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Streetcar remains classic, not so much for the vehicles provided in Blanche and Stanley Kowalski, but for the way Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando take personal possession of them. Only Leigh could have pulled off all those "I don't want realism, I want magic" lines with such charm. And Brando, in his first major role, delivers a lecture on the Napoleonic Code itself worth the price of admission. Neither role is burdened with too much realism; but, like Blanche, Williams works best with magic and myth. Or, to cop another duBois-ism, "50 per cent of this film...
...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...
Brando and Tarita are still good friends. Says Marlon, "I remember being furious with her because she fed so much candy and gum-so bad for the teeth-to the baby. She said to me, 'What can I do? He wants it.' Tahitians treat children as people who have legitimate wants and needs. None of this I-know-better-because-I'm-your-parent syndrome. I respect it. But I've learned not to try to go native mentally ... not to try to assume their mind frame. My first seven years as a child growing...
...silhouette of Tetiaroa. Brando pointed up to the first evening star visible in the dimming sky. A strange, almost mystical feeling pervaded, as if one could slip overboard and sink beneath the soft sea to become part of all that beauty. "Don't worry, you'd swim," Marlon laughed when I told him later about my strange impulse. "But I know exactly what you mean. It's happened to me many times...
...course of portraying a psychopathic "regulator"-a hired gun charged by a Montana cattle baron with ridding his range of rustlers-Marlon Brando employs three distinct accents and wears, among other exotic items, a gorgeously fringed buckskin jacket, a coolie's hat and, finally, a grandmotherly gingham dress with a poke bonnet. Obviously, his performance in The Missouri Breaks does not suffer from an excess of discipline. Indeed, it is fair to say that it is gaudy and disruptive to the balance of forces Director Penn must surely have wanted to maintain between Brando and Jack Nicholson...