I normally have a lot to say when it comes to acting technique, process, etc, but with Marlon Brando I have no words. He was something else. Holy.....Noble.
@@benjack8477 I disagree but to each his own, however if you’re going to make such a claim, at least get you’re favorite’s name spelled right! It’s Olivier. And I highly doubt youv’e studied either one of them. Have you seen most every one of their films, more than 10 times?
@@Viajealduende Yes I have studied on the waterfront apocalypse now godfather for my film studios at university also Laurence Olivier stage and screen roles including marathon man and his various stage work I got a 92% pass in each studio of their work at my university in Florida
Marlon Brando is the greatest actor because of his unmatched acting range. From 1950-60 he played a paraplegic in THE MEN, Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, a Mexican revolutionary in VIVA ZAPATA, Mark Anthony, a Hell's Angel in THE WILD ONE. Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT, Napoleon in DESIREE, sang and danced in GUYS AND DOLLS, a Japanese man in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, a contrite nazi in YOUNG LIONS then directed ONE EYED JACKS.
@@morgantylerv9406 Also let’s not neglect his formative years honing his craft of revolutionary, fully-alive stage acting between ‘45 and ‘49. He played Kowalski, as you all know, in the original stage production on Broadway of STREETCAR starting in Dec ‘47 and closing on Dec ‘49, carrying the run for a total of 855 performances!
How about Leonardo Di Caprio ? im not even his fan because i think he's arrogant and fake in real life but...he played a few things and has a lot on the pipe, any thoughts?
Wow marlon told Christopher reeves not to go crazy doing stunt work & relayed a story how he fell off a horse & sure enough that’s how reeves became paralyzed. Wow
He was such a good actor. He made it look easy. You couldn't take your eyes off of him when he was doing his thing. He is definitely missed. Thankfully we have his movies to remember him by.
It's crazy seeing the clip with Kirk Douglas, who was "getting older" at the time, and realizing that he lived another 28 years. Aside from that debilitating stroke he had a beautiful, long life. Another Hollywood legend.
There are actors and there are stars that shines above..Marlon was one of those stars that will shine forever..the most talented brilliant actors for all generations.
You can measure the profound influence Marlon Brando had on film making by watching his films, but it's strangely more impactful hearing the effect he's had on his colleagues. Fascinating collection of impressions.
I fell for and was mesmerized by Brando when I was 10 and saw Waterfront. OMG❣️ His compassion - and gentleness have no equal. If anyone ever gets a chance to see him in The Men, don’t miss it. The Rose Tattoo - wow. Brilliant, passionate man❤️
I was lucky enough to work with Marlon towards the end of his career.. one of the most charismatic people I’ve met… very engaging when he’s in direct conversation with you …very focused in the discussion… and he was a prankster… we had an actress who took herself a bit too serious and Marlon would tease her and get her to break and laugh… He was great.. I’m glad I had the experience.
@@dillionoshea7535 i really can’t say… We always had a very tight set.. good security… I enjoyed working with him and I enjoyed my conversations with him…
Brando was an enigma, absolutely incredible! He was full of contradictions and idiosyncrasies, extremely vulnerable and sensitive - but with great kind heart and humanity. Actors only saw one side of him, most of them didn’t know about his life and his causes; some were very jealous, others simply misunderstood him. There are so many people who remember him with great fondness, he championed and advocated so many social changes and causes, he was brave and passionate! Karl Malden is the only one who knew more about him than others and spoke so kindly about Marlon. And the BEST actor, hands down!
I loved Marlon Brando, my first movie of course was The Godfather all of them . I was a young teenager and I loved his voice such amazing man. Later on I saw, Superman, Apocalypse now, Guys and Dolls, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Don Juan Demarco, The Freshman, The Score which is truly my favorite. Plus of course Tango In Paris 💞 He was truly amazing actor and I've never been disappointed in any of his movies RIP MR. Brando 🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏
Thank you for such kind words. It was a decent amount of work putting them together, but such a pleasure; and the reaction to them has been mind-boggling at times. I'm not sure when I'll do more. My life is rather busier these days than it was this time last year when I began this series of videos. However, time will tell, as she always does. God bless.
What Chris Reeve said about him not caring reminds me of a quote from Sunset Boulevard "A dozen press agents working over time can do terrible things to the human spirit". That sums up for me what he went through and then some. When you are as famous and infamous as he was, it takes a toll. Everyone wanted a piece of him. He was and always will be the fucking greatest in my eyes. But fame can fuck up your life permanently. Fame at the level he has is dangerous, the acting he did was dangerous in the sense that it took him places so fucking deep that it really fucked him up. That's why a lot of those truly method actors became what they did. If you want to know what I mean, watch the documentary "Listen to me Marlon." it will give you a better understanding of him as an actor and man
Oh he was sooooy h andsome drop dead Gorgeous and his acting talent immense My favorite movie featuring Marlon Brando of course A Streetcar named Desire and also Apocalypse Now
One of the things that bugs me most about Christopher Reeve’s criticism of Brando (on Letterman in 1982) is the way he confidently proclaims “what happened” to Brando’s acting career, about how the press praised him regardless of whether he worked hard or not, etc., as if Reeve had any inside knowledge of what was actually going on in Marlon Brando’s life or psyche at the time. (Also I don’t remember Brando’s press coverage being as Reeve described.) It seems especially rude considering how graciously and generously Brando greeted him on Superman, with gifts and personal attention and advice, as Reeve described in the previous clip. It makes me suspect that their relationship soured at some point, which could have been either’s fault (or neither’s). I think Reeve’s gripe is personal, and he’s not admitting that here.
