The Actor Who Didn’t Care - Marlon Brando

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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024

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  • @geminiguy6032
    @geminiguy6032 Год назад +11052

    I heard a story from my acting teacher about how during an audition Marlon Brando and the actors were all told to act like farm animals. At one point the casting director said, "There's a bomb being dropped on top of you!" All the other actors ran and hollered but he just sat there. The casting director said, "What are you doing?" He looked up at her and said, "I'm a Chicken, I'm laying a Goddamn egg!" The director responded, "There's a bomb about to be dropped on your head!" And he said, "How the hell should I know? I'm a chicken."

    • @mosquerajoseph7305
      @mosquerajoseph7305 Год назад +2006

      He spitting ngl

    • @Sci-Fi_Freak_YT
      @Sci-Fi_Freak_YT Год назад +973

      He is a genius

    • @Quitumbe954
      @Quitumbe954 Год назад +420

      That boy slid

    • @nayrskater
      @nayrskater Год назад +319

      Not wrong lol

    • @MrMelonsz
      @MrMelonsz Год назад +549

      “If you’re looking to be *the next big thing,* don’t just look around and do what everyone else is doing. Embrace what makes YOU special, cause that’s the only way you’re gonna stand out.”

  • @polreamonn
    @polreamonn Год назад +7757

    To people who claim Brando to be lazy. I raise you Steven Seagal.

    • @MrAschiff
      @MrAschiff Год назад +269

      Yeah, Seagal is a real thespian

    • @theoddfather8782
      @theoddfather8782 Год назад +402

      Except Brando was an Actor!

    • @agenticmark
      @agenticmark Год назад +327

      Not even in the same category.
      Brando is like someone who has a few drinks, gets into his car, and kills someone on accident.
      Segal is someone telling someone else how he got in the car sober (because a real man doesn't drink), and then ran over the person on purpose to stop them from detonating a bomb.
      Actually Segal might put in more effort :D

    • @ultralightpablo
      @ultralightpablo Год назад +74

      Thing is, Brando was an actor tho.

    • @ammagnolia
      @ammagnolia Год назад +178

      Steven has stunt doubles do his walking, fighting, sitting.... If you can't see his face, it's not him. And you can tell. The stunt guy is usually skinny or Chinese.
      On top of that, he has people dub his voice. So there can be a scene of a stunt guy walking with a voice actor doing the voice.... Can't get lazier than that

  • @charliemalick8985
    @charliemalick8985 Год назад +2507

    Fun Fact: Later in his life, Marlon Brando would go onto AOL chatrooms and start fights there, and was banned multiple times for cussing people off.

    • @streetzomb69
      @streetzomb69 Год назад +85

      deadass?

    • @xotl2780
      @xotl2780 11 месяцев назад +363

      He was a real-life troll and then an internet troll.

    • @dmer-zy3rb
      @dmer-zy3rb 11 месяцев назад +143

      makes perfect sense honestly Brando was always a troll and loved to get reactions out of people.

    • @perrodetokio
      @perrodetokio 11 месяцев назад +3

      😁

    • @cheesecakelasagna
      @cheesecakelasagna 11 месяцев назад +101

      It's giving Bill Murray stealing some rando's fries and saying, “No one will ever believe you.” 😅

  • @andrewalden8364
    @andrewalden8364 Год назад +3804

    It’s crazy to imagine that the studios execs didn’t want Marlon Brando or Al Pacino cast in The Godfather.

    • @mustang8206
      @mustang8206 Год назад +66

      Not at all

    • @hittkid6312
      @hittkid6312 Год назад +449

      It's crazy now, but think about it at the time of filming. Marlon Brando was a known headache and source of trouble and Al Pacino was a newbie in films, i think godfather was his 3rd film ever and was probably the first time he was the lead actor, most of his experience was in stage plays.

    • @fajarputras3300
      @fajarputras3300 Год назад +131

      Not crazy at all. Al Pacino wasn't popular back then, it actually made sense that the studio execs want the lead to be played by a popular actor.

    • @denroy3
      @denroy3 Год назад +54

      Some photos of actors wearing Brando's dialog taped to their clothes...so he could read it. That was why, at that point, he was lazy and unprepared.

    • @Chinaski1
      @Chinaski1 Год назад +46

      Dude, did you even watch the video? Brando was totally unpopular at that time and very difficult to work with. Al Pacino was pretty unknown. The studio wanted a more famous actor like Robert Redford or Dustin Hoffman.

  • @abrielrobertsson4160
    @abrielrobertsson4160 Год назад +1042

    Well, Marlon is a typical example of how intelligent people are often lazy, never show their full potential, and yet somehow manage to do very well. Lazy or not, he was one of the greatest actors on screen for sure.

    • @tomcruiiseship9461
      @tomcruiiseship9461 Год назад +32

      I mean I get it. Get got money which means food. And he got fat. Which means lazy. Kings do the same in midevill times

    • @peterroberts7684
      @peterroberts7684 Год назад +22

      Nope, Brando was the Greatest, and his acting style, of looking and behaving naturally on screen ,Still reverberates today.

    • @ivandankob7112
      @ivandankob7112 9 месяцев назад +28

      The biggest fools here are those who continued to work with him despite the unprofessional behavior. Why should he change it if they still pour millions in his pockets, which explains how modern influencers continue to scam people who just don’t care and still watch their content

    • @MASTEROFEVIL
      @MASTEROFEVIL 8 месяцев назад

      400th like

    • @rebelraccoon9018
      @rebelraccoon9018 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@tomcruiiseship9461Why are people so quick to be negative. You said that like Brando was defined by his obesity fgs. Yeah he got fat towards the end of his life and who can blame him. He dealt with a lot of tragedy. Food is comfort. He was phenomenal, a true star.

  • @Coastfog
    @Coastfog Год назад +1788

    It's crazy to see early footage of him acting, really puts into perspective what a game changer he was with his style.

    • @blurredlenzpictures3251
      @blurredlenzpictures3251 Год назад +55

      Watch one of those films. It's not just footage. They are films.

    • @asharma4490
      @asharma4490 Год назад +29

      Yessir! Watch any of those movies and then play another movie from the same year and see how this guy single handedly changed the craft of acting. While everyone one else was putting on a performance, guys like him, Clift were out there living every single scene moment to moment. Anyone who is any good at acting still does that to this day. And I haven’t watched this video yet so the next sentence is based off the title of this video. What he did on screen? A “LAZY” actor could never do.

    • @blurredlenzpictures3251
      @blurredlenzpictures3251 Год назад +19

      Sorry about my comment here it. I sound like as ass.

    • @asharma4490
      @asharma4490 Год назад +10

      On the contrary sir, I appreciate the fact that you were advising them to go and watch some his older movies. Truly some great cinema.

    • @cinesanti7
      @cinesanti7 Год назад

      just face the facts, Brando was lazy, it even manifested in his appearance/weight, plus he had a penchant for emotional abuse and sexual exploitation towards women (see Maria Schneider and Rita Moreno) but he all had you fooled with his front of being a pro-social justice advocate and pseudo-philosopher. He was also a deadbeat dad who let his son become a murderer

  • @blacknapalm2131
    @blacknapalm2131 Год назад +754

    *Brando and Daniel Day-Lewis are similar in that both are natural masters of the craft yet both do not hold this craft in a high regard.*
    "It's just acting, it's not rocket science. We are not changing the world. It's just entertainment."
    This is very refreshing to most movie goers, as opposed to the weepy eyed piousness of the Hollywood crowd who seem to think that what they are doing is of earth-shattering importance. It may also be why Brando was the original 'Academy Awards Troll'. He couldn't help but make fun of the crowd that was jealous of how easily it came to him. He exposed their mediocrity to the world.

    • @blurredlenzpictures3251
      @blurredlenzpictures3251 Год назад +18

      What a nihilistic way of looking at filmmaking. I disagree completely with your point. Bresson and Truffaut hated Brando because he was simply an entertainer.

