5) Steve Buscemi's Mr. Pink in "Reservoir Dogs".......4) Al Pacino's Ricky Roma ("You said, 'fuck the machine'") in "Glengarry Glen Ross".......3) Tony Curtis's Sidney Falco in "Sweet Smell of Success".......2) Eli Wallach's Tucco in "The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly".......1) Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito in "Goodfellas".......Honorable Mention) Peter Lorre's Joel Cairo in "The Maltese Falcon" and Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo in "Midnight Cowboy".
Peter Lorre was congenitally sinister, IMO.
ReplyDeleteI liked it when he said to Bogie in "The Maltese Falcon", "Look what you did to my shirt."
ReplyDeletePaul Giamatti in the remake entitled "Planet of the Apes". Imagine a drunk, sleazy orangutan Jimmy Stewart. The strength of his portrayal almost saves this weak Marky-Mark movie. Anyone else see this?
ReplyDeleteI could never get over the fact that the Apes spoke English and the protagonists (in both versions) still couldn't put 2 and 2 together.......Giamatti is always great.
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