Marlon Brando was a true rebel, innovative, passionate, actor that did have a feminine side to him, emotionally that certain actors have and yet remain very masculine. Dwayne Johnson schooled by Marlon.
He had a way of completely involving himself into the character he played, and put charisma into it. 10:25 She's pretty much like the character she played. 18:13 Probably based himself on the Jack Woltz character. I looked at this and I believe that all of the the actors in this film, regardless of race, creed etc, are highly intelligent. I'm guessing that that's required to get on that level, in general. It's obvious that some can sneak through the cracks but again in general but it's few and far between. I met Jonathan Provost (Lassie) once at a comic con, and we got into a conversation about this. He told me that people sometimes ask him what his opinion is of how one can get into the business. He said when this happens he tells the person straight out, get the script for your favorite film, pick out the character you like so much learn all of the lines and be able to recite them within four days. He said that would be the very first step
To be revered like that in incredible..........What an icon. The way women talk about him like a greek god.......they just melt at the mention of his name..........that's presence.......
In an interview in the seventies, director Fred Zinnemann, who directed Brando's first film and Monty Clift's second (although it was the first to be released in theaters), was asked who, in his opinion, was the best actor he he had directed throughout his career. Zinnemann responded, Spencer Tracy.
Love what kirk said " he created a lot of bad actors " so true as he explained brando was so unique & many actors copied him instead of doing their own thing.
for you mooning fans, listen to the BEATLES' 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'. McCartney's singing, and he chuckles while singing a line. Lennon ,who hated the song reportedly, was ,at that moment, mooning Paul. read that a few a months ago. first heard the tune over 50 years ago.
I can understand how a younger Christopher Reeve could talk like that BUT Marlon was old school Hollywood . The new Hollywood wasn't the same . About the only reason STAR WARS was approved was because 20th Fox President Alan Ladd Jr loved American Graffiti . Most of Hollywood when Superman was made didn't know about movies .
Oh man, Christopher Reeve really should have taken Brando’s advice about being careful about stunts and particularly riding horses, and talking about how Brando got bucked off a horse and landed on his head.
"Last Tango In Paris" before the opening, garnered off the charts hype about its breaking of sex barriers. Unless you were of fillum going age you can't imagine the anticipation. It was akin to the pre-release buzz generated by "Gone With The Wind" or Liz & Richard in "Cleopatra". I took my seat in front of the silver screen expecting the whole world to go up in flames and when it was all over I said to myself "Is that all there is?"
@@Gem20245 Very eccentric… He was 70 so he’d had years of being allowed to hone his eccentricities.. But very engaging and charismatic… When he would sit and have a conversation with you he wasn’t distracted.. he was completely engaged in the conversation and focused on you which would draw you in… I liked him.
@@VincentAgostino-gy6hr oh wow, thanks so much for replying. I cannot imagine how amazing it would be to be talking to him like that! What an experience
@@Gem20245 Here’s the final… I had a magazine cover from the year I was born with Marlon on the cover as Julius Caesar and after the movie I called him up (actually his assistant) and asked if Marlon would sign it for me… So she asked him and he said sure bring it up… I dropped it off at his house and he never answered a call from me again… He liked the magazine cover so he kept it… 😂🤣😂
@@VincentAgostino-gy6hr sorry to be annoying, but was he arrogant to 'lower' members of staff? Did he seem like he didn't care if you were famous/important?
"Bring on the horse .... two seconds later and he's on his head in the dirt." If only Christopher could've seen his future with a particular horse and alter events as he did in play acting Superman with Lois? Such things, however, are not meant to be. I only pray he's in a better place along with Marlon.
I had the interesting experience of meeting Christopher, and actually made a life cast (shoulders and head). He was a modest, soft spoken, and genuine guy, very nice man and even rather self-effacing. Not at all the Hollywood bigshot that so many other stars become. I still have the life cast of his face.
What Christopher Reeve didn't understand was that it wasn't Marlon's job to care. It wasn't his responsibility to be an inspiration to younger actors. He showed up and did his job. Acting wasn't a passion of his, It was a job. A job that he so happened to be very good at. You can't blame him for being sick of the industry and all the people running it.
There are a lot of things that aren't your job. You do them anyway because there is something good to be done and you are one of the few people who are capable of doing it. Good things don't just happen. Great power = Great responsibility
@@saytr4 Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale; If somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy not a care in the world.. somebody lied. Whatever life holds in-store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility". This is my gift; my curse.
@@theflorgeormix his way of acting cannot be imitated by anyone. It his natural talent and he does it effortlessly. If someone imitated him it look funny and cringe 😂.
Listen he was special but he went off the rails in the middle to latter stages of his life kind of like Howard Hughes. A few people Reeve and DuVall in particular were very open and honest about that.
STILL , he told the truth about how Hollywood treated Native Americans in movies . And the American press tried to crucify him over his Oscar refusal .
@@akfreed6949 Okay yeah that was a noble gesture but he was batshit crazy for decades . He's fathered 11 children with lost count on how many different women. Listen I like the guy too but see the big picture
LMFAO why is the guy from Kickass talking about Marlon Brando? Seriously? That's the first guy you interview? WOW that's some funny shit yo! I'm still on the floor laughing at this! Priceless!
Christopher Reeve was absolutely right. Brando gave superb performances in his youth, but became so revered that later in his career, he just got lazy. He had his lines taped to Robert Duvall during the making of the Godfather. Kind of an insult to the actor you're playing opposite when you turn them into your walking autocue.
