Liam Gaughan is a writer at Collider with a passion for classic films and the work of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
Although the late, great James Caan delivered iconic performances as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and Frank in Heat, the single best role of his career may have been as the struggling English professor Axel Freed in the brilliant thriller The Gambler. Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the film explored gambling as a legitimate addiction issue and allowed Caan to sink his teeth into one of the most despicable anti-heroes in screen history.
Related Edgar Wright's 'The Running Man' Remake Finds Its Maniacal Host in This Emmy Winner "One of us is in deep trouble." ‘The Gambler’ Is a Surprisingly Inventive Remake The modern version of The Gambler makes several interesting changes to the original, as it does succeed in giving Bennett a genuinely redemptive arc. While the notion of a brooding anti-hero was relatively ahead of its time in 1974, audiences had already seen many similar characters in 2014 due to many prestige television shows like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Shield, and Mad Men.
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