I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I won't say it. I won't!
Fahrenheit 9/11, biatches!
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By the way, mine is One Eyed Jacks.
Have a great 4th everyone.
The Freshman. Definitely.
Is Bush going to Iraq for the Fourth of July or a bit later to steal the thunder from Kerry's VP announcement?
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I like his Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
Schiesse, susanp. Beat me to it.
Italics are nice, in quoting things, but you're doing a great job, Tena, as usual! I like the citing of sources.
"Scam is an ugly word. This is buisness and in buiness you do what you gotta do."
/The Freshman
Tena, your favorite is really One Eyed Jacks? My dad gave me that one for Christmas last year and i had to view it in two sittings because it was putting me to sleep. I agree with the Kurtz call, but no roll other than the Godfather defined a genre so dramatically. But then again, maybe i'll give One Eyed Jacks a second go at it.
Local news: Movie chain in Iowa refuses to show F9/11 in it's Des Moines theater, calling it political propaganda. What the local news show did NOT say: the film is ALREADY SHOWING in Des Moines, in another theater.
This should give you an idea of what impact this film is having. Conservatives are grabbing at straws, they will attack the film even if their attack is completely irrational, as long as it makes propaganda points.
I just saw the film today, and my local theater was packed. I couldn't believe how powerful the film was. But the film is being attacked for its first 90 minutes, which is merely the setup for the big finale. I won't reveal the ending, but at this point, the film turns from documentary into art, showing the effects of how we were duped, and how it would feel to have the shoe on the other foot, to have our delusions stripped away and be criticised by the mindless hordes because we no longer buy into the Bush delusion. Very powerful.
the ugly american
Crafty
I like The Godfather role, but I think Brando tried a little too hard to "create" a character. It's like I can see him working in the film and that takes me out of the experience. It's the same reason that most of the time I didn't care for Laurence Olivier on the screen -- you could always spot what bits of business he came up with for whatever character he was playing. So he came across as playing a character rather than being a character.
Girl: "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"
Johnny: "Whaddya got?"
I couldn't believe that the movie made it to my small town in WV. But it did, and so I went to see it. The audience was a pretty interesting mix, but by and large slanted towards the already-left-leaning college types that wouldn't vote for bush in a million years. Some weren't though, and I'm hoping that that will spread a little bit.
The scene in front of the Whitehouse made me REALLY angry.
"This is no fantasy."
-Jor-El
F 9/11 comment: Here's a definition of film criticism for rich men: a few days before the film opened, the Carlyle Group with 2 other investment groups bought Loews Odeon, about 300 theatres. Too late for F9/11, but I don't think MM has much of a chance of getting the next pic into the chain.
Brando question: Anyone know why he didn't work more in Europe? Bergman & Truffaut seem natural collaborators. My mind reels thinking of the film he might have made with Fellini.
"The Freshman" is good, "Streetcar Named Desire" is better.
We won't show the film because "I" BELIEVE IT INCITES TERRORISM.
Kurtz: "They train young men to drop fire on people... but won't allow them to write FUCK on their aircraft because... it's obscene."
Man, nobody had a delivery like him.
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my
dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving."
"You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill."
He's a two bit grocery clerk from Whittier California.
"I've seen horrors...horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call
me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that...But
you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means.
Horror. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared."
The Wild One or
On the Waterfront or
One Eyed Jacks or
Streetcar or
Apocolypse Now or
The Godfather
or, or, or.
Elaine, just back from a vacation in Vancouver. Beautiful city. We may retire there.
Reflection in a Golden Eye...
Weird choice I know.
It popped up on TV one evening in the early early 70's in San Antonio. Having no clue about it when I realized all the little themes I damn near died laughing. This movie would normally not have gotten air time in that time frame here. I came to the conclusion either someone was not paying attention or someone pushed one through unnoticed. One way or another I had a good laugh so it sticks in the brain.
