一点Al访谈的摘取
Between his 30th and 40th birthdays, Pacino went on a legendary winning streak with the first two "Godfathers," "Serpico," "Dog Day Afternoon" and " ... And Justice for All." But he did not enjoy the ride. "I thought something was being done to me," he says. "I didn't feel ... I sorta felt out of sync with what was happening. I didn't know how to accept it, so I drank and I drugged and I kinda insulated myself. I just came up for air when I worked. Finally my dear friend and mentor Lee Strasberg said to me, 'Darling, you simply have to adjust.' That was so simple and so true, and it helped me a great deal. I wasn't adjusting and to this day I don't know why. I think it was fear of the unknown -- of something that was out of my control." Fame? "The whole enchilada."
In the '80s, Pacino made a Colonial drama called "Revolution," and it was such a disappointment he didn't make a movie for four years. He likes to say he took those years off. A source who's known the actor for ages believes there's more to the story: "I think 'Revolution' hurt him emotionally. Shocked him. I mean, the critics hated it. The audiences hated it. And we live in a world where you're as good as your last picture. He didn't 'take four years off.' He was dead, although that's something he'd never admit. He had offers but they were to play gangsters and policemen." Now, when Pacino looks back on the late-'80s lull, he says, "I found it relieved me in a lot of ways. Psychologically, it was like getting off a treadmill and not knowing you'd been on it. But then I got ... " He laughs. "I sorta got broke ... . With the lifestyle I have -- I mean, I could have sold my house, but who wants to do that?" Pacino rebounded in 1989 with "Sea of Love," in which he played ... a policeman. He has been threatening to quit the movie business ever since.
In person, Pacino seems rumpled, softly funny, slightly scattered: a favorite uncle with a giant rip in his coat. He tends to wave away praise, though he clearly doesn't mind hearing it, Giles writes. Tell him the obvious -- that he and his generation altered the definition of a movie star -- and he quibbles: "Dustin blew everything open. He changed it all when he did that early stuff, like 'The Graduate.'" Tell him that because of him, Hoffman and Robert De Niro nobody wants to be a pretty-boy leading man anymore, and he rears up in surprise: "I do!"
In his latest movie, he gives a wonderfully, raw, ravaged turn in Christopher Nolan's unsettling thriller "Insomnia," playing an unraveling L.A. detective who's trying to solve a murder in Alaska with a guilty conscience and, thanks to the 24-hour daylight, absolutely no sleep. Robin Williams, who plays the prime suspect, was struck by how voraciously Pacino dug into a character who looks -- and feels -- his age. "That was amazing to watch," Williams says. "Is he playing on something that may be a deep fear of his? I don't know. But that's what I found fascinating: the wariness of a guy who's been through so much."
Pacino, whose father left the family two years after he was born, was raised by his mother, Rose, and her parents. His family was always broke and his mother, who was emotionally troubled and whom he was close to, never lived to see him do much more than plays in acting school. She died when Pacino was 22. "Never saw what happened to me, no," he tells Newsweek. "Nor did my grandfather." He says he thinks they could have benefited from his fame. "I think they would have benefited from the monetary stuff even more than I did. I think it would have pulled my mother out of a lot of trouble that she was in. There's a great story ... Who wrote it? D.H. Lawrence? 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'? It's the one where the kid gets on the rocking horse and he's able to guess -- oh, it's so moving -- he's able to guess the winner of the horse race if he rocks really hard. He comes from a poor house. The walls keep saying, 'We need money! We need money!' He finally dies from exhaustion and fever. I somehow identify with that story. I find it very ... ."
Pacino has softened over the years. "Before you meet him, you don't know who he is going to be because he is so many different people in your mind," says Christopher Nolan, who directed "Insomnia." "I got the sense that he knows the effect he has on people, and so he is very careful to put you at your ease immediately." Andrew Niccol, who directed Pacino in "Simone," a comedy about a producer due in August, remembers how jittery one actress got around the Great Man. "When she went to the bathroom, Al turned to me, and said, 'Why is she so nervous?' I said, 'Because you're Al f---ing Pacino.' And he said, 'That's right. I am, aren't I?"
他是我知道的人里唯一一个也读过木马优胜者的……
In the '80s, Pacino made a Colonial drama called "Revolution," and it was such a disappointment he didn't make a movie for four years. He likes to say he took those years off. A source who's known the actor for ages believes there's more to the story: "I think 'Revolution' hurt him emotionally. Shocked him. I mean, the critics hated it. The audiences hated it. And we live in a world where you're as good as your last picture. He didn't 'take four years off.' He was dead, although that's something he'd never admit. He had offers but they were to play gangsters and policemen." Now, when Pacino looks back on the late-'80s lull, he says, "I found it relieved me in a lot of ways. Psychologically, it was like getting off a treadmill and not knowing you'd been on it. But then I got ... " He laughs. "I sorta got broke ... . With the lifestyle I have -- I mean, I could have sold my house, but who wants to do that?" Pacino rebounded in 1989 with "Sea of Love," in which he played ... a policeman. He has been threatening to quit the movie business ever since.
In person, Pacino seems rumpled, softly funny, slightly scattered: a favorite uncle with a giant rip in his coat. He tends to wave away praise, though he clearly doesn't mind hearing it, Giles writes. Tell him the obvious -- that he and his generation altered the definition of a movie star -- and he quibbles: "Dustin blew everything open. He changed it all when he did that early stuff, like 'The Graduate.'" Tell him that because of him, Hoffman and Robert De Niro nobody wants to be a pretty-boy leading man anymore, and he rears up in surprise: "I do!"
In his latest movie, he gives a wonderfully, raw, ravaged turn in Christopher Nolan's unsettling thriller "Insomnia," playing an unraveling L.A. detective who's trying to solve a murder in Alaska with a guilty conscience and, thanks to the 24-hour daylight, absolutely no sleep. Robin Williams, who plays the prime suspect, was struck by how voraciously Pacino dug into a character who looks -- and feels -- his age. "That was amazing to watch," Williams says. "Is he playing on something that may be a deep fear of his? I don't know. But that's what I found fascinating: the wariness of a guy who's been through so much."
Pacino, whose father left the family two years after he was born, was raised by his mother, Rose, and her parents. His family was always broke and his mother, who was emotionally troubled and whom he was close to, never lived to see him do much more than plays in acting school. She died when Pacino was 22. "Never saw what happened to me, no," he tells Newsweek. "Nor did my grandfather." He says he thinks they could have benefited from his fame. "I think they would have benefited from the monetary stuff even more than I did. I think it would have pulled my mother out of a lot of trouble that she was in. There's a great story ... Who wrote it? D.H. Lawrence? 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'? It's the one where the kid gets on the rocking horse and he's able to guess -- oh, it's so moving -- he's able to guess the winner of the horse race if he rocks really hard. He comes from a poor house. The walls keep saying, 'We need money! We need money!' He finally dies from exhaustion and fever. I somehow identify with that story. I find it very ... ."
Pacino has softened over the years. "Before you meet him, you don't know who he is going to be because he is so many different people in your mind," says Christopher Nolan, who directed "Insomnia." "I got the sense that he knows the effect he has on people, and so he is very careful to put you at your ease immediately." Andrew Niccol, who directed Pacino in "Simone," a comedy about a producer due in August, remembers how jittery one actress got around the Great Man. "When she went to the bathroom, Al turned to me, and said, 'Why is she so nervous?' I said, 'Because you're Al f---ing Pacino.' And he said, 'That's right. I am, aren't I?"
他是我知道的人里唯一一个也读过木马优胜者的……
