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Post by moviemouth on Apr 26, 2018 3:21:52 GMT
I actually like his performance in The Island of Dr. Moreau. The whole movie is such a bizarre and creepy mess and his performance works in those terms. Well it's clear he has a "I don't give a shit and I'm just doing what I want" attitude in his performance (which makes it bad), but by the same token that's what also makes it work for some people. It's so bizarre that there is a compelling factor to it. I didn't think it was clear that he had a "I don't give a shit attitude and am just going to do what I want." I only realized that once I read about Brando in his later career (he stopped giving a shit long before The Island of Dr. Moreau). I just assumed the director wanted him to play the character as an eccentric nutball because it fits with everything else in the movie. Either way I find the movie itself and his performance very strange and creepy. To be fair the movie was a clusterfuck long before he came on set. In fact, I think his crazy ideas for the character partly save the movie from being a complete disaster. I read he was just doing what he wanted in Apocalypse Now too and that is one of the greatest supporting performances in movie history, so I don't agree that an actor winging it automatically makes a performance bad. |
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