Just rewatching the Godfathers (not part 3) and it's always amazing to be reminded that at one point Al Pacino was a decent actor.
At what point did he go full Al Pacino? Was there one specific film were it all. suddenly. went. shouty. wrong? Or did he evolve over time into the caricature we all now know and love?
I literally just rewatched the first Godfather a few nights back. It was first rewatch in like 2 decades plus & I was genuinely amazed how restrained he was.
Great performance btw but I legit cannot remember the last time I saw Pacino like this.
Started with the likes of Scarface but as the other poster said, Scent of a Woman is definitely when he went "Full Pacino". And that's the Pacino we've had ever since.
Still love his "overacting" tho. Him & Nic Cage get a pass for me.
Insomnia, You Don't Know Jack, Paterno, Phil Spectre, Bobby Deerfield, etc maybe you should watch more of his films.
You're equating his raspy smoker's voice to full on Pacino. You can hear some of the raspyness in 1973 and 1979, but a bit more in the 80s, but became worse by 1990.
Dick Tracy (1990)
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I say The Indian Wants the Bronx in 1969, The Panic in Needle Park in 1971, also he has the same number of shouting in tgf2 and tgf3, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, etc.
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I've seen all of his films and it surprised me that he never really changed, even in his interviews from the 70s and today, the mannerisms are the same.
shareSince 1969, you just haven't seen many of his films and like to throw the same party line of people who have not seen his body of work.
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Check out the final courtroom scene. You don't get more "Pacino" than that!
You’d think he would’ve reined it in for Part 3, but he’s either forgotten how or just doesn’t care.
shareI think Young Pacino (up through And Justice For All) did "Young Man Yelling" (The "Attica" yelling in Dog Day Afternoon, the "You're out of order!" yelling in And Justice for All.
Scarface Pacino was the first FUN yelling -- the over-the-top stuff, complete with Cuban accent.
People forget that Pacino took some of the 80's off and away from movies. After Revolution in 1985, he was gone(from movies) for 1986, 1987 and 1988, and came back late in 1989 to the success of "Sea of Love," with minimal yelling and a lot of sexual charm.
Michael Corleone HAD yelled in Godfather II -- at Diane Keaton mainly -- but in Godfather III, he went ballistic and a bit comical -- as in that kitchen diabetes breakdown wail. And he yells in an obnoxious, ugly manner in Dick Tracy.
But I'd say that "Pacino as we now know him" hit all at once in 1992-1994 As with Jack Nicholson when HE aged -- and converted his voice into a deep stereophonic distractino from his looks -- Pacino used three movies -- Glengarry Glen Ross, Scent of a Woman, and Carlito's Way to introduce not only more yelling -- but more creative yelling, with a "spin" and a drawl to his speaking. (Nicholson for his part started hitting his "Ts" very hard and hissing his S's; Pacino used more of a "singing" timbre to his vocal stylizations.) Pacino nabbed Oscar noms for two of those three -- Glengarry and Scent -- and won, of course, for Scent.
So...it happened in stages, but I'd say 1992-1993 is when "The New Al Pacino" locked in -- and continued in Heat and The Devil's Advocate.
PS. It was great to see that Big Al KEPT his vocal stylings right on up to 2019 in which he made his first movie for Scorsese(The Irishman) and his first movie for Tarantino(Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) the same year and pulled an Oscar nom for Irishman and entertained with TWO different characters -- the suave long-haired bearded agent in Hollywood VS the short, boxy haircut fireplug of a Jimmy Hoffa in Irishman. Both characters had GREAT voices.