Sonny Corleone in the Godfather, Brian Piccolo in Brian's Song, and so many other great roles.James Caan
@James_Caan
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jimmy on the evening of July 6.
The family appreciates the outpouring of love and heartfelt condolences and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time.
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1:02 PM · Jul 7, 2022
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
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cumberlandreds (07-07-2022),Roy Tucker (07-07-2022)
Quality performer in an era that made wide use of his skills
Chip R (07-07-2022),Roy Tucker (07-07-2022)
There was a great documentary awhile back that compared the careers of Caan and Schwarzenegger. Caan constantly took great acting roles in smaller movies that required depth and skill while Arnold carefully chose roles that hid is lack of acting skills but were in bigger, popular movies.
Caan never sold out, but if he had, he could have been as big a movie star as Arnold.
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Chip R (07-07-2022)
It's official. We are never getting that Freebie and the Bean sequel. On a more serious note, you know Caan was good because directors like Hawks, Peckinpah, Altman and Coppola kept casting him. And Brian's Song doesn't get remembered for being the monoculture titan that it was. Everyone saw it and Caan made an entire nation cry its eyes out.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Last film I saw Caan act in was Dogville (Lars Von Trier’s brechtian take on the USAj. He played the mobster father to Nicole Kidman’s protagonist. He was typically excellent.
There is a great scene/conversation at the end of the film, where father and daughter debated the justifiability of human society (ie the town / US capitalism) when society continually wastes opportunities to redeem itself. They debated the question of whether society’s “best” was good enough, and therefore deserved forgiveness and their right to continue. Caan won the debate by convincing Nicole Kidman that it did not deserve her forgiveness and compassion and she therefore destroyed the town and massacred all the human inhabitants, leaving only one dog alive.
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