Just when you thought they were out…
With actors, all we’ve ever really wanted is a reason to believe. A reason to believe their madness, their gullibility, their charm, their capacity for heroics or simply their good looks. Back in the Seventies, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino almost made you believe they could fly; they were men who looked like they came from the cigarette end of the city, playing men who looked like they still lived there. Men who didn’t have to shout about their past, who didn’t have to land the first punch, only the last. Just as it is recognised that American cinema was at its best during the first six years of the Seventies, so it is acknowledged that during that time De Niro and Pacino were the only two actors capable of…
