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From superhero blockbusters to forgotten gems and British cult classics, Michael Caine<\/a> boasts one of the most extensive and illustrious filmographies of any living actor\u2026 While not every picture the actor has ever worked on has been a masterpiece, the Educating Ritas certainly outweigh the Jaws: The Revenges, and one late-period film stood out as a particular favourite.\u00a0<\/p>\n Caine was a part of the first generation of British working-class actors to make it onto the silver screen during the kitchen sink days of the 1960s and the \u2018new wave\u2019 cinema movement. It was only once Zulu came around in 1964<\/a> that he managed to reach mass audiences, though, and the experiences of being a jobbing actor with limited opportunities during his early days always stuck with him. Hence, Caine was known to say yes to a plethora of projects that, in the grand scheme of things, he perhaps should have avoided.\u00a0<\/p>\n That indiscriminate attitude towards roles meant Caine soon amassed a filmography far more diverse than many of his contemporaries. Nevertheless, when actors reach their twilight years, they tend to be typecast in the same types of roles: grandparents, cantankerous comic relief characters, people struggling with the ageing process, or, in Caine\u2019s case, butlers.\u00a0<\/p>\n For an actor with such an extensive filmography under his belt, that typecasting never really sat right with Michael Caine, which is perhaps why 2017\u2019s Going In Style was so attractive to him. <\/p>\n Starring Caine alongside Morgan Freeman<\/a> and Alan Arkin, the film centres around three old-age pensioners who plan to rob a bank after their pensions are cut. Hence, it allowed the actor not only to work alongside fellow performers whom he respects greatly, but also to break out of the typical roles offered to old-age actors. <\/p>\n In hindsight, you certainly can\u2019t accuse Going In Style of being one of Michael Caine\u2019s greatest films. It is a solid-enough comedy heist flick, albeit one that is pretty middling in its humour and not one which stands out against the litany of classic films the actor has taken part in. However, Caine himself attested that, if nothing else, he had an immeasurably good time working on the project. <\/p>\n
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