    • @futuristic.handgun
      @futuristic.handgun Год назад +66

      ​@@blurredlenzpictures3251It's not nihilistic, it's absolutely true. L

    • @domanskikid
      @domanskikid Год назад +88

      @ blurredlenzpictures3251
      Jesus….take a step back. At the end of the day, being aware that an actor is an ENTERTAINER is not nihilistic, it’s called being an adult and not idolizing actors.
      Maybe find more to your identity than theatrics?

    • @MutantsInDisguise
      @MutantsInDisguise Год назад +7

      ​@@futuristic.handguntrue is just a point of view, parasite.

    • @mikef7698
      @mikef7698 Год назад +19

      ​@@MutantsInDisguise "I don't have some way to put it. That's the way it is." -Anton Chigurh

  • @clintstewart5545
    @clintstewart5545 Год назад +1318

    Marlon Brando turned into Eric Cartman as he aged I do what I want , one of the best ever no doubt ...

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou Год назад +68

      South Park also had the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes, and a character based on Brando's Island of Dr. Moreau character.

    • @papalaz4444244
      @papalaz4444244 Год назад

      Absolutely right. Cartman is also an autistic psychopath. You actually nailed that one.

    • @JoeChillton
      @JoeChillton Год назад +16

      Dr. Mephisto, yes @@KasumiKenshirou

    • @michaelmcmillan1432
      @michaelmcmillan1432 9 месяцев назад +9

      “Are you here for worlds fattest man award?
      No I’m here for worlds greatest actor”

    • @fadeskywards1245
      @fadeskywards1245 4 месяца назад +1

      I read your comment in Cartmans voice.

  • @mustang8206
    @mustang8206 Год назад +1286

    A man who hated acting, had a bunch of flops, but enough hits to be remembered as an acting great

    • @blurredlenzpictures3251
      @blurredlenzpictures3251 Год назад +40

      None of what you said is true.

    • @MutantsInDisguise
      @MutantsInDisguise Год назад +34

      ​@@blurredlenzpictures3251it's a fact.

    • @williamj.dovejr.8613
      @williamj.dovejr.8613 Год назад +81

      He even went on record saying he hated actors, actors were the worst people and the camera lies frame by frame.

    • @arriuscalpurniuspiso
      @arriuscalpurniuspiso Год назад +35

      He said he wanted to be the best in his 20s and then after Waterfront, said, this isn't a job for a grown man

    • @mustang8206
      @mustang8206 Год назад

      @@blurredlenzpictures3251 Watch the video

  • @tagoldich
    @tagoldich Год назад +1539

    He wasn't the actor who didn't care; he was an actor of profound ambivalence. There's a difference. On the one hand, he cared deeply. For his role in The Men, he spent a month in a wheelchair in order to inhabit the chair in a fully organic way. Actors had rarely, if ever, gone to such lengths before. On the other hand, acting was just a joke to him. Simultaneously caring deeply and not caring at all was what made Brando so great. It's obvious what caring deeply contributed, but it's out of not giving a shit that he got his spontaneity, impulsiveness, FREEDOM.

    • @Panimal98
      @Panimal98 Год назад +32

      And somehow still obliterated every role.

    • @seth5143
      @seth5143 Год назад +40

      @@Panimal98
      Absolutely. I think this is what gets lost on people when it comes to Brando, Bukowski, Hendrix, etc. Some people can't help but be brilliant by simply PERFORMING brilliance and will fall into success every single time. We've been conditioned to think that it's all about blood, sweat, tears, sacrifice, dedication, and ultimately effort; in most cases that's 100% true. But there are people simply destined to be legends despite themselves.

    • @mosquerajoseph7305
      @mosquerajoseph7305 Год назад +12

      @@Panimal98he did not obliterate every role lmfao

    • @arriuscalpurniuspiso
      @arriuscalpurniuspiso Год назад +22

      His later roles are lazy. Always sitting behind a desk with an earpiece feeding him lines. He lost his passion for acting and admitted he was just doing it for the money. He lost what made him great in his later years

    • @PolishGod1234
      @PolishGod1234 Год назад +1

      ​@@mosquerajoseph7305he did

  • @Will_Parker
    @Will_Parker Год назад +3787

    The fact he got a fake native American to launch a tirade about how native Americans are portrayed is accidentally his most hilarious prank

    • @RileyShaw-ry7xz
      @RileyShaw-ry7xz Год назад +462

      And the fact that people still don’t know about this shows how well he pulled it off

    • @cjewe1z
      @cjewe1z Год назад +76

      Was she a fake?

    • @kutter_ttl6786
      @kutter_ttl6786 Год назад +547

      ​@@cjewe1zHer sister said she didn't have any ties to Native US tribes. they said their father was Mexican-American.

    • @lazymansload520
      @lazymansload520 Год назад +303

      @@cjewe1zit’s true, after she died her sister came forward and said she got her name from a 4H club building and that she did this out of shame of her Mexican heritage

    • @john2432
      @john2432 Год назад +759

      I think you’re missing the point of why he invited her. Besides the fact that he was not aware that she was a fraud, he invited her because the federal government was about to go to war with the Natives at Wounded Knee, likely leading to a further diminishing of the sovereignty of the entire reservation system. In this case, it really doesn’t matter if she was a Native or not, what matter was that it earned the intended publicity

  • @crookedpaths6612
    @crookedpaths6612 Год назад +112

    Deliberately screwing up his lines in order to make Sinatra eat more cheesecake is quite funny

  • @JoeChillton
    @JoeChillton Год назад +129

    Brando reminds me of the phrase "mistaking confidence for arrogance." He knew his worth

  • @benjaminjo
    @benjaminjo Год назад +194

    Acting came so naturally to him, he didn't care. The guys 2nd feature film got him a best actor nomination for goodness sake, and he literally INVENTED the style of acting we all love and enjoy today. He'd practically done it all so early, so fast, it's no wonder he got bored with it. He accomplished so much, so quick. Where else was he going to go from there?

    • @TheBfutgreg
      @TheBfutgreg Год назад +10

      I assume somewhere discreet to consume a 5 gallon tub of ice cream

    • @kurtay3232
      @kurtay3232 Год назад +1

      that doesnt do justice to what it means to peak early in life

    • @thirdmann3
      @thirdmann3 4 месяца назад +2

      he didn’t invent method acting

    • @anom6707
      @anom6707 2 месяца назад +1

      @@thirdmann3yeah he didn’t he only popularized it

  • @LandoIsLoading
    @LandoIsLoading Год назад +698

    The stories about apocalypse now always make me laugh. He was always gonna do what he wanted plain and simple. The man.

    • @FilmStack
      @FilmStack  Год назад +62

      And in that case it worked out very well, such a memorable performance!

    • @BrokeNdisAbled
      @BrokeNdisAbled Год назад +36

      The stress gave Martin Sheen a freaking heart attack!!!

    • @carlossaraiva8213
      @carlossaraiva8213 Год назад

      Less the man and more the asshole. Talent is no excuse for assholery.

    • @B-Mag
      @B-Mag Год назад +25

      It's especially crazy because the whole movie is about Marlon Brando's character going rogue

    • @cinesanti7
      @cinesanti7 Год назад

      just face the facts, Brando was lazy, it even manifested in his appearance/weight, plus he had a penchant for emotional abuse and sexual exploitation towards women (see Maria Schneider and Rita Moreno) but he all had you fooled with his front of being a pro-social justice advocate and pseudo-philosopher. He was also a deadbeat dad who let his son become a murderer

  • @BrokeNdisAbled
    @BrokeNdisAbled Год назад +975

    He’s brilliant in The Men. And Marlon is the reason behind Acting Unions and getting actors PAID….and all he did for human rights back before it was en vogue- I also got mad respect for this man.

    • @sekarpertiwi4077
      @sekarpertiwi4077 Год назад +94

      Marlon Brando was doing charity work long before he was famous. When he was young he once gave all the money he earned from his theater performances to charity. and I really respect that he never changed and still did that until the end of his life.

    • @DonovenGrey
      @DonovenGrey Год назад

      Of course, respect for being himself but still a conceited prick.

    • @denroy3
      @denroy3 Год назад +9

      "Mad" respect means you have juvenile respect, that's not adult language.

