Paul Sorvino dies, multifaceted actor and brutal and moral gangster of 'One of ours'

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A party in a garden a plan of uncles: meat in a barbecue, ironic talk and beer.

is the center of gravity of the appointment.

He is a big man, on the verge of obesity, with rough manners but with a good voice and a good verb.

He wears bursting loafers and short-sleeved shirts, brushes his hair back, and could be a nice guy;

A father, an older brother, a reference.

on the other hand, is a brash, presumptuous kid, a guest at the grown-up table who needs to be straightened out.

Cicero takes him aside, questions him, talks to him, slaps him without having to emphasize that gesture, he's solid.

He could be a moral figure if we forget that Paul Cicero is a mobster.

the actor who played Cicero in

created a mold for the cinema with that character.

would be unimaginable without Cicero.

This Monday, Sorvino

with his piece of guaranteed immortality in the history of cinema.

Sorvino's career is not only made of organized crime, although the New York actor seemed born for the genre.

Political cinema was also among his specialties.

The actor was an unforgettable

in the

biopic that

filmed in 1995. Before, in 1982, he had a role in

's adaptation

of 10 days that shook the world, the historical chronicle of the Revolution

's Soviet .

Beatty was one of Sorvino's most trusted collaborators (they made four films together) and was also his photographic negative.

If Beatty was born to be a hero, handsome and with luminous features, Sorvino seemed drawn for darkness and crime, for violence on the verge of exploding.

Among his joint works is

a twist of the gangster film genre in which the charm was in the hyper-idealized aesthetic, in the patent-leather representation of the lead years of the American mafia.

Instead of playing a hyper-realistic and almost vulgar mobster like Scorsese's, Sorvino was a fairytale villain in Dick Tracy, a character taken from a classic comic.

In fact, the actor's career has been so extensive (there are 170 references on his resume) that an example of any character model can be found, just like its opposite.

Sorvino was a mobster but he was also a policeman.

In the 1990s, for example, he renewed his popularity by playing a sheriff on the series

And at the end of that time he returned to the country of his family (his father came from

to play the patriarch

in

that shakespeare pop starring

and

Even more surprising is to think that the American actor's career began in the 1960s on

participating in musicals such as

On stage, Sorvino found his first fame in

a drama in which the glory of basketball hid unspeakable secrets.

Years later, Sorvino would co-star in a film version of the same story alongside

and

Along the way, Sorvino became something like his characters.

When he learned that his daughter,

was the victim of producer

in his practices of harassment and punishment, Paul Sorvino said that he would be waiting for him when he left prison.

Like Cicero, brutal and moral at the same time.

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