"I remember when I was with Special Forces--it seems a thousand centuries ago--we went into a camp to inoculate it. The children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile--a pile of little arms. And I remember...I...I...I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out, I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget. And then I realized--like I was shot...like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, "My God, the genius of that, the genius, the will to do that." Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they could stand that--these were not monsters, these were men, trained contras, these men who fought with their hearts, who have families, who have children, who are filled wi th love--that they had this strength, the strength to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time were able to utilize their primordial i nstincts to kill without feeling, without passion, without judgment--without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us."
Sorry about the length, but this still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
"They train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write fuck on their airplanes because it's obscene."
I'm also fond of Last Tango in Paris. I can't remember who it was (it was a friend of his) who said it wasn't like a movie, it was just like following Brando around with a camera for a few days. The soundtrack is one of the best of all time.
"The horror. The horror..."
Idjuts:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news.../
energy_iraq_dc
I put a space in the link so as not break Halo and it worked. Things are so much better now that Iraq is free, free I tell you - No more mr. nice guy for us libs - down to the last four months and the stakes are insanely high -
The horsehead scene from the godfather is one of the great comedic moments in film history.
The italics... the italics...
On The Waterfront for me.
What ever happened to the UN/Iraqi-Oil-for-Food program scandle? How does it compare monetarily to the Halliburton-KBR money grab?
Hlliburton auditor squeals:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5333896/
(IMAGINE, MSNBC is covering it. Is the media finally waking up? Have the poochies jumped off their masters' laps?)
"I swallowed a bug."
I think Brando's speech on proportional response during the wedding at the beginning of the Godfather is a timely scene. Also, the scene where Tom tells him about Sonny: "all right, Consigliere, you've had your drink . . . ".
Brando was his generation's Brando.
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What ever happened to the UN/Iraqi-Oil-for-Food program scandle?
All I know is, a major Iraqi figure who had some details on it just got blown to smithereens by a car bomb...can't remember his name, but you can find it on Yahoo easily enough....
Brando movie I liked best, after The Godfather, of course. Hmmm.
Since One Eyed Jacks has been taken, I'll pick The Missouri Breaks.
After that, The Appaloosa.
I like Westerns. I'm just sayin'.
HAPPY NEWS!
"Thomas L. Friedman is on leave until October, writing a book."
Let's hope he spends too much time watching Judge Mathis and has to extend his leave through the election.
Y'know, I just really, really like Brando in Guys and Dolls. Sure, it's lightweight, and it's cruel to have him singing in the same movie as Sinatra, but ... well, I just like it.
OT: Austin City Limits kicks ass tonight for any of you in PST or MT.
Burn!
Belman
I'd forgotten about Burn! A hell of a movie.
wow, that pipeline bombing story looks bad.
Also, Juan Cole's piece on the trial of Saddam and how it may be dividing the country...
ugh.
not quite the same story I heard today on NPR...
I love "On the Waterfront" - wouldn't mind seeing it again now, what with its "fighting organized crime with the TRUTH" message...and yeah, I know all about Elia Kazan, and he was a jerk, but the film itself is great. I love Karl Malden's character in it, too.
I remember being just a little girl when it came on teevee for the first time, and my big sister, who was an English teacher, told me to sit next to her and watch it with her, because it was a great film, and he was a great actor. Ah, memories...
By the way, I remember reading about "On the Waterfront" in a film history book. When the film first came out (1951?), movie theaters carrying it were threatened -- bomb threats. I think there was even an actual bombing, although not while people were in the theater. The essay said it was corrupt members of the longshoreman's union supposedly responsible -- didn't like seeing a little truth on the screen. Anyone know any more details on this?
Someone on another thread was angry that the History Channel was running 3 hours on the SS tonight. Here's a quote from the show:
"Blind obedience to a leader can never be accepted as a guiding principle.... This is something that applies even today."
Frankly, I always liked "Mutiny on the Bounty"... a character everyone around him assumes is gay, but he's not... gets pretty hot under the collar towards the end (the "mutiny" part). Absolutely hilarious scene where Brando pops his head up from the lower deck and he's wearing a nightshirt and nightcap...
