A survey launched as a joke generates the stir of the weekend.
When actors such as Al Pacino and Robert de Niroinevitably one thinks of two great eminences of the seventh art of the last years. Diving into their careers, the curious thing is that they didn’t get to work together until 1995, when they were both over 50 and Michael Mann joined them to shoot ‘Heat’ (okay, there’s the second part of ‘The Godfather II’, but again we’ll talk about that later).
The two are back in the news, this time for a “confrontation” through social networks. It all started last Saturday with a tweet from the writer Ashley Reese that went viral when she posed a dilemma to her ‘followers’: which of the two actors was the more attractive when young or, as he later wrote, “Who is hotter?”: Pacino, who is now 83 years old; or De Niro, who is 79.
The poll, which closed last Sunday, accumulated up to 277,372 votes and aroused the attention of other media outlets such as TMZ and Vanity Fair, who followed it as if it were an electoral race.
Who has been the winner?
Finally, Twitter users have been fair and They have agreed to a draw between the two great legends of Hollywood. The survey closed with 50% so it seems difficult to choose between the two young versions of the two actors.
And it is that for many fans, this question is difficult to answer. Pacino and De Niro broke into the movie industry in the late 1960s. and it was in the early 70s when they embarked on careers that would end up taking them to the top of Hollywood. Both actors were in the sequel to ‘The Godfather’, released in 1974, although they did not coincide in filming, since De Niro played the young version of Vito Corleone in flashbacks while Pacino reprized the role of Michael Corleone in the most current plot of the film.
The duo reunited to play a police officer (Pacino) and career criminal (De Niro) searching for each other in “Heat,” which marked the first time the two actors had appeared together on screen in more than 20 years. after ‘The Godfather II’. Since then, Pacino and De Niro, who was the father of his seventh child a few days ago, have also starred in films such as ‘Righteous Murder’ in 2008 or ‘The Irishman’, directed by Scorsese in 2019.
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