@@marlon-jl4ge why don’t go and do a little research on his dark side? Ex wife’s, ex male lovers, the cheating, his anger, sex addiction and god only knows what else. Don’t get me wrong, I think he was a great actor that did some beautiful things, but the truth is - HE WAS NO SAINT. He caused a lot of heartache to those who loved him ❤️
Oh please, the only truly astonishing thing about Brando was his unbelievable good looks. The man just oozed sheer animal magnetism out of every pore. When all you have to do is enter a room and light it up, that's a testimony to his appearance only not his acting. As an actor he was good not disputing that, but a "genius," "the greatest actor of all " as he has been called....Ah NO! Brando was way overrated by so many. I wish people in the industry would stop treating Brando as a man with some God like status that everyone wanted to learn from and be like. He was a fine actor like so many others in the movie making business, and that's all that should be said . Seems though far too many cant get past his physical endowments., and Brando sure had them in spades. The camera loved him.
Thanks for this video, it has made me see why Brando was such an exceptional actor, which I did not know. The only thing nobody talks about is the supposed rape of the actress on The Last Tango in Paris, the Dutch actress Maria Schneider. She has said she was raped and the director has acknowledged, he and Brando alone prepared the scene. It's such a good dramatic scene, because... apparently it's a real one, she is not acting, she is really suffering. I don't know where art should stop but certainly, one frontier is when art harms a person, and I think that the actress suffered a great deal years later. In Europe nowadays, raping is a broad concept including any forced perforation of the anus and the vagina and placing a penis inside the mouth of the victim. If Brando put his fingers with butter in the anus of the actress against her will, then he did rape her. It's very sad that a lot of people turn a blind eye to criminal acts of famous people. In the early seventies the level of consciousness against these crimes were lower and crimes against women and children were more tolerated if not stifled by powerful men. The fact that one is a great artist is not a guarantee that one is never going to commit a crime. For example, the Chilean Nobel Price winner Pablo Neruda was a great and revered poet of love matters and of the dispossessed, and yet he had the courage to publish his I-tell-all- Autobiography after he died and in it he confessed to having raped an illiterate, beautiful, young woman servant in charge of the toilets of his one-man diplomatic mission in Sri Lanka when he was in his twenties. Even a poet can be a rapist given a particular situation where one person holds power over another person. The great American psychologist Zimbardo demonstrated that humans are situational beings. They can be angels or apparently normal in some situations, and then turn nasty, authoritarian, sadistic and even criminals in other situations. The point is the balance of power and the calculation one makes of how to get away with it unharmed. A trait that we share with chimps. It has been demonstrated that chimps only go to war and attack isolated rival chimps if they are 8 in number, because 4 are going to hold the limbs of the opponent, and the other four are going to kill the guy, that is, they also turn up criminals under certain situations while they can also be perfectly lovely dads with their offspring. Other than that, Brando looks to me a perfect example of how art can arise from trauma in childhood and how medically untreated psychic trauma can lead to a tortured life and to damage to other human beings, without diminishing his artistic prowess and his good deeds against racism and taking care of the many children he legally adopted. One can be the one and the other.
Idk where you heard that. I read her interview. She wasn't raped. She was uncomfortable doing the scene. You can wikipedia or google what she said. Kind of neglect of you to accuse a dead man of rape!
Yeah the guy know from superman calls out the guy from the godfather, streetcar, on the waterfront,etc. Being a contrarian is one hell of a way for deflecting attention from your own shortcomings.
@@piranha5506 i disagree. you're saying Brando didn't phone it in the last 20 years of his career???? None of them were bad performances but none of them touched anything he did before apocalypse now. He himself admitted to acting strictly for the paycheck after the Godfather. What Reeve, who worked with him and knew him, was correctly pointing out that being considered the best in the business and putting in the work later in his career was a let down for the profession and the audience. The ONLY film role I can see where he didn't phone it in after 1976 was A DRY WHITE SEASON ...
@@RobertSmith-cx9bl I’m saying the guy who abandoned stage for a superhero movie has no right to call out anyone on selling out. He’s projecting his own insecurities which were reportedly in no short supply.
@piranha5506 PIRANHA... every piece of your argument here sucks. A) Reeve never left the stage. He continued doing theatre right up until his injury. B) Care to guess who did leave the stage for Hollywood? find me a single theatre performance Brando did after 1946. C) Show me where Reeve ever said that Brando sold out? Big difference between phoning it in and selling out. Your forgetting also that Brando himself said on numerous occasions he only took on film work after the Godfather for the paycheck. Now you can hate Chris Reeve all you want but he was never insecure and he wasnt alone in his critique. How about Ed Norton? Do you consider him a washed up insecure actor? Care to guess what he said about Brando later career?
I respectfully disagree. I do agree he wasn’t the best father. But, if you read his backstory on how he was raised…he certainly didn’t have a good upbringing or role model himself to be a father (not an excuse, but an explanation). If you also see the court tapes of him in court during the trial against his son Christian, he was broken. Was he the best father? No. Did he love his kids? 💯 without a doubt.
@@dillionoshea7535agree with you...and i think his children love him too and not hate him at all. Even his daughter rebecca brando give his father tape diary for brando documentary because she wont people misunderstood to her father. and they never bad mouth about brando too
Only other great actors can recognize Brando's talent. The average person, like me, cannot see it. I personally don't think there was anything special about his acting.
i'm an average person, like you and i'm blown away by his talent from Streetcar Named Desire to the Godfather he revolutionized acting especially for men who weren't supposed to display deep emotion on film - Brando did it.
@@sanekabc i would have felt that way regardless of who praised him or not. if you've seen performances by the established male actors at the time like Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, John Garfield... they were good but they kept it relatively safe keeping tabs on a masculine way of portraying emotions as opposed to Brando who no longer played it safe. in Streetcar Named Desire he's unpredictable sometimes coming off more like an angry toddler instead of a 'swell guy.'
