Running 'Change My Mind' thread

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Re-watching the Godfather Friday night.
How did Brando win an academy award for his dreck? He's was terrible. He was worse in Apcalypse Now, but not by much.
In fact, i think he might be the worst actor in the Godfather film.

How was Jon Cazale not nominted for an award as Fredo? He was brillant with that character.

Brando was terrible.
Change my mind.

 

[cjericho]

Every movie John Cazale was in was nominated for best picture.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Brando’s portrayal of a mafia don has been the most oft-imitated (and parodied) portrayal in possibly the entire history of acting.

 

[JC]

Re-watching the Godfather Friday night.
How did Brando win an academy award for his dreck? He's was terrible. He was worse in Apcalypse Now, but not by much.
In fact, i think he might be the worst actor in the Godfather film.

How was Jon Cazale not nominted for an award as Fredo? He was brillant with that character.

Brando was terrible.
Change my mind.

You can’t be ****ing serious.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

But imagine Brad Garrett in that role.

 

[Songbird]

Hmmm ... Yep, he'd make an intimidating wop too.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Re-watching the Godfather Friday night.
How did Brando win an academy award for his dreck? He's was terrible. He was worse in Apcalypse Now, but not by much.
In fact, i think he might be the worst actor in the Godfather film.

How was Jon Cazale not nominted for an award as Fredo? He was brillant with that character.

Brando was terrible.
Change my mind.

Wow. I need to process this. I have long considered it one of the seminal performances in film history.

 

[JC]

Wow. I need to process this. I have long considered it one of the seminal performances in film history.

You don’t have to process anything. It’s an all timer as dumb takes go, Devil93 is impressed.

 

[typefitter]

We need a word to describe those things that become so seminal, they are later made pale by imitation and constant reference. It often happens—the first slips from good to bad because of everything that comes after it. Before something becomes a cliche, it was brilliant enough to become a cliche.

 

[Dick Whitman]

We need a word to describe those things that become so seminal, they are later made pale by imitation and constant reference. It often happens—the first slips from good to bad because of everything that comes after it. Before something becomes a cliche, it was brilliant enough to become a cliche.

Hemingway.

 

[Songbird]

Hemingway.

HST.

 

[Batman]

Re-watching the Godfather Friday night.
How did Brando win an academy award for his dreck? He's was terrible. He was worse in Apcalypse Now, but not by much.
In fact, i think he might be the worst actor in the Godfather film.

How was Jon Cazale not nominted for an award as Fredo? He was brillant with that character.

Brando was terrible.
Change my mind.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

You can’t be ****ing serious.

Completely.
I'm agruing there's not a single scene in that movie where he's the best actor in it.
The scene where he is shot, drives me up a wall. He's shot 5 times falls into the car, slides down, lurches over the bumper and hangs there for a few secomds before falling over like a stuffed deer.

Consider his acting against Fredo's reaction to the assassination attempt. There'e no comparison.

I think Coppola gave him too much freedom. How much of his stiff was ad-libbed (like AN)? I suspect a lot.


Brando's mafioso schtick is on par with Little Stephen as Silvio.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I jist spit pretzels all over my iPad.

For the record, i love GF and thinks it is a great, great movie, in spite of Brando.

Going to watch Part II tonight to compare DeNiro to Brando.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

The Lost Boys sountrack is one of the most under-rated movie soundtracks of the 80s.

Change my Mind.

 

[JC]

Completely.
I'm agruing there's not a single scene in that movie where he's the best actor in it.
The scene where he is shot, drives me up a wall. He's shot 5 times falls into the car, slides down, lurches over the bumper and hangs there for a few secomds before falling over like a stuffed deer.

Consider his acting against Fredo's reaction to the assassination attempt. There'e no comparison.

I think Coppola gave him too much freedom. How much of his stiff was ad-libbed (like AN)? I suspect a lot.


Brando's mafioso schtick is on par with Little Stephen as Silvio.

You a big fan ofCanadian Bacon?

 

[MisterCreosote]

Going to watch Part II tonight to compare DeNiro to Brando.

This isn’t really a hot take, but De Niro is way better in II than Brando was in I.

That’s not a critique of Brando as much as it is lavish praise for De Niro.

 

[John]

Brando's at his best in the movie when he's playing the old man counseling Michael.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Tim Brando > Marlon Brando.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

We need a word to describe those things that become so seminal, they are later made pale by imitation and constant reference. It often happens—the first slips from good to bad because of everything that comes after it. Before something becomes a cliche, it was brilliant enough to become a cliche.

A lot of filmmaking techniques in movies such as Citizen Kane and Stagecoach would fit.