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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando was born April 3, 1924 in Omaha and died on July 1, 2004 in Los Angeles, is an actor and director who is considered one of the greatest and most influential American actors of the twentieth century. The American Film Institute ranked him "4th legendary actor."
It is a Hollywood star and a sex symbol like Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, Louise Brooks or James Dean. He is also known for his involvement in the fight for civil rights in the US, including the recognition of the rights of Native Americans and African Americans.
Marlon Brando was born into a modest family in Nebraska, which has French ancestry, German, Dutch, Irish and English. The family name, Alsatian-German origin, was written originally "Brandau" 1, then was Frenchified into "Brandeau" before being Americanized / Italianate in "Brando" at the initiative of 2 his grandfather, an immigrant. Son of actress Dorothy Pennebaker, alcoholic and bohemian, and a womanizing alcoholic father as much, he was raised with his two older sisters, Jocelyn and Frances. Because the memory of his mother drunk he would recover overnight in move, it will adopt as a guideline not to drink or smoke but know the same torments with his first wife Anna Kashfi3 addict. Bad student, he was sent to a military school, Shattuck Military Academy (in), where he discovered his vocation for the theater, but, threatened with being expelled for insubordination, he prefers to leave the academy.
In 1951, Elia Kazan adapts A Streetcar Named Desire at the cinema. The film is drawn from the Tennessee Williams play and the role of Blanche Dubois is portrayed by Vivien Leigh, who will receive the Oscar for best actress. Marking a clear break with the Anglo-Saxon tradition, this film is an inferno that improper mixing in a hyper-realistic social context, neuroses and sexual impulses. The choice of Brando is a stroke of genius. The film blew Brando popularity that becomes a Hollywood star overnight (this is only his second film after The Men of Fred Zinnemann in 1950) 5. In addition to its revolutionary acting and his breathtaking performance in the role of Stanley Kowalski vulgar, Marlon Brando fills the screen and is an undisputed sex symbol, redefining male beauty criteria for the second half twentieth century to come, going beyond Tyrone Power or Montgomery Clift and being younger than Clark Gable, John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart others that preceded it. Moreover, it is the latter who won the best actor Oscar in 1951 (for The African Queen), despite the appointment of Brando.
As written by Truman Capote, then it is the ideal image of American youth: dark blond hair, blue-gray eyes, dark complexion, athletic approach. The map of the United States is etched on his visage5. His role in Viva Zapata! in 1952 earned him an acting award at Cannes.
The rebel image [change | modify the code]
After the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, in 1953, he continued with a film that will make the famous jeans and leather jacket Perfecto: Wild László Benedek equipped. In this film, he expresses the revolt of a generation becoming Johnny, a biker rebelle5 on his own Triumph Thunderbird 6T motorcycle which stormed a small town with his band of noisy young people. Again, the interpretation is going to have a great impact. However, the Triumph brand sees a very dim image that returns the film on it. The film and Brando's acting skills are not as extraordinary in A Streetcar Named Desire but the character he plays on screen (that of Johnny), which will launch a fashion and have a considerable impact the "rock culture". Indeed, James Dean wants the same bike as the film, and we remember the photo of Elvis Presley mimicking to perfection the Brando posture on his Triumph. Indeed, images of Brando posing with his motorcycle become iconic and will be the basis of the wax figure at Madame Tussauds in London.
Her character Johnny, leader of a motorcycle gang in the film, gives this reply became famous:
- A girl: "Hey Johnny, what are you rebeling contre? "(" Hey Johnny, do you rebel against what? ");
- Johnny: "What have you got? "(" What you m'proposes? ").
At that time, some critics say that his way of speaking quite nonchalant and lack of articulation2. Frank Sinatra nicknamed elsewhere in this respect "Mister Mumbles" 2 ( "Mr. stammering"). But Brando will take them if playing a Shakespearean role in Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar in 1954. It found a scene where Mark Antony (Brando) is an indictment more than striking.
Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
This is Frank Sinatra who must take the role of Terry Malloy in the film following Elia Kazan On the Waterfront (1954). At the last moment Brando agrees, although he disagrees with Kazan who had denounced his fellow communists in the McCarthy witch hunts. Informing is precisely the focus of the film which earned Brando his first Oscar for Best Actor in 1955. There are several famous scenes including one called "taxi" in which Brando will cry tray technicians through its simple monologue [ref . necessary]. The same year, he played Napoleon Bonaparte on screen in Desiree Henry Coster Jean Simmons.
Multiplicity of his talent [change | modify the code]
Marlon Brando is now the largest male Hollywood star, he is afraid of nothing and will therefore try to musicals with a partner Frank Sinatra. In life, the two actors hate [ref. necessary]. The film is titled Guys And Dolls (White Guys and Dolls). Gene Kelly was tipped to star but MGM did not want to release is Brando who gets it and plays for the first time in a musical. In 1956 he played with Glenn Ford in The Teahouse Of The August Moon (Little Tea House) where he played an Asian. He continues in the same vein more seriously with Sayonara where he plays the role of an American soldier whose love with a Japanese girl's impossible, after the Second World War.
In 1958, he played his greatest role since On the Waterfront, in the film The Young Lions Edward Dmytryk (The Young Lions), where he plays the role of a German officer, along with Dean Martin and Montgomery Clift. The following year, he starred in The Fugitive Kind (The Fugitive Kind) the role of a lone musician with snakeskin jacket, with Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward. The film, adapted from a play written by Tennessee Williams specifically for Brando, knows no success but acquired the status of "cult" [ref. necessary].
The sixties and decline [edit | modify the code]
In the year 1960, Brando working on a western with Sam Peckinpah and Stanley Kubrick titled Return to Eden. After countless quarrels on the script and direction, Marlon Brando himself will eventually make the film in 1961, in which he played in the company of Karl Malden. After major delays during the shooting and strong on budget, the producers decided not to give him the final cut. Unknown, the film exudes a special atmosphere for a Western and will be the only film directed by Brando. In 1962, he refused the role of Lawrence of Arabia.
In 1962, he starred in Mutiny on the Bounty Lewis Milestone, The Chase Arthur Penn in 1966 and Reflections in a Golden Eye by John Huston in 1967 where he plays an army officer who represses his homosexuality . In 1968, he also plays a guru in the gritty comedy Candy Christian Marquand. In 1969, he refused Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to rotate in Queimada. Later, he declared about him that he is his favorite movie despite its commercial failure. At the end of the decade, his career suffered because he begins to have a reputation for being difficult on film sets and his films suffer business failure.
phenomenal success with The Godfather [change | modify the code]
In 1972, the provision of Brando in The Godfather is a milestone and relaunch his career as half-mast. The director, Francis Ford Coppola, convinces Brando doing makeup tests. He, who had spent most of casting for almost twenty years, takes the game, creates a new face from cotton balls he puts himself in the chin and cheeks, giving an air Bulldog harsh and unforgiving. Testing, Coppola is very excited about his performance as a sponsor organized crime family, the Corleone family in Cosa Nostra. Coppola has to fight to impose, against the advice of Paramount studios do not want to cast Brando. The leaders of the Paramount want to give the role to Danny Thomas. Thomas declined the role and Coppola press studios to hire Brando with the help of testimonies of people who attended his trial.
For his role in The Godfather, he receives a new Oscar for best actor in 1973, he refused to protest against the way American cinema treats the Indians in his films6,7. Instead, he sent Sacheen Littlefeather, activist for the civil rights of the Indians, who came in Apache traditional costume.
In 1972 fate Last Tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci, who is one of the best performances of the actor. This film caused a scandal because of some erotic scenes showing crudely intimate relationship between a mature man and a very young femmeNB 1. Despite the controversy caused by the film and the actor himself, Brando is still a both nominated for the Oscar for best actor.
