{"id":110,"date":"2006-01-03T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-03T03:03:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T01:03:02","slug":"sidney-lumet-serpico-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Lumet &#8211; Serpico (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/1600\/serpico.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/320\/serpico.jpg\" \/><\/a> A gripping real life story of an honest cop in the late 60s in New York, and the breakthrough for Al Pacino as a big movie star (though I was a bit surprised to hear both the producer and director Lumet talk about how the Godfather was truly Brando&#8217;s movie. While old tissuecheek certainly is a very strong presence in that flick, I&#8217;ve always felt Pacino and Brando as equally strong. But je digresse). The story, and Pacino&#8217;s character based playing, are very intense, and the fascinating fact from today&#8217;s point of view is that the movie moves at a quiet pace, yet doesn&#8217;t seem slow &#8211; a bit too long, maybe, but that&#8217;s probably due to an original script that was double the length and needed to be heavily cut. Other cool piece of trivia: the real Serpico came to rehearsals, and was studied by Al Pacino, then shown the door by Lumet once shooting started, and was &#8211; or so Lumet reminisces &#8211; crushed, because he felt he become friends with them, while to them he was a object of professional interest. He also once told the producer Martin Bregman, in a movie theater empty except for the two of them, that he couldn&#8217;t smoke, because it was against the law. Go, Serpico!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gripping real life story of an honest cop in the late 60s in New York, and the breakthrough for Al Pacino as a big movie star (though I was a bit surprised to hear both the producer and director Lumet talk about how the Godfather was truly Brando&#8217;s movie. While old tissuecheek certainly is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-englisch","category-good","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}