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With Brando, Taylor and Huston all together one expects near perfection, and one gets it.
Ebert's review is also very good.
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When Richard Burton first saw Elizabeth Taylor, and she was very young at the time, he walked up to her and asked, did anyone ever tell you you're a very pretty girl?
you're a drunk?"
He must have been drunk, as all her other husbands. Never found her attractive at all. Above average actress, but nothing special.
As it turns out she likes drunks.
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Saw it in 1967. Bored the crap out of me. Saw it again last year with the same response.
-Wendell
just saw it last year and could not believe I had previously "missed" it.
Especially with Huston at the helm.
Yeah, can't see how it would or could improve with age and won't ever know if it might.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
it's also Zorro David's best work!
I'll bet his stand-in had a more illustrious, uh, career?
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
oh damn ... wrong Zorro, sorry!
it's rife with stiffness and plodding melodrama.Brand slept walked (kinda in key with his character) but
Brian Keith (of all people) and Julie Harris were superb.
Cool debut for Robert Forster.Successfully pulling off Carson McCullers is tough and if
that film had been done ten years earlier it might have
worked better IMO, the time setting seemed very... off.Some nice shots and interesting to watch, but there's a cold
dissective quality to it that's disconcerting.Huston was probably drunk. Again.
But, to each their own.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
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"disconcerting?"
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I seldom found him believable. Felt I could always see him acting.
-Wendell
From, "A Streetcar Named Desire" to "The Ugly American" to "The Wild One" to "One-Eyed Jacks" to "Mutiny on the Bounty" to "Last Tango in Paris"------------ who else created so many unforgettable characters? Who altered his persona so many different ways and so convincingly? And, of course, that singular ability he had to COMMAND the screen.
I don't think Taylor gets enough credit because of her larger-than-life roles ("Cleopatra"), but she had decent range and also magnetism that made looking away from her an impossibility. She more than held her own with her generations greatest actors, from Clift to Dean to Brando...
Instead watch ANY Spencer Tracy movie for a master class lesson in the art of acting... Completely natural and believable....
technique. Brando pretty much invented modern acting, from his astonishing turn on Broadway in, "A Streetcar Named Desire" onwards to "Last Tango in Paris."
Spencer was a one-trick pony of the old, old school. A good trick, but limited. Frankly, I can't think of one of his films, off-hand? Wait, wasn't he in that "Old Man and the Sea" adaptation? I remember seeing that film and wincing at how corny it was, even back then.
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Many of Hollywood's best Bad Guys.
But they are no match for One-Armed Spencer!
The beat-down he gave Ernest Borgnine was Biblical!!!
but solidly professional. Not revolutionary. His oeuvre of films also didn't have any earth-shakers, i.e. "Apocalypse, Now," or "Last Tango," or "Mutiny OTB." In all 3 of those, Brando advanced the art of acting--- a quantum leap, too, not a step.
Check out; 'Fury'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-glpbcSDPNI
Including two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. As someone that majored in Theater Arts and studied and performed countless times, I'll go with fellow actors opinions. I'm not saying Brando was without talent, he represents the "method" acting technique which pretty much died out when Lee Strasberg passed on. Brando also was not terribly adept at picking choice roles. His later career AFTER The Godfather was pretty much littered with throwaway film trash...LOL! Unless of course you consider a Michael Jackson video worthy of the title cinematic "art"!
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Brando's impact, it's far, far beyond his lifetime. Did you stop reading about film 50 years ago?
Brando had a major impact (their words) on De Niro, Pacino, Penn, Newman, Duvall, Bale.
Hanks? He's infamous for taking "method" acting so seriously it almost cost him his life on the film, "Castaway."
As far as Brando's later films, who really cares? He'd already established a spectacular list of performances.
Stanislavski.
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