Denis Farina is kickass
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slokes — 18 years ago(March 27, 2008 09:41 PM)
The great thing about Dennis Farina as Ray Bones is he plays a legitimate threat across the entire length of the film who keeps you laughing the whole time. Mortal threat and comedy are difficult to pull off in tandem, but he does it.
Great use of the f-word, too. If they had an award for "Finest Dramatic Use of the F-Word" at the Academy Awards in 1996, excuse me f-ball, but that's Mr. Farina's to take home. -
losidiot1 — 17 years ago(April 24, 2008 10:06 AM)
Dennis is the new host of a re-working of the TV show Unsolved Mysteries. It's going to start showing on Spike TV in November. I've been working with him in my studio for the last couple of weeks recording voice-overs for the show. For the record, Dennis is a very cool guy. He has a lot of good stories and is great to everyone at my production company.
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bluestrat70 — 17 years ago(April 28, 2008 10:48 AM)
PLEASE, if you get the opportunity, tell him that he is the s*%t, he does it all, I admire his work tremendously. His part in Get Shorty was the best. I don't know how he does it, but he just knows how to deliver a line.
Thanks much.
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planetmutty — 17 years ago(December 23, 2008 04:36 AM)
when he gets in the cab and says "take me to f-ing airport" was priceless.
LOL, yes! I love that line. I mean, it's such a basic line, just a nothing, throwaway line really. But the way Dennis Farina says it, it just cracks me up every time.
When I said I wanted to be a comedian, they all laughed at me. Well, they're not laughing now! -
haewatein — 17 years ago(May 07, 2008 10:24 AM)
Yeah, excellent character!!
Just like in Snatch!
BE TROLL 2!!!
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blueshoe711 — 17 years ago(October 28, 2008 08:07 AM)
Wow, I was just going to bring that up.
As Cousin Avi, He had a lot of great lines in Snatch:
"Hear that Doug? We're coming to beep England."
Three seconds later Doug greets him in London: "Avi!"
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JoshuaPaul1976 — 17 years ago(November 08, 2008 05:52 PM)
Another good part is when they pull up in front of Leo's house and he just sits in the car like an a-hole until his bodyguard walks around the car to open the door for him. (He does a similiar thing later in the movie with the finger snap at the cab driver.)
He played the part perfectly of a typically arrogant gangster who thinks the world revolves around him and that everybody is there to serve him.
One thing I also thought was funny was when he was reading on the toilet and his lips were moving. I wonder if he added that himself or if that was already in the script. Either way, it was hilarious.
Yet one more funny scene was when he's throwing Harry around Harry's office and beating him up and says, "This is exactly what I needed. I little fvck!ng exercise after that long fvck!ng plane ride." Of course, he spreads the words out as he's tossing Harry around like a rag doll.
He did a bang-up job (literally) in this movie. -
willjohn — 16 years ago(September 09, 2009 07:34 PM)
Farina was a Chicago cop for 18 years. He probably picked up how criminals behave from his experience dealing with them.
He admits to having been a poor shot. Many Police are reported to have looked for cover whenever he got his pistol out. They thought it was more probable that Denis would shoot them than the criminal. -
jstachler — 15 years ago(February 15, 2011 02:17 AM)
I agree he's hilarious in this. I like him in Midnight Run as wellit's almost the same part with equally awesome lines.
I see him every-so-often in the NW Indiana/SE Michigan area. I only say hello to him and hold off telling him how great he is. I think he wants to be left alone when he's not involved in a film. Just out doing whatever. -
tjh3123 — 14 years ago(June 11, 2011 04:47 PM)
This entire movie is a classic, with Farina of course contributing to its awesomeness. What cracked me up is Barboni's erroneous use of common phrases when he was trying to act all badass:
-The whole "eg/ie" exchange
-When Chili shot him in the head with the dart gun, he runs out yelling repeatedly, "Someone call f-ing '9-1-1-1'!!!" vs. "9-1-1"
-"When I tell you to jump, you say ok, ok!" vs. "how high"
-When he tries to make peace with Chili near the end."You took a swing at me, I say f-that. You owe me some $, I say f-that. You owe me the juice, I say f-that too. I say, 'live and let die!'" vs. live and let live.
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Maverikk — 14 years ago(June 20, 2011 09:57 PM)
He was great in every scene! The very first shot of him has him laughing in the face of a guy sitting at the table with him extremely hard about something always cracks me up. The way he flinches while on the toilet the first time the phone rings, and his follow up beep beep beep beep beep beep after the second just kills me. The way he's sitting there not giving a damn about anything Gene Hackman is saying when Gene is trying to get him to invest in his movie is priceless. And, of course, the scenes with him sitting there in his car waiting on his driver to walk all the way around and open his door, and him snapping his fingers for the cab to move up 2 feet and come to him instead of him coming to it.
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Kuato_and_George — 14 years ago(March 24, 2012 06:23 PM)
They should have had him in the sequel. He could have played a smaller role in the way deebo does in Next Friday.
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Doom — 12 years ago(July 26, 2013 01:48 PM)
Someone mentioned that on another site (that Farina stole the movie).
What's simply amazing to me is that it's hard to argue with that statement (he was so great in this) and we're saying that about a really great film with OTHER amazing performances by I dunno actors by the names of:- John Travolta
- Gene Hackman
- Rene Russo
- Danny DeVito
- James Gandolfini
- David Paymer
Incredible.
Wait a minute who am I here?