In 1974, Brando as Caan are scheduled to appear in the final scene of The Godfather 2. But after a dispute between the actor and the studio about his salary, Brando refused to come one day to shoot the scene to the point that the writers must rewrite the final scene where her character is just mentioned.
Living doing odd jobs through the intervention of his father, he tries to incorporate the military, but it is reformed as a result of a wound inflicted knee during a football game. He decides to join her sisters in New York in 19434.
It follows by chance the Stella Adler actors training course and method of Constantin Stanislavski. Marlon Brando is developing a new way to interpret the roles, based on improvisation and the forgetting of the original screenplay for a psychological depth of character to excess. It does not pretend to be someone else, but embodies a character, physically and mentally. "Marlon never really needed to learn to play. He knew, "once said Stella Adler, one of the teachers of the Actors Studio.
His career began in the theater on Broadway in 1944 with the play I Remember Mama. He knows first critical success in Truckline Café but his acting career is truly launched by Elia Kazan who offers him, in 1951, the role of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando had sought to join Elia Kazan on the phone for three days to refuse the role, but when it points out, he does not dare say no.
During one of the performances of this piece, a machinist broke his nose while boxent between scenes backstage. Yet he finished the piece, a bloody nose. It will keep this incident a slightly "distorted nose
Marlon Brando, actor unpredictable behavior, influenced actors of his generation such as James Dean, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Robert Redford as well as the best players of the next generation as Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman or yet James Caan.
Marlon Brando, né le 3 avril 1924 à Omaha et décédé le 1er juillet 2004 à Los Angeles, est un acteur
et réalisateur qui est considéré comme l'un des plus grands et des plus influents acteurs américains du xxe siècle. L'American Film Institute l'a classé «4e acteur de légende».
Il est une star hollywoodienne et un sex-symbol à l'instar de Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, Louise Brooks ou James Dean. Il est aussi connu pour son implication dans le combat pour les droits civiques aux États-Unis, notamment pour la reconnaissance des droits des Amérindiens et des Afro-Américains.
Marlon Brando, acteur au comportement imprévisible, a influencé des acteurs de sa génération comme James Dean, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen et Robert Redford ainsi que les meilleurs acteurs de la génération suivante comme Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman ou encore James Caan.
The documentary England begins «Listen to me, Marlon Listen To Me Marlon» British Stephen Reilly, directed and presented in several American and European festivals on 24 January, a scene starting a crowd of police cars after receiving distress call from the home of the global superstar Marlon Brando indicate the occurrence of a shooting incident at his home on the day he called the star himself that «misery visited the home» to enter the film worlds artist months the world leaning on 200 minutes recorded by the star cast his vote at different stages of his age which lists some of his diary and retrieves memories of art and family are not broadcast to the public, through the severe scenario, the seal was written by director Steven Riley, trying to monitor through which the life of the owner of the largest footprint in Hollywood artist, relying on videos recorded by the actor during his youth and old age to attend his voice captivating poetic language reflect the culture of Marlon Brando deep:
«Arise, be gone, O candle short term,
Life is not only under transient; representative lousy hour arrogance and rejoicing on the stage, and then do not hear about a thing.
It's a story to tell stupid,
Fuming and expresses nothing »
Thus began Marlon Brando, his voice husky with outs tone talking about the same that the film showed a lack of absolute satisfaction with it, and wanted to exit through a simple movement of the camera and lighting quiet to reflect the actor during filming in his home life and his bedroom to bring some spirit to the artist by addressing the technology imaging digital made by the star in the mid-eighties, as well as part of the television interviews and some of the scenes taken from old films before the movie the Godfather.
(Video directed by Steven Riley when talking about the work)
Family life uncomfortable
Between a cruel father were not doing a good relationship, and mother drunk most of the time but he was loved, the child Marlon Brando lived his early childhood in Nebraska, which lies west-central United States a child is a social at all on what he himself narrates the film. And thus widening the gap between him and his father in particular, send him to military school after being dismissed from several normal schools for bad behavior, and there is grumbling Brando bitterly that «the military mentality has one goal: to be automated as much as possible ... individual simply does not exist». But he admits that all the advantages of his father, which he hated they are embodied in it even though he tried not to be a father, like his father harsh.
