badmojo1006
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Many Choices, but went with Michael Corleone. Scarface close behind
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What is Al Pacino's signature role? (1 Viewer)
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comfortably numb
Footballguy
Godfather may win as it is a better movie but scarface may be one of the most iconic characters in movie history.
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Vanilla Guerrilla
Footballguy
Went with Michael. Maybe should have been Tony, but I hate that movie outside of the comedy value so much I couldn't vote for it.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
this x infinity.
though i cast the (thus far) lone vote for Richard Roma 'cuz Glengarry ####### owns me - my favorite flick of all-time.
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Leroy Hoard
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Captain Cranks
Footballguy
Tough call, but it's between Scent of a Woman and Scarface for me where he was the movie (unlike Godfather). Rolling with Scarface because of how iconic it is.
TheFanatic
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TheFanatic
Footballguy
Went with Michael, despite the line, "I always tell the truth. Even when I lie!" from Scarface. I love that line
otb_lifer
Footballguy
which he was so low key in ... put the HAM on the shelf, and was chewed up by Penn in every scene - great flick, understated Al ... i much prefer it over "Scarface", and it ain't even close.
need2know
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Pavlo Hummel
I had the great good fortune to see him in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel onstage in Boston, just as Godfather was coming out. He played half-squirrelbaby and half-YOURALLOUTOFORDER!! throughout and everyone was mesmerized. Next to Zero as Tevya, my greatest theater experience.
I had the great good fortune to see him in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel onstage in Boston, just as Godfather was coming out. He played half-squirrelbaby and half-YOURALLOUTOFORDER!! throughout and everyone was mesmerized. Next to Zero as Tevya, my greatest theater experience.
bryhamm
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otb_lifer
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Jackstraw
Footballguy
When he takes off his rings at home and his money clip and St Christopher medallion. What a scene.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
"hey, Annette, ya know what ... don't wait up for me - who knows with these people, huh? you look beautiful tonight"
Galileo
Footballguy
Voted Tony Montana. That is what pops into my mind first when I think of Al Pacino.
But I also agree with this...
But I also agree with this...
I am probably one of the few who also loved his role as John Milton, but I would never call this his "signature".
NutterButter
Footballguy
Silver & Black
Footballguy
Scarface was a great movie, and in fact, I like/love many of the movies on this list though Donnie Brascoe and Carlito's Way are far better movies than a few on this list). That said, if we're talking signature movies, I don't see how it can't be Michael. Mention Pacino and in all likelihood, the first movie people think about is Godfather. To me, that makes it his signature role.
Maybe you can get one of those first class tickets to the resurrection........
Watch, you see that man over there, he's gonna stick his tongue out at that girl over there. Watch.....so many great lines
Maybe you can get one of those first class tickets to the resurrection........
Watch, you see that man over there, he's gonna stick his tongue out at that girl over there. Watch.....so many great lines
Joe Mammy
Footballguy
I was born and raised in S. MIami. When I was in high school 1974 there were new Cubans at school everyday. Most could not speak English and there were some tough times for all. It was an era that had just smoothed over after busing had brought mixed races together.
I could not wait for Scarface to come out and saw it opening day. My first impression of Pacino is that is the worst Cuban accent I've ever heard. I found it laughable. But then I bought a VHS and watched it many more times and grew to love it.
I could not wait for Scarface to come out and saw it opening day. My first impression of Pacino is that is the worst Cuban accent I've ever heard. I found it laughable. But then I bought a VHS and watched it many more times and grew to love it.
TheDirtyWord
Footballguy
Whereas there is no question what the best movie(s)Pacino’s been in, I’d argue that Scarface is not even Top 5. But the character of Tony Montana because of Pacino is indelible.
Still Corleone wins...
Still Corleone wins...
seahawk 17
Footballguy
All of them are great movies, but he came into his own making Scarface.
comfortably numb
Footballguy
If you made a movie with the biggest signature roles in history Rocky and Scarface would be the 2 main characters fighting in the last climatic scene of the movie of good vs evil.
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
It's Michael just over Tony for signature roles for sure (partly because he played it in three terrific films), but add me to the chorus saying his best acting job is in Scent of a Woman. He is astonishing in that movie, and it has three amazing scenes - the tango with an absolutely stunning Gabrielle Anwar, the Thanksgiving dinner, and the hotel/weapon sequence. One of the most well-deserved Best Actor Oscars in recent history.
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rockaction
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I have had this sneaking suspicion -- feeling -- based upon evidentiary clues that you're secretly David Mamet, and this has done nothing to disprove my thesis.otb_lifer said:
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otb_lifer
Footballguy
well, we have never been seen in the same ####### room together, so you got that goin' for your ####### feeling - and i'll just ####### leave it at that ...
