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    Barry Levinson Has Steered Some Nice Performances, however Directing Two Robert De Niros at As soon as Is One thing Else

    David GroveBy David GroveMarch 18, 20254 Mins Read
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    Barry Levinson Has Steered Some Nice Performances, however Directing Two Robert De Niros at As soon as Is One thing Else
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    Ever since he directed Robert Redford to one among his richest, most compelling performances in “The Pure,” Barry Levinson has had a knack for bringing out the perfect in iconic film stars. Warren Beatty (“Bugsy”), Dustin Hoffman (“Rain Man,” “Sleepers,” “Wag the Canine”), Robin Williams (“Good Morning, Vietnam”), and Michael Douglas and Demi Moore (“Disclosure”), amongst many others, have carried out a few of their best work for Levinson in motion pictures that capitalize on their strengths however present alternatives to deepen and broaden their personas.

    Even on this firm, the connection between Levinson and Robert De Niro is particular. Since they first labored collectively on “Sleepers” in 1996, Levinson and De Niro have created a sequence of indelible characters, from the spin physician of “Wag the Canine” and the beleaguered producer of “What Simply Occurred?” to real-life fraudster Bernie Madoff in “The Wizard of Lies.” These have been all only a warm-up, nevertheless, for Levinson and De Niro’s newest collaboration “The Alto Knights” — a film that incorporates two nice De Niro performances for the value of 1.

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    In “The Alto Knights,” De Niro performs each Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, crime bosses who grew up as pals however ended as rivals whose conflicts reshaped organized crime within the Nineteen Fifties. Levinson credit producer Irwin Winkler with the thought of casting De Niro in each roles, however notes that it felt like an natural outgrowth of the true story screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi (returning to the milieu he immortalized in “GoodFellas”) was telling.

    “I assumed the thought of Bob taking part in each elements was intriguing, and definitely difficult,” Levinson informed IndieWire. “As a result of as childhood pals they’re related, after which they start to develop aside and totally different sensibilities evolve. One is aggressive, a quick talker, and the opposite is extra deliberate. Bob was very meticulous about shaping these rhythms and in the end discovering two distinctive seems to be.”

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    For every scene wherein Costello and Genovese work together, Levinson needed to plan his photographs in order that they might really feel credible to an viewers — in different phrases, to current the motion the identical manner he would if it have been two actors, neither using showy tips nor avoiding photographs with each characters sharing the body for logistical ease. A few of the most spectacular blocking in “The Alto Knights,” as in a scene the place Costello and Genovese meet in a sweet retailer and are launched collectively in an elaborately choreographed monitoring shot, is barely noticeable on first viewing as a result of it’s so natural.

    ALTO KNIGHTS, (aka THE ALTO KNIGHTS), from left: Robert De Niro as Vito Genovese, Robert De Niro as Frank Costello, 2025. © Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection
    ‘The Alto Knights’©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Assortment

    “It’s a must to plot these out, and then you definately principally have two days to shoot every scene,” Levinson stated. “You shoot one facet and then you definately shoot the opposite facet, and Bob had an actor that he labored with anytime he had a type of scenes, as a result of he didn’t simply desire a script supervisor feeding him strains. He wished a very good actor that he might play off of to assist his reactions.”

    For Levinson, the important thing to his partnership with De Niro is their shared willingness to hear to one another moderately than enter every scene with a predetermined notion of easy methods to execute it. “It’s not, ‘You’ve bought to do it this fashion,’” Levinson stated. “It’s, ‘That is what we need to accomplish. What’s one of the best ways to do it?’ Generally it comes out in a manner I may not have considered. Bob and I’ll go in with sure concepts however you discover and also you go, wait a minute, there’s one thing fascinating right here — let’s discover that. You don’t need to be inflexible. There needs to be a sure sort of elasticity to discover the chances of any given scene.”

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    All through the method, Levinson was struck by how dedicated De Niro was to these prospects, and by the actor’s refusal to relaxation on his laurels. “He’s bought each conceivable accolade that you may have as one of many nice actors, however he doesn’t simply let up and undergo the motions,” Levinson stated. “We spent days going over and refining each scene, simply tweaking the language and the totally different rhythms between the 2 characters. He simply works and works at it, with unbelievable dedication — after which he finds a manner and it simply comes out and appears like he made all of it up.”



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