    • @denroy3
      @denroy3 Год назад +2

      You want to see Betty Davis fighting for more money back in the day.

    • @ScottyFang
      @ScottyFang Год назад +49

      @@denroy3you must be fun at parties

  • @TheRealDarrylStrawberry
    @TheRealDarrylStrawberry Год назад +172

    Once you realize that Brando's famous look-away is just him reading a cue card...IT still works!

  • @mrflipperinvader7922
    @mrflipperinvader7922 Год назад +185

    The most amazing thing is learning that Brando almost played the comedic preist from Scary Movie 2, and theres unreleased footage of it!

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 Год назад +2

      The Charlie Sheen role?

    • @Whoa802
      @Whoa802 Год назад +25

      ​@@mikespearwood3914The James Woods role.

  • @shehzad_ali
    @shehzad_ali Год назад +625

    I remember when he was alive reading about his on set and off set behaviour. I don't think an actor like him would be tolerated now or get any roles.

    • @FilmStack
      @FilmStack  Год назад +172

      Especially since actors don’t have as much pull in the box office as they used to. Not many actors that can guarantee big numbers now, so they don’t have much leverage and gotta be on their best (or at least decent) behaviour on set

    • @murciadoxial8056
      @murciadoxial8056 Год назад +13

      that might happen if he brings in the money or the awards

    • @davidfernandez8515
      @davidfernandez8515 Год назад +67

      At his peak he was so famous that his name alone would make any movie profitable. Imagine what a relief that is for the studios and what an opportunity for the creative people to do whatever they want.
      Stars are still allowed to do whatever they want, they just choose not to be assholes. Acting is way more profesional now. It has evolved a lot since Marlon like any trade does.
      There're also very few true movie stars left: Dicaprio, Brad Pitt and Denzel Washington are the only ones in my opinion. Nobody else fills a theater just because of their name

    • @clintstewart5545
      @clintstewart5545 Год назад +56

      @@davidfernandez8515 tom cruise

    • @jimmyboy7817
      @jimmyboy7817 Год назад +20

      ​@davidfernandez8515 Yes, some of the biggest stars of the 1990s are still the biggest stars today. The stars of more recent years are only ones that have been attached to successful franchises, and those stars have often failed to repeat that success outside of the franchises they've been involved with.

  • @chandlerholloway3900
    @chandlerholloway3900 Год назад +129

    My theory isn’t that Marlon Brando didn’t care. I think he cared and felt too much. When you care and feel too much, you have to detach yourself and approach with an “f-you” or “I don’t care” attitude to handle the constant expectation of perfection one puts on oneself. There’s a reason he tried to eat most of his feelings away.
    When one feels too much and doesn’t know what to do with it or how to handle it, you can try numbing it with alcohol, drugs, money, sex, or food. I’m sure Marlon learned, like many others, you can never outrun or out-eat your feelings.
    Everybody can call Marlon Brando lazy and entitled, but when he really cared and DID his thing, he made every other actor feel like an amateur. There’s no doubt he’s one of the greatest.

    • @085cur1ty
      @085cur1ty Год назад +8

      perfect i agree

    • @potatohead5986
      @potatohead5986 11 месяцев назад +1

      That sums up about most people, and you said it beautifully, but i don't think an actor who's over-correcting their perfectionism would have these many irrelevant demands from the directors

    • @IvanPolyansky
      @IvanPolyansky 9 месяцев назад +1

      you sir do get it. 🫡

    • @youtubeistryingtocensorme
      @youtubeistryingtocensorme 6 месяцев назад

      You’re just making excuses for him

    • @gobinb7918
      @gobinb7918 7 дней назад +1

      Very good explanation

  • @jonkheerofnac
    @jonkheerofnac Год назад +157

    Marlon Brando and Edward Norton on the same set of The Score (2001) must have been chaos

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 11 месяцев назад +25

      A movie with 3 of the best actors from their generation. Well imagine, Brando broked the cellphone of Val Kilmer, and Kilmer really wanted to work with Brando.

    • @youtubeistryingtocensorme
      @youtubeistryingtocensorme 6 месяцев назад

      @@jesustovar2549 island of dr. moreau. Starring Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando. Destroyed Val’s career. And complete nightmare to shoot. Look up the documentary on the making of this movie.

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea Год назад +95

    It should be pointed out that when Brando was filming The Island of Dr Moreau, his daughter committed suicide. This tragedy may have affected him greatly, thus making his onset antics worse than before. Compounded by this personal tragedy was the fact that he was working with Val Kilmer, another actor with had his own reputation of being self centered and troublesome to work with. The two actors clashed on set many times.

  • @karaloca
    @karaloca Год назад +43

    Brando was gifted, but I believe his true love was life, not acting. I think he knew what was important and that acting was a means to do what he really wanted in life.

  • @lv2465
    @lv2465 Год назад +186

    He was fantastic as Colonel Kurtz. Despite how brief his role is, despite that he's in the dark it really did define a man who had crossed the threshold into madness.

    • @rebeccawalsh1462
      @rebeccawalsh1462 Год назад +15

      This is when you realise how bold/ creative Brando was. His choices were fearless. He is mesmerising in the role but its because he also captures perfectly the banality of evil.

    • @shanequastunningbrave5376
      @shanequastunningbrave5376 Год назад +7

      His utterly pretentious performance ruins the last act of an otherwise close to perfect film 1st 2 acts

    • @PolishGod1234
      @PolishGod1234 Год назад +7

      ​@@shanequastunningbrave5376wrong

    • @Grandmaster-Kush
      @Grandmaster-Kush 10 месяцев назад +1

      I think he's too stiff as Kurtz, too lucid and banal for a man of such seeming madness (the snail monologue) he comes across more as someone suffering from chronic constipation and depression then the unwilling leader of an unhinged break away civilization in the jungles of nam

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un 10 месяцев назад

      @@shanequastunningbrave5376 Got that right. Well overdone

  • @shanemccarthy212
    @shanemccarthy212 Год назад +108

    There is method to the madness. In the drama school I went to we were thought that the less we cared and the less we attached ourself to the result the more free we become during the performance. Obviously there is a balance between caring and not caring. Brando done it perfectly.

  • @rebeccawalsh1462
    @rebeccawalsh1462 Год назад +56

    If anyone gets the chance read his autobiography Songs my mother never taught me. It delves into his childhood obviously -but he had very deep rooted issues with his father. He describes his father as like Stanley - brutal. He clearly loved his mother but she was an alcoholic. However she was very creative and artistic. She set up a theatre company and a young Henry Fonda was part of it. However he was deeply taumatised by her alcoholism. However he had deep compassion for her.

    • @sanatheempath7079
      @sanatheempath7079 Год назад +5

      Almost the same kinda comments he makes in one of his scenes in Last Tango in Paris. He seemed so real in the whole movie. Even the behind the scene pictures seemed like he was going thru something.

  • @Veyron722skyhook
    @Veyron722skyhook Год назад +82

    Its a wonder his career lasted as long as it did.
    If someone were like him in this day and age now, they'd be out of a job very quickly.

    • @quakethedoombringer
      @quakethedoombringer 9 месяцев назад +4

      Brando was lucky to be born at the time when actors could get away with acting like douche bags (look up Arnold when he was in his 30s - 40s, Val Kilmer during the 80s or 90s). Although that may depend. Miles Teller is supposedly a huge douche but he still gets roles

    • @Veyron722skyhook
      @Veyron722skyhook 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@quakethedoombringer I know

    • @Mickey-1994
      @Mickey-1994 6 месяцев назад +3

      Hollywood was mostly done with him by the 80s and especially the 90s which is why he was in small roles or bad movies.

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад +4

      but no one wants todays actors to last so long.they are repititive and boring.Marlon could take a boring script and make it interesting.He worked too little,I wish there were more films he did.He was someone to enjoy and learn from.

    • @bobcobb3654
      @bobcobb3654 27 дней назад

      And that’s why we don’t get performances like this anymore.