@@redcupidbowlips3793 , do you know how many people he helped, how many causes he pioneered? There are tons of people who remember him with great fondness! Acting was just a part of his life, and you are basing your opinion on what actors say of him - this is just one perspective.
I get the feeling, that people are overwhelmed by his looks and charisma. And that makes them overstate and misremember his talent. Maybe its me. Doesnt look THAT talented of an actor.
He changed acting with how he brought realism to the world of theatrical acting. He was also the first popular method actor. He would visit handicapped armymen to learn their nature when he played a paraplegic Armyman in a movie back in the 50s. No one had heard of such method acting before.
I look his talent...he is great actor and unique one. He had the trademark for himself. Nobody look like him. His look and his charisma only plus value from him
Yet Christopher Reeves’s pathetic fit of jealousy, calls Brando a “sell out” and that Brando “called it in” when he was in Superman. Dude was upset because he assumed that Brando would take time away from his own life and take reeve under his wing and teach him how to act. Seems to me that Brando did not suffer fools and had apparently already honed in on that fact that Reeve was just a pretty boy with an air of entitlement without any depth. How dare him lay the responsibility of being a leader on someone who had never wanted that job or burden, ever. If Reeve had pulled his head out of his own egotistical ass and got to know the man, he would seen this. I lost a tremendous amount of respect for Reeve after that interview with letterman.ugh.
I normally have a lot to say when it comes to acting technique, process, etc, but with Marlon Brando I have no words. He was something else. Holy.....Noble.
When Sir Laurence Olivier claims Brando was astonishing, then you know what kind of caliber we're talking about.
And their style was so different too. Yet Olivier could see his talent and skill.
Oliver was better
It's such a great long compliment. you keep waiting for the "but", but its just more praise.
@@benjack8477 I disagree but to each his own, however if you’re going to make such a claim, at least get you’re favorite’s name spelled right! It’s Olivier. And I highly doubt youv’e studied either one of them. Have you seen most every one of their films, more than 10 times?
@@Viajealduende Yes I have studied on the waterfront apocalypse now godfather for my film studios at university also Laurence Olivier stage and screen roles including marathon man and his various stage work I got a 92% pass in each studio of their work at my university in Florida
Marlon was/is the most influential actor of all times, No question, and there is nothing more important in all of American art than Marlon...
He was a bum
Marlon Brando is the greatest actor because of his unmatched acting range. From 1950-60 he played a paraplegic in THE MEN, Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, a Mexican revolutionary in VIVA ZAPATA, Mark Anthony, a Hell's Angel in THE WILD ONE. Terry Malloy in ON THE WATERFRONT, Napoleon in DESIREE, sang and danced in GUYS AND DOLLS, a Japanese man in TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, a contrite nazi in YOUNG LIONS then directed ONE EYED JACKS.
…and THE GODFATHER
Very Well Stated. Marlon Brando was Truly 1 of a Kind & Genius Mind. Simply Uber Gorgeous 😍.
He's one of the greatest. James Dean, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen. Those guys of that generation knew their stuff.
@@morgantylerv9406 Also let’s not neglect his formative years honing his craft of revolutionary, fully-alive stage acting between ‘45 and ‘49. He played Kowalski, as you all know, in the original stage production on Broadway of STREETCAR starting in Dec ‘47 and closing on Dec ‘49, carrying the run for a total of 855 performances!
How about Leonardo Di Caprio ? im not even his fan because i think he's arrogant and fake in real life but...he played a few things and has a lot on the pipe, any thoughts?
Wow marlon told Christopher reeves not to go crazy doing stunt work & relayed a story how he fell off a horse & sure enough that’s how reeves became paralyzed. Wow
It wasn't going t happen but then Reeve went and badmouthed Brando so the simulation said, "Alright then."
He was such a good actor. He made it look easy. You couldn't take your eyes off of him when he was doing his thing. He is definitely missed. Thankfully we have his movies to remember him by.
i showed my elderly ma Streetcar - her reaction was "Good Lord he was handsome.'"
It's crazy seeing the clip with Kirk Douglas, who was "getting older" at the time, and realizing that he lived another 28 years. Aside from that debilitating stroke he had a beautiful, long life. Another Hollywood legend.
And he raped Natalie Wood as a teen
Kirk Douglas; Hollywood legend, rapist.
Im sorry to dissuade u but douglas had a scandal involving molesting children.
There are actors and there are stars that shines above..Marlon was one of those stars that will shine forever..the most talented brilliant actors for all generations.
Brando, wow! Saw him in his first movie, The Men, NO ONE had ever acted liked that. He changed things forever. A genius.
You can measure the profound influence Marlon Brando had on film making by watching his films, but it's strangely more impactful hearing the effect he's had on his colleagues. Fascinating collection of impressions.
I fell for and was mesmerized by Brando when I was 10 and saw Waterfront. OMG❣️ His compassion - and gentleness have no equal. If anyone ever gets a chance to see him in The Men, don’t miss it. The Rose Tattoo - wow. Brilliant, passionate man❤️
Fugitive Kind was MB, Rose Tattoo was Lancaster.
I was lucky enough to work with Marlon towards the end of his career.. one of the most charismatic people I’ve met… very engaging when he’s in direct conversation with you …very focused in the discussion… and he was a prankster… we had an actress who took herself a bit too serious and Marlon would tease her and get her to break and laugh… He was great.. I’m glad I had the experience.
Which film you were involved? Must have been so great
@@benalbrecht4437 Don Juan DeMarco…
As a huge Marlon Brando fan…I’m so envious. I heard he was very kind towards his fans and people who approached him. Was that true?
