Joanne Woodward
Wow...wasn't she great in this? I loved her last lines.
shareShe's usually great in many of the things she does, or has done.
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Woodward was horrible -- overacting shamelessly -- and her last lines were like a burlesque of Tenessee Williams. Even if they were written by him.
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I thought she overacted to the extreme, too. That loud, drunken, strident voice + Brando's nigh silence = cacaphony.
shareShe made me empathize with a character I otherwise would not have understood, much less liked.
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What were her last lines?
shareJoanne Woodward was a bit over-the-top in this film.An alcoholic doesn't have to by hyper all the time especially when she is sober. They were like a mismatch when she and Brando appears in a scene together as the former screams while the latter is natural.
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If the other character has adhd and the other is more silent type that's what it looks like.
Great? This is the only time I've ever seen her give a bad performance.
shareIt seems a lot people either hate all acting in the film, or they think only one of the three main actors gave a genuinely good performance. Anna and Joanne? They might've been a "little" over-the-top, but ultimately, I felt that their acting was... convincing.
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Joanne Woodward is a superb actress, one of the all-time greats, but apart from a moment in the graveyard scene with Brando, she was awful in this film. For the record, she hated working with Brando 'because he was not there, he was somewhere else. There was nothing to reach to'. She didn't think much of herself in it anyway, saying she could 'see the insecurity in her eyes'.
shareWoodward, Magnani and Brando all did a wonderful job IMO. I dont get why some didnt like Woodwards part.
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