TIL. Grew up seeing Brando in Superman and Apocalypse Now, and didn’t really get why people treated him with such reverence. Was fine in those roles of course.
Wasn’t until I saw Streetcar Named Desire recently that I said wow out loud and understood why. Glad to hear he was a geek as well.
GF is one of those films that are so drenched in critical acclaim and hype that it's not possible to simply stumble across it without preconception. For that reason, when you watch it, it doesn't seem spectacular because people have praised it right into the ground.
He's considered the pioneer of realism in cinema. He was also beyond conventionally attractive in his younger years, so much so that it's been memed on a few times. Look up "sexy eye roll".
“The actor was even an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.”
As a longtime After Effects user this blew my mind. Very cool, thanks for sharing this!
I didn't realize how old Roberta Flack and Sonny Rollins are and that they might be close to dying. They both made important contributions to our culture. I wonder how easy it is to contact them and share my appreciation for everything they've done musically...?
One would assume that one would understand one's context of one's link and that one meant taking one's link seriously instead of one looking at one's link to see what one's link was.
Working at an interactive museum design firm in the mid 90's we had freelancer named Claudio who insisted we buy Company of Science and Art's After Effects.
I believe the only payment terms we could work out was a Money Order or Cashier's check. The software was very expensive and he required a loaded Mac probably had Daystar Cards in it...
Interesting. Claudio definitely sounds like an identity Brando would choose. Any other details on this? Can you divulge roughly where the design firm was based?
He was a unique talent but also apparently really lazy. Wouldn't study his lines & insisted on them being fed to him via earplug. I liked this story though, he seemed like an interesting guy.
> Due to Marlon Brando's infamous large appetite and dislike of Val Kilmer on set, he would request and eat large amounts of cabbage an hour before a scene started and would silently fart on purpose numerous times to leave what was described a "foul stench" that would annoy Kilmer.
Combining those two in a movie would kill the most patient directors
> Combining those two in a movie would kill the most patient directors
It killed Richard Stanley's career for 20 years. After which he got the make the fairly well-received Color Out of Space, just in time for his career to get re-killed by a domestic abuse allegation.
I heard something like this about Guys And Dolls, too.
> Brando, knowing how much Sinatra hated cheesecake, had purposely flubbed each take so that Sinatra would have to eat piece after piece of cheesecake. The next day, they came back and shot the scene perfectly on the first take.
This wasn't laziness, it was part of his method acting. He wanted the dialogue to appear to occur naturally to him, so he'd place some of his lines on the back of a coffee mug, for example. When he'd look over at the mug, it would appear that his eyes were diverting as though recalling a memory. Recitation often results in wooden performances.
To be honest, in hollywood, you do everything a million times. The first three takes going to waste on warming up and learning the lines do not slow the production down much. The perfectionism of some directors, the disinterests by some actors and the size of the endavour do the most damage.
>But genius is the hare that will always be beaten by the persistent tortoise if it stands still long enough.
Definitely not always. That's survivorship bias. There's no guarantee that if you're a hard working tortoise you'll ever beat a hare. Like there's no guarantee that if I'll practice my soccer moves 24/7 for 10 years I'll ever be able to beat Ronaldo.
> Like there's no guarantee that if I'll practice my soccer moves 24/7 for 10 years I'll ever be able to beat Ronaldo.
Because Ronaldo keeps practicing and improving, as any professional athlete would.
But the hare is the person who never bothers to train or improve beyond their natural talents, who thinks they've already won the race, so there's no point in even running. The "smart kid" who coasts through school and never leaves their comfort zone but winds up in a dead end job with only wasted potential and unfulfilled dreams, while the people who actually applied themselves blew past them in college and got better jobs and achieved their goals.
>But the hare is the person who never bothers to train or improve beyond their natural talents
That wasn't may point. My point was that if everyone applied themselves, not everyone would even reach Ronaldo's level. Otherwise every hardworking person in Namibia or Zimbabwe would be Elon Musk wealthy by now.
But they aren't. Why is that? is it because they didn't apply themselves as hard as Musk? Or is it because opportunities in life are limited, no matter how hard you work, and getting them is a lottery of birth and of chance.
She said it was not on the script. In any case, it’s unacceptable when you make anyone uncomfortable in their workplace. Actors have a uniquely dangerous profession in which they are sometimes directed to be traumatised on screen.
"“In the sequence of the butter it was an idea I had with Marlon in the morning before shooting it but I had been in a way horrible to Maria because I didn’t tell her what was going on because I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress.”
He added: “I feel guilty but I do not regret. To make movies sometimes to obtain something we have to be completely free. I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage, I wanted Maria to feel, not to act. Then she hated me for all her life.”"
The intention was clear, assault her for real, so she acts more natural and authentic. That was definitely not part of a script, but some sort of assault.
I'd prefer we dispensed with tribalism and use of the genetic fallacy[0] first.
Besides, it can't be complete trash as it was instrumental in bringing some smidgen of justice to the family of Stephen Lawrence[1] and reforms to a corrupt police force.
1: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-marlon-brando-hung-around-a...