Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino, better known as Al Pacino is an american film and stage actor and director. Born April 25th, 1940 (age 73) was born in East Harlem, New York. As you may know already his heritage is Italian. Before his film journey, he began as a baseball player. He dropped out of many class, but English class, but unfortunately he left school at the age of 17 (High school Drop-Out). He worked many small jobs like a janitor, clerk...

He began acting in New York city. As he didn't have much money he usually slept at friends houses, or the streets; he was homeless.

After four years at HB studio, Pacino successfully auditioned for the Actors Studio. It's a membership for professional actors, theatre directors, and playwrights.

Al's first acting gig in a film was in 1971, a film called The Panic in Needle Park, which he played a heroin addict, which brought attention to himself by director Francis Ford Coppola, who later on ended up directing the film The God Father. Al Pacino played the role Michael Corleone in the movie, (he even beat out Robert De Niro for the role) which was the God Father's son. His performance got him an Academy Award nomination.

2 years later he played in many other movies such as Scarecrow, Serpico. In the sequel to The God Father, he starred again as Michael Corleone, which was the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar, and then nominated for his third Oscar. Later on The God Father became trilogy, which he was in again as Mike.

His most famous film the he's in, in my opinon would have to be the classic action film, Scarface which was released in 1983, about Tony Montana (Al Pacino) a small town chef who turns into the most powerful drug lord.



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Taken (2009)

Plot
This action film stars Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, a retired CIA agent who is trying to make up for lost time with his daughter. Later in this film his teenage daughter Kim wants to go to Paris, France with her 18 year old friend... after a lot of convincing he lets her leave. Still a concerned father he makes multiple phone calls until she finally picks up. Suddenly as she does , she witnesses a kidnapping of her friend, and then she aswell is kidnapped in their apatement. After planning a flight, Bryan Mills sets off to Paris to look for his daughter. He then figures out that his daughter was abused, hooked on drugs and put in to prostitution. Using his CIA skills, he finds creative ways of tracking her footsteps, taking down every albanian ouot in his way.

Without ruining the ending, he sets off on an adventure to try to save his daughter in amount of under 72 hours.

Action
The action in this movie is fantastic, and very thrilling. Things happen so fast in the movie, without being to lost. It`s very quick and looks very realistic. Liam Neeson must of took some type of class to be in this film, because he uses some very distinct solid moves. Like for example the throat attack, at the airoport in Paris.

Acting
The acting is also very incredible. Liam Neeson brings a performance of a daring man, and at the same time a loving and caring father. He also has this fantastic monologue that he does over the phone, when he is socializing with the man who kidnapped his daughter. The famous ``I don`t know who you are..``
Don`t take my opinion for it, check it out yourself.




Cinematography/Director

The cinematography is also very cool, it`s a very dark and depressing setting (As you can see in my last link above), and it shows Bryan Mills personality; with all his dark secrets and how he`s sad because
-he`s divorced and doesn`t have much of a connection with his daughter.