Opinions to Marlon Brando
- Stella
Adler: “I taught Marlon nothing. I opened up possibilities of thinking,
feeling, experiencing, and as I opened those doors, he walked right through.”
What kind of role did he play?
- Most of them are appeared in crime movie.
- Handsome guy with a sense of rebel, like fighting a lot
1 Who did they work with? Are
they associated with any studio/director etc?
- He was a full-fledged actor on
Broadway before the Studio opened in 1947.
- He was utterly skeptical about the
category of “method acting.”
- Brando’s schooling as an actor in a year (1943-1944), at the New School for Social Research where he took classes
with Stella Adler, daughter of the actor Jacob Adler
- Sometime he will go to the Actors Studio in Saturday Morning
What awards did they win?
- He won 33 winning awards and 22 nominations, nominates the Oscar for 8 years and won two times.
- Significant awards:
- 1973 and 1955 won the Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor by The Godfather and On the Waterfront.
- Won three times BAFTA Film Awards by On the Waterfront, Julius Caesar and Viva Zapata!
- 1955, he won the Oscar Best Actor Award by the On the Waterfront, and in 1973, he won the Oscar by the Godfather.
- In 1972, he won the KCFCC Best Actor Awards by the Godfather.
3. What are their most memorable
performances?
- There are a Broadway show, A Streetcar Named
Desire catapulted the 23-year old to worldwide fame. Huge success in
Broadway
- Brando’s first Hollywood role, as a
paraplegic veteran in Stanley Kramer’s low-budget social
problem picture, The Men
(1950)
- - The Godfather was the turning point and let him back to top ten and won his second Oscar Award. The Godfather become a model of patriarchy, Brando is as much cultural icon as actor.
- On the Waterfront also very impress by the audiences, Because it is defining an ideal of failure and redemption in On The Waterfront.
What notable information do you
know about their real lives?
- Brando had a number of affairs with women, and was married twice - to Anna Kashfi
(1957) and Movita Castenada (1960) - to legitimate his children.
- He also have a romantic relationship with Tahitian Tarita
Teriipaia, and he had two children with her, and adopted two of her other
children. He had three children in his
seventies with Maria Ruiz.
- Brando was
notorious for his ability to attract women and preserve their loyalty over
time, and also for his inability to be loyal to them. But he always supported his children, those
he adopted as well as those who were his by blood.
- Social life:
- He has an early promoter of women’s suffrage
- Black civil rights
- protections for migrant laborers
Brando was
moved by the unjust treatment of North American Indians, in 1973, he refused the Academy
Award to protest Hollywood’s negative stereotyping of Indians, he had been
active on their in two decades and was planning to held an agressive Indian
film project.
He responded
by making his own film with a 16-millimeter camera about the starving Bihari
Children in India.-- Brando considered
himself a global citizen, so he always care about the issue all over the world, especially the different nationality.
In what way do their role cross over from their real lives?
- - In the Wild One, Marlon Brando play Johnny Strabler. The character is quite rebel and desire for justice. It was quite similar with Marlon when he was young, he was kind of rebel but on the other hand he concern the society so much.
E.G. Protect the Black movement
- Marlon Brando had dancing lessons with Katherine Dunham when he was young actor in Manthattan, and he had a native flexibility, described as a panther.
- He had a broad taste, he love to collect books about religion and philosophy, politics and histories, and language like French and Spanish.
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