Earning a website like Bad Pacino doesn’t come easily. It takes a career of toil, of doing the dirty jobs nobody wanted to do, of dressing up in Dick Tracy for instance. It’s like losing 20 games in a season. It takes a certain talent to pitch in enough games to lose 20.
Here are five actors who could have been considered for the gig:
5. Harrison Ford. Well, they don’t come any more iconic than Indiana Here’s the problem. If Ford we
re good or bad, would you notice? Could you notice? Or is when like that atomic clock the Navy has loses a second or two. We certainly can’t feel it. Ford is a man of two faces and they usually come in direct sequence: 1) surprise/shock/incredulity and 2) serious jaw-setting. Here’s a test: Pacino has played a CIA officer (The Recruit), but Ford, to my knowledge, has never played Satan. Or a Cuban. Or a football coach. Or a blind Marine colonel. Or the mayor of New York. You beginning to get it?
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