What Happened to Al Pacino?

Al Pacino says he doesn't remember much of the 70s so The Godfather Serpico scarecrow Dog Day Afternoon and and justice for all some of the greatest movies ever let alone the 1970s are all a blur to Mr Al Pacino but we sure do remember all of these amazing films with all of these amazing performances but unfortunately we also remember Julie 88 Minutes Righteous Kill and many more and unfortunately those horrible movies Al Pacino does remember Al Pacino is always that guy who goes over the top sometimes it results in brilliance and other times it causes Mr Pacino to become a parody of himself but is his legacy strong enough and is Al Pacino in the middle of another comeback it's a divisive career full of ups and downs and whatever the [ __ ] he was thinking with Jack and Jill so yeah let's find out what the [ __ ] happened to Al Pacino burn this I'm sorry this must never be seen by anyone but to truly understand what the [ __ ] happened to Al Pacino we must begin at the beginning and the beginning began when he was born on his birthday New York City 1940. after struggling for a while young Al Pacino would eventually make a name for himself in the theater scene in 1969 was a soft breakout for Pacino winning a Tony for his Broadway debut does a tiger wear a necktie later that year he landed his first film me Natalie Pacino broke through big time in 1971's the panic in Needle Park playing a heroin addict in a remarkably jarring performance that's one of the most raw of the new Hollywood era his performance in the panic in Needle Park caught the eye of Francis Ford Coppola who would cast him in The Godfather in 1972 against the wishes of Paramount Studios who wanted someone like Dustin Hoffman or Robert Redford or Warren Beatty or anybody else but this guy Al Pacino but Francis Ford Coppola knew that this actor right here was the only man who could bring Michael Corleone to life we can watch this character grow and truly understand everything about him just by looking at Al Pacino's eyes this performance earned him his first Oscar nomination although he boycotted that Year's ceremony because he felt like he should have been nominated for best actor and not best supporting actor take what you can get Al Michael you believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth I do 1973 brought a retroactively under-appreciated Palm do or a winner scarecrow opposite Gene Hackman this is another performance where we get to see a softer weaker side of Al Pacino more vulnerable and it's a beautiful heartbreaking performance and showing off his range that same year brought a Serpico finally getting Al Pacino a best actor nomination and winning a Golden Globe back when people cared about the Golden Globes for it Al Pacino studied the real life Frank Serpico and it would later land him on the afi's list of the 50 greatest heroes the next year he returned for The Godfather part two with yet another best actor nomination this time his performances much more Sinister and complex and feels like a true completion of this character's story but unfortunately it wasn't we just keep pulling them back in in 1975 Al Pacino would play a bank robber who was robbing a bank to pay for his boyfriend's sex change in Dog Day Afternoon based on a true story it's a heated sweltering performance of unmatched wild chaotic energy his acting is the heart and the soul and everything of this movie the cameras were dictated by Al Pacino's movements wherever he felt like the character needed to go that's where the cameras would point it's a brilliant film with yet another amazing performance he just lit every everything hang loose out there in this very controversial very risky character in 1977 Al Pacino finally had a weak link playing a race car driver in Bobby Deerfield yes he would earn Praise of course but it just didn't really live up to the other films that he just made and a lot of people thought they were just praising Al Pacino because you know the critics thought they had to because he's Al Pacino more of note that same year 1977 Al Pacino won his second Tony that's like an Oscar for theater nerds in a play called the basic training of Pablo Hamel Hummel yeah in 1979 Al Pacino famously blasted the system as being out of order earning his fourth best actor nomination for a movie called dot dot dot and justice for all yes out of order indeed would be his career beginning a sort of cool stream in terms of earned recognition Pacino started out the 1980s with cruising playing a detective going undercover in New York's gay scene as you could guess this was another controversial movie it was actually one of the most controversial commercial movies of the decade or you know ever made Al Pacino is cruising from 1981 to 1984 Al Pacino returned to the stage for David mammoth's American buffalo earning a Drama Desk award while also starring as a playwright in a film called author author in 1982 a movie that was you know far below him but then came 1983 which brought Scarface a project that Al Pacino actively pushed the movie Scarface is important for numerous reasons other than being a fan favorite of rappers and other people who missed the point it's the first time where even though this is a great performance it may be the first time where Al Pacino pushes it a little too much over the top because yeah don't get me wrong I love this movie and I love Al Pacino as Tony Montana you know but his accent it's it's freaking ridiculous but the most damaging up to this point would be 1985's revolution an epic dud set in the Revolutionary War America's