And for all you "Apocalypse" fans... if you've never seen Ernie Fosselius' "Porklips Now," you're really missing out!
Mertz: "What... did you think of my... method acting, Dullard?"
Dullard: "I saw no... acting at all."
From Bush's latest campaign email:
America can’t afford John Kerry’s higher taxes at a time when we are creating jobs and growing our economy.
America can’t afford John Kerry’s commitment to letting trial lawyers continue to play our legal system like the lottery, and can’t afford the higher health care costs that result from that.
America can’t afford John Kerry’s support for European-style regulations, higher gas taxes and opposition to domestic development that all serve to drive up the cost of energy in this country, and
America can’t risk going back to treating terrorism like a law enforcement matter.
Bit we can afford war without end, amen.
A lot of people will no doubt talk about Brando as Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now," but the unfortunate reality is that he was a huge problem on that set, pun I suppose intended, who showed up not having read Conrad's original "Heart of Darkness," making up "snail across the razor" shit on the spot like some bad beat poet.
The Men - Brando as paraplegic trying to come to grips with society
Viva Zapata - Brando as revolutionary in Mexico
Julius Caesar - Brando assumes the mantle of the fallen dictator
The Ugly American - Brando as Ivy League diplomat over his head in SE Asia
Candy - Brando as Guru
A Dry White Season - Brando as lawyer fighting the system in S. Africa
Roots 2: Brando as George Lincoln Rockwell
Okay,...I'll take "Don Juan Demarco".
Aaron--
Yes, I'd recommend "Hearts of Darkness," a documentary about the making of "AN" to any fan of that film.
Brando also refused to lose weight for the part as Coppola wanted (to go for the "wasting away in the tropics" thing), and would not allow his girth to be played up (to go for the "Eastern excesses" thing). In the end, Coppola made it work, by keeping it all poorly-lit, but Brando was not much of a team player on that movie. (He also threatened to drop out and keep his $1 million advance).
Anyway, also watch "Hearts" to see just how messed up Hopper was. He was not acting when playing the role of the deranged photographer...
Went and saw F9/11 tonight, short review, much better and deeper than ANYBODY mentioned, talked about the culture of fear and how it ties into how the Bushies play 9/11 for political/personal reasons. A very fair and balanced movie, after all, it gives good amounts of time for the Bushies to make their arguments in their own words.
That people say it seems biased..well..obviously someone looks bad, right?
The small town in Virginia mentioned, Tappahanock, is where my wife worked and went to school. Biiiiit close to home.
Also saw Spider-Man 2. Much better than the original, I would say it's a must see as well. A very well done, moral ethical movie.
The KFC (Karmakin Family Council) recommends it totally.
OT of Brando, I saw Paul Krugman on C-SPAN yesterday. Brilliant, and his brilliance shows thru in his his writing, but he is a lousy public speaker.
Mario Cuomo is on now, and he IS a great public speaker.
I wonder if Zapata's white horse is still galloping around the world looking for a rider.
My favorite Marlon Brando performance was his supporting role in A Dry White Season.
Brando played a dispassionate South African lawyer who reluctantly takes up Donald Sutherland's cause to determine the true story behind the death of his black gardener in Soweto. He offered us a brilliantly subtle and nuanced performance that swung from initial regret at taking the case, to complete disgust as he runs headfirst into the solid wall of apartheid.
The role summed him up beautifully, and earned him his final (well-deserved) Academy Award nomination.
maybe i missed it: but how about brando in 'superman?' as kal-el?
i heard that he had the lines written out on a set of oversize cards, which were presented to him in sequence as he shot the part he's in. the arrogance! but i always loved him, as the kal-el for the late70s/80s.
the godfather sequence witht the grandson and tomato patch is pretty good for me as well.
...shit, is that jor-el? stupid fautlty holiday memory...
