I'M WALKING HERE!!
Did you know that was totally improvised?
shareIt was more like Dustin Hoffman being Dustin Hoffman - the self-important "actor" acting in a movie. "Improvised" he would have stayed in character. He left character. Nothing was in his Rico/Ratso/Rizzo voice, tone, or style. Great as it is for a movie line and scene it left something to be desired. It felt like a set up without a pay off. From that point on you expected him to draw from within again.
shareI actually came here to ask the same thing. I see people say it was completely improvised but it looks completely set up to me. I see one of the producers disputed Hoffman´s claim as well saying that one of the first drafts of the original script was to have Ratso being hit by a taxi and feign injury.
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