“Real Guys” is a gangster black comedy,such in the 90s were put in dozens, in the 2000s they were considered to be a mauveton, but then they regained their charm. The project director Fisher Stevens spared from tedious cliches, boring storylines, inappropriate references and quotes, games for fun and taut gags. “The Real Guys” (the actors who played the central roles: Al Pacino, K. Walken and A. Arkin) are one of the best and most iconic films in the subgenre of age films.
Recipe
The secret of the production of iconic tapes of this genre -successful casting, the ability to combine the actors performing the main roles, who are not afraid to seem stale, ridiculous and really old to the world. Directed by Fisher Stevens did not lose, inviting venerable masters of the scene, the favorites of the public who staged a real drama in the film "Real Guys." The actors turned the crime comedy into a spectacle inevitably fascinating. It worked primarily elegant, aristocratic simplicity of Alan Arkin in the filing of his character. And this, along with the “unbearable” charm of Al Pacino’s hard appearance and vulnerable in the soul. And this incompatible duo diluted the emotionally unbalanced, vulnerable Walken. “Real Guys” is a film whose actors overshadowed all the flaws of the script, which can hardly be called original. The film adaptation of screenwriter and playwright Noah Haydla loses such masterpieces as The Fastest Indian, Until It Has Played In The Box. But the leading roles - the brilliant acting trio - is the secret of the charm of the new Stevens film.
Plot
Comedy "Real Guys", whose actors and roleswill definitely be remembered by a grateful audience, it has a rather uncomplicated plot. The story begins from the moment when one of the main characters, Doc (Walken), who lives rather modestly, paints pictures in watercolor, after being tied up with crime, meets his old friend Val (Al Pacino). Val just got out of prison, where he spent 28 years due to the fact that he did not surrender his accomplices to the police. Naturally, a former prisoner is eager to come off in full. Friends set off for a spree, first they stole a third friend (Arkin) from a nursing home. But Doc oppresses the order of their first general boss. The head of the mafia ordered him to kill Val, because of which the son of the mafia was killed. This is a brief description of the plot of the black gangster comedy “Real Guys”. Oscar-winning actors have turned this simple plot into a burning mix of “Bachelor Party in Vegas” and drama with philosophical overtones. Watch the movie in one breath. This is the case when the obvious fiction gains volume due to the charm of the characters.
Christopher Walken
Дуэт оскароносцев Кристофера Уокена и Аль Пачино diluted by the inimitable Alan Arkin, who won the Golden Globe and the Oscar awards, but on the third attempt. Christopher Walken is known for his participation in a lot of first-class paintings, the latter - the Late Quartet and the 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, regarding each new character as another experience. His filmography has long passed the mark of 100 paintings, Walken embodied a lot of colorful characters on the screen. And most of the characters played by the actor were negative characters: criminal geniuses, sinister mystical entities, for example, in the films Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, What to Do to the Dead Man in Denver, View of the Killing.
His Dock in “Real Guys” is a personalitycausing sincere sympathy. The hero does not keep in touch 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 doesn’t know that a modest gentleman with a sad look, ordering scrambled eggs every morning, her grandfather. There are notes and sweet sadness in the movie "Real Guys." The actors, who performed the roles of central characters, not only bring to the cinema a line under the lives of their heroes, but also to some extent summarize their criminal cinematic past.
Alan Arkin
Аркин, играющий в большинстве своем эксцентричных coarse characters, took part in a variety of films of various genres - from the macabre tale "Edward Scissorhands" to the cult film "Tricks-22". Most recently, he appeared in the triumphal film "Operation Argo". The actor embodied on the screen is not very interesting character - the very third friend, who pulled out of the nursing home, but his character is a key figure in the whole picture. That he will show the viewer how ridiculous death can be.
In general, everything connected with the picture “Realguys ": actors and roles, photo from the set, autographs of the actor's 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, cinematic career - so sure.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino is famous for his incarnations on the screen.gangsters - Michael Corleone in the trilogy "The Godfather" of Coppola, Montana in "The Face with a Scar" by De Palma. The first "Oscar" actor received for the role of Frank Slade in the film "Scent of a Woman." His hero in "Real Guys" - a homeless type of Val. He, trying to be brutal, hides behind a mask an unhappy life that is about to end.
“Real Guys” is a film whose actors told a naive, but exciting, funny and moving story.
