Peter O'Toole was better than Brando
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generalusgrant — 11 years ago(February 22, 2015 12:03 PM)
Laurence Olivier has to be the most overrated actor on the planet. His overacting is truly hideous. Just watch Spartacus, where even Kirk Douglas steals the show from him (and I despise Kirk Douglas).
Peter was perfect. He never overacted and was able to show pathos and emotion2000. Just watch when he finds out his wife was killed by a buzz bomb in Googbye Mr. Chips. Olivier would have mangled that scene to death. -
diddymuck — 11 years ago(March 01, 2015 03:56 AM)
amen to thatfor evidence, check out Po'T's in-cred-i-ble performance in The Ruling Class and compare it to the Great White Whale's turn in the Godfather, released the same year. Brando on screen for about 19 minutes and he wins the Oscar for best actor instead of Sir Peter. What's wrong with this picture???
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generalusgrant — 10 years ago(August 28, 2015 06:42 PM)
Olivier is a joke of a ham. Watch his performance in Spartacus and fall on the floor laughing, it's dreadful.
For my money, the three greatest English speaking screen actors were Charles Laughton, O'Toole and Spencer Tracy. -
diddymuck — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 03:06 AM)
O'Toole took to acting his role instantly after only a brief understanding of the character. Brando has to contemplate, analyze, restructure himself and develop new quirks the character may tend to have. All that and he still looks and sounds like Brando.
Further O'Toole accepts accolades with humble thanks and smiles. Brando sits like a we've just watched a Lourds miracle putting on an Olympian posture and mentally saying to himself "I'm a geniusI'm worth 10 million for 6 minutes in a flick!" -
SealedCargo — 6 years ago(April 11, 2019 06:37 AM)
Peter O'Toole played characters searching for greatness. He had that early Orson Welles quality to him. A great quality.
But what people forget about Marlon Brando is that he was NOTHING like that.
He invented the kind of everyday loser that actors STILL emulate.
Brando and O'Toole were as different as you can get, and comparing them is just stupid.
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