Acting Book Review - Al Pacino in Interviews
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 09:19PM Acting Book Review - Al Pacino in Interviews
By Greg Vallyn
Al Pacino In Interviews with Lawrence Grobel is an intimate portrait of an iconic actor. While a tough man on screen, playing everything from a cocaine fulled mobster to the Devil himself, this book shows the man behind his many masks. Al Pacino is about as sensitive an artist as one will ever find and this book shows how serendipitous his success has actually been.
Starting in the Bronx, a very tough part of New York City, Pacino was fascinated at the transformation that he would make when he became a character on stage. He showed so much promise as a child that other children in his acting class said often that he was a little Brando. Moving through the ranks of Broadway and off, he played many roles (all of them outlined in the back of the book) and began to star in movies.
It was not until his taking of the mantle of Michael Corleon in The Godfather and then Dog Day Afternoon, that Hollywood and the world at large stood up and took notice. One of the more interesting stories that he shares is that Paramount actually wanted to fire him from the Godfather. Had Coppola been a weaker director, a movie masterpiece may have never been.
When a film of his stirs controversy, such as his portrait of a Miami Drug king in Scarface, or of a gritty detective in Serpico, Pacino shys away from it. His reason is that his job is to make the characters as real as possible, and the social questions that the characters produce are not up to him.
What is more engrossing is his honesty when he talks about his craft. He is a man of the theater and can quote spot on Shakespearean dialogue. The most salient point that one can take from this book is the simple truth at he acts because he needs to.
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