Word: brando
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proper tone. Don't see The Fortune, a forced, slapsticking situational comedy with buddy Warren Beatty, that has Jack looking like Bozo with a paper moustache, and lacks both slap and situation. Don't see The Missouri Breaks, done with next-door neighbor Marlon Brando, one of the most heralded flops to gallop across the silver screen. Nor Going South, with John Belushi, which features numerous shots of our hero's derriere, proving that Nicholson cannot direct Nicholson
...unreal G.I. show, Wagner pouring out of choppers. Francis Ford Coppola comes so close to coaxing this monstrous myth into flight. Yet, at the end he fails because he abandons it. Making myth isn't enough for Coppola, he has to lay bare Evil. But a behemoth--like Marlon Brando, fingering his pate in semi-darkness and blubbering out The Hollow Men isn't Evil. Conrad knew that Evil isn't shown, but alluded to, when he wrote "The horror, the horror". Isn't that why we have myths and symbols after...
...made the film and returned to New York. By the time the movie was released and Dean was becoming well-know, Dean skipped the opening party for Eden to fly back to California to make Rebel Without A Cause. He was 24, a promising though not terribly popular actor. Brando was all the rage, and had created such an aura about himself, that almost anyone else was sucked into the vaccuum...
...love with the man sent to assassinate her-for Edwige Feuillère and Jean Marais, who played it on the Paris stage in 1946 and in a film version in 1948. Tallulah Bankhead brought it to Broadway in 1947 (but without her original costar, the young Marlon Brando). Thirty years later, Monica Vitti, whom Antonioni had made a star with L 'Avventura, would call on her old mentor to collaborate on the project for RAI, the Italian television network. But Antonioni saw no challenge in restaging the play. Instead, he would shoot the production on videotape, and then...
...that catapulted him to stardom, and a performance I have always regretted missing. For the past two decades Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of the dozen finest actors in the English-speaking world. Like Guinness and (for a time) Brando. Plummer has been able to efface himself completely when immersing himself in a role: his Pizarro in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and his work in the title role of Arturo Ui can never be bettered...