@@dillionoshea7535 i really can’t say… We always had a very tight set.. good security… I enjoyed working with him and I enjoyed my conversations with him…
Marlon Brando is THE GOAT 🐐
They way Karl Malden talks about him made me tear up.
me too
And me as well…
True friendhip. Like some kind of brotherhood.
Mee too 😢. He know him well 😭
Marlon Brando had a big influence on many actors career but not one of them acting like him ..he was very gifted in his own way
Brando was an enigma, absolutely incredible! He was full of contradictions and idiosyncrasies, extremely vulnerable and sensitive - but with great kind heart and humanity.
Actors only saw one side of him, most of them didn’t know about his life and his causes; some were very jealous, others simply misunderstood him.
There are so many people who remember him with great fondness, he championed and advocated so many social changes and causes, he was brave and passionate! Karl Malden is the only one who knew more about him than others and spoke so kindly about Marlon.
And the BEST actor, hands down!
@Hari Krishna D, in Bollywood movies number one for me forever is and will be only SANJEEV KUMAR! Incomparable!
@Hari Krishna D , thank you!
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And also a bit of a weirdo
Unsuspecting fools
That James Caan Waterfront impersonation is really good!
Holy shit the range of actors giving this guy acolytes. Amazing
Accolades. Acolytes are ones who help with religious services.
I am crying on karl malden part...he know brando well as friend and actor 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I miss Marlon Brando. Thank you for this.
Damn. This must have taken so much time. Thank you! It really illustrates just how influential he was.
The story Chris Reeve gave about Brando being thrown from a horse...
Caan's Sterling Hayden was great! rest easy, Jim.
The sensitivity, the passion and the humanity of the man is incredible!
I loved Marlon Brando, my first movie of course was The Godfather all of them . I was a young teenager and I loved his voice such amazing man. Later on I saw, Superman, Apocalypse now, Guys and Dolls, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Don Juan Demarco, The Freshman, The Score which is truly my favorite. Plus of course Tango In Paris 💞
He was truly amazing actor and I've never been disappointed in any of his movies RIP MR. Brando 🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏
Thank you for compiling these - Parts 1 and 2. It's one of the most inspiring compilations. Please continue to do more - Parts 3, 4, etc.
Thank you for such kind words. It was a decent amount of work putting them together, but such a pleasure; and the reaction to them has been mind-boggling at times. I'm not sure when I'll do more. My life is rather busier these days than it was this time last year when I began this series of videos. However, time will tell, as she always does. God bless.
What Chris Reeve said about him not caring reminds me of a quote from Sunset Boulevard "A dozen press agents working over time can do terrible things to the human spirit". That sums up for me what he went through and then some. When you are as famous and infamous as he was, it takes a toll. Everyone wanted a piece of him. He was and always will be the fucking greatest in my eyes. But fame can fuck up your life permanently. Fame at the level he has is dangerous, the acting he did was dangerous in the sense that it took him places so fucking deep that it really fucked him up. That's why a lot of those truly method actors became what they did. If you want to know what I mean, watch the documentary "Listen to me Marlon." it will give you a better understanding of him as an actor and man
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@@fabiengerard8142thats really great documentary because thats from marlon brando tape diary
Oh he was sooooy h
andsome drop dead Gorgeous and his acting talent immense My favorite movie featuring Marlon Brando of course A Streetcar named Desire and also Apocalypse Now
It how he goes from 0 to 100 in a half a second that I love.
Karl Malden and Brando made the best team in ONE EYED JACKS.
Bestfriend forever 😢😭
One of the things that bugs me most about Christopher Reeve’s criticism of Brando (on Letterman in 1982) is the way he confidently proclaims “what happened” to Brando’s acting career, about how the press praised him regardless of whether he worked hard or not, etc., as if Reeve had any inside knowledge of what was actually going on in Marlon Brando’s life or psyche at the time. (Also I don’t remember Brando’s press coverage being as Reeve described.)
It seems especially rude considering how graciously and generously Brando greeted him on Superman, with gifts and personal attention and advice, as Reeve described in the previous clip. It makes me suspect that their relationship soured at some point, which could have been either’s fault (or neither’s). I think Reeve’s gripe is personal, and he’s not admitting that here.
Brando also warned him about riding horses! If he had listened his life would have been different!
Marlon was a great actor because he really didn't give a sh*t what ANYONE thought. He just did his thing however he wanted to do it and it worked.
Marlon Brando was a true rebel, innovative, passionate, actor that did have a feminine side to him, emotionally that certain actors have and yet remain very masculine. Dwayne Johnson schooled by Marlon.
LMAO yeah right
Christopher Reeves don't get it, because Marlon is a natural and a genius
He had a way of completely involving himself into the character he played, and put charisma into it.
10:25 She's pretty much like the character she played.
18:13 Probably based himself on the Jack Woltz character.
I looked at this and I believe that all of the the actors in this film, regardless of race, creed etc, are highly intelligent. I'm guessing that that's required to get on that level, in general.
It's obvious that some can sneak through the cracks but again in general but it's few and far between.
I met Jonathan Provost (Lassie) once at a comic con, and we got into a conversation about this.
He told me that people sometimes ask him what his opinion is of how one can get into the business.
He said when this happens he tells the person straight out, get the script for your favorite film, pick out the character you like so much learn all of the lines
and be able to recite them within four days.
He said that would be the very first step
absolutely love this channel.. keep it up yonas!! love from asia🙏
That’s very kind, thank you! Love from the UK 🙏🏽
To be revered like that in incredible..........What an icon. The way women talk about him like a greek god.......they just melt at the mention of his name..........that's presence.......
