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Pacino's performance is paired with De Niro's perfectly, though. In an opposites attract kind of way, they're a couple. It's all in the colour of their suits. McCauley is dispassionate to the point of isolation. He's a skilled thief, but not a passionate one. It's a job that he's perfect at. He wears a grey suit, his life is stripped of colour. His personal life is bare out of necessity. Pacino is the opposite. His ability as a cop stems completely from his passion. He loves doing what he does and approaches it with emotional intensity. His personal life is neglected because there's no thrill in it compared to police work (note the only time he successfully interacts with his wife or her daughter is during a crisis, the daughter's suicide). He wear's darker suits, throughout. In the end, when McCauley goes back for Waingrow, an act of passion and justice, an act not driven by cold rationality, he swaps his grey jacket for the dark blue jacket of the hotel, because he's driven by something other than necessity. There is so goddamn much to that movie. I've ended up watching it a dozen times or so, and every time I do, there's a little detail I missed the last time.
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Basebf555 posted:I agree. I'm never understood what about his actions in those scenes says "action hero". Because he's able to pick up a gun and aim it? He's clearly shown to be tentative about it, and there's a huge difference between the way he handles the gun versus the way Vincent does. It's also that Max actually adapts. He improvises. For all Vincent's talk about it, he's in a rut too. And it's exemplified by him doing the same shooting pattern he always does.
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