Brando and Leigh are just wow.
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I am bumping my own post.
Come on guys I am curious if you also think this way or if there is another film with out there with such a strong leads?
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Everyyyyyonnnnneeeeeee.
Certainly in the discussion. A bit dated now, for sure.
I just watched it again Sunday. Brando's celebrated 'mumbling' has the surprisingly clear diction of the Actors Studio of the time.
Its powerful and the performances Kazan got out of his actors in this and On The Waterfront shaped how roles where acted later on. Pacino and Keaton in GFII is huge, Hopkins and Foster in Silence of the Lambs would be other movies I'd put up for discussion.
shareKeaton and Pacino? Honest? I thought she had very little to do (certainly not on the level of Leigh.) He's really good, but women in "Godfather" films just seem like used, put-upon stereotypes.
Hopkins and Foster are really great (as are Hopkins and Emma Thompson in their two outings.)
But the disintegration of these two characters from "Streetcar" into broken and damaged pieces is a showcase unlike any other.
I personally did not like Marlon Brando in this.
My most favorites are Daniel Kash for Solo (2013/I) and Judy Garland for The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Volker Flenske: (While torturing David) I don't know why you're doing this to yourself!
Paul Newman and Patricia Neal in HUD.
shareYes i think it is. However i also like Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicolson in " one flew over the cuckoos nest" and Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster in " Silence of the lambs"
shareI prefer Taylor and Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Personally i prefer Burton and Taylor in Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf?
Although you could argue that its kinda similar, while here its more explosive while in woolfe, its an intensity that justs keeps building and becoming more personal and vicious.
That being said, i highly enjoyed the pairing with Leigh and Brando here as well!