Americans make a fuss?

Jada 2021-12-30 17:17:10

In the mid-1990s, Alpa Sino collaborated with many new-generation actors in a series of films, such as cooperating with Sean Penn in "The Dawn of the Owner of Love", and cooperating with Russell Crowe in " Explosive Inside Story, collaborated with Keanu Reeves on "The Devil's Advocate", collaborated with Johnny Depp on "The Loyal Traitor", and collaborated with Colin Farrell on "The Spy in the Sea", And co-authored "Challenge Sunday" with Jamie Fox. Now it seems that those actors whose careers started to improve have become Hollywood stars, and these movie stars who once admired the "Godfather" still respect Pacino, often appearing in various events held for Lao Pa Achievement award ceremony. It is conceivable that the cooperation with the "Godfather" in the past was a very important node in their acting career, and Lao Pa's help to them from the performance has also become a topic these big stars will talk about in the future.

Compared with the aforementioned films, this 1996 "City Hall" by John Cusack and Al Pacino is quite ordinary in terms of fame and quality. Feel a little regretful. The reason, the more important point is that the two characters are not easy to set up. Although there are changes before and after, they are difficult to be liked. Perhaps the politician has never been very popular. Probably this is also the "White House". What makes "Feng Yun" different.

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pull away Well, having said that, the storyline of this film has a bit of a reversal at the end, but it is not very unexpected. The audience may be able to figure it out with clues before Cusack understands it, but Cusack said in the judge’s office The phrase "what about the mayor" still gave people a sense of awakening. I revisited this film six years later, and even before Cusack spoke it, I remembered the lines of the play. It can be seen that the arrangement here and Cusack’s performance left a very deep impression on me, and it is near the end. The dialogue between Pacino and Cusack became the two highlights of the film. In contrast, Pacino’s passionate speech at the church seemed very abrupt from the plot arrangement, far less than his roars in "Scent of a Woman", "Blowing Inside Story" or "Devil's Spokesperson" Brilliant.

The nephew of the black boss is going to be sentenced, he intercedes with the mayor through the local consortium, the mayor makes a phone call, and the judge subtracts some prison terms-this seems to us to be an unusual thing. But in the United States, obstruction of justice is a felony, not to mention a small New York mayor, even President Nixon is also planted on it. In the same era and the same society under the rule of law, the two countries’ understanding of the law is so different: either we are abnormal, or they are abnormal.

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Extended Reading

City Hall quotes

  • Mayor John Pappas: Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment. There are no cold answers, are there? There's no simple yes or no. A man's life is not the bricks, it's the mortar, pappy, it's the stuff that lays between, the stuff... the stuff you can't see. I've known Walter my whole life. God, the man is - he's a decent man, he's a good man.

    Kevin Calhoun: This is tough stuff. This is body bag stuff. You tell me, if there's some other way.

    Mayor John Pappas: There isn't. The die's been cast; it was cast a long time ago. Go easy: give him a blindfold and have mercy. Walter Stern was a tough man, but he was fair. We give back the same, no?

  • [heading into a press conference]

    Kevin Calhoun: You look good.

    Mayor John Pappas: Of course - I'm the mayor.

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