  • @MrBrutal33
    @MrBrutal33 Год назад +30

    Brando never disguised his contempt for the acting profession and it shows in both his choice of movies and his refusal to learn lines. He reminds me of a singer who puts out a great couple of albums and then coasts along singing cover versions.

    • @littlekingtrashmouth9219
      @littlekingtrashmouth9219 Год назад +2

      “Dean Martin! You wasted your talent.”
      “What do you mean, wasted? I made a hundred albums!”

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад

      oh please.Even in a silly movie just Marlons presence gives it class. and producers know it.

  • @darrylmars
    @darrylmars Год назад +107

    Early Brando was a great actor w special talent, who got rich, fat & lazy.. The Elvis of cinema.

    • @nerychristian
      @nerychristian Год назад +24

      Old Elvis still had passion when he sang.

    • @Greg-re7nj
      @Greg-re7nj Год назад +4

      Agreed

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 11 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@nerychristianAnd that stage of his life, I think that's Elvis at it's best, there's a reason a lot of people still dresses like the Elvis from the 70s, that's how most people remember him (even people that weren't born during the elvismania), it's like when people think of Brando, they think about Vito Corleone, Jor-El and Colonel Kurtz.

    • @Mickey-1994
      @Mickey-1994 6 месяцев назад +3

      Elvis got bloated because his organs were so messed up from his pill addiction but he did some of his best music in his later years and was never lazy with his passion for putting on a great show. Brando was an a@@@@@e and treated people like s@@@.

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад +2

      please Elvis was a country boy a yokel who made it big by default almost without knowing why or how.Marlon was intelligent thoughtful caring sensitive.His brain was that of a colossus.there is no comparison between the two.

  • @melissaharris3389
    @melissaharris3389 Год назад +122

    I'd say Brando was an amazing actor but a very difficult human being. He was clearly very hard, even unprofessional, to work with.

    • @MutantsInDisguise
      @MutantsInDisguise Год назад +10

      Facts.

    • @dirteater7579
      @dirteater7579 11 месяцев назад

      Yeah no one here seems to want to talk about the fact that he literally raped his costar because on camera him and the director decided her reaction would be more genuine if she didn’t it was gonna happen.

    • @quakethedoombringer
      @quakethedoombringer 9 месяцев назад +5

      To think he only gets away with this because he was just naturally good no matter how lazy he became later in life. If he was a tone or 2 worse, he would be Steven Seagal Original

    • @yourarseismine1016
      @yourarseismine1016 9 месяцев назад

      @@quakethedoombringerSeagal always wants to look badass and cool, Brando just didn’t give a shit.

    • @JordanG-t6p
      @JordanG-t6p 7 дней назад

      I feel like he was an amazing human being, but a difficult actor.

  • @kylenolan3138
    @kylenolan3138 Год назад +20

    I think his early acting was his best. The first time I saw On the Waterfront, I was blown away by his improvisation in scenes with Eva Marie Saint. It was so modern that it almost seemed out of place for the era.

  • @devak45167
    @devak45167 Год назад +62

    I legitimately love the idea Brando’s character in Dr. Moreau being revealed to be a dolphin in a human suit 😂

  • @pajamapantsjack5874
    @pajamapantsjack5874 7 месяцев назад +3

    5:58 I will be honest, as someone who’s lived by the ocean my entire life, it’s a part of me. That wave is literally perfect and that shot is pure kino.

  • @ComeJesusChrist
    @ComeJesusChrist Год назад +26

    Brilliant! He wasn’t an actor, he was a sophisticated, real-life villain!

  • @sarahcristina4656
    @sarahcristina4656 Год назад +11

    Your channel is so good! Keep with the good work :) Cheers from Brasil!

    • @FilmStack
      @FilmStack  Год назад +5

      Thanks for the comment, it means a lot!

  • @WarioSaysSo
    @WarioSaysSo 10 месяцев назад +4

    Marlon Brando was a very interesting mixed actor unlike any other! You have great respect for his craft and personal charm, and at same time you grind your teeths out of frustration you can't get him to do what you envision in the movie or that he creates drama with his co-actors.
    A perfect example of Brando is his work with Francis Ford Coppola's award classic Apocalypse Now (1979). BTW, Brando was paid $1 million a week for just 3 weeks work.
    Brando was the movie's "central character" Colonel Walter Kurtz, a highly decorated US Army Special Forces officer who goes rogue. He runs his own military unit based in Cambodia and is feared as much by the U.S. military as by the North Vietnamese, Viet Cong and Khmer Rouge. His character is ordered to be executed by Martin Sheen's
    character U.S. Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a veteran assassin who is serving his third tour in Vietnam. The whole movie the audience is from time-to-time told about this "mythical" Col. Kurtz and how/why things came to be at same time the audience get a heavy insight of the brutal Vietnam War.
    Marlon Brando was paid $1 million in advance. He threatened to quit and keep the advance...
    Brando showed up on the set overweight, and despite it was in his contract a demand to be in representble shape in line with a Vietnam War commander, Brando gave rats-@ss to do even e decent work of that. Coppola was astonished how overweight Brando turned up for his scenes and, feeling desperate, decided to portray Kurtz, who appears emaciated in the original story, as a man who had indulged every aspect of himself. He was so fat (not trying to shame, but point out the problem for the role) and he was very, very shy
    about it ... He was very, very adamant about how he didn't want to portray himself that way.
    Further how Brando had not read the book, Heart of Darkness, as the director Coppola had instructed him to to doo OR read his lines. -
    Coppola spent several days reading Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" out loud to Marlon Brando on the set.
    After several days of arguments over single lines of dialogue, Coppola agreed to an ad-lib style script, with Brando filmed mostly in shadows.
    Marlon Brando improvised a lot of Kurtz's dialogue, including an 18-minute speech, two minutes of which survived the final cut. Some of it was incoherent, most of it was great.
    At the end of the speech, Brando said to Coppola, "Francis, I've gone as far as I can go. If you need more, you can get another actor."
    During filming, Dennis Hopper and Marlon Brando did not get along, leading Brando to plain out refuse to be on the set at the same time as Hopper =
    something we seen Brando doo in other movies when butting heads.
    Marlon Brando so angered Francis Ford Coppola that Coppola turned over the filming of Brando's scenes to assistant director Jerry Ziesmer!

  • @SamuraiShampoo77
    @SamuraiShampoo77 Год назад +12

    There's many very talented people who take it for granted don't care about it. No most of them are not marlon brando so he definitely had a mixture of luck and getting good roles but his influence is gigantic and undeniable, your favorite actors favorite actor.

  • @lordmanatee439
    @lordmanatee439 Год назад +27

    I would consider Brando a co-director on Apocalypse Now. He steered Coppola into insanity in a jungle, because he was insane and didn't care of he died in this jungle. And it produced an insane movie. The ending was supposed to be a battle scene with a romantic action filled death. I prefer the more psychological "horror".

    • @tooleyheadbang4239
      @tooleyheadbang4239 Год назад +1

      He was so fat that Coppola had to keep him out of sight.

  • @nicktaylor2657
    @nicktaylor2657 Год назад +119

    I think Brando was the perfect example of Work smarter Not harder How much money was made of his immeasurable talent 😊

    • @ryanisbelle6107
      @ryanisbelle6107 Год назад +20

      Filming the ocean for two hours to find a shot of one wave is working smarter, not harder? Do you know how expensive theater quality film is?

    • @timothyspool1399
      @timothyspool1399 Год назад +2

      I guess things like living in a wheel chair for a month to prepare for a role really highlight this... 🙄

  • @darkkrenaissance42
    @darkkrenaissance42 Год назад +8

    No one usually knows what theyre gonna say before they say it...
    That is some serious insight into high level acting there

  • @xtraflo
    @xtraflo Год назад +8

    It should be pointed out that Later in Brando's career - he never sought out roles.
    Directors and Producers were the ones that begged him to be in their movies...

  • @p_ttown1979
    @p_ttown1979 Год назад +23

    i think The Last Tango in Paris section glossed over how negative that butter scene was for the costar maria schneider. i understand if it wasn’t covered because of monetization it’s a huge example of brando’s (as well as in this case the director’s) controversial on set behavior.

