Cillian Murphy's favorite movie, apparently
Dude's got good taste:
Are there any particular actors who inspired you when you were younger?
There's a movie called Scarecrow that was made in 1973 with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. Pacino's performance profoundly effected me in the way that a film can bring about such an emotional response. You should really see this film. There's a scene at the end where he has a breakdown in a fountain and it's just unbelievable. I didn't even start acting until another four years after I saw it, but the performances and themes have stayed with me.
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What film most inspired you?
It was a movie, ironically enough, called Scarecrow. It is a 1973 movie with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. I saw that movie when I was about fifteen or sixteen, and Al Pacino's performance really knocked me out. There is a scene near the end when he has a breakdown. I can't understand why this movie isn't spoken about more it is a masterpiece; Jerry Schatzberg directed it. That really affected me, and I didn't start acting until I was twenty. It just came out on DVD, actually.
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Have you ever seen a movie that has greatly impacted you?
It's funny you should ask that question. This came up already today. There was, actually. When I was about 15 or 16, it was Halloween, and we wanted to get a scary movie, myself and my brother. And we went to get it, and the guy gave us the wrong movie. And it's kind of ironic, the title of the movie, but it was Scarecrow. And it was Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. And it profoundly affected me. I didn't realize that films could do that to you. And it's weird, I suppose, because it's not up there with the classics. Nobody really talks about it. I really think it's the last classic, you know. So, yeah...it stayed with me, and I started watching loads and loads of films.
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