Mary Tyler Moore basically threw herself at him when she was a young woman, her words not mine....
Never seen Brando say, "honey! before. Only, "Stella!" Thanks. Xx
Fascinating perspectives....Only know Mr. Brando from The Godfather..Will have to check out Streetcar and others..
Fantastic collection
Thank you
Love hearing the stories about Brando
In an interview in the seventies, director Fred Zinnemann, who directed Brando's first film and Monty Clift's second (although it was the first to be released in theaters), was asked who, in his opinion, was the best actor he he had directed throughout his career. Zinnemann responded, Spencer Tracy.
Love what kirk said " he created a lot of bad actors " so true as he explained brando was so unique & many actors copied him instead of doing their own thing.
for you mooning fans, listen to the BEATLES' 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'. McCartney's singing, and he chuckles while singing a line. Lennon ,who hated the song reportedly, was ,at that moment, mooning Paul. read that a few a months ago. first heard the tune over 50 years ago.
Love this program it's about our culture... and how it's disolving......
Imagine him as the joker
I can understand how a younger Christopher Reeve could talk like that BUT Marlon was old school Hollywood . The new Hollywood wasn't the same . About the only reason STAR WARS was approved was because 20th Fox President Alan Ladd Jr loved American Graffiti . Most of Hollywood when Superman was made didn't know about movies .
Great actor but very toxic and deeply broken inside 😢
He wasn't toxic. The love that emanated from him for everyone, the way each friend and acquaintance talks about him show how clean he was of toxicity.
im surprised johnny Depp wasnt in this video, johnny and brando were very close, when he was starting out in his career
I compiled a separate video for Johnny :) check my channel and you'll find it.
Oh man, Christopher Reeve really should have taken Brando’s advice about being careful about stunts and particularly riding horses, and talking about how Brando got bucked off a horse and landed on his head.
"Last Tango In Paris" before the opening, garnered off the charts hype about its breaking of sex barriers. Unless you were of fillum going age you can't imagine the anticipation. It was akin to the pre-release buzz generated by "Gone With The Wind" or Liz & Richard in "Cleopatra".
I took my seat in front of the silver screen expecting the whole world to go up in flames and when it was all over I said to myself "Is that all there is?"
Reeve should have listened to Brando.
I worked on a movie with Marlon… very interesting charismatic man.
Please tell me what was he like? Did he have a big presence? Was he nice?
@@Gem20245 Very eccentric… He was 70 so he’d had years of being allowed to hone his eccentricities.. But very engaging and charismatic… When he would sit and have a conversation with you he wasn’t distracted.. he was completely engaged in the conversation and focused on you which would draw you in… I liked him.
@@VincentAgostino-gy6hr oh wow, thanks so much for replying. I cannot imagine how amazing it would be to be talking to him like that! What an experience
@@Gem20245 Here’s the final… I had a magazine cover from the year I was born with Marlon on the cover as Julius Caesar and after the movie I called him up (actually his assistant) and asked if Marlon would sign it for me… So she asked him and he said sure bring it up… I dropped it off at his house and he never answered a call from me again… He liked the magazine cover so he kept it… 😂🤣😂
@@VincentAgostino-gy6hr sorry to be annoying, but was he arrogant to 'lower' members of staff? Did he seem like he didn't care if you were famous/important?
"Bring on the horse .... two seconds later and he's on his head in the dirt." If only Christopher could've seen his future with a particular horse and alter events as he did in play acting Superman with Lois? Such things, however, are not meant to be. I only pray he's in a better place along with Marlon.
And weird that Christopher died at 52 so he never made it to the age he mentions about Brando being so jaded at 53.
@@robertgiles9124 Good point!
I had the interesting experience of meeting Christopher, and actually made a life cast (shoulders and head). He was a modest, soft spoken, and genuine guy, very nice man and even rather self-effacing. Not at all the Hollywood bigshot that so many other stars become. I still have the life cast of his face.
How ironic was it hearing Christopher Reeves talk about stunts and horses
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It’s called ACTING Rod baby.
This guy is like the Mohanlal of English films
Clearly Kirk did not know him at all. Kirk was a good actor but no where in the same league.
no way!! Kirk was one hell of an actor
Right - in a league by himself. Brilliant❤️❤️
I get the impression that this Brando guy was quite an ok actor.
Don’t forget “ the freshman”
What Christopher Reeve didn't understand was that it wasn't Marlon's job to care. It wasn't his responsibility to be an inspiration to younger actors. He showed up and did his job. Acting wasn't a passion of his, It was a job. A job that he so happened to be very good at. You can't blame him for being sick of the industry and all the people running it.
There are a lot of things that aren't your job. You do them anyway because there is something good to be done and you are one of the few people who are capable of doing it. Good things don't just happen.
Great power = Great responsibility
@@saytr4 Thanks Uncle Ben. I'll remember that.
@@KD.... Did you watch the clip? I'm starting to think you didn't understand Christopher Reeves point.
@@KD.... Are you a kid? I try not to argue with kids. Getting a Tobey Maguire vibe here..
@@saytr4 Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale; If somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy not a care in the world.. somebody lied.
Whatever life holds in-store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility". This is my gift; my curse.
I think Dick Cavett is obsessed with Brando.
Christopher Reeves part hits waaay different now 😞
Crazy to see how Marlon warned Christopher Reeve not to kill your self doing your stunts
And he even specified to be careful about riding horses!
Paul Newman imitated him for a short while. But he realized quickly it didn't work.
Soo many actor imitated him and fail. Brando really unique.