    • @FilmStack
      @FilmStack  Год назад +10

      Yeh, the section was originally a bit longer but after uploading the video we actually had to cut some parts out using the RUclips editor to stay safe for RUclips.

    • @habadasheryjones
      @habadasheryjones Год назад +17

      That situation made me disgusted of Brando quite frankly. A prank is one thing but what he did on that set was assault and the director approved it. Neither were decent enough to even ask the actress before hand.
      It would have been nice if Filmstack left it in the video because otherwise you have kind of a lob sided perspective on the actor. It would do some good to everyone in the comments praising him and his acting talent to know that his antics weren't always just fun and games.

    • @quinnmorlotti
      @quinnmorlotti 10 месяцев назад +4

      came here to say this too!!

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад

      oh come on.

  • @doubleog6149
    @doubleog6149 Год назад +29

    He does what he wants. In The Godfather, Brando found a stray cat in the studio parking lot, the cat followed him. Brando brought the cat to the set, he was told to put the cat away b/c the novel and the scene didnt have a cat in it. Brando refused, hence the cat in his hands and the affection the cat had for Brando.

    • @dhenderson1810
      @dhenderson1810 Год назад +11

      I think having a cat adds to the character, as it portrays him as having a sympathetic side as well and not just a ruthless mobster. It makes the Godfather more of a complex character who does these bad things, but loves his family and animals.
      True killers hurt animals (I saw a series where thirteen of the fifteen worst serial killers killed animals before starting on people) so anybody who can love a pet still has some compassion in their heart, and it makes Don Cordeone a more sympathetic character.

    • @A.Krispy
      @A.Krispy 5 месяцев назад

      That’s the cutest story 😊

  • @bijikedelai
    @bijikedelai Год назад +35

    He made the mr perfectionist himself, Stanley Kubrick stepped down?? What a legend 😂

    • @johnrockyryan
      @johnrockyryan 6 месяцев назад

      Haha right that says alot about his aura as an actor even Stanley Kubrick just couldn't say anything

    • @bobcobb3654
      @bobcobb3654 27 дней назад

      Kubrick also got an offer to replace the original director of Spartacus around the same time One Eyed Jacks was starting.

  • @michaelmitchell5098
    @michaelmitchell5098 Год назад +45

    The film set should be considered a safe and healthy work environment. When your demands and behavior effect your coworkers it shouldn’t be tolerated.

    • @Suedetussy
      @Suedetussy 9 месяцев назад +6

      Exactly. There are enough actors around. I don’t need to see abusive people on screen.

    • @stellviahohenheim
      @stellviahohenheim 8 месяцев назад

      When there's millions involved some people will go through anything to get it

    • @Suedetussy
      @Suedetussy 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@stellviahohenheim But not the crew. They don’t earn millions.

  • @ManchesterIsNotReal
    @ManchesterIsNotReal Год назад +63

    I watched one eyed Jacks for the first time recently and I definitely noticed how good that wave looked...then I looked up the trivia and saw they waited for it. Yea it sounds a silly thing to do...but i DID notice how good the waves looked in that scene!

    • @FilmStack
      @FilmStack  Год назад +12

      It did look good! Haha

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un 10 месяцев назад +1

      I guess Brando thought of himself as a David Lean

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад

      @@Thenogomogo-zo3un no marlon was better.What a wave.to wait for a lifetime would have beeen too short.

  • @PaceFilmsProductions
    @PaceFilmsProductions Год назад +16

    It’s not fair someone could be so talented and good at something while also completely not caring about it.

    • @andrew-song
      @andrew-song Год назад +5

      To be fair, he did care about acting at some point during his life. If he truly never cared for it to begin with, he wouldn't have had so many deeply memorable performances lol.

  • @ADavid42
    @ADavid42 Год назад +37

    over the past 40 years, each decade saw a new actor be lauded as 'the Next Brando', and fans waited with bated breath for it to pan out.
    This decade, the nomination goes to Adam Driver... but after seeing this, I would say that for all that Adam's acting feels natural and his presence fills the set of every scene he's in... Adam's professionalism ensures he is in no way 'the New Brando'.

    • @perfectallycromulent
      @perfectallycromulent Год назад +7

      tha't because it's a headline phrase, not a serious analysis. and really, if you look at orson welles himself, how many years was he really the orson welles people love vs an asshole too busy thinking of pranks to fuck with his costars than to memorize his lines. orson welles himself, he was not the orson welles of the myth.

    • @thewalruswasjason101
      @thewalruswasjason101 Год назад +4

      Doesn’t have Brandos charisma.

    • @nerychristian
      @nerychristian Год назад +3

      No way. Adam Driver is a terrible actor

    • @ADavid42
      @ADavid42 Год назад +2

      @@nerychristianLOL. Maybe all the top directors are afraid of him and that's why they keep hiring him and lauding him.
      Or maybe simple action pow pow is more your kind of cinema.

    • @nerychristian
      @nerychristian Год назад +4

      @@ADavid42 There's plenty of bad actors who keep getting hired for films. Getting movie roles doesn't mean you are a good actor.

  • @samkresil6011
    @samkresil6011 Год назад +38

    Marlon Brando also made his final appearance in the Michael Jackson music video "You Rock My World" which followed after The Score in the same year

    • @joaniekeyser4036
      @joaniekeyser4036 Год назад +1

      I wonder if Brando was as big a headache on the set of YRMW as he was on the sets of his films? And if he was, I wonder what Michael must have thought of him?

    • @samkresil6011
      @samkresil6011 Год назад

      @@joaniekeyser4036 Well I remember going to look that up on IMDB but couldn't find any proof that he was difficult the making of You Rock My World, but I did just look up that recently that Michael and Marlon were actually close friends prior to doing the music video and Marlon even playful looking to take a bite out of Michael's hat during one of the still shots for the video.
      And I also looked up the year that the video was made, Michael and Marlon, along with actress Elizabeth Taylor were escaping in a getaway car following the 9/11 events that occurred and that Marlon would even stop at every McDonalds and KFC restaurant just to help himself to some food.

    • @samkresil6011
      @samkresil6011 5 месяцев назад

      @@joaniekeyser4036 I looked it up but I couldn't find much evidence about. I heard that they actually must've gotten along well behind the scenes and afterwards, they even went on a car trip to flee with Elizabeth Taylor when the 9/11 events occurred.

  • @sekarpertiwi4077
    @sekarpertiwi4077 Год назад +86

    People called Marlon Brando lazy but he is one of those actors who always puts effort into his character, he even plays many film genres such as musical, drama, comedy, Shakespeare etc. He has played both protagonist and antagonist roles. Don Vito physical appearance in the film Godfather was also his idea.
    A lazy actor is one who always plays the same role over and over again like actors nowadays.

    • @denroy3
      @denroy3 Год назад +11

      Blah blah blah. You just made no sense. Apparently you don't know the definition of "lazy" and "unprepared". And Brando went that route as his career moved along. I live someone just making something up to make excuses for someone else.

    • @arriuscalpurniuspiso
      @arriuscalpurniuspiso Год назад +2

      I love him, but he got lazy over time. His last roles are so beneath his talent. His obesity didn't help

    • @th3m00nstone
      @th3m00nstone Год назад +1

      do yk what type casting is? actors don't choose what roles they get cast in...

    • @JimmyJames10-k7v
      @JimmyJames10-k7v Год назад

      Cope

    • @assassin8636
      @assassin8636 8 месяцев назад

      I disagree with your last point about nowadays actors

  • @GamingSaturnMoonManBoy
    @GamingSaturnMoonManBoy Год назад +8

    He was actually offered to play the hobo on the train in The Polar Express. According to Eddie Deezan who played the Know-It-All kid Tom Hanks was very close with Marlon Brando and Tom asked Brando if he could come in for one day to do his scenes. Unfortunately he was too sick to do it. That would’ve been awesome to see and it could’ve been his only kids/family movie ever

  • @cha5
    @cha5 Год назад +39

    I remember some interview with Werner Herzog and the subject of Marlon Brando came up and Herzog went off on a tangent about how he thought that Brando could never come close to Klaus Kinski when it came to "method acting." Although to be fair I don't believe Brando ever had to worry about his director shooting him dead, or members of his cast offering to do the same thing.

