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07-02-2004, 09:29 AM
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| | | Goodbye Don Vito Corleone
http://www.drudgereport.com/brando.jpg
Passed away Thursday at 80 years old in a Los Angeles Hospital.
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07-02-2004, 09:36 AM
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| | | May a grat actor rest in peace.
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07-02-2004, 09:51 AM
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| | Oh man, that was sad. My mom will be devastated. 
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07-02-2004, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by RandomThug | Who's that? Is that Marlon Brando?
Edit: Yeah, it is. The news about him's almost spreading like wildfire. As much as I've seen my dad watch the Godfather movies, I remember him most as Col. Kurtz from the movie 'Apocalypse Now.' Sure, it was loosely based on the Joseph Conrad story 'Heart of Darkness,' but it was all interesting, especially his last line.
"The horror. The horror..."
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07-02-2004, 10:32 AM
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| | | My mom cries...
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07-02-2004, 03:26 PM
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| | | In difference to Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando is a person I do respect. Besides being a good actor, he was also a man of principles and always used his public position to be a voice for the native Americans. Sad to see him go...
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07-02-2004, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Silur In difference to Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando is a person I do respect. Besides being a good actor, he was also a man of principles and always used his public position to be a voice for the native Americans. Sad to see him go... | He'd been ill for years, so it's good he finally let go: better for him and those who loved him. I also agree, his attitude was lightyears better than the flighty endorsement of issues by many of Hollywood's elite on the one hand, and the people like Reagan who thought life was only for the privileged. Brando at least won't be missed--assuming people remember to watch his films.
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07-02-2004, 07:59 PM
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| |  Sad but true, fable. Sad but true.
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Originally Posted by fable He'd been ill for years, so it's good he finally let go: better for him and those who loved him. | My mother mentioned about that. In some ways, he gets the release from pain like Johnny Cash did: freedom of agony. |
07-03-2004, 03:40 AM
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| | | Truly sad. I read everything they had on BBC. He was a great actor. I am gonna do a re-run of Godfather *sniff* |
07-03-2004, 12:08 PM
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| | | Very sad. One of the greatest actors ever, and probably the most influencial one ever.
He'd reportedly been getting ready for his own death for a few months.
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07-03-2004, 02:48 PM
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| | Influential? Hmm...I never figured Brando for even slightly influential. He was one of the Method Acting generation, and most of 'em vanished from Hollywood where they were hated by the producers and bookkeepers. But his performances, like those of another Method actor, Burt Lancaster, were for the most part (barring terrible casting fiascos like Guys and Dolls) excellent. 
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07-03-2004, 04:44 PM
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| | | Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp- all owe something to Brando. And Stanslavski is as 'hip' as it ever was (at least in name).
And his roles in Streetcar Named Desire and Last Tango In Paris, though theymay seem aged now, were revolutionary in allowing an actor to fully express himself on screen. No actor has ever had a bigger influence on the course acting in general took.
And I personaly feel a great loss, like The Godfather (my favorite character and film) has died again.
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07-04-2004, 02:58 AM
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| | | I was gone for two weeks, and just recently returned from my holiday, so I'm a bit late with this...
But I wanted to pay my respect to him. The Gothfather was, and still is, one of my favorite movies, and I think Marlon Brando greatly contributed to its success.
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07-04-2004, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Morlock Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp- all owe something to Brando. And Stanslavski is as 'hip' as it ever was (at least in name). | Cliff and Dean were his contemporaries, and not influenced by Brando. de Niro, Nicholson, and Pacino--I never got a sense they were influenced by him, but rather, often played roles similar to those he played. I could be wrong, but I've never seen them mention Brando as an influence, and Nicholson (from what I've been given to understand) at least is anti-Method. Loathes it with a passion. Penn, Depp--again, they play similar roles, but I never got a sense from either that he was into Method, or had been influenced by Brando. Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is just a bad actor with a big contract, but that's my own personal take. 
Is Stanislawsky still used? In Hollywood, at least, it's anathema. There are studios where method acting is literally forbidden, and directors in other studios who ask their fave theatrical agents never to send them method folks. (I know this for a fact, as I'm friends with a couple of these agents.) This isn't to argue the effectiveness of method acting; to my way of thinking, it doesn't matter how you arrive at a good performance, as long as you achieve one. But method actors are notoriously intransigent about knowing the "purpose" for their characters, and the "intent" of each line in each scene.
'Course, I could be wrong, and the actors you listed might owe a great and acknowledged debt to Brando. Won't be the first time I've been off, and won't be the last. 
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07-04-2004, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by fable Cliff and Dean were his contemporaries, and not influenced by Brando. | Cliff I know less about, but Dean was directly influenced by him (directly and indirectly, Kazan said he learned a lot from Brando and taught it to Dean). Quote: |
Originally Posted by fable de Niro, Nicholson, and Pacino--I never got a sense they were influenced by him, but rather, often played roles similar to those he played. | De Niro's style bares much similarity IMO to Brando. Quote: |
Originally Posted by fable Nicholson (from what I've been given to understand) at least is anti-Method. | Nicholson is certainly anti-method, but in many other things, mainly his emotion expressed, he was certainly a follower in Brando's path. Quote: |
Originally Posted by fable Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is just a bad actor with a big contract, but that's my own personal take. | I STRONGLY disagree, but to each his own. Quote: |
Originally Posted by fable Is Stanislawsky still used? In Hollywood, at least, it's anathema. | As I implied, in name- it's very hip and very cool to drop words like 'method', 'Strasberg', 'Adler' or 'Stanislowski'. I don't know what it means, I doubt most of them mean it, but the idea lives on. Quote: |
Originally Posted by fable 'Course, I could be wrong, and the actors you listed might owe a great and acknowledged debt to Brando. Won't be the first time I've been off, and won't be the last. | Well, I've become VERY opinionated in the past couple of years in everything regarding films and film scores (I used to know nothing about scores, I am now an expert).
So don't take offence if I seem a bit strong headed about certain films or actors, it's just the kind of anal-retentiveness you should come to expect from someone who plans to be a director .
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