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Joe Pesci must have been watching Cagney's stuff on a loop in acting class
No Justice Just Us
I'm sure Pesci learned a thing or two from Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart, too. But it's a no-brainer for me to agree that Cagney has to be Joe's strongest influence!
shareTotally agree. That definitely came to mind instantly as something I could see a Pesci character doing!
It's not over, everybody betrayed me! I'm fed up with this world!
The difference is, Cagney's screen characters usually roughed up people who deserved it; whereas Pesci's characters, as in CASINO, goes into mad dog overkill at the slightest provocation, e.g. the scene where he uses a pen to mutilate a guy who was being a jerk to Pesci's buddy (Robert DeNiro) but I don't think the poor fool deserved THAT extreme of a treatment, maybe just getting punched out would have been sufficient.
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