False power

Eduardo 2021-11-13 08:01:23

The famous photographer Halsman once asked Humphrey Bogart to take photos.
The latter asked him what he wanted to photograph himself like, a policeman or a robber?
The photographer replied, I just want to photograph the real you.
Unexpectedly, this sentence frightened the big star and completely collapsed in front of him, like a frightened child.
Halsman believes that an actor usually feels that he is a shell. This sense of emptiness leads him to become an actor, because he often has to live in an illusion to feel the real existence.
Similarly, Catherine Hepburn was a very shy person, saying that he was only afraid to show up until he was born and attended a funeral in his life. In fact, many excellent actors are introverted or even withdrawn, which makes people feel incomprehensible. Although those who are good at dancing sleeves and good at calculations have certain performance talents, after all, they are just a kind of grandstanding craftsmen, great actors. Like other great artists, they are destined to settle for loneliness and endure criticism.
It is this strong contrast that makes them immortal.
On the one hand it is the attention of everyone, on the other hand it is isolated.

To be honest, I didn't like Brando very much before, and thought that he had a very bad head, which made many later actors imitate his arrogance, slurred words, and like to play bad people rather than good people. Because I watched "A Streetcar Named Desire" before, it was hard to accept his intense style. However, after watching a few of his movies recently, I discovered that my misunderstanding of him was completely caused by the bad and distorted impressions caused by those imitators. They only learned how to put him on the surface, and did not learn how to put him on the surface. Excellent collection, only Brando can fully retract and release, seamless.
In fact, in addition to his famous works, his later works are so-called convergent very well. He definitely did not exceed the requirements of the role. His performance is to move in the calm, cold and hot, and most importantly, He completely ignores the presence of the audience and the camera, and sometimes even the presence of the opponent-at most a slight reaction, so he conquered the audience and the cold camera, and the camera is the easiest to take the real soul of a person.
This kind of real kingly spirit is unprecedented and unparalleled.
Although Gable and Bogart before him have incorporated masculine wildness and cynicism in their excellent performances, they have not yet, perhaps dared to break through the image of the old-style gentleman, and the shadow of themselves is only slightly exposed. Brando completely broke this taboo and entered the post-war film world as a gangster proletarian. It was only from him that people discovered that a bad person can be so attractive and so hard to resist.


Just as Fei Wenli said that the movie she hated the most was "Broken Blue Bridge", it was only to raise funds for Oliver. Brando himself didn't think highly of this film. He thought his best movie was Streetcar. However, in the eyes of our audience, this is a very outstanding movie, and his performance is also the most perfect. The film is completely shot in real scene, with cold black and white tones, and a realistic style, which is different from previous American movies.
This reminds me of the so-called realist movies that are currently very popular. They pursue a purely documentary style and employ non-professional actors. Maybe they think that in a truly realistic style film, it is necessary to use non-professional actors or very mediocre actors with similar symbols to reflect this documentary style. In fact, as early as in Ballaz’s works, the disadvantages of using non-professional actors are that they are sometimes more artificial and unnatural than professional actors, completely destroying the kind of falsehood that directors can deliberately pursue. Documentary style. Therefore, many so-called modern-style documentary movies give people the opposite impression that they are unnatural. Just like some writers who insist on writing in dialects, they desperately pursue nature but lose nature. In fact, it is completely unnecessary. Even those famous local writers did not regard making readers incomprehensible as a kind of show off. Try to use a language that most people understand. And that deliberate method can only prove that the author himself is simply unable to use popular language to tell a universal humanity story. This tendency seems to have become a fashion, and it seems that only making the audience bored and unintelligible is art! On the surface, those works claim to be the only ones that express reality and people's lives, but the real audiences don't understand and love to watch them. It's just some pretentious intellectuals in the small room talking emptyly.
This kind of work is destined to be eliminated by history.

Kazan’s film was adapted from real events published in newspapers at the time. However, the theme of the film is clear, the story line is clear, the rhythm is compact and concise, and it has the tension of drama, especially the performance of the actors gives people a real and impactful feeling. The more realistic movies are, the more powerful and attractive actors on the screen are used to perform, so that the overall seemingly dark tone will be made up for by a bright character, and this character is the soul of the film. . Just as the darkness of Rembrandt should be set off with the light and shadow of the character itself. This character is Marlon Brando.
He has a Roman-style head, sensual lips, and breathtaking eyes. Being stared at by such a pair of eyes seems to be stripped naked. No one can not reveal the truth under his gaze.
This is a pair of eyes comparable to Napoleon.
And these eyes can speak like all the eyes of great actors, and they can show all the emotions of the characters. Therefore, at the beginning of the film, although he appeared as a little ruffian, and finally became a hero, he did not feel abrupt in the process. Just by relying on the change of eyes, you can understand that he acts as an accomplice. How did ordinary workers become a leader who rose up to resist? As the heroine of the film said, I saw different things in his eyes, and this look is real.

As an audience, I can't believe that such false people can move others. If in a performer, there is no such belief that the reality of his role can be united with his own reality, he will not be able to impress others. At least I can't imagine myself being moved by false things. There is such a real thing in Brando, especially in his eyes. We believe that the character is him, and on the other hand, we know that it is just Brando. I watched this movie only to watch his performance. It's him, and only he can give the film its soul.
This kind of person who integrates his own experience into his creation to make it a great work is a great artist.
There are two scenes in the film that I personally admire the most. One is walking with the heroine. Brando's performance is naturally real and has no sense of acting. It seems casual but every detail is just right, and it doesn't make people feel dull at all. The second is the final scene. In that riverfront struggle, his passion is no less than his free and easy, I admire him very much. At this time, the director used the elevation angle to shoot his face, as if he was a Roman hero, so tragic and tall, and Brando's face was most suitable for this close-up shot. Performance is a form that is very difficult to grasp, or it is flat or artificial. This measure is simply a problem, and it is also a touchstone of performance skills. For Brando, there is no so-called transition at all, it is natural to turn from static, and the change of emotion is so natural. I only see this kind of photographic film-style genius in our only great actress in China. She has been Ruan Lingyu.

I think this is what those later imitators cannot learn. This is natural and there is no way to learn it. I don’t think that those who are boasted of being brando-like have anything to compare with him. Nicholson certainly has a look like him, but if he doesn’t add his own neuroticism, he will be just like everyone else. Learned the fur.


It's not "The Godfather", but his film allows me to describe it in only two words-that is
great.


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  • Randy 2021-11-13 08:01:23

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  • Barrett 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    I don't really like the scenes of you chasing me, and the protagonist is marked too dazzlingly. Although he is Marlon Brando. The two scenes of grabbing a part-time job on the pier and Terry being beaten, and the crowd watching but no one helping him are more exciting. The ending suddenly turned into a Dong Cunrui-style red movie, which was too bloody.

On the Waterfront quotes

  • Terry: Quite a nose, huh? Some people just have a face that sticks in your mind.

  • Terry: Yeah his racket, everybody's got a racket.