Marlon Brando

https://twitter.com/ValEKilmer/status/464150751871119360

vk's twitter is kinda great. When I died in #tombstone I laid on a bed of ice so I would shake and feel weird. It worked.

this Listen to Me Marlon doc intrigues

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/tragedy-plus-time-sundance-in-retrospect

Even as a joke, that one vote for Teahouse of the August Moon is indefensible.

seeing the doc end of the month

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/listen-me-marlon-sundance-review-770073

doc is now out in NYC, dunno when elsewhere.

I must have seen an A&E bio of Brando or something, because I did seem to know his story every step of the way watching Listen to Me Marlon. I'm glad they used the computer-generated Marlon idea sparingly. Wish they'd worked in what I think is his greatest scene in Waterfront, he and Eva Marie Saint in the park. My favourite part was probably him flirting (to put it mildly) with two gorgeous interviewers in the early '60s; also this spooky clip from a TV show where his dad gets brought in for a few words and you can palpably feel the mutual hostility between them. Thankfully, no Larry King.

The clip with his father:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqcOMWMSoA8

The look on Brando's face at 5:46, or the fake affection when he taps his father on the leg...

I didn't realize the other interviews I referred to were from a Maysles film--couldn't find them on YouTube.

watched Morituri last night, the espionage thriller that MB is shilling for in the Maysles doc. It's watchable (b&w cin by Conrad Hall), nothing more; closest he got to being an action hero, and he enjoys his German accent, as Kael sez in her '66 essay on him. "Vould you like me to zing de Horst Wessel Zong?"

I loved this documentary.

"this Francis Coppola is a cocksucker"

http://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/listen-to-me-marlon/

I'll probably go tomorrow to the doc at the least although I want to hang around for Streetcar... (probably won't due to having to wake up early on Monday). Never seen it.

I'm glad they used the computer-generated Marlon idea sparingly.

This is really off-putting tho'.

Look for my dad's cousin (Nick Dennis) at the poker table!

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/67/6721/23UA100Z/posters/a-streetcar-named-desire-nick-dennis-rudy-bond-marlon-brando-1951.jpg

watched Dr. Moreau last night, Brando is fine in it. The rest of the movie is a mess for a variety of inexplicable reasons, not the least of which is the script

some hero has uploaded to youtube all of the Chris Elliott as Brando bits from Letterman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjL-lxDXSk

Enjoyed this (from around when the doc came out in 2015)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marlon-brando-was-a-secret-tech-geek-and-photoshop-124061824672.html

I wish Brando was a better singer, it might've been enough to make Guys & Dolls a true classic. It still has a lot going for it, and Brando is otherwise quite the charmer - he really makes Sinatra look small. (Nothing to do with the roles, Brando simply has more presence onscreen.) He tried, and he gave the studio his full cooperation when he recorded a million takes of his songs (and even then, they decided to piece together the best performance possible from each of those takes rather than using a whole one). I like Sinatra a lot and "Luck Be a Lady" later became one of his better Reprise singles, but his singing as both great and completely wrong for the role, a case of listening to his own ego rather than putting himself at the service of the film. Supposedly he knew this but didn't care because he was so resentful that Brando got the lead role instead of him. Dean Martin would've been a better choice as Detroit.

Anyway, top four is no surprise - if I have to fill out a top 5, Burn! would be it.

very few of the songs in the movie hold up tbh, sinatras luck be a lady is flat vs almost any other version imo

Teahouse of the August Moon, someone was taking the piss.

The Missouri Breaks, including and especially Brando's performance, has aged very well, and now seems a more interesting film than the over-familiar Last Tango and Godfather.

I never see Burn! pop up in repertory screenings, despite always being on the lookout for it. The Battle of Algiers in contrast, pops up all the time.

There's a shitty TV channel over here that shows it a lot.

Great soundtrack!

Top five shoulda included The Freshman.

Top five should’ve included Reflections in a Golden Eye

That one too.

I never see Burn! pop up in repertory screenings, despite always being on the lookout for it.

A problem with seeing that one is the best version is the dubbed Italian cut, which is 20 minutes longer than the more widely circulated English language version. The plot suffers a bit from the edits, most of which in the first half of the film. MGM restored this version in the early 2000s; I got see it on 35mm in the summer of 2004 (shortly after Brando died) when the MFAH did a season of recent restorations of MGM/UA deep cuts. However, when the DVD came out later that year, the studio bunted and only included the shorter version.

Maybe posted elsewhere already: Billy Zane as Brando. That really is an amazing makeup job.

https://i.postimg.cc/PxXthbVP/zane.jpg

(I, clemenza, am of course inimitable.)

https://i.postimg.cc/3JL9ttSh/brando.jpg

The hectoring tone of the first sentence makes me think this isn't real.

It isn't, Brando was frequently in heat.

as near as I can tell, brando began his career as a talented and ambitious actor who soon realized that movie audiences responded positively to him for reasons having little to do with his acting ability, so he spent the rest of his career amusing himself and treating the film industry as a joke, while making major bank on his name and reputation. after he took that wide turn toward crass exploitation of his name john huston still managed to get some value out of him. in contrast, coppola gave him total control and got absolutely nothing back for it.

Are you counting The Godfather? I'd maybe agree with Apocalypse--although Coppola did get a famous, highly regarded, and (I think) very lucrative film in the long run--but not The Godfather.

Bertolucci got a good performance out of him too