"Brando was an avid student and proponent of Stella Adler, from whom he learned the techniques of the Stanislavski system. This technique encouraged the actor to explore both internal and external aspects to fully realize the character being portrayed. Brando's remarkable insight and sense of realism were evident early on. Adler used to recount that when teaching Brando, she had instructed the class to act like chickens, and added that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked and ran around wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. Asked by Adler why he had chosen to react this way, he said, "I'm a chicken—what do I know about bombs?"
Brando was the first to bring a natural approach to acting on film. According to Dustin Hoffman in his online Masterclass, Brando would often talk to camera men and fellow actors about their weekend even after the director would call action. Once Brando felt he could deliver the dialogue as natural as that conversation he would start the dialogue. In his 2015 documentary, Listen To Me Marlon, he said before that actors were like breakfast cereals, meaning they were predictable. Critics would later say this was Brando being difficult, but actors who worked opposite would say it was just all part of his technique."
BRANDO WAS AN AMAZING ACTOR,WHO WORKED HARD AT HIS CRAFT...HIS EGO HANDICAPPED HIM GREATLY IN THE 60S...THEN HE SETTLED INTO WORKING AS A HIGH PRICED CHARACTER ACTOR.
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liscarkat (18410)
8 months ago
"Brando was the first to bring a natural approach to acting on film."
That is probably the Number One Myth in movie history. There was no shortage of very naturalistic actors in film, going back to the early 1930s. In fact, very realistic performances can be found in silent movies, where being natural was even more difficult.
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