    • @rebeccawalsh1462
      @rebeccawalsh1462 Год назад +5

      Can you imagine if they worked together on a film😅. Lol. That would be one for the ages. To be honest I think it would be so combustible that they would be talking about it now. But maybe not.....its difficult to know. According to Brando he really bristled against authoritarian directors claiming to have more freedom and collaborate relationship with directors he admired like Coppola and Bertolluci.
      He worked with Charlie Chaplin , with Chaplin as the director and he loathed him. Brando was so mercurial.

    • @malafakka8530
      @malafakka8530 Год назад

      I'd take some of the things Herzog says with a grain of salt. I think he likes to embellish his stories (some of his crew denied some things he said about him and Kinski iirc) either because he just can't help but be a storyteller and/or to make his stories look more interesting than they actually were. Not that anything said about Kinski either from him or anyone else would be unimaginable because he was quite a mad and despicable person.

  • @diankreczmer6595
    @diankreczmer6595 Год назад +4

    Saw brando on an.old larry king show way after he was no longrr giving interviews and he said in his acting class he was told to just respect the feelings he would get while doing a part in a movie. He did that and always trusted his instincts. He was a genius and introduced a new acting style that changed movies. Brando was to acting what elvis was to music. These men were geniuses and innovative and honed their crafts at the same time

  • @budsak7771
    @budsak7771 Год назад +5

    I understand all too well how it is to stop caring about the job when the job stops caring about you.
    RIP Mr. Brando 🍻

  • @RADIUMGLASS
    @RADIUMGLASS Год назад +38

    Burt Reynolds said to Marlon Brando I think you're a great actor and Brando said I wish I could say the same about you 😂

    • @jesustovar2549
      @jesustovar2549 11 месяцев назад

      Once Burt Reynolds got into a cab, talked to a lady, the cab stopped and Reynolds followed his steps, looking at the window he saw that old lady was Greta Garbo.

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад

      haahaha

  • @James-ev6dk
    @James-ev6dk Месяц назад +1

    *The Score* was the very first film I saw Brando in and, although it was a minor role, I was absolutely mesmerised by him in it.
    I wad 17 and in college (UK) doing an acting course and he really inspired a performance out of me that a professional theatre critic (whom came to our final show to grade our performances) told my tutor that my interpretation of the character in this play was the best he'd ever seen and he was laughing his head off the entire time.
    Great memory for me thanks to Marlon 😊

    • @socklock1957
      @socklock1957 17 дней назад +1

      The Score was an underrated masterpiece, it's the only movie where Brando and De Niro share the screen and as far as final movies go, this is a really good way for him to go out on a high note.

    • @James-ev6dk
      @James-ev6dk 17 дней назад

      @socklock1957 It really was amazing. Brando and DeNiro's scenes were electric. I couldn't take my eyes off them

  • @johnrockyryan
    @johnrockyryan Год назад +10

    Brando just didnt buy Hollwoods bullshit he was the ahead of the competition that it got boring for him i mean the guy used an Oscar as a door stop, in a movie filled with superstar actors (the Godfather and Apocalypse now) he (IMO) stole every scene he was in and he wasnt even trying, he just didnt a single shit and i honestly have to respect that RIP Marlon Brando the only actor who i think is better than DDL

  • @KamillGran-ch5sb
    @KamillGran-ch5sb Год назад +54

    Even Brando’s so called lazy performances are masterpieces of acting compare to all the Sean Penns and Aflecks of the world.

    • @janso7979
      @janso7979 Год назад +20

      Sean Penn is a bit of a clown now, but there was a time, 90s through the mid-2000s, when he was one of the best actors around.

    • @KamillGran-ch5sb
      @KamillGran-ch5sb Год назад +4

      @@janso7979 maybe but his ego always surfaced through the parts. I think Fast Times …and Falcon and the Snowman were his best.

    • @janso7979
      @janso7979 Год назад

      @@KamillGran-ch5sb The performances I'm thinking of are along the lines of Dean Man Walking, Mystic River, and 21 Grams. I found them impressive at the time, but I haven't watched any of them since their initial release. I very well might agree with you if I watched them again. Fast Times was probably his most enjoyable role. In any case, I feel a bit strange defending Penn, since he tends to annoy me on a personal level. I seem to recall Brando having some real stinkers mixed in there in the 60s. Candy, The Countess from Hong Kong, etc.

    • @KamillGran-ch5sb
      @KamillGran-ch5sb Год назад

      @@janso7979 candy I can’t defend but Countess from Hong Kong is a wonderful movie. I love Bedtime Stories, Reflection of Golden Eye, really all of them.
      The problem with Penn is he is always making statements in his movies. Every movie has to be important. Not Marlon, he might have wanted to but some of his movies are just fun or at least interesting.

    • @janso7979
      @janso7979 Год назад

      @@KamillGran-ch5sb Don't get me wrong, I much prefer Brando to Penn. I agree that Penn can be insufferable much of the time. It's just that despite how much he often annoys me, I begrudgingly have to admit that he has a lot of talent. As far as Brando goes, I see him as having three great gifts. He had elite talent as an actor, was physically beautiful and had extreme charisma. He often coasted on his acting talent, often not putting in the effort which could have maximized it, but it was at such an innately high level that even his sub-standard performances were still better than most of his peers. The beauty faded with time but certainly aided him greatly in his younger years. He always kept the charisma, which made him magnetic on screen even in his worst movies. When all three were at operating at a high level, like in Streetcar, he was iconic. I don't think I've ever read a biography of any actor aside from Brando. I read both a biography of him and his autobiography. And I obviously watch at least the occasional YT video about him.

  • @trollcatcomics
    @trollcatcomics 7 месяцев назад +2

    Ironically him not caring made him one of the best actors as never overacted making his performance much more believable and natural.

  • @Tarantula_Fangs
    @Tarantula_Fangs 3 месяца назад +2

    To Hollywood, it was business. To Brando, it was art and enjoyment.

  • @ProdCritic
    @ProdCritic Год назад +20

    Francis Ford Coppola: Brando is one of 3 Geniuses I’ve ever met
    *RUclipsr* : He’s Lazy

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un 10 месяцев назад +1

      Got to be a genius to get paid loads to do as little as possible. Jor-el in Superman for example. $4 million for 10 minutes on screen.

    • @frankstrawnation
      @frankstrawnation 8 месяцев назад +1

      Who are the other two?

    • @piranha5506
      @piranha5506 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@frankstrawnationkurosawa and fellini I think

    • @piranha5506
      @piranha5506 8 месяцев назад

      Seriously. Being authentic is a nightmare in US.

    • @tillis31
      @tillis31 4 месяца назад

      @@Thenogomogo-zo3un $19 million for Superman with the backend %-age

  • @silverslider562
    @silverslider562 Год назад +7

    Something I got to respect about a guy who can simultaneously earn so many accolades and simultaneously kick shit and ngaf at the same time 😂

  • @gorkmusic
    @gorkmusic Год назад +13

    Complicated guy, amazing artist and a genuine activist. I think he hated the business and the consumerism of the culture but also enjoyed the excesses it provided him.
    It's hard to believe he could have been better when he's already one of the greatest ever, he just liked making everyone's life hell for whatever reason lol

  • @AnlStarDestroyer
    @AnlStarDestroyer 3 месяца назад +2

    Reeve only got $250k??? The best Superman we’ve ever had and that’s all he got?? Insane.

    • @bobcobb3654
      @bobcobb3654 27 дней назад

      $250k for an unknown actor was pretty damn good in the 70s. For context, Al Pacino only got $35,000 for the first Godfather.

  • @MrAschiff
    @MrAschiff Год назад +58

    This video leaves out Brando's fantastic performance as Mary Antony in Julius Caesar. According to John Gielgud, Brando had all of his lines memorized. I guess you can't fuck around with Shakespeare.

