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Re: That was a terrific eulogy...

Posted by Gee LP (A) on July 4, 2004 at 03:04:10

In Reply to: That was a terrific eulogy... posted by C.B. on July 2, 2004 at 19:28:35:

Thank you C.B., for your kind words. I'm sorry that it has taken me a while to find a moment to respond.

I am not a movie critic. I am a middle-aged college student who is studying English and Social Studies at a small university in the South with the idea of becoming first a high school teacher, then (hopefully) a college instructor. But film and theatre have always been tremendous enthusiasms of mine, and in my much younger days I spent a (too short) period of time in New York around several people who knew Brando quite well. Since the news of Brando's death broke Friday morning, many memories of that time have resurfaced.

My local paper printed Bob Thomas' obituary of Brando from the Los Angeles Times. It is frustrating to think that this is what his friends and co-workers in Hollywood read on Saturday morning. I counted 2 inaccurate statements in one paragraph alone!

It is unfair to call Brando "the greatest actor ever". There are many stage actors that many people have either never seen or no longer remember, and there are many great actors in other countries that are just as influential in their circles as Brando was in his.
(I am sure Victor and Patrick could help me out here on some names!)
But it is fair to call Brando "as good as they get". He WAS that good. And to the list of moments that I indicated earlier, from his later films (his early ones being so iconic--"Stella! Whaddya got? I coulda had class!"), let me add 3 more:

The wry irony of his lawyer in "A Dry White Season"
Skating on the ice in "The Freshman"
...and a moment every acting student should study:
Wiping the makeup off of his dead wife's face in "Last Tango". Shattering.

He may not have been a good husband. He may not have been a good father. He may not have been the most congenial worker, especially late in his career. But who judges a chair by the character of the worker who built it? (Uh oh, this could be dangerous: Wagner territory dead ahead!)

Jack Nicholson said, "When Brando goes, we all move up one step." Knowing his opinion of Brando, I am certain that he is sorry that today he can take that step.

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