"Real guys". Actors with a criminal cinematic background

“Real Guys” is a gangster black comedy, such as dozens in the 90s, in the 2000s were considered a bad man, but then regained their charm. The project of the director Fisher Stevens is spared from tedious cliches, boring plot branches, inappropriate references and quotes, playing pretentious games and strained gags. “Real Guys” (actors who played central roles: Al Pacino, K. Walken and A. Arkin) is one of the best and most iconic films in the subgenre of age-specific cinema.

Recipe

The secret to the production of iconic tapes of this genre is successful casting, the ability to combine leading actors who are not afraid to appear to the world stale, ridiculous and really old. Director Fisher Stevens did not fail, inviting venerable stage masters, public favorites, who made a real dramatic booth in the film "Real Guys". Actors turned crime comedy into a spectacle inevitably bewitching. First of all, the elegant, aristocratic simplicity of Alan Arkin worked in the presentation of his character. And this, together with the "unbearable" charm of hard-looking and vulnerable in the soul of Al Pacino. And this incongruous duo was diluted by the emotionally unstable, vulnerable Walken. “Real Guys” is a film whose actors overshadowed all the shortcomings of the script, which can hardly be called original. The film adaptation of the screenwriter Noah Haddle loses to such masterpieces as “The Fastest Indian”, “Until He Played in a Box”. But the lead actors - a brilliant acting trio - are the secret to the charm of Stevens' new film.

Plot

The comedy "Real Guys", the actors and roles of which will be definitely remembered by the grateful audience, has a rather straightforward plot. The story begins from the moment when one of the main characters, Doc (Walken), who lives fairly modestly, paints watercolors, after he got involved with crime, meets his old friend Val (Al Pacino). Val just got out of prison, where he spent 28 years because he had not handed over his accomplices to the police. Naturally, the former prisoner wants to break away in full. The friends embark on a spree, having first picked up a third friend (Arkin) from the nursing home. But Doca oppresses the errand of their formerly common boss. The head of the mafia ordered him to kill Val, because of whom the son of the mafioso died. This is a brief description of the plot line of the black gangster comedy “Real Guys”. Oscar-winning actors turned this unpretentious story into a burning mix of "The Hangover Party" and drama with philosophical overtones. Watching a movie in one go. This is the case when an obvious fiction gets volume due to the charm of the actors.

Christopher Walken

The duo of the Oscar-winning Christopher Walken and Al Pacino is diluted with the inimitable Alan Arkin, who won the Golden Globe and Oscars, but on the third try. Christopher Walken is known for participating in a lot of first-class paintings, the latter - “The Late Quartet” and “Seven Psychopaths”. The actor is one of the most sought-after masters of the "dream factory" of his generation, while he almost never refuses the proposed roles, considering each new character as another experience. His filmography has long exceeded the mark of 100 paintings, Walken embodied on the screen a lot of colorful characters. Moreover, most of the characters played by the actor were negative characters: criminal geniuses, ominous mystical entities, for example, in the films Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, What to Do with the Dead Man in Denver, View of the Kill.

His Doc in "Real Guys" is a personality that evokes sincere sympathy. The hero does not maintain contact with his daughter, one of his friends is in prison, the second is handed over to a nursing home. His young granddaughter works as a waitress in a local cafe and does not know that a modest gentleman with a sad look who orders fried eggs every morning, her grandfather. There are notes and sweet sadness in the movie "Real Guys". Actors who played the roles of central characters not only draw a line under the life of their heroes, but also to some extent summarize their criminal cinematic past.

Alan Arkin

Arkin, who plays mostly eccentric rude characters, took part in many films of various genres - from the macabre fairy tale "Edward Scissorhands" to the cult film "Tricks-22." Most recently, he appeared in the triumphant film "Operation" Argo "." The actor embodied on the screen a not-so-interesting character - that same third friend, who is pulled out of a nursing home, but his hero is a key figure in the whole picture. It is he who will show the viewer how ridiculous death can be.

In general, everything connected with the picture "Real Guys": actors and roles, photos from the shoot, autographs of the acting ensemble and authors - has historical value. All the leading actors are already over 70, and this is already a significant age, almost the decline of human life, well, a cinematic career - that’s for sure.

Al Pacino

Al Pacino is famous for incarnations on the screen of gangsters - Michael Corleone in the trilogy “The Godfather” of Coppola, Montana in “The Face with a Scar” by De Palma. The actor won the first Oscar for the role of Frank Slade in the film “The Smell of a Woman”. His character in Real Guys is a bum-shaped Val. Trying to be brutal, he hides behind the mask an unhappy life, which is about to end.

“Real Guys” is a film whose actors told a naive but exciting, funny and touching story.