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Hoo-ah! How Pacino Got Bigger Than Himself

August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Slate.com’s Jessica Winter dissects how Pacino, unlike his peers (Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson), became better at playing the role of the “Famous Person” than what he did to become famous.
Pacino increasingly sought out big, shouty parts and then inflated them past their already outsized proportions: He out-Sataned Satan in The Devil’s Advocate (1997), [...]

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