Revolutionary War in case you were confused which war after the devastating release of Revolution Al Pacino took four years off that's right we got a four-year Hiatus from Mr Pacino well he was still busy working just not in the movie business he was in the theater business appearing in Julius Caesar and various other Workshop Productions but in 1989 he did have a welcome return with a movie called Sea of Love then came the 1990s the the first year of the 1990s which was called 1990 and that year of 1990 was the best single year for Al Pacino since well 1973. that's right it was the year of Dick Tracy which he was was nominated for best supporting actor his performances perfectly cartoonish and he was able to mold the character to his and the audience's liking there too that same year was The Godfather Part three which was apparently worth returning for for an 8 million dollar paycheck and yeah a lot of people hate this movie and some people stand up for it uh yeah it's all right I don't know but watch the first two bye 1991 saw the film Frankie and Johnny which reunited him with Michelle Pfeiffer although both were unfortunately miscast as a cook and a waitress it's an awkward and thin romance not that good but then came back to back home runs in 1992 earning two Oscar nominations in the same year Al Pacino once again nailed the Rhythm and the nuances and the grit of David mamet's dialogue with the film Glengarry Glenn Ross playing a hot shot real estate salesman and Al Pacino believed in this film so much that he took a pay cut you know as a sign of devotion then two months later he would play Blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in the film Scent of a Woman Al Pacino's character has the power to smell a woman he's like oh yeah oh that's a stinky woman no again showing his Devotion to the role by spending time with blind people it is an easy performance to make fun of and yet another dip into the over-the-top realm but it did earn him his first and only to date Academy Award Best Actor although many feel this was kind of like a consolation prize a participation trophy a apology award for not giving it to him earlier but you know what he deserves it and you know what I don't think he gives a [ __ ] in 1993 Al Pacino would return to the gangster drama and work with Brian De Palma again in Carlito's Way Again facing crit criticism for his wishy-washy accent it's all right 1995 saw the forgettable film two bits and in 1995 also saw the unforgettable film heat in which he finally starred opposite Robert De Niro Al Pacino was the cop Robert De Niro was the bank robber they're so very different but maybe deep down they're actually the same foreign it's a commanding performance in what stands as one of the finest action movies ever made Al Pacino sure did bring the heat in heat then the next year was 1996 and we saw the remarkable film City Hall so yeah at this time Al Pacino he was so hot again oh my gosh this guy's on fire taking over City Hall and burning it down with his heat his hot streak would continue when he would bring a top-tier performance against Johnny Depp as a grounded and controlled character well for Pacino in the film Donnie Brasco next was the film The Devil's Advocate for which he would earn an MTV movie award nomination for best villain because he he's he's the devil and yes it is so devilishly over the top but this time it actually works in every beat every way every scene every line that is how you do it then came 1999 one of the greatest years for movies ever and one of the reasons why 1999 was one of the greatest years for movies ever was the movie The Insider from director Michael Mann the guy who made Heat is about exposing big tobacco and then Oliver Stone made a movie about exposing big football in the movie Any Given Sunday where Al Pacino plays a football coach who has plenty of reasons to scream and yeah he does it very very well you are not for focus the next year Al Pacino would be honored with the Cecil B Demille award for Lifetime Achievement at the Golden Globes back when people cared about the Golden Globes and yeah it sure does say something that Al Pacino got a Lifetime Achievement Award over 20 years ago and he hasn't really slowed down yet he's still got quite a lifetime left to live but will he spend that life making good movies or bad stay tuned to find out right now I'm going to talk about it right now then came a new decade well a new millennium and it would be a strange one for Mr Pacino a strange decade and a strange Millennium starting in the year 2000 each year he would bounce back and forth between worthy cinematic achievements of Acclaim and some pretty gosh darn awful cash grabs 2002 brought the truly remarkable Christopher Nolan film insomnia but there was also a film called people I know and a kind of disappointing satire on Hollywood and artificial intelligence called Simone 2003 saw the pretty okay film the recruit but that same year also Saul Gili which I don't know if you know what Gili is but at the time everyone called it the worst film of all time and Al Pacino is in it but apparently he's only in it for like one scene as a favor to the director it's the director of Scent of a Woman but even though Al Pacino is only in Gili for one scene his name is still attached to it and I still remember him being in it and being horrible in it you don't [ __ ] around but then right after G Lee came Angels In America which earned him a Golden Globe and his first Emmy and this is undoubtedly one of his best performances so yeah he can go from Gili to angels in America and just like the