When I was a clueless musician in a performing-arts high-school curriculum, I asked the most gifted actor in the program who they admired for their craft and he immediately mentioned Brando.
the butter....the butter...
can't remember his name
Ihsan Karim died today in Baghdad. The high-ranking Finance Ministry official had been investigating the Oil-for-food kickback scandal.
My favorite role is him living like Brando...
Get your Dick Cheney Team "F*** Yourself" Jerseys here:
http://www.cafeshops.com/cheneyprofaney
Streetcar/Waterfront/Paris/Godfather...Brando could have been playing a pumpkin and would have turned in a better performance than any other actor in history could ever fathom delivering. Not to mention how absolutely beautiful that man was...
"Also saw Spider-Man 2. Much better than the original, I would say it's a must see as well. A very well done, moral ethical movie."
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I understand that it's totally biased and makes no attempt to present the opposing point of view of Doctor Octopus...
I always liked Brando as the cross-dressing bounty hunter in The Missouri Breaks, especially the long improv scene where he sweet-talks his horse while nibbling a carrot with it. At one point he launches into a bitter digression about his faithless mule. Later on, Brando sulks and whimpers in his bathtub as a frustrated Jack Nicholson yells at him to get out anf fight like a man.
Then there's the great scene at the beginning of The Godfather where Brando blows up at Fredo for putting Connie's wedding invitations in all-italics.
Funny t-shirt. Has anyone done 'Brownshirts for Bush' yet?
Apocalypse Now. I absolutely hated Heart of Darkness, but Brando sold me on the movie.
Bedtime Story. Light comedy with a lazy Brando w/ David Niven and Shirley Jones. A remake w/Michael Caine & Steve Martin was called Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
He is terrifically creepy in John Huston's Refelections in a Golden Eye. There is one scene where he freaks out in front of a mirror for about one second and makes this strange noise staring at himself it is so fuckin quick but completely insane. I will miss him.
Bedtime Story. Light comedy with a lazy Brando w/ David Niven and Shirley Jones. A remake w/Michael Caine & Steve Martin was called Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
He is terrifically creepy in John Huston's Refelections in a Golden Eye. There is one scene where he freaks out in front of a mirror for about one second and makes this strange noise staring at himself it is so fuckin quick but completely insane. I will miss him.
Brando's "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech (in Julius Ceasar) ranks with with his "contender" scene in my mind.
My favorite bit in his Godfather performance was the scene in which he accepts Luca Brazi's congratulations on his daughter's wedding. In the book, Puzo wrote that Brazi was the one man that put the Godfather ill at ease, and Brando's face mirrored that unease perfectly.
The man was brilliant, and may he rest in peace.
The scene in WILD ONE, where Brando is riding his motorcycle down that dark, lonely road, with Mary Murphy hanging onto him, and the look on her face...and the Shorty Rogers music playing on the soundtrack..I saw that movie in the 50s..I am almost 70 now, and I will never forget that scene.....Brando was gorgeous in the 50s...so was I....
Nice piece in Salon - by old friend Charles Taylor - Take A Look.. (I'd link it, but you can't read the full text unless you watch their ads. Sorry..)
For Me: "Godfather," and "Last Tango in Paris," released within (a year?) of each other - one a brilliant transformation, the other maybe the most nakedly emotional display of screen acting that I've ever seen.
If there are still flags at half staff, they are for Brando and Brother Ray.. Rock on, Jimmy Dean..
OT, but I just went to see "Supersize Me" and probably will never eat fast food again (not that I ate much of it before). I also will be cutting back on buying the very little highly processed food I buy at the grocery store to zero. If you haven't seen it, go!
And congrats to Texas for having 8 out of the top twenty fattest cities in the US to their credit!
OT-but film related. I just read where R.L. Fridley, owner of Fridley Theatres throughout Iowa and Nebraska has banned the showing of
F9/11 in his theatres, saying it "incites terrorism". Welcome to home of the Free!
What do you call it when the assassin accuses the assassin?
GDoyle
Brando's friends, romans, countryman speech was ad libbed.
