Michael Sacks
Does anyone know what this actor is doing now?
shareI'm curious about Sacks as well. Looks like he hasn't appeared in anything since the mid-80's.
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MovieChat Forums > Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Discussion > Michael Sacks
Last seen, he was in various episodes of "In The Heat of the Night"; He appears randomly on TV...Usually CBS.
shareI happen to know exactly what happened to Michael Saks, although I've never seen the movie, Raffi (Raphael) Saks, is Michael Saks' son, and also the first best friend then boyfriend (true love, no joke) of my sister. I've met him many times and didn't even know that he was a renound actor until the end of their relationship. The reason he stopped acting is that he kept getting sent scripts but none of them he thought were good enough, not like they werent worthy, but he wanted to stay in good projects. Im not sure what hes doing now for a living, but if anyone's curious I can always ask my sister and repost, just leave a message saying your curious and ill repost.
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Me too, if you don't mind. I saw him playing Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse 5.
shareHis IMDB bio says he is an IT director for a large company.
shareI think this movie would have gotten a lot more acclaim if there was a more charasmatic lead actor instead of Micheal Sacks. He seemed so detached from the events happening around him, I am not sure you can identify with the character at all. Imagine this movie with a lead character you actually liked. You would be able to feel the ups and downs of his life with greater impact.
Just my 2 cents.
not to be rude, but you probably haven't read the book.
I know you may be thinking that this is to discuss the movie, not the book, and why do people always bring that up, but the thing is that's exactly how Billy Pilgrim was supposed to be played.
He was supposed to be detached from everything around him - that was part of his character, an aspect of being unstuck in time, he would seem to be sitting on a couch or a train car, but he didnt care what he was doing there because he knew he always had been there and he always would be there, so trying to do anything would be of no consequence since he would do it anyway.
^^^ That's an excellent point. Billy is exactly the way Vonnegut created him. It seems odd, but it really does stay true to the book.
shareWell that explains a lot. It is true that I have not read the book.
I guess in the book you would know his thoughts about why he feels detached from everything. This reasoning was not portrayed well in the movie.
The funny thing is though that there definitely were consequences to his actions. Although he may have no direct control over how/when he experiences things, his actions while he was young did change his future. For example, stepping on the hurt soldiers foot <<spoiler alert>> ultimately caused his death.
Who else thinks that the lead actor looks (at least in this movie) like a spitting image of Rutger Hauer? He constantly reminded me of Hauer in Verhoeven's Soldier of Orange (he even had the same haircut), and when he was lying in the snow muttering 'Slachthof fünf' he reminded me of Hauer as we see him in Blade Runner. My friend who I watched it with also saw the likeness.
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