview with Pacino and Mann and they said that the coke was written into the character, it just got left on the cutting room floor.

I've seen some interviews about the movie, but they didn't mention that. Interesting.

>but it's not a great performance quality wise
How is Tony Montana not a great performance?

It was a good contrast too. You had the robber, the supposed bad guy, who was professional and cool as can be. As opposed to the hair-trigger cop, nominally the good guy, who was far more unhinged and damaged.

Plus Pacino does over-the-top really well, anyway.

It's incredibly goofy and cartoonish? It fits the tone of the film, but it's not the same calibur as DDA

Dat accent. Plus the character isn’t as complex or subtle as Michael. It’s a good performance but not on the level of his other ones.

sonny had a wife and kids. He was a very fluid person

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IT'S DUNK

What's so goofy and cartoonish about it?

It's a different kind of role than Michael, and yeah, it's not on the same level, then again what is, though it's still a great fucking performance from Pacino and I really liked the whole American Dream gone wrong thing that Oliver Stone was going for, followed up by De Palma's directorial prowess, it was really well executed.

Also, De Palma said Pacino was surrounded with Cubans on set and they'd call him out whenever he'd make a mistake in his accent, so that ain't the issue.

This, he said it in itws

This. His fake accent in scarface and carlito's way put these roles on par with sean connery's irish role in untouchables in terms of mediocrity by a great actor

In Glengarry Glenn Ross, he was perfect.
Small roles are a great way to judge an actor

I have recently watched The Godfather 1 & 2 for the first time and i don't really get the praise behind them, yeah they are good movies but i don't see how a lot of people consider them the best of all times.

I think the reason it was kept out of the script was because it would really be an endorsement for using cocaine, or drugs in general.

Technically, it all works out because he's on it all the time, and the cocaine REALLY does help.

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>In Glengarry Glenn Ross, he was perfect.
This. I couldn't remember the title, but this. Fucking this.

donnie brasco you zoomer scum

Well, why do you think they're not some of the best films ever made?

Serpico

dog day afternoon
>i'm doing this for my gf (male)

DON'T MIMD IF I DO

God-Tier Performances:
Godfather 1 and 2
Dog Day Afternoon
Serpico
Angels in America

Great:
Scarface
Heat
Donnie Brasco
Carlito’s Way

Damn Good:
Author, Author!
Scarecrow
The Panic At Needle Park
And Justice For All

Fun:
Glengarry Glen Ross
Devil’s Advocate
Cruising

Good Late-Life Efforts:
Imsomnia
Paterno
Danny Collins

Eh, Whatever:
The Rest

Glengarry Glen Ross

what his hairstyle called?

the mook

He's such a great actor that it's hard to pin down. But personally, I'm really partial to Insomnia, he plays a paranoid cop losing his mind from lack of sleep so well. Best BIG HAM performance is definitely Devil's Advocate tho
youtube.com/watch?v=jARp24AJWLk
>I'M A FAAAAAAAAAN OF MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
What more need I say. If this ultimate ham performance doesn't get anything out of you, you're a terminal case

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The ending hurt like a sucker punch

remember watching this back in the day before trannies were a thing and being all confused about his "wife".
i was like "ok why are they showing his brother (?) all the time? i thought he had a chick? and that girl is dying? she needs some kind of operation?"

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