    • @rebeccawalsh1462
      @rebeccawalsh1462 Год назад +17

      Yes - this shows you the range he had and his ambition at least in the 50s to develop and nurture his talent. As well as doing Shakespeare, he decided to do Guys and Dolls because he believed despite not having much belief in his ability to sing and dance he nevertheless thought it was an actors job to challenge himself. I love his work in the 50s because you can see this desire in him to really grow and challenge himself. Later he became bitterly disillusioned but in his early career its like he's a smoking gun. He was so talented.

    • @AYVYN
      @AYVYN 7 месяцев назад

      Was just about to say this

  • @alexandrebeaudry8377
    @alexandrebeaudry8377 9 месяцев назад +2

    The butter scene is Last Tango in Paris was done without the consent of the actress. Both director B. Bertolluci and M. Brandon talk about doing it and they did.

  • @NelsonStJames
    @NelsonStJames Год назад +23

    I totally forgot that Superman was made before Apocalypse Now. I don't consider Brando "lazy", but he wa definitely undisciplined. To be honest some of his pranks were pretty funny; the placing of weights under the gurney always makes me laugh during that scene in The Godfather, though I really wish he'd have come back for that flashback scene at the end of Godfather II, which would have made a near perfect film probably about as perfect as a film could be.

    • @denroy3
      @denroy3 Год назад

      He was lazy. Your opinion is meaningless.

    • @SonofSethoitae
      @SonofSethoitae Год назад +19

      ​@@denroy3Your opinion is lazy, and your ability to engage with nuance nonexistant.

    • @mediumchungus9662
      @mediumchungus9662 Год назад

      ​@denroy3 your comment is lazy and meaningless. Seek something besides attention.

  • @Themikebolton1
    @Themikebolton1 Месяц назад +1

    Can’t help but respect Marlon Brando for his way of thinking and his acting psychology

  • @s1ckboirari
    @s1ckboirari Год назад +9

    The fact he told the Director of Superman he had to do all scenes in 1 take to "grasp and perform as an actor of his prestige". Marlon Brando was there for about 4 weeks while the people on set, most actors including Christopher Reeves ofc were filming for 19 months..

    • @GiovanniAlckmimRusso
      @GiovanniAlckmimRusso Год назад +9

      Probably one of the reasons Reeve was disappointed with him

    • @dhenderson1810
      @dhenderson1810 Год назад

      Jor-El gets killed off in the first ten minutes of the film, so wasn't needed for as long.

    • @GiovanniAlckmimRusso
      @GiovanniAlckmimRusso Год назад +1

      @@dhenderson1810 doesn't justify being like "I'm gonna do this scene only one time and then we're done".

    • @dhenderson1810
      @dhenderson1810 Год назад +1

      @@GiovanniAlckmimRusso My point is that he didn't need to work 19 months on the film like the other actors regardless as he wasn't needed, considering Jor-El hit killed off ten minutes into the film.
      Besides, Brando did more scenes, but they were removed once the second film changed directors, so that the Salkinds could get out of paying Brando for using his image in the second one. So he screwed then over, then they screwed him over. His cut scenes appear in the Richard Donner Director's cut of "Superman II".
      So he actually filmed more scenes than appeared on screen (the Fortress of Solitude scene, where Clark tries to get back his powers was originally filmed with Brando, but later refilmed using Suzanna York instead.

    • @GiovanniAlckmimRusso
      @GiovanniAlckmimRusso Год назад

      @@dhenderson1810 Suzanna York was good but the Brando scenes in Superman 2 are on another level. Especially when Jor-El "dies" so Clark can be Superman again

  • @ChannelTheGamer
    @ChannelTheGamer 6 месяцев назад +1

    That picture and the chaos he loved to produce on set makes me believe he would have been a great joker in a Batman movie earlier in his life.

  • @martineldritch
    @martineldritch Год назад +39

    The first major study on dyslexia was done in the early 70s, before then people were just "stupid and lazy". That Brando had such a career despite his disability was his greatest prank of all.

    • @martineldritch
      @martineldritch Год назад +11

      @@zogwort1522 According to which study ?

    • @sidsuspicious
      @sidsuspicious Год назад +12

      @@zogwort1522 You win this weeks "thick as mince" competition. Well done.

    • @AnthonyRusso93
      @AnthonyRusso93 Год назад

      ​@zogwort1522 You mean to say that dyslexia is a form of disability. Additionally, stupidity can be a form of disability. But the conclusion that the two are the same because they belong to the same categorical set I gotta wonder if you are trolling. On the off chance you are not I can explain an analogous situation. If you have a square. a square is always a rectangle, a parallelogram, a quadrilateral. A rectangle is also a quadrilateral obviously and a rectangle is a always a parallelogram but it is typically not a square. When a rectangle is a square we just call it a square because it is implied that a square is a rectangle. Would this implication be reversible? No of course not if a quadrilateral is not equilateral it isn't a square. There is a greater degree of specificity. Yeah dyslexia is a disability a specific disability. It is not an intellectual disability. Not all stupidity is the result of an intellectual disability sometimes stupidity is voluntary because some hold book learning to be sooper dooper gay and they also claim gay equals bad like if you try to learn something you crack open an encyclopedia a cock will slide right up into your anus. You ask them to validate their homophobia they direct you to a book and I'm like no thank you yall a bunch of queers reading books and shit. It was bad enough they had all these statues of this barely dressed dude showing off his sweet mouth watering body T-posing like some 2016 meme. You know what they say molest me once shame on Father O'Malley molest me twice shame on me. Can't fool me twice

    • @antoinesilva1527
      @antoinesilva1527 Год назад

      @@zogwort1522 I have dyspraxia which made it significantly harder for me to memorize something (especially numbers) than my mates. Am I stupid?

    • @antoinesilva1527
      @antoinesilva1527 Год назад +12

      @@zogwort1522 By definition: Stupid = “Having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense.” Weird how science said dyslexia and dyspraxia isn’t tied to intelligence. Re-read the English dictionary and come back here again.

  • @ricogomez4020
    @ricogomez4020 Год назад +1

    The best video I've seen on Brando because it's short and covers everything important.

    • @FilmStack
      @FilmStack  Год назад

      Thanks! Yeah we try not to overstay our welcome with our videos haha

  • @sully2932
    @sully2932 Год назад +3

    No mention of how the infamous butter scene in Last Tango in Paris was something Brando decided to do that the actress didn’t consent to beforehand?

  • @bobcobb3654
    @bobcobb3654 27 дней назад

    For 20 years, he was the best actor on the stage or on set, doing something that just came naturally. And he knew that he was more talented than most of the people he was around. After a while, acting just became a job to him. He didn’t particularly enjoy it, so he got to the point where he’d demand ridiculous amounts of money (because he knew studios would pay it) and entertain himself. After a while, he was almost expected to be difficult on set, as it became part of his legend. Still doesn’t erase that he’s easily among the best to ever do it.

  • @ChowAbraxas
    @ChowAbraxas Год назад +3

    He was supposed to play the role of the Priest that eventually went to James Woods in Scary Movie 2 but when he could barely get through his dialogue without his oxygen machine being heard

  • @Dohsoda
    @Dohsoda Год назад +4

    While overpaid for Superman (1978), he did get paid for two movies. He was supposed to appear in the theatrical cut Superman II (1980), but to save money and avoid reshoots which were made to get the replacement director credit, all of his scenes were cut. His scenes in Superman II, which are pretty good, can be seen in the director's cut of the film.

    • @petermj1098
      @petermj1098 Год назад

      Brando pronounces Krypton wrong the whole time lol He says “Cryptin”

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад

      he was never overpaid.He deserved so much more from life itself.

  • @irenedontoh9692
    @irenedontoh9692 3 месяца назад +3

    So if Brando was still alive, he would have been 100 years old this year 2024.

  • @radz7106
    @radz7106 2 месяца назад

    The line
    "I dont read the script. The script reads me"
    in tropic thunder fits marlon brando's work ethic

  • @TheRubberStudiosASMR
    @TheRubberStudiosASMR Год назад +8

    He was a fascinating person. Watch his interview with Connie Chung

  • @johnclarke7626
    @johnclarke7626 Год назад +65

    He literally did only what Anthony Hopkins told one beginning actor to do.
    "Learn your lines. Show up."

