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In my ongoing quest to watch all of the greatest movies ever, I'm now about half way through 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. It's a great story, but the dialogue and some of the acting are a bit much.
Vivien Leigh does a good job, but Brando overacts most of his scenes. I was just never a Brando fan. I liked him in The Godfather, but thought he was a ham actor in pretty much everything else he ever did.
I read up on Leigh yesterday when I started watching the movie. Sheesh! She was some sorta seriously beautiful and talented, but what a screwed up life. Laurence Olivier, her husband for 20 years, said she was diagnosed by pretty much all the doctors she saw as a bi-polar schizophrenic nymphomaniac and he agreed with the diagnosis.
By multiple accounts from Olivier, her friends, and many others, she screwed everything but the doorknobs in Hollywood, including taxi drivers, delivery boys, a clerk at a gas station, and countless costars and strangers. She had multiple nervous breakdowns and alcohol issues, finally dying rather young from TB. So much talent and beauty and success, but what a sad life..Mental illness can be devastating
What List are you watching from? I've seen a number of people try to make them, but It seems like they have a few dollars in once ya dig around on why.../\?
Brando had some edge, but those that are close to him consider him one of the pioneers of today's acting. He did things back in the day nobody was doing and I have to agree after some research that things changed after a few of his premier's, 'Apocalypse Now' in my opinion, Is a hard watch. But he gets a lot of praise for what he did... just an example.
I'll also go as far to say Hannibal Lecter wouldn't have existed without the chops Brando put in. Anthony Hopkins probably wouldn't give credit but the way Hopkin's acts Is directly influenced.
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