Let me first go on record that I think Pacino is great actor. But his body of work has not encompassed the scope of his contemporaries. I'm not here to judge why or if that is good or bad; it just hasn't. Dustin Hoffman, Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson have all played a much wider variety of character; comedy, villain, lover, loser, leader, psycho, macho man, etc. I don't recall Pacino doing any comedy, and if he did, not much. Was he type-cast or just not interested?