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In Reply to: Most powerful "death scene" in the history of cinema, ....... posted by RC on July 20, 2004 at 22:18:11:
...in any film I have seen, is in "The Godfather, part III", when Al Pacino´s daughter (Sofia Coppola) is shot and dies in her father´s arms, who then shouts the loudest, most scaring silent scream, expressing an unfathomable pain and despair...That silent scream has haunted me for years, and I still think it is the most powerful expression of pain, despair, impotence and solitude in the presence of death ever to be felt and shown in any screen!
Regards
BF
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I found it false, and "movieish"". Pacino was SO much better before "Scarface" than he was after. Yelling and screaming such easy and debased acting curencies.
...if you look at that scene again, you´ll see how it is the climax towards which no small part of the film has been growing: Corleone´s doubts and remorses, his approach to the Catholic Church, his change when he meets the Pope-to-be (Raf Vallone), his confession and absolution..., and how then, when he hints a possibility of redemption, everything goes downhill, with his past life´s errors chasing him mercilessly, and hitting him where it hurts most, leaving him empty and in total despair.You say "yelling and screaming", while I say that his silent scream, those long seconds, which seem to never last, during which his whole inner world falls apart while he is unable to voice his deepest pain, until he finally shouts it out, is something you, or I, could try for a whole life to imitate, and never be able to do: its silence sounded so scaringly true, deep and moving that not even the dumbest one in the audience was able to make the slightest whisper.
Look at the drawing (Munch´s "The Scream") and tell me if you find it equally false and "movieish": maybe we see things so differently that we should simply agree to disagree.
Regards
BF
Except that her acting was so terrible in the film that the audience was silently cheering her demise. She ruined the second half for me and was outclassed by all around her. It's good that she turned to directing.
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