Marlon Brando

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Sandman
Okay... a little help please.

I happened to see this story over at Digg and I have to admit that I'm at a complete loss as to what made Marlon Brando such a great actor.

I've always thought he was overrated at best.

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I would respectfully disagree

Cept for the Godafather I didnt think he was all that either till I really started to watch him.

Little Nuances he added to his parts, most people dont notice, and alot of the big time movie stars still dont do, Be it a simple scratch of the nose, Or just certain little gestures.
He was ahead of his time in alot of ways.

Burt Renolds put it best when he said
"the trick to acting is not getting caught at it"

too bad Reynolds never quite mastered that trick LOL

Brando did

BTW Last Tango in Paris sucked IMO

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Charon


BTW, Steve McQueen kicked all of their tulips and Chuck Norris too

Charon

Are you on dope??? LMAO

[Sandman]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
I would respectfully disagree

Cept for the Godafather I didnt think he was all that either till I really started to watch him.

Little Nuances he added to his parts, most people dont notice, and alot of the big time movie stars still dont do, Be it a simple scratch of the nose, Or just certain little gestures.
He was ahead of his time in alot of ways.

Burt Renolds put it best when he said
"the trick to acting is not getting caught at it"

too bad Reynolds never quite mastered that trick LOL

Brando did

BTW Last Tango in Paris sucked IMO

Exactly what I was looking for.

[IgnorantJoe]

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes.

[Seagoon]

Hi Sandy,

I have to admit that I used to hate Brando's acting as well. I found that the cause for that was that I kept rating him according to his ability to take on another persona, i.e. to become the character he was playing.

The problem is, Brando is always Brando no matter who he is playing. So in order to appreciate his movies, you have to learn to appreciate him. So for instance, I've grown to really appreciate Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with the new character "Marlon Brando" instead of the old version with the Marc Anthony Character. In the same way I prefer "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Marlon Brando instead of that Stanley Kowalski chump.

- SEAGOON

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK

Little Nuances he added to his parts, most people dont notice, and alot of the big time movie stars still dont do, Be it a simple scratch of the nose, Or just certain little gestures.
He was ahead of his time in alot of ways.
 

McQueen was the undisputed master of this.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Seagoon
Hi Sandy,

I have to admit that I used to hate Brando's acting as well. I found that the cause for that was that I kept rating him according to his ability to take on another persona, i.e. to become the character he was playing.

The problem is, Brando is always Brando no matter who he is playing. So in order to appreciate his movies, you have to learn to appreciate him. So for instance, I've grown to really appreciate Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" with the new character "Marlon Brando" instead of the old version with the Marc Anthony Character. In the same way I prefer "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Marlon Brando instead of that Stanley Kowalski chump.

- SEAGOON

Viewed through this same filter, Tom Cruise is a great actor.

[Neubob]

Brando was notorious for forgetting his lines. During the Apocolypse Now shoot, he even wrote some of his lines on various props that were angled away from the camera.

If that talent, along with his magical metamorphasis from Diesel Brando to Fleshy Beach-ball Brando isn't a claim to greatness, I don't know what is.