Well, who is the next Marlon Brando? “This is an issue that has been playing on your mind as well, I know! However, before letting slip an answer we plunge deeper into this” be the next Brando “actually means. I am speculating on who the next player to wear a tight t-shirt and mumble a scene with captivating magnetism? Of course not! It would be nothing more than cheap resale a parody of an image now over fifty years.
Need I say will be the next name actor renowned for his expanding waistline, as if in preparation for large digital display? Wrong again, the muscle fat ratio of your Hollywood star is for the gossip magazines to ruminate. No. .. To understand the issue, we must travel back in time to 1951 (the year the film A Streetcar Named Desire came out no less) and to explore what performance as Stanley Kowalski has done for modern cinema. When Tennessee Williams wrote “Streetcar” for the stage (and also adapted for the screen), it could not consider doing that would lead the revolution.
Eliza Kazan film was a drama with no real precedent in the film and continued to destabilize the public long after the last line on the kindness of strangers had been pronounced with nostalgia. It was a heady mix of sexual tension, violence and unfulfilled aspirations that was as bold and it was shocking at the time. However, through the eyes of the 21st century it lacks the realism of social cuts and gravel that we have become accustomed too. It still has the power to hire if it can not be regarded as a period film because of the florid dialogue and sickly sweet smell of melodrama that lingers just below the surface. The only thing that has not dated one iota though is the characterization of the seller by a young Polish character actor named Marlon Brando. While the rest of the cast (especially Vivien Leigh) to perform their roles admirably, Brando did not look as if he played for anyone and that, finally, was the crucial difference. One might almost seem to someone with no knowledge of the casting process that they did not hire an actor but just pulled a guy from the street and asked if he would not mind having a chat with a couple of women.
In short, here was an actor who does not look as if it acted at all! Not even a second. He did all these things, whether playing poker, getting someone drunk or hit, for real and he just happened to be captured on film. It’s the only explanation, no doubt! Nobody can memorize words on a page and make them sound this spontaneous! It has its component …. it should be! But of course it was not and the film will never be the same. The aftermath of the earthquake acting would be felt immediately by his peers and then by all subsequent generations for the rest of the century. Each school plays, amateur productions and show the school would now have a chewing gum, brooding presence lodged in the corner of the rehearsal room. It was poor diction a crushing burden on the text but rather as a new way to “naturalize” part. Acting was out, baby “being” was! He was helped by the fact that he had the genetic side. I mean would he really engraved itself on the collective consciousness of impressionable young people if it was a squat little thing big with a double chin and eyes wrong?
The answer is …. highly unlikely, that the job requirements of being an icon of film does demand a certain aesthetic appeal and he, for some time, was happy to oblige. It was not without its detractors (comedians impersonate a Hamlet mumble when it was announced he was going to do Shakespeare was two a penny), but it is now, with astonishing speed, headlining a new kind of movie star. Of course, for each precursor that illuminates the road of artistic talent with just the pale imitators, but is required: Imitation is truly the highest form of flattery. It all ended too soon in a mess, vomiting colored cocktail of self-sabotage, lazy and indulgent Hollywood performance, but, and this is where the shoe pinches, even at its lowest level and in the worst worst movies (and boy, did he have stinkers) that he was always totally committed. How his apathy towards his job must have infuriated the rest of the world acting, which continued to catch up, then continue what he started. No matter how he tried, his genius could not be rejected (as any company sticker would rightly declare). The real gift Marlon Brando gave the film was the gift of new, daring, dynamics and that is what will be the next Marlon Brando will be the demand.
So to complete the task of answering the above question we now need to examine the current landscape of cinema. Christ is an arid desert terrain there. Make no mistake, this new century has been blessed with talented actors and directors wonderful, but what we seek is the revelation and that is where the machine fails Hollywood. There is nothing new to offer us more, nothing unexpected or unprecedented. This is a case of there, seen that, bored with the t-shirt. However, a more fundamental obstacle to the film industries lack of imagination is that we (the film to the public) are not really expect more.
We know that the drilling never buy into the magic of Hollywood with the same boundless spirit that postwar generations did. A torrent of sequelae re-done, poorer and more hype flops by marketing men grappling with the task of polishing a shit left us cynical and unresponsive to the belief in the power of radical reinvention. This is not a fault of ourselves, but neither is it completely because of Hollywood, either we live in times very different from those so-called “golden age”. The choice became king, and even God, in the new Internet, broadband, I-pod and mobile age in which we live. We simply do not follow the calendar of a studio multi-stranded for when we decide to plunge into the entertainment world over. We can now determine, to a greater extent than ever, the context in which we eat our evening entertainment and it will only continue this way.
Summer / Christmas blockbuster he also played a part in diluting the real adventure by promising bigger and brighter flashing lights to vibrate and then you reverse with the ever before. He constantly insists you throw the old in favor of the new “if not now, there is nowhere” or if the media would have you believe. It is a promise defeating giving each new version of great longevity and a pint of milk provides another brick on the foundation of this disposable, discard the culture we are now building our new house. Yes, it is easy to look back on a bygone era by affection in the eyes wet for something that did not really exist, because with all the classics of cinema comes from a multitude of less slag, we forget.
However, if the cultural environment for artistic creation, which persists in the heart and mind is transformed once and for all in its current state, it is really time to declare “It’s a wrap on significant works in the cinema. So instead of picking summarily buffet predictable, always half distracted by what might be on the other table, perhaps we should be together for the feast of exotic dishes that we do not know much thing. Perhaps, instead of seeking a new Marlon Brando instead we should look into the thing we all lose that childhood we survived, the ability to see simple truths … and be surprised.
Anthony English author-
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