OT-but film related. I just read where R.L. Fridley, owner of Fridley Theatres throughout Iowa and Nebraska has banned the showing of
F9/11 in his theatres, saying it "incites terrorism". Welcome to home of the Free!
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The irony is so thick you can cut it with a dull knife:
I guess this isn't terrorism.
But it certainly is American.
Let's try that again.
Heartland values:
Kansas City police have identified the man who killed five of his co-workers at a meat packing plant. But his motive for the slayings remains unknown.
The murderer, 21-year-old Elijah Brown, killed himself after the shootings at the ConAgra Foods Plant in Kansas City, Kan. on Friday. It seems that he knew which people he wanted to kill.
"This person acted with purpose. He knew exactly what he was doing," Kansas City Police Chief Ronald Miller told reporters.
The taxi scene from``On the Waterfront.'' Grabbing Kim Hunter's leg in ``Streetcar.'' The diamond bullet speech from ``Apocalypse.''
``One-Eyed Jacks'' for ``Get up and fight ya big tub a' guts.'' ``Godfather'' for the great foreshadowing scene with Vito Scotti ``Someday I will call upon you for a favor.'' (probably not exact dialogue) and for just about every other line he spoke. Also, his turn as the Corleone-like gangster in ``The Freshman'' has a great inside-and-out charm to it. I also liked him quite a bit in``The Score'' from a couple of years ago. He plays a fence to DeNiro's big-time thief. On the DVD there are alternate takes of a scene at the bar where they're ad-libbing a bunch. You can see the mastery come out despite his indifference to acting by that time. Just brilliant. Even overweight and unhealthy he didn't look anything like 76 years old, which e was when he made that movie.
The taxi scene from``On the Waterfront.'' Grabbing Kim Hunter's leg in ``Streetcar.'' The diamond bullet speech from ``Apocalypse.''
``One-Eyed Jacks'' for ``Get up and fight ya big tub a' guts.''
His portrayal of George Lincoln Rockwell in "Roots." The way he baits James Earl Jones puts every right-wing troll who ever lived to shame.
Yes, the Fridley theaters are the chain with the HQ in Des Moines I mentioned. But they aren't the only theater chain in Iowa and Nebraska. They're only cutting their own throat on this deal, only an idiot would refuse to show the #2 film in the nation.
Check out the remix of Bush's speech from Friday: Confi-dense.mp3.
Normally, I wouldn't link to my blog in comments, but we finished it a couple minutes and its pretty fucking funny.
Dean's supporters are threatening a floor fight at the Convention to demand that their man be given the VP spot. I don't know how that would work, but it should make for better TV than the balloon-drop.
tory pretzel-
it's tena's world, we just live in it.
"get up you sad old bag of guts."
I respect Brando the actor and Brando the social activist. DoN0t forget he was on the forefront of the struggle for equal rights.
His performances were usually unique and each creative in their own right, it's hard to name a 'favorite'.
The usual: Waterfront, Streetcar, One-Eyed Jacks, Don Juan de Marco, but the two that really stick out in memory right now are Missouri Breaks and, without peer: Apocalypse Now, which was largely improvised.
Brando's main acting innovation was mumbling. People forget what it was like in the 50's. Mumbling simply wasn't allowed.
Allawi says its justified to kill american soldiers since they're an occupying force
Why isn't this making headlines instead of getting an obcure comment that I had to google to find after hearing it mentioned in passing on CNN.
This is big. Doesn't it mean its time for us to get the hell out of Iraq if the government that we recognize as legal says killing our troops is justified.
This is such a gigantic cluster fuck.
esther -- thanks for the article identifying bush felons big clusterfuck war nightmare preview -- maybe it'll even awake kerry and friends up to the error of the occupation. and maybe they'll see it in their hearts to try and save more american soldiers from being unnecessarily killed or maimed in bush's bloddy albatross
In Mutiny on the Bounty, there's a scene which has nothing to do with Brando's character, Mr. Christian. Two men are talking in a room, Brando enters in his nightshirt and asks if someone called him. The two men look confused and say no, so Brando leaves.