    • @tomnorton4277
      @tomnorton4277 Год назад +33

      He only did the "show up" part. Brando didn't give a damn about learning his lines.

  • @jeffjacobson59
    @jeffjacobson59 Год назад +7

    If anyone has never seen Burn! I highly recommend it. Possibly Brando’s greatest performance.

  • @ImnotMattMurdock
    @ImnotMattMurdock 6 месяцев назад +2

    "You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes." Idk why, but that line is a very "The Flesh of Fallen Angels" from Max Payne to me

  • @ace15Nura
    @ace15Nura Год назад +14

    I know he had a terrible personality and an annoying sense of entitlement, but he one of my favorite actors of all time because he makes acting seems so easy, like he becomes the characters, there's no movies were like I say you find he doing a mimic or trait mark, he acts different in every movie just living the character. At least in his prime. I love Burn, One Eyed Jacks, The Fugitive Kind, and I don't like A Countess From Hong Kong but I think is cool to see him in a screwball comedy, he wasn't bad, just the movie was bad.

  • @SENATORPAIN1
    @SENATORPAIN1 Год назад +4

    Referring to frank oz as miss piggy is hilarious

  • @dopejoel
    @dopejoel Год назад +30

    I hate people who make excuses for difficult, abusive, and weird behavior as if it goes hand in hand with quality. Quality is the opposite of abuse, it doesn't come from abuse.

    • @8lata
      @8lata 6 месяцев назад

      did you just say something moralistic? Try telling the stars in the sky they are very indisciplined they should be standing in a straight line and watch how much they care!

    • @jack_stone
      @jack_stone 2 месяца назад

      ​@@8lataCool they dont care they're unprofessional and childish. Thats the problem and why they never deserved a career.

  • @thewalruswasjason101
    @thewalruswasjason101 Год назад +26

    His charisma was off the charts

  • @sara-s2t
    @sara-s2t 3 месяца назад +1

    the problem of the world regardless of the place on earth or industry is that people love to put labels on others. people love one-dimensionality so when they see a rebel who gives the impression of someone who doesn't care about anything, they assume he's lazy. people can be one-dimensional and many choose this style because they want to be well-received. brando was definitely not one of those people. looking at the specifics of his game and the fact that in a sense he invented the concept of changing into different characters shows his multidimensionality and the fact that this man cared even though he gave other appearances.
    in reality, the lazy ones are the ones who copy others because they know what will work and will lead them to success. brando didn't take shortcuts, he set his own goals, he acts in harmony with himself

  • @IloveOtherPplsMsry
    @IloveOtherPplsMsry Год назад +13

    Still say Kinski was more of a nightmare to work with

    • @FilmStack
      @FilmStack  Год назад +5

      100% hahah

    • @IloveOtherPplsMsry
      @IloveOtherPplsMsry Год назад +2

      @@FilmStack Here's a fun fact btw. To prepare for the role of Vito Corleone, Brando personally sought out Russel Bufalino (Yeah that Russel Bufalino) for advice on how to act like a mafia boss.

  • @sebastianalegria3401
    @sebastianalegria3401 Год назад +3

    In the history of famous actors, Brando had a psychological effect over men in America, if you think of post Brando-generation that includes actors like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro or even, Jack Nicholson, all of them became actors because of Marlon Brando and also, he rewrote the game just like Bob Dylan did it in the pop culture. In fact, I remember reading about Brando for first time in an article at the age of 10, which was like love at first slight. Furthermore, I think he raised lots of actors including Johnny Depp, whom he worked in the movie Don Juan DeMarco.

  • @johnpeace971
    @johnpeace971 Год назад +12

    That 10 minutes in Superman was cut down from 30 minutes in the TV cut. He did a lot more than ended up on screen

  • @TheVanillatech
    @TheVanillatech Год назад

    One of the most handsome guys ever to hit the screen, his first screen tests were declined with one producer saying he was "TOO handsome, there HAS to be something, some fault, to be recognizable". Luckily for them, he had his nose broken shortly after in a fight in a bar. That gave him the imperfection. But he really was an interesting guy, apart from being a complete genius on screen at a level of Daniel Day Lewis is in *our* era.
    With most people who are *that* talented at something, that comes so easy to them, he didn't care for the art because that's just something he did. He couldn't care less, or even recognize, when people said "You're the best, how do you do it, why are you so good?". He just was.
    But how he stood up for the American Indians, and other minority groups, and openly ridiculed the industry and society in general - even turning down an oscar - speaks for itself.
    Always liked his movies, the ones I have seen at least. One Eyed Jacks, On The Waterfront, Mutiny On The Bounty were absolutely amazing movies, and he was great in all of them.

  • @dravynokoney1794
    @dravynokoney1794 Год назад +3

    I mean, you can’t see California without Marlon Brando’s eyes

  • @dandavis8300
    @dandavis8300 10 месяцев назад +2

    His performance didn't seem lazy in "Streetcar Named Desire", or "Guys and Dolls" or "On the Waterfront". When I first saw Brando as Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty", I thought he was terrible because he seemed like such a supercilious twit. Very unsympathetic compared to Clark Gable's portrayal of Chistian. Later when I read about the mutiny I realized that was probably an accurate portrayal. Christian was of higher social status than Captain Blye who had worked his way up through the ranks, which was probably a reason for discord on the ship. Underacting as Vito Corleone also worked well as he was portraying a man who tried to reveal as little as possible from his words and expressions. It seems like that he got in the habit of underacting since it had worked so well for him. Though I have no idea what made him care so little about his body?

  • @nellyville69
    @nellyville69 Год назад +4

    Marlon Brando confidence was alluring 🔥

  • @uddalakbhattacharya3700
    @uddalakbhattacharya3700 5 месяцев назад +2

    He was a rebel. His philosophy about life took him away to some different sphere where acting was no more important as an art.

  • @Paul-gu2lv
    @Paul-gu2lv Год назад +2

    He's about 10 times more awesome than I thought.

  • @glkification
    @glkification 2 месяца назад +1

    What a character. Dyslexia comes to mind as a possible reason for the lines issue, perhaps he could not face wading through pages of script? An interesting encounter was between Marlon Brando and Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin's final film A Countess From Hong Kong. Chaplin directed in his usual way, acting every part out and requesting the actors copy him (a unique approach stemming from 1920s silent film technique). Marlon Brando hated this, and wanted to leave the production, though was somehow persuaded to stay. The two had a bit of a tough time making that film!

  • @MutantsInDisguise
    @MutantsInDisguise Год назад +5

    Marlon Brando is a legend, for better or worse. His late career and life is so sad, though.

  • @violatorut2003
    @violatorut2003 Год назад +2

    You can’t see California without Marlon Brando’s eyes.

  • @randombrokeperson
    @randombrokeperson Год назад +34

    One of Brando’s films I really enjoyed that isn’t talked about (because it was most likely one of his flops, and others may not agree with me about the quality of the story or acting) is Reflections in a Golden Eye with Elizabeth Taylor. I might need to rewatch, as I’ve only seen it once years ago but found it to be one of his more interesting films.

    • @TheGoodfella95
      @TheGoodfella95 Год назад +5

      a pure gem of a film. I have to watch it again after this comment.

    • @arriuscalpurniuspiso
      @arriuscalpurniuspiso Год назад

      It's a lousy movie, but he is great in it

    • @TheGoodfella95
      @TheGoodfella95 Год назад +1

      @@arriuscalpurniuspiso to each his own, probably better than 80% of the stuff that gets put out today. i thoroughly enjoyed it.

    • @arriuscalpurniuspiso
      @arriuscalpurniuspiso Год назад

      @@TheGoodfella95 it's good. And I agree with you. It's only lousy compared to Brando's masterpieces

    • @TheGoodfella95
      @TheGoodfella95 Год назад +1

      @@arriuscalpurniuspiso oh in that regard, yes.