Richard Curtis and Al Pacino step up
British director, screenwriter and producer Richard Curtis is an activist for several causes, including the environmental cause. In this capacity, he leads Project Everyone, a communications effort of the organization The Global Goals, which aims to eradicate world poverty and fight climate change. The author of Current love he thus had the brilliant idea of raising awareness as many people as possible about these causes Al Pacino’s famous speech in Oliver Stone’s film Sunday hell.
A speech that is one of the greatest speeches in the history of cinema, given by one of the greatest actors of this same history. And instead of taking it as it is, he asked Al Pacino to record a short introduction to this speech, which he also abbreviated and illustrated with images of natural and humanitarian disasters (video below).
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“We need the biggest halftime speech.”
In Sunday hell, the Sharks team, coached by Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino) is at the bottom of the hole, plagued by individualism. It’s the championship final and Tony D’Amato launches into a splendid speech about football, and more profoundly into a life lesson. It is this lesson, perfectly written and staged in the film, that Richard Curtis wanted to update to illustrate the dramatic situation where the world finds itself and to which we must react quickly. The Global Goals initiative covers 17 projects and a period of 15 years, between 2015 and 2030. 2023 is therefore “half time” which should sound like an alarm.
We came up with the idea of giving the greatest halftime speech, the world needs a halftime speech to change direction, and so I thought, “could we use this speech?”
Richard Curtis then contacted Al Pacino for permission to use this speech, to which the actor responded positively and even recorded a unique introduction so that the speech of Sunday hell he sticks to the situation as much as possible.
Source: Cine Serie
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