#22. Scent Of A Woman
A loose adaption of the Giovanni Arpino novel Il buio e il miele and the 1974 movie Profumo di Donna, Scent of a Woman* (1992) stars Al Pacino as the bitter, angry, depressed, and blind Lt. Col. Frank Slade in a role that would earn him his first Oscar. Chris O’Donnell plays prep school student Charlie Simms, who is tasked with assisting Slade in New York City.
In an interview with Larry King, Al Pacino told him that to play blind, “you don’t focus your eyes. And what happens is, you just go into a state”. This is the case in the scene where he falls over a garbage can. It was not scripted, it happened out of sheer bad luck, but it was kept in the final take.