"Mahler"- Ken Russell...
The man is a genius. I've been on a huge Ken Russell Binge, and apart from Lair of the White Worm(which wasn't a bad movie, good in it's own way), everything I've seen from him has been excellent. How he's not considered up there with guys like Kubrick, and Coppola, and such, I don't know.
The man knows how to take the usually dry unbearably boring genre of 'Composer Biopic' and breath new realms into it. Unlike Lisztomania, this as a bit less tongue-in-cheek, but absolutely brilliant, legit funny at points, and entirely seamless.
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Terence Hill, as recently confirmed during an interview to an Italian TV talk-show, was offered the role but rejected it because he considered it "too violent". Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta declined the role for the same reason. When Al Pacino was considered for the role of John Rambo, he turned it down when his request that Rambo be more of a madman was rejected.
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Al Pacino = God
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