Scent of a Woman(1992)
What is the scent of Woman ???
"If shit hits the fan some stay and some run!!! "Sarcastic Oneliners.Amazed watch this Oscar winning performance of Alpacino...u will end up with Tamil film stuffs at the end ...but the performance of alpacino makes u sit glued. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAA! The story is different .Film Is Directed by Martin Brest.Alpacino and Chris o Donnel starrer is one among the best movie of all time .Al Pacino as a blind retired lt.colonel Frank Slade.Chris O’Donnell acted as a prep school student who join alpacino as his servant for the plan of alpacino.
The film revolves around Charlie Simms (Chris O’Donnell), a student at a private preparatory school, who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. ARMY officer Lieutenant Colonel frank slade (al pacino), a cantankerous middle-aged man who is now blind and impossible to get along with. Slade decides to visit New York City and enlists the help of Charlie Simms to lead him on the trip. Whilst Charlie is leading lieutenant colonel frank slade through New York, he is facing a very big problem at school. Fellow students have played a prank on the school principal, and only Charlie and George Willis, jr. (Philip Seymour Hoffman) know the identity of the culprits. After threatening both students with expulsion, headmaster Trask asks Willis to exit the office. At this moment, he tries to bribe Charlie by assuring him admission to Harvard, if he names those who committed the prank. Charlie tells him nothing, and trask warns him that he must be honest or suffer the consequences. Slade takes Charlie around New York. They stay at the Waldorf-Astoria. After eating at a fancy restaurant with $24.00 hamburgers (the oak room at the plaza hotel), Slade visits his relatives, where Charlie learns how slade lost his sight. It is at this point in the film that colonel slade reveals the real reason for his trip to New York City: to eat at an expensive restaurant, stay at an amazing hotel, dance and sleep with a beautiful woman, and then commit suicide with his gun. Later, the sly colonel tangos with a girl whose perfume captivates him (hence the title of the movie), and drives a Ferrari, with a very nervous and worried Charlie tagging along. Charlie is a good person at heart, refusing to rat out his classmates over a prank, taking pity on colonel slade, and sticking by his side through thick and thin. Charlie's loyalty is not lost on the colonel. When slade tricks Charlie into leaving the room to get a cigar, his sly plan fails when Charlie remembers that slade was earlier armed with a military colt .45 pistols (M1911). He comes back to the room to find slade ready to commit suicide with his gun. After a few emotional minutes of talking, yelling, and action, Charlie convinces slade not to kill himself. It is here that slade realizes that Charlie is a very brave and tough person at heart, and he would not even let a worthless, bitter man, like himself, take his own life. Lieutenant colonel Frank slade (Al Pacino, left) and Charlie Simms (Chris O’Donnell, right) Charlie returns to school, knowing that George Willis, Jr. Is betraying him to get off the hook. The headmaster holds a courtroom-like meeting, where he questions George Willis, who complains of his poor vision and resorts to his powerful father to help him weasel out of this jam. Unfortunately, it is discovered that Charlie’s vision is fine and he received no help from his parents. The headmaster is on the verge of expelling him, when colonel slade, who enters the court during the headmaster's opening speech on "A Baird Man," delivers a provocative and compelling speech of how "the great ship" of education and obedience is no more than a rat barge teaching rats to betray friends. When slade says that "if I were the man I was five years ago I’d take a flame thrower to this place," he wins over the students, and the jury. Willis's statement that he saw three people set up the prank, and that they might have been "Havemeyer, potter, and Jameson," is enough to tell the jury who the culprits were. The three young men are placed on disciplinary probation for the prank, but Willis is given no recognition. The story ends with Charlie being excused from any penalties and expulsions, and slade going back home. However, no longer bitter, he acts very kindly to his relatives and seems to have a new "look" at life - as does Charlie.
The One-liners and the way he treats Charlie makes this movie a great treat.You will sure end up comparing this movie performance with Shivaji Ganesan s performance in many of his movies,But I doubt all the blind characters are crafted with such arrogance and pride. The feel of wreck less and arrogance of Alpacino in this movie is something you will be left in your mind for the life. He is a master in word deliveries and many of the one-liners have become a sensation after this
Notable scenes when Chris meets Alpacino first time ,calling him Sir inspite Alpacino warning him not call him “Sir”,When Alpacino describes the Woman,The dance with a Woman in Hotel.and ofcourse the the way he describes the” PASS PORT TO HEAVEN”
You got to watch this movie with clear ears when you end up missing some great dialogues when he describes or explains some thing with shear pride and state of being.
…..Wooh Haaaa….We ve got a Moron Here
Story Line :Source :Orkut/communities
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