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rockaction
Footballguy
It is, most assuredly, a working paper.well, we have never been seen in the same room together, so you got that goin' for your feeling - and i'll ####### leave it at that ...
rockaction
Footballguy
His signature role is Scarface, IMHO.
I'm not a Pacino fan, though I did enjoy his turn in Any Given Sunday, which is about the only Oliver Stone film I can tolerate.
I'm not a Pacino fan, though I did enjoy his turn in Any Given Sunday, which is about the only Oliver Stone film I can tolerate.
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
This is fantastic, wikkid. I can only imagine how awesome it must have been to be seeing some unknown actor as good as Al Pacino (!!!) live in a theater, not to mention tracking the dude later as he became a megaginormous success. Top-notch stuff! So great that you got to see Zero Mostel, too.wikkidpissah said:
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Yeah, it was great. None of my doing, but it was great.
It was all down to my first sweetheart, my Li'l Bardot. I was a hippie runaway from early in my junior year in HS til halfway thru my senior yr. I was in the middle of negotiating the terms for my return to school (i would not return home was the hangup) and i reconnected w my gf and her new pal, strangely enough, was a first-year English teacher in our school. You didn't hang out w your teachers but li'l Bardot did.....whatever.
The first thing we went to with her was Clockwork Orange. I remember this because it was X-rated and the only one of the four of us who got carded was our teacher (tiny Italian gal). We had a great laugh and a good time, so we started hanging out with teach & her bf (both culture vultures). They were the ones who got the Pavlo Hummel tickets. I remember i wore a suit, i almost cut my waist-length hair because it looked so stoopit w a suit, we went to a fancy restaurant in Beacon Hill and we were almost looking straight down at the stage from our seats. Everything about it was fantastic, and Pacino was "What is that?!?!" stupendous.
I was no stranger to theater, though. We had relatives in NYC and the fam went down twice a year to visit and take in some shows (me Da got the theater bug when he was stationed @ Fort Monmouth NJ during Korea and spent every wkend @ the Y in Manhattan in order to see shows). Saw all the Mames & Gypsys & such and was probably too young (8, maybe) for Da to have brought me to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but that's where i got the bug because i saw the Zero.
My first acid trip was not as much a revelation as my first witness of a fat ugly man not only become the most glamorous human being in the world when he performed but made me, in the cheap seats, feel like i was in the scene, in the bawdy house with him as he finagled his way in, around & thru all the bull#### of life. Magic - no other word. I of course then insisted we see Mostel in Fiddler, twice. And I used to teach the opening scene of The Producers movie -the 1000 choices Zero made to produce the ten funniest minutes in film history - to young standups who i helped get started..
Me Da and i werely barely speaking when my Dinner & Divorce play premiered at Boston's Lyric Theater five years later, but i caught a look at him as he took his seat and his giant face beamed with the wonder that had gotten me to that point. Magic.
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Leroy Hoard
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Apple Jack
Footballguy
Pacino's signature role is playing Al Pacino. I guess I'm the only one here who doesn't care for Scarface.
My favorite is Dog Day Afternoon.
My favorite is Dog Day Afternoon.
-jb-
Footballguy
I think this is kind of why I voted for Tony while enjoying him more as Michael. Pacino took some element of Tony with him to so many roles that the character became synonymous with the actor.
Loved him in Brasco
Stompin' Tom Connors
Footballguy
Hard to see how this would ever result in votes that are NOT Godfather (given the iconic status of that movie overall and his central -- and amazingly well played -- role in it) and Scarface (ditto -- phenomenal movie and role).
I think it has to be Godfather as I believe it was only his third major film role and set the stage -- his ability, his command of presence -- that set the stage for all movies to come.
For me, though, I loved him most in Dog Day Afternoon as it showed a range he didn't necessarily have in other roles. After Frankie and Johnny, he just seemed (like many great actors) to just play it as Pacino -- including in Glengarry Glen Ross -- so I discount anything from 92 on (not taking anything away from his ability -- just his range).
I think it has to be Godfather as I believe it was only his third major film role and set the stage -- his ability, his command of presence -- that set the stage for all movies to come.
For me, though, I loved him most in Dog Day Afternoon as it showed a range he didn't necessarily have in other roles. After Frankie and Johnny, he just seemed (like many great actors) to just play it as Pacino -- including in Glengarry Glen Ross -- so I discount anything from 92 on (not taking anything away from his ability -- just his range).
