Massimo Troisi
I think he looks so cute and sweet in this film as a shy and simple postman. I've seen other pics of him and I don't think he's anywhere near as good looking as he is in 'Il Postino'!!! Especially on the cover...
shareI just purchased this movie and I now find out he died the same year the movie came out, how sad!
shareHis heart was set on this movie. It meant more to him than his life.
shareThis is so sadly true. Doctors advised him against making this movie due to a weak heart and the fact he would be doing alot of bicycling. However, he was determined. He felt this film would finally make him an international star (he was already tremendously famous in Italy), and it did. Sadly, he did not live to see the film's great success.
shareit actually says in the trivia section that he died from a heart attack 1 day after filming was finished...
so sad
For years, I thought Nicolas Cage had deserved that Oscar (that he got for Leaving Las Vegas). After watching "Il Postino", Troisi is easily my posthumous best actor winner. Such a natural, beautiful performance.
É melhor ser alegre que ser triste, alegria é a melhor coisa que existe...
I just watched this film last night & just read what happened to Troisi. What a tragedy. Very sad that he didn't live to see the film's success...
shareAs in many occasions, the Oscar was given to whom didn't totally deserved it. Any of the other 4 nominees as Best Actor that year was far better than Cage, specially Troisi.
Cage deserved that oscar.. Troisi was also wonderful
troisi should have won at least the oscar....he was simply breathtaking
cmon!cage???
The biggest flaw in the whole Oscar system is that very often there is more than one performance deserving of an award. I thought that Cage and Troisi were both brilliant.
shareI often wonder if it is The Character that is so engaging rather than the talent of the actor.
I always go back to Joe Pesce in Goodfellas. Liotta and DeNiro played men who had self-control, while Pesce gets to go berserk. The character is more fun to watch, and maybe easier to play.
I love Il Postino and have nothing but fondness for Troisi, but Cage had to perform a very difficult role, he was a very complex person. Troisi was a lovable naif, easy to embrace. I have no problem with Nic getting the nod, both films are great.
Actually, he died twelve hours after they shot the last scene. I already knew that when I saw the movie for the first time, and I'll never know how I would have reacted if I had not known it, but I can never watch the movie without thinking how thin and frail and sickly he looks behind all that tan. The movie always has that dimension for me -- that I'm lookng at a man about to die.
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