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...excellent article on Marlon Brando [May 24] showed him for what he truly is: a human being who's an actor, rather than vice versa...
Since when do we concern ourselves with a lout, a boor and a phony like Brando? For God's sake spare...
...Brando may mean well, with respect to the Native American Movement, but his lordly countenance on that atoll in the Pacific smacks of autocratic rule. Like most radicals, Mr. Brando seeks power. Granted it's power to do good, but sheer, raw power all the same...
While the picture belongs to Brando, it is a nice question whether The Missouri Breaks is worth owning. Penn has peopled it with interesting, unfamiliar faces, and shot it with obviously strong feelings for the landscape and period detail of the 1880s. Yet the strong technique is enlisted in the service of a very modest irony that has become one of the basic banalities of the modern western. Once again, the works of nature are shown to have grandeur and innocence, while the works of man are everywhere perceived as squalid pollutants...
McGuane gives his major actors only one effective scene when a vengeful Nicholson has Brando at his mercy in a bathtub and lets him go. But far from satisfying the audience, it leaves it wishing for more. McGuane's is an essentially adolescent sensibility, tough-talking but sentimental about how nasty death keeps intruding on his good ole boys. In the circumstances, one comes to admire Brando even more. Apparently, he was the only major participant in the project to see that it was a load of nonsense and that the only honorable course was to send...