I’m doing roles and thinking about doing things like King Lear. Or is it because that’s what you get sent in the mail? Pacino: No, totally because of their thematic material. I wondered if you were doing those parts because you felt a certain kind of affinity. You’re on a great run of playing prideful men at the end of their lives: Danny Collins, The Humbling, Manglehorn. It’s fascinating what you said, Al, about age dictating parts somewhat. Because with us, we don’t just go home and write. Pacino: But it has a lot to do with choices, it has a lot to do with the kind of roles you get. Maybe: “You look good to still be alive.” You can’t lie about your own age! Actually, that expression “You look good for your age” comes in. When celebrities have birthdays, it’s all over the news. Pacino: Well, this is what we’re plagued with, you have to understand. If someone wants to know your age, they can look it up. What do you think that guy is? How much time does he have left?Īlso, you’re Al Pacino. Pacino: Yeah, when you leave, we’ll go over it. (Somehow this is Pacino’s first role in a Scorsese film, and the first time the three men-along with their costars Pesci and Harvey Keitel-have made something all together.) The movie has the feel of an old and august gang reuniting for one last job and looking back, sometimes ambivalently, on many lifetimes of work about violence and love and loss. In The Irishman-based on Charles Brandt’s true-crime book I Heard You Paint Houses, about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa (played in the film by Pacino) and the underworld into which he disappeared (represented by the hit man Frank Sheeran, played by De Niro)-the two men give surprisingly emotional performances, suffused by their history with each other and, in De Niro’s case, with Scorsese. In the interim, both De Niro and Pacino made innumerable classics, and also 2008’s Righteous Kill, the first film in which they shared multiple scenes. It wasn’t until most of the way through 1995’s Heat that they finally appeared in the same frame of the same film, facing off across a diner table, and even then it was for only a few electric minutes. Out of 10 points, I rate ‘Al Cappuccino’ a total of 6.2.In 1974 they both starred-in separate timelines that never intersect-in The Godfather Part II. In general, this drama is killing itself with its overwhelming ‘love pentagon’, poor acting especially by the ladies, and the unsuccessful delivery of both drama and comedy elements intended for the story. This veteran actor delivered a solid performance as the quiet mastermind behind most of the plots to take down Vincent as the triad leader. I’m more engaged with David Chiang’s role in this drama instead. All the many other young actresses here are also not doing well except for Winki Lai who portrayed as the eldest sister. She still need few more years to be really able to carry on leading role. She even felt unnatural in normal scenes here. She appeared stiff at moment when she need to express huge emotion. However, in this drama, her performance is bad…bad to the point that I felt that she needs to go back to acting class again. I remembered that she did very well in ‘Apple-Colada’ series few years back. However, I find that he is currently still unable to deliver emotion-heavy scenes.Ĭrystal Fung is the main female lead here. Judging from his performances in recent years, it looks like Owen may be the next TVB rising star. It’s fun to see the two of them in several hilarious scenes. His chemistry with Owen Cheung is much better and this pairing had been tested before in ‘Legal Mavericks’. And the worst part is that Vincent doesn’t have any chemistry with any of these 4 ladies too in the series. I’m not keen on romance stuff in story like this and yet this series emphasizes quite a lot in this area. This is not even a love triangle…it’s a love pentagon. However as the series progresses, the story focuses too much on him entangled with 4 female characters who he kind off liked/loved. It was comedic and I saw yet another enthusiastic performance from Vincent again. I was very eager to catch up on the plot to see how Vincent learns to become a fake triad leader in the beginning. The drama started off in a very interesting note. This 30-episode drama also starred Owen Cheung, Crystal Fung, Kathy Yuen, Samantha Ko, David Chiang, Winki Lai, etc. ‘Al Cappuccino’ starred Vincent Wong as a struggling actor who gets hired by Hong Kong police force to be a fake triad boss in order to investigate the murder cases of the previous triad leaders. In the meantime, another TVB drama has ended its run. It’s Friday evening now…it’s time to chill and update the blog. At the same time, I was also pretty occupied with work these few days and even not getting enough sleep. I have actually moved in since last Tuesday but had been very busy with the unpacking, cleaning and adjusting to the new environment.
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