From the
wonderful two - part harmony he and the estimable Charles Durning orchestrate in Dog Day Afternoon; to the quiet, cross-cut
exchange of existential ethics
between Pacino's cop and De Niro's robber in Heat; to the easy rapport
between a mobbed - up nowhere man (Pacino) and Johnny Depp's Donnie Brasco, a pretender losing himself in his own fiction; to the subtle rhythms of conversational foreplay — in a car parked in the rain —
between Pacino and Russell Crowe in The Insider, you appreciate how this actor somehow manages to share without giving ground.