"Reflections in a Golden Eye"

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...

Tayor was HORRIBLE in that and... , posted on August 8, 2021 at 12:34:28

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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.

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RE: Tayor was HORRIBLE in that and... , posted on August 9, 2021 at 06:49:07
tinear Audiophile Posts: 65782 Location: Kansas City, KS Joined: April 9, 2006	"disconcerting?"

Brando IMO was highly over-rated..., posted on August 9, 2021 at 11:30:16
TWB Audiophile Posts: 7408 Location: Long Beach, California Joined: January 5, 2001	Instead watch ANY Spencer Tracy movie for a master class lesson in the art of acting... Completely natural and believable....

Tracy is largely forgotten. A good actor, hardly ground-breaking in his, posted on August 9, 2021 at 14:25:50

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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.

MANY actors site Tracy as being their inspiration...., posted on August 9, 2021 at 14:48:13

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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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RE: Tracy is largely forgotten, posted on August 9, 2021 at 19:47:12
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Si! Tanks!... N/T, posted on August 9, 2021 at 21:06:32
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Check out Bad Day at Black Rock NT, posted on August 9, 2021 at 23:25:42
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RE: "Reflections in a Golden Eye", posted on August 11, 2021 at 05:39:53
volunteer Audiophile Posts: 5666 Location: Louisville, KY Joined: January 7, 2012	Saw it in 1967. Bored the crap out of me. Saw it again last year with the same response. -Wendell

RE: Si! Tanks!... N/T, posted on August 11, 2021 at 06:35:59
volunteer Audiophile Posts: 5666 Location: Louisville, KY Joined: January 7, 2012	I seldom found him believable. Felt I could always see him acting. -Wendell

Funny..., posted on August 11, 2021 at 11:59:06
musetap Audiophile Posts: 31879 Location: San Francisco Joined: July 8, 2003 Contributor Since: January 28, 2004	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

RE: Funny..., posted on August 11, 2021 at 12:20:05
rivervalley817	it's also Zorro David's best work!

True story, posted on August 11, 2021 at 13:19:09
geoffkait	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?

Her reply: "Did anyone ever tell you , posted on August 11, 2021 at 13:25:20
tinear Audiophile Posts: 65782 Location: Kansas City, KS Joined: April 9, 2006	you're a drunk?"

The problem is your choice of actors to suit your argument. As far as, posted on August 11, 2021 at 13:39:10

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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.

Yup, I've seen both, "Fury," and "BD@BR:" good acting, yeah, , posted on August 11, 2021 at 13:45:27
tinear Audiophile Posts: 65782 Location: Kansas City, KS Joined: April 9, 2006	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.

RE: Her reply: "Did anyone ever tell you , posted on August 11, 2021 at 13:46:00
geoffkait	As it turns out she likes drunks.

Brando hated Strasberg, by the way. He considered himself a student of , posted on August 11, 2021 at 14:01:01
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Pinnacle of his actig career, uh, parts, part??... role?... week?..., posted on August 11, 2021 at 16:49:56
musetap Audiophile Posts: 31879 Location: San Francisco Joined: July 8, 2003 Contributor Since: January 28, 2004	I'll bet his stand-in had a more illustrious, uh, career? "Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure

RE: Pinnacle of his actig career, uh, parts, part??... role?... week?..., posted on August 11, 2021 at 17:46:26
rivervalley817	oh damn ... wrong Zorro, sorry!

Who else was? Anyhow, one thing is apparent: she liked getting married. nt, posted on August 12, 2021 at 04:57:13
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LOVE Bad Day at Black Rock., posted on August 13, 2021 at 06:46:59
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RE: Her reply: "Did anyone ever tell you , posted on August 16, 2021 at 13:32:30
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