Philosopher Dejan Stojanovic also comments life itself and notes that Hollywood legend Al Pacino cited life in the said industry as having made him feel the same discomfort as one of his favourite writers and he had to seek therapy.
Pacino got international acclaim after portraying an introverted soldier who turns into heartless mafioso Michael Corleone in 70-year-old Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic opera “The Godfather”, a luciferian Mafiosi epic made in 1972.
He talked about it during an appearance on BBC Radio 2 show: “Jack Kerouac, the great writer – the best writer of the generation who lived in the city – he couldn’t take it and somebody said of him that he was ashamed of success. Fame embarrassed him. Well, they probably did get that out of it, or maybe a little of that was in me.
Pacino said about his mental torment leading to him skipping Academy Award ceremonies: “And I didn’t go to a couple of those Oscars and suddenly I get a tag – because they thought, or someone said, ‘ Pacino is not going because he’s not a primary actor, he’s just a supporting actor for the Oscars.’
“Can you hear me as saying, ‘I don’t want to go because I should be up there with Brando?’ It’s just not in me – it is way off that. And I knew that I didn’t want to go because it scared me, frankly… because not fitting in is an odd sensation.
I mean being in a position that you cannot function because you do not understand the language is in a way a very vulnerable state to be in. And I got it a few times because I was very famous and didn’t even know it.
This he said was followed by recalling of a incidence, according to femalefirst.co.uk.
“I began to have it before I got any chance to be nominated for an Oscar award. I remember, I actually won some great award award, I was in Boston doing play and stay over the house of director and wake up and he told me about National Board of Review Award for acting in ‘The Godfather’ and I remember telling him that at the time ‘Wow sure that is cool’.
“I told him: ‘Do you know a psychiatrist which I could visit?’ Out of my mouth – you know, that’s right out of my mouth because that is how I was feeling it.