@@sekarpertiwi4077 he was the new wave. Paul Newman did a great job imitating him but it was really easy to see. It's funny
@@theflorgeormix his way of acting cannot be imitated by anyone. It his natural talent and he does it effortlessly. If someone imitated him it look funny and cringe 😂.
Obviously magnificent, but so we’re Elenora Duse & Edwin Booth
LOVE Robert Downey Jr. ☺️
Listen he was special but he went off the rails in the middle to latter stages of his life kind of like Howard Hughes. A few people Reeve and DuVall in particular were very open and honest about that.
Duvall yes. Reeve comes across like he was projecting.
@@piranha5506 Fair enough Reeve did get a bit self righteous
STILL , he told the truth about how Hollywood treated Native Americans in movies . And the American press tried to crucify him over his Oscar refusal .
@@akfreed6949 Okay yeah that was a noble gesture but he was batshit crazy for decades . He's fathered 11 children with lost count on how many different women. Listen I like the guy too but see the big picture
When your intellect is beyond others. That's where Brando was.
Legend
LMFAO why is the guy from Kickass talking about Marlon Brando? Seriously? That's the first guy you interview? WOW that's some funny shit yo! I'm still on the floor laughing at this! Priceless!
every one,s favourite guy
James Dean only made 3 movies, but he had the raw power to be in Brando's category
One eyed jacks is my favorite
My favorite too....thats movie have beautiful cinematography
@@sekarpertiwi4077 it really does
31:28 Welp, lotta irony here
What did he say? 11:50
It’s bullshit
Christopher Reeve was absolutely right. Brando gave superb performances in his youth, but became so revered that later in his career, he just got lazy. He had his lines taped to Robert Duvall during the making of the Godfather. Kind of an insult to the actor you're playing opposite when you turn them into your walking autocue.
A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP
Elia Kazan named names and he will always be remembered for that. On the Waterfront is a classic and the director was a yellow bellied snitch.
Who cares...no one likes Commies except for fools.
Take it easy Commie
Great actor, probably still the greatest (if we consider the time he lived in), but apparently not a nice person..
The only person to come close is Tom Hardy
Shia Labeouf*
Jim Varney
fuck yaaarrr....... mei kitne mazay mey thi ..i ws enjoyng own time...aahhh
. How ungracious of Christopher reeve. It doesn't surprise me.
I disagree ,he just told it how he was ...the truth
Unsuspecting fools, hahahaha
Wow ,brando, experts here,i am impressed, hahahaha, hahahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣
@@marlon-jl4ge why don’t go and do a little research on his dark side? Ex wife’s, ex male lovers, the cheating, his anger, sex addiction and god only knows what else. Don’t get me wrong, I think he was a great actor that did some beautiful things, but the truth is - HE WAS NO SAINT. He caused a lot of heartache to those who loved him ❤️
@@redcupidbowlips3793 did i say he was a saint?thats none of us,hahahaha
Oh please, the only truly astonishing thing about Brando was his unbelievable good looks. The man just oozed sheer animal magnetism out of every pore. When all you have to do is enter a room and light it up, that's a testimony to his appearance only not his acting. As an actor he was good not disputing that, but a "genius," "the greatest actor of all " as he has been called....Ah NO! Brando was way overrated by so many.
I wish people in the industry would stop treating Brando as a man with some God like status that everyone wanted to learn from and be like.
He was a fine actor like so many others in the movie making business, and that's all that should be said . Seems though far too many cant get past his physical endowments., and Brando sure had them in spades. The camera loved him.
@@andrewmiller4885 Thank you for sharing your opinion 🙏
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Thanks for this video, it has made me see why Brando was such an exceptional actor, which I did not know.
The only thing nobody talks about is the supposed rape of the actress on The Last Tango in Paris, the Dutch actress Maria Schneider. She has said she was raped and the director has acknowledged, he and Brando alone prepared the scene. It's such a good dramatic scene, because... apparently it's a real one, she is not acting, she is really suffering. I don't know where art should stop but certainly, one frontier is when art harms a person, and I think that the actress suffered a great deal years later.
In Europe nowadays, raping is a broad concept including any forced perforation of the anus and the vagina and placing a penis inside the mouth of the victim. If Brando put his fingers with butter in the anus of the actress against her will, then he did rape her. It's very sad that a lot of people turn a blind eye to criminal acts of famous people. In the early seventies the level of consciousness against these crimes were lower and crimes against women and children were more tolerated if not stifled by powerful men.
The fact that one is a great artist is not a guarantee that one is never going to commit a crime. For example, the Chilean Nobel Price winner Pablo Neruda was a great and revered poet of love matters and of the dispossessed, and yet he had the courage to publish his I-tell-all- Autobiography after he died and in it he confessed to having raped an illiterate, beautiful, young woman servant in charge of the toilets of his one-man diplomatic mission in Sri Lanka when he was in his twenties. Even a poet can be a rapist given a particular situation where one person holds power over another person.
The great American psychologist Zimbardo demonstrated that humans are situational beings. They can be angels or apparently normal in some situations, and then turn nasty, authoritarian, sadistic and even criminals in other situations. The point is the balance of power and the calculation one makes of how to get away with it unharmed. A trait that we share with chimps. It has been demonstrated that chimps only go to war and attack isolated rival chimps if they are 8 in number, because 4 are going to hold the limbs of the opponent, and the other four are going to kill the guy, that is, they also turn up criminals under certain situations while they can also be perfectly lovely dads with their offspring.
Other than that, Brando looks to me a perfect example of how art can arise from trauma in childhood and how medically untreated psychic trauma can lead to a tortured life and to damage to other human beings, without diminishing his artistic prowess and his good deeds against racism and taking care of the many children he legally adopted. One can be the one and the other.