It seems like a joke he was playing, and they kept it in the film. That's the way I remember it, though I haven't seen it in a long time.
I note the following in the Saturday NYT editorial section, under "The Sluggish Wage Recovery":
Assigning the White House too much blame or credit for job losses or gains is a silly game in a free-market economy that is cyclical by nature
A Dry White Season.
VITO CORLEONE (as he stands)
I knew that Santino was going to have to go through all this. And Fredo -- well --
(then, after he sits besides Michael)
-- Fredo was -- well -- But I never -- I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life, I
don't apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused -- to be a fool -- dancing on the
string, held by all those -- bigshots. I don't apologize -- that's my life -- but I thought that --
that when it was your time -- that -- that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator -
Corleone. Governor - Corleone, or something...
Notre Dame Basketball Star Loses Hand in Iraq
This shows the hidden cost of our war in Iraq, and the heroism, strength and courage of our soldiers. Bring them home.
With Liberty and Justice for ... Some
A judge dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by a woman who accused him of groping her. She said the campaign falsely labeled her a convicted criminal.
... a Schwarzenegger campaign spokesman sent an e-mail to reporters directing them to a court Web site to search for records of a Rhonda Miller whose history included prostitution, drug crimes and disorderly conduct. She turned out to be a different Rhonda Miller.
Miller, a stuntwoman, has no arrests or convictions for such crimes, ...
(The Judge held) that because Miller held a news conference to broadcast her allegations against Schwarzenegger, she was a limited public figure.
As a result, her attorneys needed to furnish "clear and convincing" evidence that Schwarzenegger knew Miller had no criminal history when the campaign sent the e-mail.
Additionally, there was no proof that Schwarzenegger's campaign communications director, Sean Walsh, who sent the message, or others were aware Miller had no criminal record, the judge said.
Martin Singer, a lawyer for the governor, said the decision showed that Miller's lawsuit was frivolous and Schwarzenegger "should never have been sued."
As people have noted, even in his later years, Brando still had a lot of juice left as an actor. Don Juan DeMarco, A Dry White Season, The Freshman ... and I actually really liked his performance in The Score opposite DeNiro - a very commercial caper movie, but very well done nonetheless.
But my favorite Brando performance is still On The Waterfront. The taxi cab scene is beyond classic, iconic even. And his scene with Karl Mauldin in the bar is just too real "Leave me alone, why don't you leave me alone? It's none of your business. It's none of your business!" (paraphrasing)
Elia Kazan is problematic, but the film he made is not. Brilliantly made and absolutely compelling. As a good union man, I like the film even with its portrayal of corrupt union bosses. See Paul Schrader's Blue Collar, with Richard Pryor, for another such film (although Schrader's film is more explicitly anti-power structure in general, and carries a meesage I'm more in tune with).
I must say "The Godfather" was Brando's greatest hour, simply because I love that movie so much. It's a testement to Brando that he made Vito Corleone, arguably a guy who would have been played as a villain by many others, a wholy sympathetic and admirable figure. Plus, how many of his lines from that film have become catch phrases?
Others I'd list as his greatest are "Streetcar," "Waterfront," "Wild Ones" and "Apocalypse Now." Brando's greatness is apparent due to the numbers of iconic movie characters he played. Vito, Stanly Kowalski, Terry Malloy, Col. Kurtz, the "Wild Ones" gang leader, all these guys have become immortal characters in celluloid history and all were played by one man. I've always thought that an actor's status as a legend is confirmed when people start imitating him and Brando is one of the most imitate there is.
Yes, he made a lot of subpar films, but honestly, he wasn't alone in that department in Hollywood history. Heck, even some of his lesser films are fun to watch, like "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (one of the most bizarre movies to come out of the 60s and I find it amazing that John Huston directed it) and "Island of Dr. Moreau," now a "so bad it's good" classic. (It's suprisingly influential too, given how that weird little Brando dwarf in it inspired Mini-me in "Austin Powers.")
