Al Pacino

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q41163: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (26 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Dino De Laurentiis: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life model) · them, directly: Dino De Laurentiis ⇒ Al Pacino (the host's read). Pacino's Marvin Schwarz is a version of De Laurentiis who lured actors to Italian films.
    “he's basically playing a version of Dino DeLorentis, very famous Hollywood producer who started out in Spaghetti Westerns”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (55) everyone in acting

Other (5) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (8)

  1. career (comeback): Sea of Love → Al Pacino. The hosts hold Sea of Love as Pacino's quiet comeback, number three that weekend.
    “we both hold the importance of Sea of Love as a comeback moment for Pacino.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:08:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Al Pacino → Author! Author!. Pacino's anti-apex is Author! Author!, an early-80s bomb that made people doubt the best actor we had.
    “Pacino, it's definitely author author.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:10:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Al Pacino → Insomnia. Insomnia is the last Pacino movie that felt like an event before his decline.
    “Last grasp, insomnia is the tail end, and then it flips.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Al Pacino → Scarface. Theory that Scarface broke Pacino by knocking him off his axis between over-the-top and nuanced.
    “the theory of Pacino is that he was broken by Scarface”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Al Pacino → Righteous Kill. Pacino's decline in event status ends with Righteous Kill with De Niro.
    “And then ends up with righteous kill with De Niro in 2008”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:33 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Russell Crowe → Al Pacino. Pacino gets three decades to be Al Pacino while Crowe gets five years, a statement about the movie business.
    “Pacino gets 3 decades to be Al Pacino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:33 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Cruising → Al Pacino. Cruising is called Pacino's most incredible choice.
    “It's Pacino's most incredible choice.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Al Pacino → The Godfather Part II. Speculating how an early Oscar might have altered Pacino's wild 1980s and later money-driven career.
    “I just know that his performance in the Godfather Part 2 is arguably the greatest performance in the history of movies.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:45:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Al Pacino → Heat. Pacino's patient, ulterior-motive conversational style is in Heat and in The Insider.
    “he does it in heat too when he's trying to get something out of the other person”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Tom Cruise → Al Pacino. Rewatchables Pantheon by number of movies: Cruise 17, Pacino 14, De Niro 13, Denzel 12, Stallone 12.
    “Cruise 17, Pacino 14, De Niro 13, Denzel 12, Stallone 12.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:02:15 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (acting triumvirate): Robert De Niro → Al Pacino. De Niro, Pacino and Hoffman are the three rewriting the rules of acting as ethnic American leads.
    “I think there's a triumvirate.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:19:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Al Pacino → Denzel Washington. Denzel is another actor who is great at being a screen partner, receiving and giving.
    “That's a Denzel thing is very good at that too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:44:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): The Insider → Al Pacino. Insider has one of the last truly god-tier Pacino performances.
    “one of the last truly, truly god tier Pacino performances”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Rocky → Al Pacino. Polly from Rocky nominated for the character with the most terrifying podcast; Den of Thieves' Nick on LA high school football; Waingro.
    “Nick and Dennis Thieves would just be like talking LA high school football.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:23:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (real-life model): Al Pacino → Dino De Laurentiis. Pacino's Marvin Schwarz is a version of De Laurentiis who lured actors to Italian films.
    “he's basically playing a version of Dino DeLorentis, very famous Hollywood producer who started out in Spaghetti Westerns”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Al Pacino → Any Given Sunday. Bill's favorite Pacino performance other than The Godfather is Any Given Sunday, which carries a terrible movie.
    “My favorite pacino performance other than the godfather.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:21 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Al Pacino → Sea of Love. Bill thinks it was Scarface, not Sea of Love, because Pacino is not doing that in Sea of Love.
    “because if you watch Sea of Love, he's not doing that in Sea of Love.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:54 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Al Pacino → Glengarry Glen Ross. Glengarry is a favorite of the 90s run because the specific material tempers Pacino's bigness.
    “even something as well written as Glengarry, which is one of my favorite performances from this run.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if): John Travolta → Al Pacino. Simmons wonders whether a very young Pacino could have done the opening walk.
    “maybe Al Pacino, as a very young man, could, but he's not even that...”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:31:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Seven → Al Pacino. Bill and Chris float Pacino in the John Doe role and note he was supposed to be Somerset.
    “Well, Pacino was supposed to be Somerset, wasn't he?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:43:31 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (casting what-if): Jack Nicholson → Al Pacino. Pacino was first choice for Costello and Simmons thinks he would have been better, though over the top.
    “I think Costello's better with Pacino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Al Pacino → Born on the Fourth of July. Pacino agreed to play Kovic in 1978; the film died when he shaved his mustache.
    “By 1978, Pacino had agreed to play COVID.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:08:12 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Al Pacino: Pacino's hair in this movie is blown dry to perfection, like a White Snake video.
    “he's right off the set of a white snake video, I think.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:49 · Bill Simmons (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Al Pacino: Pacino is in three late-90s dances with over-the-top; his Any Given Sunday inch-by-inch speech is called all time in a terrible movie, carrying it like LeBron.
    “The Inch's speech is all time for me and that movie's terrible and he's carrying it like LeBron carried the 2007 caps.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Al Pacino: Pacino was not nominated for The Insider, which the hosts call outrageous.
    “Pacino, not nominated at all.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Al Pacino: The first Born movie died when Pacino shaved his mustache.
    “Pacino had shaved off his mustache.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:10:12 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)