The Best Marlon Brando Movie You've NEVER Seen (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- Marlon Brando is possibly the greatest actor to have ever lived. His body of work speaks for itself: The Godfather, On The Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Apocalypse Now; his performances in these movies have defined modern acting as we know it today. But those are only five titles in a career that spans over 3 decades with over 30 film appearances. Could that mean that a few other great performances might've slipped through the cracks of pop culture? That's the question I try to answer in this video.
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Lets not forget The Wild One,which pretty much started the 50's rebel thing,before James Dean and Elvis
It did start the Rebel..jeans..t-shirt..it did..
how tf do you not have more subs than this bro!??? This video is so well made editing, script, humour everything, great stuff man
Thanks man! I really appreciate you for saying that!
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
Brando was nominated for Best Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire as he was the leading man in the film, but Humphrey Bogart won for The African Queen and many, such as myself, see that as the Academy making up for not giving him the Oscar for Casablanca, so the next time Bogart was nominated he would win, which is unfortunate for Brando as he’d have to wait 3 years to win for On the Waterfront, which is a good performance as well and I believe he deserved it that year, but he also should have won for Streetcar 3 years prior.
Marlon BRANDO IS THE GREATEST ACTOR EVER.🎉🎉🎉 HANDS DOWN!
imo,His version of Mutiny is the best.
Marlon Brando is the 🐐 GOAT. THE GREATEST EVER IS BRANDO🎉🎉🎉
Brando's Mutiny is a beautiful film, especially on the big screen. But his performance sucks.
@user-uq6sz6po3d says you.=you're a nobody. 🤥🤥. Hating on the Greatest Actor ever.
@@user-uq6sz6po3di disagree. I thought he was magnificent in Mutiny.
Agreed
Brando in Julius Ceasar is maybe the best Shakespearean performance on film
Very much agree with this! Love him in that movie! It’s an underrated performance of his and an underrated Shakespeare adaptation. It’s not super flashy, but the performances are terrific from everyone in the cast.
Burn is one of Brando’s best performances! Just terrific. Maybe an even better and more underrated one? Reflections in a Golden Eye…
Brando isn´t throwing the glass..He shakes out the last drops..He even looks into the cup..
Comes from his little plant he carries..with a top..not to drip..Its acting..high class acting..
I love Burn, discovered it through the Morricone soundtrack, paid $4 for shitty print on Amazon Prime. Genuinely surprised there isn't more love for this one. Also songs my mother taught me is an interesting read, Brando makes some bold claims, like the time he rewrote the entire script of Apocalypse Now in a weekend and therefore saved the entire film??!! 😂😂😂
Also saw this on Amazon Prime. Gotta take what we can get. It be cool if criterion released something.
Thanks for creating this video. Cheers
BURN HAS a low budget spaghetti western feel,but definitely one of his best performances,
I actually never thought of it specifically like that, but I think you’re correct! It does have a spaghetti western feel!
I think they were trying to go for a more David Lean type vibe (that’s at least what’s expressed in a documentary I watched) but I think budget restrictions and lack of infinite resources kept them from achieving that.
Yes because its a euro production
The greatness of the I'm a bum scene lies in Brando portraying 90% of the audience.
I definitely cannot deny the relatability of what the character is saying, especially as a recent film school grad struggling to find work.
Son, I saw it when I was 14 in 1979.
God save our glottal stops. I say a little prayer. My wife is from Harlem and Bed-Stuy and I'm a mick-kraut from the Midwest and I can only aspire of having her crisp enunciation.
I have both The Ugly American and Burn! on DVD. I found The Ugly American at FYE in the mall back when they had quality movie stores and bought Burn off of eBay. Personally, I think they are great films because of the subject matter and the lack of understanding of Americans at that time. One takes place in Southeast Asia, and the other in the Caribbean. I highly recommend both films.
Burn came to our city tittled Qumeda , I saw it broad screen ,, it is to me one of my finest movies,, the first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes are stunning,, being Marlon Brando I had a feeling about the last 10 minutes,, only BRANDO could bring it off ,Brandos finest
I would say get the book . BRANDO FOR BREAKFAST…
The Chase has one of the most brutal beatings ever put on film
The Appaloosa is a great western.
Burn was one of my favorite, hard to find movies. I would have to say Wild River would be the other one. Back in the '90s I wrote Roger Ebert an e-mail asking if he knew where I could see it. I got an e-mail back with the generic message from his agent that he only responds to 7 e-mails a month so I did not expect to hear from him. The next day he sent one telling me that Cinemax would show it at midnight on a certain date 7 months from this e-mail's date. It was quite unexpected. After seeing it, about a month later Roger wrote back and asked me what I thought of it. I said that Eli Kazan must have chosen the cast for their eyes. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick and Jo Van Fleet all have piercing eyes. He liked my commentary so he recommended Burn because he had made the same observation about it. He wrote me many times after that. Every movie he recommended sought my response back to see what I thought about after seeing them. He was one of the nice ones.
