Brando Was Putting Everyone On
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RoddmannW — 17 years ago(October 16, 2008 11:04 PM)
I would say that 95% of people who are now only seeing this film for the first time are doing so out interest in Brando's wonderfully eccentric, ostentatious performance as Robert E. Clayton.
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rdaytonc — 14 years ago(December 17, 2011 11:05 PM)
So many people claim that Brando was the greatest actor, ever. They say that other actors consider him to be the greatest actor, ever.
I have never liked him; I don't think he was a good actor; I regard him as a pretentious blow-hard and a ham. I don't think that "On the Waterfront" shows us a genius Brando, I think it shows us what Brando was then and what he remained until he died a pretentious poseur. A good actor lets you forget that he is acting. Brando never, ever, managed that, at all. He was always posturing and acting the drama queen. I cannot think of one film I liked him in.
The only worse actor than Brando was his little supplicant, adoring, worshipful monkey, James Dean. When it came to being a pretentious, fake intellectual and a walking, talking exaggeration, Dean won the prize. The one thing he did that was really good was that he didn't bore film audiences for anywhere near the length of time that Brando did. -
joeparkson — 14 years ago(February 21, 2012 05:18 AM)
Meh.
This movie marks the beginning of Brando's 'take the money and run' final period. Soon they'd have to shoot him from the waist up because he didn't even bother to put on his pants.
Brando's last movie where he really became the character was 'Tango'.
A method actor becomes the character, if only for a brief time. Not once in this movie did I ever forget I was watching the real Brando as he really must have been in his decline, ordering fast food and ice cream at 3AM.
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SteveH2002 — 14 years ago(March 25, 2012 01:38 PM)
Came over here because I've just finished watching 'Free Money' (1998), Brando's next to last movie, and his performance in that reminded of his in The Missouri Breaks.
If someone wants to call Brando's performance in Missouri Breaks 'brilliant' that's fine with me, no skin off my nose, but I see it as more an expression of contempt (ditto his work in Free Money.) This mucking around seems to be a pattern of his after Last Tango.