Marlon Brando Dies
Jul. 2nd, 2004 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomWow. This was unexpected. Legendary actor Marlon Brando has passed away at the age of eighty. (Here's the Associated Press story at Yahoo, and here's his filmography at IMDB.)
Say what you will about him -- his attitude, his self-indulgence, his monumental ego, his strange interpretations and occasionally just strange roles (Colonel Kurtz, Sakini in Teahouse of the August Moon, and the less said about Dr. Moreau the better) -- but when he was on, as he often was, he was as good an actor as you will ever see. He took chances, many of which worked, and he had a gritty power which he could've used to blow everything and everybody else off-screen but which instead just made the whole thing work better.
For Jor-El, for Fletcher Christian, for Johnny Strabler and Terry Malloy and George Lincoln Rockwell and Don Vito Corleone and Stanley Freakin Kowalski, thank you, sir, and farewell.
Say what you will about him -- his attitude, his self-indulgence, his monumental ego, his strange interpretations and occasionally just strange roles (Colonel Kurtz, Sakini in Teahouse of the August Moon, and the less said about Dr. Moreau the better) -- but when he was on, as he often was, he was as good an actor as you will ever see. He took chances, many of which worked, and he had a gritty power which he could've used to blow everything and everybody else off-screen but which instead just made the whole thing work better.
For Jor-El, for Fletcher Christian, for Johnny Strabler and Terry Malloy and George Lincoln Rockwell and Don Vito Corleone and Stanley Freakin Kowalski, thank you, sir, and farewell.