That’s a really incredible story! It’s good to know that a man I’ve looked up to for years was actually a pretty down to earth and kind human being. That’s kind of a rare thing sadly.
ethan i mustve seen your photobomb at least 13 times -WHY ?
Good video. Stanley Kowalsky is his best performance cause he actually had to work hard to embody it, besides his natural talent. Plus he had to stay with it for 2 years or so in the theater. Vito Corleone is great too but more memorable cause c’mon, The Godfather might be best movie (in many peoples eyes) of ALL time.
Appaloosa is a genius film
I saw Burn many years ago. I remember liking it, I also recall Brando's weird demise at the end. But, I like his work in The Ugly American, which I think is another good film, a sort of takeoff on America's involvement in Vietnam. And Bedtime Story is the original version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I think Brando and David Niven are as funny as Steve Martin and Michael Caine. These films used to be on RUclips.
Burn for some reason is panned ny critics but i highly enjoyed it. I didnt like tango a all. I still think his performance as the Don is his greatest role followed by Mutiny & Streetcar.
I saw ‘Burn’ when I was in high school; always stayed with me as a powerful critique of the age of European colonialism. Wonderful soundtrack, brilliant performance by Brando. A lost masterpiece.
I find it incredible that when naming Brando's best work you omitted Apocalypse Now.
So much for credibility.
Brando's 100 pounds overweight for the role. He's playing a Green Beret, after all. If he's not getting the credit you think he deserves, he has no one to blame but himself.
The Appaloosa is not bad
To whoever’s comment I just removed, my bad. I was trying to respond and messed up 😂. I’m a silly goose.
But I think you must mean "The Missouri Breaks", also a great film
Brando in Waterfront is brillant. His excellent in every role in 90 for me the weight affect the performances but still Brando
3:25 brando got a nomination for a best actor that year from what i can remember
Correct, but he didn’t win. That’s what I was emphasizing.
I have not only heard of all the movies but I find them all very interesting, my favorites being Bedtime Stories, and Reflection of Golden Eye.
I must say I find this genuinely kind of impressive. I’m glad you enjoyed them. I will admit I actually like The Ugly American. Brando is pretty damn good in that one.
@@ethanatthemovies6650 the ugly American is ruined by it’s simplistic and naive approach to politics. But Brandon as usual is very good. Bedtime stories was remade as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin playing the Brando part. Brando was remarkable in Last Tango in Paris, the Formula, A dry white season, the score. He truly was a remarkable actor.
No. I have seen most of them. Except for this comedy.
I saw Burn and The Adventurers Directed by Lewis Gilbert.
I snuck into the Trans-Lux 85th Street Theatre when I was 12 ..Both films gave me nightmares.
The Men another great Brando performance,before Streetcar
He is really great in that. I was surprised by how upsetting and effective that film was even by today’s standards. It comes off a bit cheesy, particularly toward the end, but for the most part it handles the subject with respectable frankness and truth.
Did anyone see the film he did before this,Night of the following day,strange, bad film but in a good way
Hello
OK I just watched your video and read the comments and I think this is the perfect opportunity to start a debate that never took place with Brando’s acting, on his performance in On The Waterfront. Like you I agree that Terry Malloy’s performance is not that great. And reading the comments in your video, I found two comments that were not satisfied with your view of Brando’s talent, a guy literally wrote "I must say that this is the Worst Analysis of Brando’s Acting, Movies, Personality or ..... Just Sucks!" and another commented that you didn’t know what was good (I guess he was talking about your appreciation of Brando’s performances, including On The Waterfront).
So I said to myself that I've had enough of not seeing this being discussed and I was finally going to say it out loud:
Brando’s performance in On The Waterfront is not his best performance, it’s not a performance that deserves an Oscar and it’s not even a good performance, it’s a decent performance but doesn’t deserve the attention it has had for over half a century. For me this performance was greatly impacted not by the talent of its performer, but by the myth that emerged at about this time of Brando’s life. When On The Waterfront came out, Brando was at the peak of his fame, in the 50s at least. He had become more of an icon than an actor, of course his acting was appreciated, but two films shaped his myth: A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Wild One. And it’s interesting to note that these two films have impacted the spectators, especially men, to really imitate Brando in his films, especially physically : Men now wanted to be as muscular as him and have a tight t-shirt like Stanley Kowalski.
Then came The Wild One, where he plays Johnny Strabler, and there is the same thing, everyone, at least all men, wanted to look like him, move and walk like him, flirt like him, just like his character in the film. He impacted the audience again so much he embodied the cool that was so missing in the 50s. This film and its character inspired James Dean (who was obsessed with Brando and his talent), but also the style of dressing of Elvis Presley (whom Brando hated).