Idk where you heard that. I read her interview. She wasn't raped. She was uncomfortable doing the scene. You can wikipedia or google what she said. Kind of neglect of you to accuse a dead man of rape!
His voice though,I'm allways put off by his voice. You look at him and never would imagine his voice, so strange.
SO WONDERFUL to see Chris Reeve with the only one to call him out for phoning it in and wasting his talent.... God Bless you....
Yeah the guy know from superman calls out the guy from the godfather, streetcar, on the waterfront,etc.
Being a contrarian is one hell of a way for deflecting attention from your own shortcomings.
@@piranha5506 i disagree. you're saying Brando didn't phone it in the last 20 years of his career???? None of them were bad performances but none of them touched anything he did before apocalypse now. He himself admitted to acting strictly for the paycheck after the Godfather. What Reeve, who worked with him and knew him, was correctly pointing out that being considered the best in the business and putting in the work later in his career was a let down for the profession and the audience. The ONLY film role I can see where he didn't phone it in after 1976 was A DRY WHITE SEASON ...
@@RobertSmith-cx9bl I’m saying the guy who abandoned stage for a superhero movie has no right to call out anyone on selling out. He’s projecting his own insecurities which were reportedly in no short supply.
@piranha5506 PIRANHA... every piece of your argument here sucks. A) Reeve never left the stage. He continued doing theatre right up until his injury. B) Care to guess who did leave the stage for Hollywood? find me a single theatre performance Brando did after 1946. C) Show me where Reeve ever said that Brando sold out? Big difference between phoning it in and selling out. Your forgetting also that Brando himself said on numerous occasions he only took on film work after the Godfather for the paycheck. Now you can hate Chris Reeve all you want but he was never insecure and he wasnt alone in his critique. How about Ed Norton? Do you consider him a washed up insecure actor? Care to guess what he said about Brando later career?
@@piranha5506thank you!
He caused so much pain for his children. I can’t admire anyone when I know he was an negligent father to his children. He was disgusting.
I respectfully disagree. I do agree he wasn’t the best father. But, if you read his backstory on how he was raised…he certainly didn’t have a good upbringing or role model himself to be a father (not an excuse, but an explanation). If you also see the court tapes of him in court during the trial against his son Christian, he was broken. Was he the best father? No. Did he love his kids? 💯 without a doubt.
@@dillionoshea7535agree with you...and i think his children love him too and not hate him at all. Even his daughter rebecca brando give his father tape diary for brando documentary because she wont people misunderstood to her father. and they never bad mouth about brando too
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Only other great actors can recognize Brando's talent. The average person, like me, cannot see it. I personally don't think there was anything special about his acting.
i'm an average person, like you and i'm blown away by his talent from Streetcar Named Desire to the Godfather he revolutionized acting especially for men who weren't supposed to display deep emotion on film - Brando did it.
I'm an average person and I think he was a unique individual do I think he was the greatest actor of all time? No but it's only my opinion
Marlon Brando’s genius was in his making acting seamless.
@@haintedhouse2990 I question if you would have felt that way had you not heard the praise reaped on him by others.
@@sanekabc i would have felt that way regardless of who praised him or not. if you've seen performances by the established male actors at the time like Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, John Garfield... they were good but they kept it relatively safe keeping tabs on a masculine way of portraying emotions as opposed to Brando who no longer played it safe. in Streetcar Named Desire he's unpredictable sometimes coming off more like an angry toddler instead of a 'swell guy.'
Marlon was the beginning nd he was the end.. you can produce Jesus but not brando
Ghv
I read Brando's biography and he came through like a dickhead. These stories redeem him in my mind. The truth is maybe somewhere in between.
Read his autobiography not biography because not accurate at all
@@sekarpertiwi4077 Most of his collaborators would agree that he was very difficult and unhireable in the later stage of his life or do you disagree?
He turned in to a glutton even though he was a great actor. Arrogant too. Former fan
Shame that he was such terrible person that effected many lives and not in a good way. People forget that 🥲
@@redcupidbowlips3793 , do you know how many people he helped, how many causes he pioneered? There are tons of people who remember him with great fondness! Acting was just a part of his life, and you are basing your opinion on what actors say of him - this is just one perspective.
The fools have no idea about the Real brando
I get the feeling, that people are overwhelmed by his looks and charisma. And that makes them overstate and misremember his talent. Maybe its me. Doesnt look THAT talented of an actor.
He changed acting with how he brought realism to the world of theatrical acting. He was also the first popular method actor. He would visit handicapped armymen to learn their nature when he played a paraplegic Armyman in a movie back in the 50s. No one had heard of such method acting before.
You’re crazy.
I look his talent...he is great actor and unique one. He had the trademark for himself. Nobody look like him. His look and his charisma only plus value from him
Chinless, eunuch, English actors talk about Brando. Hilarious.
overrated
Yeah ok bud
Yet Christopher Reeves’s pathetic fit of jealousy, calls Brando a “sell out” and that Brando “called it in” when he was in Superman. Dude was upset because he assumed that Brando would take time away from his own life and take reeve under his wing and teach him how to act. Seems to me that Brando did not suffer fools and had apparently already honed in on that fact that Reeve was just a pretty boy with an air of entitlement without any depth. How dare him lay the responsibility of being a leader on someone who had never wanted that job or burden, ever. If Reeve had pulled his head out of his own egotistical ass and got to know the man, he would seen this. I lost a tremendous amount of respect for Reeve after that interview with letterman.ugh.
Wow, grasshopper! Preach! Absolutely!