Originally published at: Michael Caine is done with this whole acting thing—kind of | Boing Boing
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How do we know he’s not just “acting” like he’s retired? 
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Actually, his agents have made it clear that he hasn’t officially retired, he just doesn’t have any roles lined up. I suspect at least he’ll be in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Oppenheimer biopic, maybe as a small older role like Niels Bohr or something. Yes, he’s not Danish, but apparently Oppenheimer himself is going to be played by Cillian Murphy of all people!
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Presumbly he’s now finished renovating his various properties…
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Not one of these films would be what they were
Sleuth, Deathtrap, Iprcress File
'70s Michael Caine is some fine Michael Caine.
That’s not really fair. It’s never polite to cite, much less view, Needing-Additional-House Michael Caine. (On that topic, same goes for Needing-Additional-House Robert DeNiro.)
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Don’t forget Jaws: The Revenge.
“I have never seen it [the film], but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!”
As I recall the house was for his mother.
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…it’s all about eyes smiles and some kind of camera focus it’s very physical…
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That just how very good and talented Michael Caine is!
He can deliver '70s Michael Caine in the '60s and the '80s!
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If the guy who made films like Alfie, Get Carter, and Little Voice wants to make some crap to build a house, who can complain? One of the cool things about British actors like Caine that if even when they’re just doing schlock for a quick buck, they don’t phone it in. They do the work.
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I always think of The Ipcress Files, Get Carter, Alfie, Funeral in Berlin.
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Obligatory Italian Job (the good one) gif:
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What if, instead of bringing Caine’s calm panache to the Muppets, Hollywood instead chose to bring the Muppets into one of his gritty 1970s pulp action movies?
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Without a Clue is my favorite of his. Has Ben Kingsley, too!
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I would read what he wrote.
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Sleuth (Sleuth (1972 film) - Wikipedia) is one of my favorite films.
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Favorite Caine flicks:
All the Harry Palmers (Ipcress, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain)
The Man Who Would Be King
A Shock to the System
Zulu
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