Al Pacino managed to create two very different screen personas, especially during his two most successful decades as a movie actor, the 1970s and the 1990s. Which Pacino do you prefer?
70s: Underacting, detached, often calm, sometimes ice cold: the intelligent young man with great ambition. For example in The Godfather I & II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Bobby Deerfield.
90s: Overacting, hoo-hahing, furious: the embittered middle-aged man who knows everything better. For example in The Scent of a Woman, Heat, The Devil's Advocate and Any Given Sunday. Already displaye…
Which of these 18 Oscar-nominated performances from the Big 4 of Acting : Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson, all between 1967 and 1980, is your favorite? Discuss here The te…