The Devil’s Boswell: Al Pacino
by Michael MoriartySaw The Devil’s Advocate for the third time the other night.
No one in film has so dissected and anatomized diabolical corpi with more dedication and precision than Al Pacino.
Not even the combined forces of Martin Scorcese and the chilling characters he created with Robert DeNiro can come up with the living, breathing reality of what Pacino only began to discover with his Michael Corleone of The Godfather.
Prophetically and, I imagine, presciently, I initially spelled Godfather as Todfather.
Yes. The Deathfather!
That rather says it all.
Three film titles initially leap to my mind when I think of Al Pacino’s entire body of work: The Godfather (1972), Devil’s Advocate (1997), and Insomnia (2002).
Pacino’s greatest performance to my mind can be experienced with the film Insomnia, and his portrayal of the LAPD detective, Will Dormer, an indelibly scarred soul farmed out to Alaska. He finds himself in, of all places, Alaska. A town called Nightmute. (more…)







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