The Surreal Life 4: Al Pacino to play Salvador Dali
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- January
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According to Variety, Pacino will play the artist in “Dali & I: The Surreal Story,” directed by Andrew Niccol (who also did the less than memorable Pacino pic, “Simone”). The film will tackle Dali’s later years, when he got really wacky with those melting clocks and dismembered body parts.
It’s an exciting premise and, might I add, this has to be one of the greatest casting moves in recent movie history (only Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” comes close). Besides the fact that Al, a Sneden’s Landing resident, can surely pull off Dali’s haughty expression and upturned waxed mustache like a pro, these have to be two of the most quotable people in the arts. Some of my favorites:
Dali: What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.
Pacino (“Scarface”): All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don’t break ‘em for no-one you understand?
Dali: I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
Pacino (“Godfather 2”): I don’t feel like I have to kill everybody Tom, just my enemies. That’s all.
Dali: Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador DalÃÂ, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador DalÃÂ.
You just gotta love anyone that refers to themself in the third person.
Pacino to play artist Dali [Variety]
(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
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Dali: Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
Pacino (“Scent Of A Woman”): Hoo-ah!