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In Reply to: New York , New York posted by Jim Campilongo on August 1, 2005 at 06:17:33:
Maybe I'll just get dinner...and rent it some rainy day. I thought it might be a bad sign that I saw it in '77 and can't remember a thing. I recently did a "refresher watch" of "True Confessions" ... Still a disappointment after all these years. Thanks for the NY-NY viewpoints. -Jim
Follow Ups:
"True Confessions" was directed by Ulu Grossbard.
Eppis -
Sorry , I didn't make my post very clear - I was responding to the posts illustrating DeNiro's so-so performance in "NY, NY" NOT Scorcese .
The posts brought to mind his bland & stiff performance in "True Confessions".... a disappointing & ugly little film IMO.
Thanks -Jim
Originally, he was scheduled to play the cop and Duval the priest but a bet developed between them as to who was the more versatile.
The same thing happened in a comedy between Belushi and Ackyroyd years earlier (guess which film?).
Tinear -
Yes - I thought that DeNiro's performance in "True Confessions" was flat . To me , he almost appeared to be trying to remember his lines - which foreshadowed his many weak performances of late. After seeing this movie twice I still have no idea what he was going for , nor do I understand or have any insight into his character. Was he an intense , spiritual man ? Or a galavanting golfing priest? A charismatic dynamo? I dunno ! When DeNiro is "on" his characters simmer and capture my imagination . In this film , for me this did not happen. This is what I meant by "flat" - But by no means do I think he should he have played it as a "mobster" ... or as Rupert Pupkin.
-Jim
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