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1935 or 1962 Version Help

posted 17 years ago by Clive-Candy
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Hmm i want to see this but i dont know what version to see first.
Which one has more adventure.Which has the best score and more importantly laughton or brando?.

[–] ContinentalOp 17 years ago

You mean Laughton or Howard surely? They play Bligh.

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[–] kbrai 17 years ago

watch both and also the gibson one...see how cineam progresses...over the years, but still nothing beats 62 for sheer scale, techincal brilliance etc
the 35 version and 62 version see them both. brando is exqusite and you will se a lot of DEPP (captain jack sparrow) in it, till the time the mutiny happens, then he is a diff ball game. brilliant

in the 35 version gable is gable, all man...both are fun, but 62 is better, as there is a spin on things, the brando spin.

laughton is classic, howard is good

"Im just a bum sitting in a motor home on a film set, BRANDO said, and they come looking for ZEUS".

[–] aciolino 15 years ago

A difficult question. Actually, no, just not simply a choice of which one's better.

These are VASTLY different films. While the first (Laughton's) Mutiny is extremely entertaining it is lacking in depth. No one had the screen presence of Gable, he is just magnificent and one cannot take one's eye's off him. Laughton is, of course, a genius. But the characters are flat and stereotypes.

The latter (Brando's) Mutiny is a truly under-rated film. You asked about the soundtrack. Kaper's score is brilliant and I'll leave it at that. Buy the CD if you can. It is a textbook on scoring, orchestration, etc...

Some find Brando's "Christian" laughable. I do not. He is a complex character, a bit of a fop, a bit hero, a bit self-possessed (actually, much like Brando) and a bit of a scoundrel. Brando is fabulous, maybe, in my opinion, his best screen role. (Yes, better than "Waterfront," "Steetcar, and "Godfather") Trevor Howard's "Bligh" is the key. Howard, another genius, never hits a wrong note in anything he has ever done. Here he is his usual brilliant, even more so than Laughton, as Howard's character is much more complex and layered. Brando's (that is Christian's) choice to Mutiny is therefore a more dubious, conflicted one, on many, many levels, and the end is beautifully, tragically played out as inevitable.

See both films for very different experiences.