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Since his Godfather II role was Sicilian to its mol ten core, he spent six weeks in Sicily mastering not only the regional dialect but a specific local variant. Challenged to play the young immigrant who would become the Godfather already denned by Marlon Brando, De Niro armed himself with a video tape of Brando's performance. "I didn't want to do an imitation, but I want ed to make it believable that I could be him as a young man. I would see some little movements that he would do and try to link them with...
...woman I have been looking for. I have found her. She writes poetry, she drives a car, she smokes cigars!" The enraptured young man speaking is the son of a rich Italian landowner, played by Robert (Godfather H) De Niro, in Bernardo Bertolucci's film 1900. The object of his love is a free-spirited flapper named Ada, played by a free-spirited actress named Dominique Sanda. Sanda, 23, is irresistible to most of Europe's leading film makers: in 1970 Bertolucci gave her a starring role in The Conformist and later conceived Last Tango in Paris with...
...historical perspective on the Mafia (and of warming up his movie), Coppola contrasts Michael's fight for continued control over his inheritance by crosscutting to the story of his father's arrival in this country from Sicily and his first successes in the criminal life. Robert De Niro is excellent as the young Don; Coppola's reconstruction of life in Little Italy around the year 1918 is obviously a work of love as well as research. Somehow, however, it is not as effective as the later story. From the beginning of the gangster genre in movies...
...acting style he has extrapolated for himself out of his own memory and his great talent is a reserved, tentative thing that depends on his stores of introspection and secret turmoil. Newer actors, younger ones, are already doing something a little different. Robert De Niro (in Mean Streets), Richard Dreyfuss (in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) are working in a broader, larger style-no more daring than Nicholson's but more aggressive and open...
Moriarty is among a handful of young stars who dominate the recent spate of "masculine mystique" movies - Al Pacino (Serpico, Scarecrow), Robert De Niro (Bang the Drum, Mean Streets), Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets), Martin Sheen (Badlands). They are nei ther heroic nor antiheroic leading men but character actors. The star quality is there, but deliberately subject to the stage-oriented discipline of craftsman ship and technique. Moriarty is not really a "natural talent," observes Donald Schoenbaum, managing director of Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, where Moriarty spent four seasons in repertory. "His talent is as much intellectual...