Comments on: Al Pacino Prepares To Exercise His Napoleon Complex

By: Albert Cognata

Albert Cognata — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:34:30 +0000

Sorry, I’m an old guy (80 ), not computer fluent, and thus subject to attack by the beasts. I started
an email to you, but it flew off like a frightened sparrow. As I tried to say before I’m interested
in you, not the Pacino performance. WE have the same surname, and it’s very rare in California.
Do you live in Italy or USA? Did your family come from Pacheco, Sicily? My father, Frank had a
brother who played in the NBC Symphony under Toscanini ( I believe his name was Sebastian).
Are you connected in any way?
Just curious. It’s nice to collect family info. but hard to locate.
I worked as a school psychologist with special education children and as professional musician (trumpet) and teacher for many years. Hope you can respond.
Thanks, Al

By: cool

cool — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:11:47 +0000

i think emma watson is too beautiful for al pacino but the movie goes like that so what i can do if my great gril emma watson will be with an old men.

By: Marcel Lindsay Noë

Marcel Lindsay Noë — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:25:07 +0000

Interesting indeed since we are celebrating Napoleon’s ONLY NAVAL victory, in Grand Port – Mauritius in 2010.
Other interesting fact, Napoleon’s Confessor on St. Helena, Monsignor Buonavita, ended his days here. He is buried in Pamplemousses, in the catholic cemetery next to the Botanical Gardens.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:47:27 +0000

@TJ, I loved “Heat” but the ending could have been way better.

@The Rake, have you ever seen Pacino in person, he’s practically a dwarf. He’s only got a few inches on Devito.
This is one character where he won’t have to stand on apple boxes throughout the film.

By: High Kalibur

High Kalibur — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:25:49 +0000

@ MANOWAR

“Pacino Syndrome = When you can’t act anymore, just yell at the camera in every scene…”

HAHAHA!

By: The Rake

The Rake — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:45:33 +0000

I think Pacino catches too much flack for his acting these days. I do wonder if he is short enough though. Remember when Danny Devito was supposed to play Napoleon in a film within the film of Get Shorty? I still like to think of Al as a capable actor. Take Scarface for example, a disgrace he was not nominated for that role. I have devised a list of the top 10 ‘hood movies if you care to read it. One of Al’s makes the list….

http://thefilmnest.com/2009/04/10-movies-the-hood-loves-the-most/

The Rake

By: Manowar

Manowar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:52:22 +0000

Both Pacino and Deniro have turned into horrible actors ever since they’ve hit their mid-forties.

Pacino acts the same in every film nowadays and his acting style is spreading. Samuel L. Jackson has already been infected with the Pacino syndrome.

Pacino Syndrome = When you can’t act anymore, just yell at the camera in every scene…

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:16:02 +0000

Curious to see how it works out. Not too happy about the kiddy bit though. We’ll see.

I haven’t see Righteous Kill, maybe I will some day.
I think I am one of a very few people who didn’t like Heat.
To be exact, I had problems staying awake during it. I hardly ever dislike ‘great’ movies, but of all of those, Heat and (for example) The Deer Hunter didn’t do anything for me.

By: Michael Claymore

Michael Claymore — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:37:07 +0000

Shortstuff was 51 when he died, so Pacino is way too old to be credible in this role.

By: High Kalibur

High Kalibur — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:25:49 +0000

@ Sabrina

A Righteous Kill was definitely horribe.

I watched ‘Heat’ afew days before that so I was just thinking “man… together again (Pacino & Deniro) the has to be good!” — never have I been so wrong.

I think Al Pacino = Good choice for the power-crazed madman…. but a childrens book like the film is for children…? It seems to me like you would have take a great many liberties in order to dumb down Napoleon in manner that is suitable for children.

Or am I not undrstanding the films aim?

If both of them are not ‘historial-type epics’ based on his conquests it will be unfortuante because there and no quality biopics of his story and I’ve always wondered why.