The Mighty Apoplexies of Pacino: 10 Scenes Where "Shouty Al" Turns Up

"All paid-up Pacino fans require him to lose his rag and turn into Shouty Al at least once in a movie. This can be facilitated in a number of ways: with an abusive tirade, some good fiery inspirational rhetoric, or just a plain old-fashioned wobbly. [?] Pacino, like Jack Nicholson, has always seemed to pick scripts that offer such wig-out moments, and he invariably turns them into blistering dramatic high points. There's majesty in his rage, a showman's instinct for ramming the point home with unpredictable emphases, sudden surges of volume, and a general Sturm und Drang exhibitionism. Here are ten of the best."
—Tim Robey, in Ten Bad Dates With De Niro: and Other Alternative Movie Lists (2007), edited by Richard T. Kelly.

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