An added note on "Waterfront": I hate that such a great movie is always going to have a cloud hanging over it thanks to the director. I have nothing but contempt for Kazan as a human being (he's a classic example of a rat who squeals out others to save his own ass and he helped destroy other people's lives) and I hate that he may have used the film as a rationale for his squealing. I've read that Brando suspected this and contemplated not doing the role because of Kazan's actions. It's telling that they never worked together again after it.
I can still enjoy "Waterfront," not for the politics, but for the great performances. Brando won Best Actor Oscar, Eva Marie Saint won Best Supporting Actress and Malden, Steiger and Cobb all got Supporting Actor nods (where, of course, they canceled each other out). Quite a feat and they all deserved it.
Although it's not my favorite role for Brando, I still like to mention his Air Force officer in Sayonara. He allowed himself complete, innocent, hickness. He was so transparent that the simple soul of the Officer shone through. It was beautiful.
The Fugitive Kind
Brando was cast in Reflections in a Golden Eye at the last minute. Elizabeth Taylor desperately wanted Monty Clift to play the part -- which would have been perfect for him. But Monty died, and Brando stepped in. He was quite good in the role.
So many movies! Remember him as the Texas sheriff in "The Chase" with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. With Brando in a role, genius became typical.
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
Working in a Con-agra slaughterhouse must be a living hell.
A lot of their stuff get remaindered out to Canned Food stores and the like. If for some reason they have to dump some stuff below cost,I think that they can use it as an expense against their gross profit.
I'll have to check with Mrs. Avenger, aka "Jungle Accountant" when she gets back from golf.
I got to see OTW in high school as part of a film class in American history.
It's like Oliviers' Henry Veverything is perfect.
Burn, no question. Had a one week run in a movie house in the Valley (extraordinary hotdogs and real butter for the popcorn), and that was it - the studio was horrified by it and insisted it switch its location from a Spanish colony to a Portuguese so as to offend the markets less. Brando making imperialism sexy and as corrupting for its protagonists as for its victims. The last Brando-looking Brando film before he changed into the Godfather. Ennio Morricone score, and the politics are -still- killer. Everything after Burn is a different actor.
Lots of good movies, don't forget these good performances, THE NIGHTCOMBERS (a prequel to Henry James' Turn of the Screw) as Pete Quint. THE BRAVE the Johnny Depp directed film about a Native American deciding to appear in a snuff movie for money for his family. As far as I know, this hasn't been released in the US.
I think I'm going to watch Brando's worst movies as a tribute, because I always watch his good films. 
The films I plan on watching are:
Desiree, Island Of Dr. Moreau, Candy, Teahouse of the August Moon and either Guys and Dolls or The Young Lions.
"You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!"
Terry Malloy to Johnny Friendly
"On The Waterfront"
This is random, but check out this Reuters picture of Kerry (adjacent to article):
http://tinyurl.com/3fwgd
Anyone else think the composition of the photo is deliberately sick and suggestive?
Kate,
That is sick. And deliberate.
I second Shaw's remarks. You can't tell me they didn't do that on purpose.
My favarite is
Streetcar named Desire
On the Waterfront
Viva Zapata
Mutinity on the Bounty
Godfather
The Freshman
Guys and Dolls
To Aaron:
A few years ago, at the end of a long series of e-mails, I wrote that someone's comment sounded like bad beat poetry. To which one of my addresses responded
"You mean there's good beat poetry?"
My vote: Terry Malloy. The scenes with Eva Marie Saint, the taxicab scene, the dead pigeons . . . . I'll never grow tired of watching him, no matter what Kazan and Schulberg's subtext was.
addressees
Surely you understand
Ahem -- I rather liked Tea House of the August Moon. It's fun to see him so young and he cracks me up. And I give him props for his psychiatrist in Don Juan DeMarco. He's not young, he's out of shape but no matter. The man is sexy. All the more remarkable, given that he's sharing the screen with the gorgeous Johnny Depp.
Gotta love The Freeway Blogger
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