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In Reply to: RE: Brando IMO was highly over-rated... posted by TWB on August 09, 2021 at 11:30:16
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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