Scent of a Woman
1992 Directed by Martin Brest
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Col. Frank Slade has a very special plan for the weekend. It involves travel, women, good food, fine wine, the tango, chauffeured limousines and a loaded forty-five. And he's bringing Charlie along for the ride.
Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell) is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade (Al Pacino), a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
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He played Michael Corleone THREE TIMES, he played Tony Montana, he played Carlito Brigante, he coined the phrase "ATTICA! ATTICA!", he played Frank Serpico, and he blew the roof off with over a dozen other performances, but The Academy gives him the Oscar for his most over the top, all over the place, lousy performance to date?
I don't understand you Academy.
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"If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a FLAMETHROWER to this place."
Not exactly a good movie, but very watchable. The story is ridiculous, Chris O'Donnell isn't very good, and Al Pacino is all over the place with his performance. Still, the movie has a sort of charm that makes it easy to sit through when it is on tv. Definitely liked it more this watch.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Although my little diddy that I like to sing, "Martin Brest, you are the best, Martin Brest," might be a grossly inaccurate statement, and although Martin Brest's misdirection is surely the worst and most unfortunate thing about Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino's fantastic performance, along with the film's touching and unique central relationship, serve to buoy the film and make it a highly watchable and enjoyable experience.
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One of my favorite films of all-time, with what I think has a performance for the ages. Of course, I am talking about Al Pacino. If people want to wonder why Al Pacino won the Best Actor Oscar back in 1992, look no further than the final speech he gives in this film, as the retired Lt. Colonel Frank Slade. Everytime I watch that speech, I find it so inspiring as I wonder to myself ... if I could ever give a speech like that to an audience of that magnitude. To me, I find it as the greatest speech in cinema history ... of course, thats up for debate ... but for me, nothing beats it.
It's a speech…
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I think I avoided Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman for so long because deep down I thought it was a chick flick but wow, it could hardly be further from! There's only one scene involving a woman and neither that scene nor the film's title are central to the actual story. What we essentially have here is a coming of age story about an impressionable young high school student who forms a father/son-like bond with a miserable old retired Colonel.
Chris O'Donnell plays Charlie Sims, a Harvard-bound prep school kid who takes a weekend job taking care of the blind retired Colonel Frank Slade. Charlie comes to learn that Frank is suicidal and Frank comes to learn that Charlie…
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Mediocre at best. Overrated for sure.
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Held steady by the monumental buttress that is Al Pacino's performance as a broken down and blind war 'hero,' Scent of a Woman is a coming-of-age movie with more interest in the end of an age.
The lessons taught and learned between each character may be predictable (hold on to integrity and never lose faith in yourself) but the manner in which they are played out leave one marveling at Pacino's rendition, nodding at the now known future of Phillip S. Hoffman, and wondering if all of O'Donnel's promise was sucked out by the Batman movies.
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I thought this movie was good and solid, but not great. Al Pacino is hands down the best part of this film, which makes sense given that this was back when he wasn't sleepwalking through all of his roles. Chris O'Donnell, though, I thought was pretty flat most of the time, and really had only one scene where he shined. Also, I found it kind of ... odd that the film used a prank as its inciting incident for the plot. Plus, I can't say I really cared THAT much about how the fallout of said prank would affect O'Donnell's character. I was much more invested in Pacino's Col. Slade and his "journey." Still, this was a good movie and for a 2 1/2-hour film, it moves pretty fast.
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Nicht mein Fall. Ziemlich dröge.
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"Where is my career?"
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Al Pacino is amazing, Chris O'Donnell is good too which considering what happened with his career later is a pretty big surprise. "It's about integrity!"
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Deutscher Titel: Der Duft der Frauen
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Sokea vanha herra äksyilee ja viettää viikonlopun isolla kylällä. Hoitajaksi palkattu nuori opiskelija yrittää pysyä naisia sniffailevan herrasmiehen peesissä.
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