blink of an eyes it was like we don't know what to do with you Al Pacino what do you do are you in good movies or bad or what are you you're just in all movies then came 2004's The Merchant of Venice Man 2005's Two for the Money both were you know forgettable but then the American Film Institute AFI bestowed him their own Lifetime Achievement Award but his lifetime wasn't done yet so yeah Al Pacino he has like an Oscar and some lifetime achievement awards what's he gonna do next well he's gonna do some garbage even earning a Razzie for the film 88 Minutes Andy would even show up in the slightly disappointing Oceans 13 which would have seemed like a good get if the movie was you know worth anything it could have been something but then next Al Pacino would team up with Robert De Niro in a movie that you think would have been awesome but it wasn't it was a movie called Righteous Kill and yeah it did not capture the fire of heat it was really disappointing you're like Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the same movie that means the movie has to be good no matter what but apparently it needed some more so then in 2010 he went back to HBO when did his HBO thing which you know was some good TV acting that got him lots of awards like Emmys and Golden Globes and a sag award playing another controversial character this time Dr Death that's right Jack Kevorkian in You Don't Know Jack giving a remarkable performance that was his best TV work yet I believe in my humble opinions and my opinions they're always oh thank you and of course there was Jack and Jill which I get what he was trying to do here he was playing himself Al Pacino as Al Pacino and you know he was doing his thing he's like look at me I'm in an Adam Sandler movie and see I have a sense of humor about myself isn't that funny and you know what it wasn't he did play a similar character in stand-up guys in 2012 so uh that was better while the next year he would again nail that David Mamet dialogue with Phil Spector playing the controversial legendary Titan of Music which got him some Emmy Golden Globe band SAG nominations much deserved it would seem like the television miniseries is where Al Pacino would really Thrive at this time and he probably should have just stayed there in 2014 it was like he was starting to come to terms with with where he was both in his life and career with a likable turn in the disappointing film called manglehorn and playing an actor who is not relevant anymore in a film called The Humbling then he would play an aging musician who has to come to terms with his decisions in life in a film called Danny Collins but I don't know these just weren't characters that we wanted to see how Pacino play I guess then came the Dreadful film called misconduct in 2016 there was a detective movie called hangman that I forgot about and he played a journalist in another movie I forgot about the Pirates of Somalia somebody else the movies just weren't sticking they just weren't having a pop cultural impact on the Zeitgeist or whatever those words mean so yeah in 2018 Al Pacino went back to HBO where he would always make magic and played the disgraced Penn State coach Joe Paterno in Paterno this is undeniably his most nuanced and human performance in years just when we were starting to doubt Al Pacino just when we thought that his time was over he shows us that he still gots it and yeah from there he gave a joyous and Lively performance in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood he's a small part of an amazing ensemble cast and Tarantino places him in a role that is absolutely perfect a strong supporting character that respects his legacy but doesn't push him or make fun of him or try too hard to Homage his past filmography it's just like hey look here's a really good legendary actor who still got it and Quentin Tarantino just wanted to remind us well the shooting I love that stuff you know the killing a lot of killing a lot of killing another filmmaker who wanted to remind us that Al Pacino still gots it is Martin Scorsese who actually had never worked without Pacino until very recently when he cast Mr Pacino as Mr hotha Mr Jimmy Hoffa that is and even though Al Pacino looks nothing like Jimmy Hoffa like at all he still captured the spirit of that man I think I never met him but yeah for the first time in almost three decades we got to see Al Pacino give an oscar-nominated performance well deserved Mr Irish man and yeah here we are in what seems like an Al Pacino Renaissance a Pacino Sans because he's doing an amazing job hunting down Nazis in Amazon series hunters and he's freaking crushing it as Gucci in the house of Gucci and more the dude is in his 80s and he's not showing any sign of slowing down on the screen or any sign of slowing down off the screen as he recently got his 29 year old girlfriend pregnant which will make Al Pacino one of the oldest fathers in recorded history so pretty soon Al Pacino is gonna be all like say hello to my little baby but yeah pretty much like Michael Corleone he entered this industry with the best of intentions and ended up becoming The Godfather and a really old father and I believe that the best and the worst thing about Al Pacino is that he can be in things like You Don't Know Jack and things like Jack and Jill it's a beautiful thing so nobody should give a [ __ ] about what the [ __ ] happened to Al Pacino because he's doing just fine oh [Music] yeah [Music] [Music]

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Length: 23min 26sec (1406 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 23 2023