It was a matter of time before Brando was awarded the Academy Award, he had already been nominated for A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata and Julius Caeser. And I think that at that moment the Oscars, faced with the huge rise of Brando’s status as an icon, the Academy thought "We’re going to give him an Oscar for his next good performance in a film that ticks the preferences of the academy’s voters and that will be successful with the public." And that’s where On The Waterfront comes along. Long story short, I think people say that his performance as Terry Malloy is one of his best, or even Brando’s best performance because at one point in his career in Hollywood people DECIDED it was his best performance, people followed a trend, a way of thinking that this performance is the best and that’s it, no discussion. People will direct me back to the taxi scene, but I’m sorry it’s not worth the admiration it gets. But like a lot of people, it happens to me to return to this scene from time to time, but not for the acting of Brando, but for the writing of his dialogues (and also the music of Leonard Bernstein), this is the real achivement of the scene for me, not Brando’s acting but what he says. I don’t know who wrote his dialogues but it sums up perfectly what many of us think from time to time: Everybody thinks at some point of their life that they’re a failure, everybody thinks that they could have been a contender, instead of a bum, or a nobody. Not like Terry Malloy, who was a boxer and could have won the title, but a contender in life, professionally in our work, or in our personal life as a friend, or parent or sibling etc. I think that’s the real power of the scene, Brando acts well in it, or it wouldn’t be so quoted. But for me it doesn’t get to what made Brando so good.
For me, where Brando really shines, it's in 3 performances in his career, to note that I have not seen all his films, nor the one you recommend Ethan, here are for me the 3 perormances to absolutely not forget the work of Brando as an actor:
1) His most intense performance: Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire". He's amazing in this movie, you can’t help but watch him when he appears on the screen. Not because Brando is handsome, but because every second he appears, it feels like a volcano is about to explode. He steals the show from everyone in this movie, even the main character Blanche Dubois, and in a sense I think Brando did his job too well because some people think his character was right to treat the character of Blanche that way, these people are blinded by Brando’s talent and reputation and the fact that his character is absolutely reprehensible in this film, but it remains an absolutely incredible performance and so full of strong and raw emotions. A great performance but not to forget that his character is a bad guy, not to imitate or idolize.
2) His greatest disguise : Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" Probably his most knowed performance. Some may argue that his character doesn’t show a lot of emotions but that’s the idea, he’s a mafia boss, he can’t show weakness, that’s why Brando absolutely enjoyed creating a character with a way of walking, of moving, of behaving, a character far away from him but just as convincing. To see him play in this film is like watching a ballerina, everything is perfect in his way of being, his character plays a character, that of the Godfather. But the character shows emotions, especially in one scene, I will not spoil, or he learns a bad news about one of his relatives and goes to see a friend with a famous quote, there his character drops his mask of The Godfather during this moment, And here too Brando’s talent shines.
3) His most personal performance : Paul in "Last Tango In Paris". Yes I am aware of the scene that caused scandal and I agree, Brando and the director Bertolucci are assholes and weirdos, but outside this scene, which serves no purpose by the way, but the film anyway does not make much sense and is very problematical, at the end I wondered what I had just watched. But Brando’s performance is unique in the sense that there’s probably not a single lie in what Brando says and does in this film, the director said "Be yourself" And in some scenes where Brando is alone, or talks about himself or even speaks alone, You can see why he’s considered an acting giant. I do not recommend the film, it is a really weird film, but look on RUclips "Last Tango In Paris : Paul’s Monologue" A scene where his character speaks to his dead wife who had just committed suicide, the monologue drags a little at the beginning but it is the calm before the storm.
Before going to see the film if you really want to see it, first look for what is happening in its scene that caused scandal and read the summary, the film is frankly not really interesting except for Brando.
Sorry if there are some spelling mistakes, english is not my first language
This is one of the most well-written and thought-through comments I've ever read. Thank you so much for taking the time to write it so I could have the pleasure of reading it.
@@ethanatthemovies6650 Thank man, I hope your video will be more viewed, I found a man like Brando fascinating, like you said he cared so little about anything, especially his acting, yet is considered the most important actor of the 20th century, it's crazy, some actor will give everything to be seen by everyone to seek attention, and he hated every second of it. Looking forward for part 2 !
this was informative and a altogether a great essay, thank you good man.
disagree about On the Waterfront but I can come around on the speech not being THAT great. Not the best part of that movie but there are so many great more 'naturalist' moments. Chock full of them. But yeah would like to check out Burn.
I saw it !
Check out Nightcomers another lesser known strange Brando film.
Bogie won for African Queen that year,51.
I do love Bogie. If I could go back I’d say that isn’t the worst win. You could call it a legacy win (as someone else here did) and you’d be correct, but I’m happy he won an Oscar. I felt that way for Jamie Lee Curtis when she won. I was like, “yeah, she doesn’t really DESERVE it this year, but she’s been around for awhile and it’s nice she won’t die having never won.
I loved the video but my brotha in christ get rid of the inflection in your voice. Each of your sentences sound as questions, making them really hard to bear.
I must say that this is the Worst Analysis of Brando's Acting, Movies, Personality or ..... Just Sucks!
Love the pretentiousness and lack of constructive criticism
You’re kinda pompous young fella
You don't know what's good.