Top 5 Marlon Brando Films Top 5 Film Performances

Top 5 Marlon Brando Films Top 5 Film Performances Apr 26, 2018 3:42:57 GMT

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Post by moviemouth on Apr 26, 2018 3:42:57 GMT

Apr 26, 2018 3:32:46 GMT ck100 said:

Apr 26, 2018 3:21:52 GMT moviemouth said:

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.

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 imo

I feel like Brando's work in Apocalypse Now is a mix of doing what he wanted, what Coppola and the script wanted, and doing things out of necessity.

That is definitely possible but he did come to set 50 lbs overweight and just kind of strolled in whenever the hell he felt like it.

I actually prefer Brando's Dr. Moreau over Lancaster's sort of bland take on the character. I haven't read the book but to me it seems that someone who would actually start experimenting with human and animal DNA and creating an Island of mutants would have to be a complete nutcase and that is the way I see the character as presented in the 1996 movie. The movie starts to become much less intersting once Brando's character is killed off and the animals start taking over the island with automatic weapons.