{"id":11986,"date":"2022-03-10T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:52:11","slug":"pacino-on-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/10\/pacino-on-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacino On Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/09\/movies\/al-pacino-the-godfather.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-3fb53310\">Al Pacino on \u2018The Godfather\u2019: \u2018It\u2019s Taken Me a Lifetime to Accept It and Move On\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role: how he was cast, why he skipped the Oscars and what it all means to him now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/dave-itzkoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dave Itzkoff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Godfather: Killing Sollozzo and McCluskey (HD CLIP)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5nvA2t_JanM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine \u201cThe Godfather\u201d without Al Pacino. His understated performance as Michael Corleone, who became a respectable war hero despite his corrupt family, goes almost unnoticed for the first hour of the film \u2014 until at last he asserts himself, gradually taking control of the Corleone criminal operation and the film along with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there would be no Al Pacino without \u201cThe Godfather,\u201d either. The actor was a rising star of New York theater with just one movie role, in the 1971 drug drama \u201cThe Panic in Needle Park,\u201d when Francis Ford Coppola fought for him, against the wishes of Paramount Pictures, to play the ruminative prince of his Mafia epic. A half-century\u2019s worth of pivotal cinematic roles followed, including two more turns as Michael Corleone in \u201cThe Godfather Part II\u201d and \u201cPart III.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/09\/movies\/al-pacino-the-godfather.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Al Pacino on \u2018The Godfather\u2019: \u2018It\u2019s Taken Me a Lifetime to Accept It and Move On\u2019 Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role: how he was cast, why he skipped the Oscars and what it all means to him now. By\u00a0Dave Itzkoff It\u2019s hard to imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}