Movies How Marlon Brando Changed Acting

[DanSavage]

Brando detested Burt Reynolds, probably because Reynolds parodied Brando in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Bard."

When Reynolds was up to play Sonny in The Godfather, Brando refused to have him play the part, no doubt due to that Twilight Zone episode.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Must have a been difficult to read his lines with all the cawk he was blowing (NTTAWWT)

 

[DanSavage]

Must have a been difficult to read his lines with all the cawk he was blowing (NTTAWWT)

 

[Natural Order]

Brando detested Burt Reynolds, probably because Reynolds parodied Brando in the Twilight Zone episode, "The Bard."

When Reynolds was up to play Sonny in The Godfather, Brando refused to have him play the part, no doubt due to that Twilight Zone episode.

That might be Burt's finest acting!

 

[Natural Order]

The poll is a false binary. There were other naturalistic actors before Brando (like Tracy and Cagney) and Brando changed the game. Gerard Gordeau used low kicks to chop down Kevin Rosier in UFC 1 but we still point to Marco Ruas chopping down Paul Varelans at UFC 7 as the fight that introduced the world to the low kick. It's not that Brando was the first to do what he did, it's that he did it so uniquely and so amazingly that other people wanted to act like him.

Brando is overrated.

Ruas most certainly is not.

Also, your comparison about Gordeau and Ruas' performance is pretty laughable when you get right down to it. Gerard landed 3 or 4 leg kicks that dropped Junior Albini's father and he crumpled him up with strikes from standing on his corpse. Fight wasn't even a minute.

Ruas put on a 10 minute clinic of literally ONLY leg kicks, landing about 30, and finishing him with said low kicks. You could see Varelans legs from space they were so red.

Absurd comparison imo.

 

[ricc505]

Lol this is very unprofessional duval should not have enabled this behavior.

Robert duval can do whatever he wants, the man is a gift. If he wants to enable, I'll allow it

 

[Jesus X]

Robert duval can do whatever he wants, the man is a gift. If he wants to enable, I'll allow it

Made me lose some respect for him very wimpy behavior.

 

[Bullitt68]

Brando is overrated.

Ruas most certainly is not.

Haha, Brando made more people want to be actors than anyone, he turned in some of the most iconic performances ever, and he won two Oscars. Ruas went 9-4 in a pretty crappy career.

Also, your comparison about Gordeau and Ruas' performance is pretty laughable when you get right down to it.

If by "get right down to it" you mean "fail to understand it."

 

[Leonard Haid]

Great breakdown of this particular scenes in On the Waterfront.

You can see Brando acting is more realistic / naturalistic.

He pauses between talking, showing that he actually thinking of what he's saying. Like a normal conversation would be like.

Very nuanced performance on his part.

I've seen every movie he's been in, and his appearances have not only been my favorite parts of all of the movies, but they made the clunkers and so-so movies he was in pretty damn good, because of not only his performances but because of how he seemed to elevate everyone around him, the way they played off of him, and even the way they acted independently, although that's hard to prove. I'm thinking about a scene in Island of Dr. Moreau where the Val Kilmer character goes mad, and how does he manifest that? By acting like Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

Anyway, I don't know if he revolutionized anything because there will only ever be one Marlon Brando. It's a good thing to ponder though.

 

[Madmick]

The poll is a false binary. There were other naturalistic actors before Brando (like Tracy and Cagney) and Brando changed the game. Gerard Gordeau used low kicks to chop down Kevin Rosier in UFC 1 but we still point to Marco Ruas chopping down Paul Varelans at UFC 7 as the fight that introduced the world to the low kick. It's not that Brando was the first to do what he did, it's that he did it so uniquely and so amazingly that other people wanted to act like him.

Yep. And foot stomps to the feet. Varelans legs were not conditioned for this, he was not prepared.

 

[Streeter]

He was no Biograph Girl but I guess he gave his own contributions to the craft

 

[Hotora86]

Isn t he the dude who improvised a finger up the ass of some actress in a rough scene? Not sure how he changed acting but we haven t seen many fingers up the ass on camera since

ah yes , the Zappa of acting