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Marlon Brando in today's world

posted 8 years ago by vesil_vesalier
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In this strange, sick new land of remakes, reboots, and endless trains of franchise sequels, what do you think Marlon would think of all this?

Would he still be successful? Remember, this is a man who refused to be in sequels of any kind. Or second takes.

Would he and his fellow actors be struggling... Or would Hollywood be struggling around them, to make them happy as they churned out movie gold?

And if the answer is that Hollywood made movies around their actors in the past... What happened? Why is today's Hollywood filled with actors that act like you or I do, every day we punch our miserable time-clocks? Churning out the same product day after day like assembly-line workers, pouring money into the pockets of the people who own everything, yet do nothing?

What do you think?

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You didn't come here to make the choice, you're here to understand why you made it.

[–] pauljfrain 8 years ago

lol..youre comparing brando with Lindsey lohan and eddie furlong!!!! haha

This Bellini is starting to look like a real Kapuchnik.

[–] slimone (7996) 8 years ago

I've seen just about all of Brando's films and love them all. He was an incredible actor in Godfather, Streetcar Named Desire, and especially Burn, which he said he felt was his best movie. I agree. There will never be another actor like him. He was one of a kind, like Bogart, James Dean, DeNiro, Pacino, Jack Nicholson and so many others.

[–] bozo_500 (13105) 3 years ago

He'd scroll through all the superhero movies on his smart TV . have a vague memory of having been in something to do with one of those decades ago. Shrug. Then tuck into another quart of ice cream

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

He would probably look back with fondness on the days he made roughly $3 million plus gross points (staggeringly huge in '78) for "Superman: The Movie" for what was a glorified walk-on requiring no skill on his part.