You do not represent in words but represents your spirit
In New York, Marlon Brando restores itself after the discovery that life Alassalkh ml in its parts:
«I remember I arrived in New York with holes Jawarba and mentally ... I love walking in the streets and look at the faces. I watched people for three seconds while passing me and I'm trying to analyze their personalities. Only in that Alhzh can face that hides a lot of things that people do not know; you interest Btakminha »
Thus touch with the global superstar first signs of his talent, he enrolled new school for Social Research. There Brando tells about a meeting of women that have influenced his artistic drama teacher Stella Adler of Jewish assets that she told him months:
«Unrelated to represent words. You do not represent in words but represents your spirit. Fear not, you have a right to be who you are, where you are and how you »
Marlon was a member of a new school in the tragic performance that found a foothold in Hollywood in the fifties, and its impact is still in force in the American body yet. Perhaps the early accession to the Oscar by his film «A Streetcar Named Desire» in 1951 as best supporting actor was making a quick stardom for Brando.
Political positions
Try director Steven Riley, highlighting the outstanding relationship that brought Marlon Brando Mounadil jurist months for civil rights for black Americans did Martin Luther King, and the role played by Brando in the million-man marches demanding the rights of black Americans did, and media attack and popular he suffered because of his stance.
«I resist not for blacks .. I resist for the human race! All men are created equal, »thus commented on the tone of honest moral stance on the issue of civil rights for black Americans did.
Marlon Brando, accompanied by Martin Luther King Jr.
And also to support the courage of indigenous people from the Redskins against erasing history of his being from the state of Omaha bearing the Indian tribe of the native population name, it had a significant impact as he did when he refused in 1973, receiving an Oscar for his role months «veto Krliuna» in «The Godfather» . And sent him instead to read a message apologizing actress Sachin Little Ivr, with Indian assets to apologize for his acceptance of the award; reasoned continuous spectrum distortion and abuse of the Indians in the American cinema. The film highlights the real reason for this position, a siege by US forces to South Dakota Indian activists.
Denial of talent
Of the things he has shown this documentary, not faith Brando inimitable talent that made him fourth in the list of the 100 best actor in history. Brando expresses this by saying:
«Representation became for me a way to secure the living .. lying to earn a living, this is a representation of you .. representatives, all of you are adept, for you are all liars .. when you say something that is not in living or are reluctant to say what in living; it is a representation .. If we all represent ; but some people paid for that money »
Fmarlon in audio recordings and some television interviews he shows his dissatisfaction with his career as an actor, he is also the director clearly highlighted during the handling of the march Brando art, especially in the middle and an end.
Star controversial
Brando said he learned of his mother's love of nature and a sense of near animals. Malk incident buy it for the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia Islands. Brando and comment on this unique incident in the audio recordings, saying: «approached the peace there. I did not think I bought it, but only the owner of the usufruct ». He described his relationship with Brando on the island of Tahiti and the inhabitants of the good faces and hearts net owners. But all that did not satisfy him!
«Selfish, uncooperative, and temperamental» were all descriptions of Marlon Brando in the American press helped himself painted by bad Palmkhrgen relationship and repeated that he was not «folly-fallen stamps them». It was also a multiple marriages modern American press as well as its relationship with more than one presenter and fashion model. All this shows his film at some length in addition to his relationship with his children, and the killing of his son Christian friend of his sister Cheney Following carry it, and the entry of his son in prison, and the suicide of his daughter in 1995. This was the most difficult incidents involving actor in the last years of his life in addition to him being attacked because of an increase in weight, as well as his anti-Jewish by the Zionist lobby. All of these events will find her explanations and justifications, and confessions voice the star himself and this lies the beauty of the documentary «Listen to me, Marlon». It's a voice diary owner and commenting
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