@joey13940 When he was interviewed in Paris by Shana Alexander at the time the Godfather was opening he must have been dreading this scene. 'You know a scene is coming where your going to have to cry and scream and do all those things. And it's always eating away at you. You can't just walk through it. That would be disrespectful. You have to try to do your best. But there comes a time when you just don't want to do it anymore.'
The master's class. Still the gold standard in American acting and, in my estimation, a serious contender for the best all around actor in the history of the medium. The performances were wildly uneven over the years; Brando, over time, grew less reluctant to expose or challenge himself and all too often "phoned it in". But here... he is without peer.
if people were and still are flabbergasted by the taxi scene of "On the Waterfront",this beat it for a whole nine yards and seven feet deeper.Facing Death and speaking to her;Hamlet improvised without help from the Bard
Brando said something about how after this film, he vowed never to put so much of himself in a role again. He felt violated. All I can say, is I'm damn glad he did this, that was just amazing.
Man! There's just so much intensity in this part of the film! Makes me cry everytime I watch it. BTW, is it a fact that Marlon Brando actually improvised the whole scene? Cuz if he did, what an actor! My respect to the greatest actor of all time!
No, he said, "I don't know why you did it. I'd do it too but I just don't know how. If I could just find a way..." Well, he got his wish answered at the end of the film.
This is by far Brando's greatest peformance, and if he had to do one film before he decended into madness, this is the perfect film. He was charming, heartbreaking, scary, but solid. This was a peformance only the greatest actor of all time can pull, and we'll never see peformance like it again. Enjoy it, and be thankful for digital.
Brando later told Bertolucci that he put SO MUCH of himself into this performance that he couldn't imagine doing something like it ever again. He never did. And you know what? It's our loss, baby, it's our loss.
I'm just thankful Brando left us with one masterpiece before he disappeared into his own self-destructiveness and loathing for Hollywood.
what's funny is that during the close-ups on his face during this scene, he is actually reading off of cue cards on the ceiling as well as in front of him. It double serves as an illusion of him thinking about what he's saying.
How is that a negative you imbeciles? Do you have any idea how difficult that is to do. I do not know of any other actor talented enough to do such things. Sorry if for some strange reason you don't like. Watch an interview with him if you doubt it.
Often, I sit back and look at how society rewards movie stars. The fantastic salaries, the obscene lifestyles, the childish public and media obsession, the fawning sycophancy. It seems utterly bizarre the level of respect and adoration afforded a group of people whose one skill is pretending to be other people. How shallow and facile and pathetic. Unfortunately, I then remember Brando in this scene and this film, and somehow I lose. Brando: the best argument for not firebombing Hollywood.
Funny, your criticism of Hollywood echoes Brando's own but I'm not sure anyone will have the impact he had on so many people around the world. I'm not so sure Hollywood shouldn't be firebombed now.
@BottleImp Well, this isn't a Hollywood movie. It's French and Italian. The original cast would have been Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dominique Sanda. She got pregnant and he saw a chance to bail out. Marlon needed money and after spending time with the director in his house on Mulholland he agreed to do the film. He wrote in his autobiography, 'Don't ask me what it's about.'
Yes, the transistions are seamless and have the verisimilitude of all his great performances. He may be checking his lines occassionally when he pauses or his eyes suddenly dart or roll, but it makes his timing seem all the more spontaneous.
Marlon said he wanted to use cards instead of memorising the dialogues of the character... thats very interesting cause he said it makes people believe that the character is thinking... in these scenes you can notice Marlon reading cards for the way his eyes move... so Unique Marlon!
Somehow Marlon was able to draw on all these inner conflicts to create the unique role of a grieving widower. Although the groundbreaking sexuality of the film was what most people talked about, Brando's improvised monologue addressed to his wife's coffin in the film was a painfully autobiographical portrayal of his complex mix of anger and sense of lost love as he dredged up his feelings at the premature death of his mother.- Vanity Fair
God, this was so real. This couldn't possibly have been mere acting. He was a genius. The pain was so raw, so real, so true. When he cries..god damn!, I cried with him:). I don't cry easily. I just love Brando, what a tormented, stunning, talented man.
My God, what a performance. Where does someone summon that kind of emotion, make that kind of emotion available, for a scene in a movie? Amazing. Brando deserved his Oscar nomination.
He did. Lost to Jack Lemmon for Save The Tiger. He probably wouldn't have won anyway since he had just got it the year before for The Godfather (and I don't think they remembered his rejection of it too kindly).
It's about truth as against the lie humanity lives, believing that to be the truth. Does that make sense? It won't unless you see the whole film at least a 100 times and think about it.
Brando later told Bertolucci that he put SO MUCH of himself into this performance that he couldn't imagine doing something like it ever again. He never did.
No, that's wrong. He won THE PREVIOUS YEAR for "The Godfather." In 1973, when he was nominated for "Last Tango in Paris," the winner was Jack Lemmon for "Save the Tiger," another brilliant film about midlife crisis, however, alas, not as brilliant as Brando's performance.
When he says, "I have to go...I have to go, sweetheart," I lose it. You can tell that that's how he truly feels about her, not the 4-letter words he calls her. Only Brando could reveal a world of pain in a single word.
Jack Lemmon (for "Save the Tiger") beat out Brando that year. While Lemmon was great, you don't have the feeling that he was sharing his vulnerability the same emotionally heart-shattering way that Brando did.
Jack Lemmon for 'Save the Tiger' - he was a garment manufacturer who torches his factory for the insurance. This was the year after Brando had rejected his Oscar for 'The Godfather.' Maybe the Academy didn't want to be embarrassed two years in a row by another rejection. He thought awards for anything were inappropriate at a time when American Indians were trying to acquire their rights under signed treaties from a hundred years earlier.
@joey13940 When he was interviewed in Paris by Shana Alexander at the time the Godfather was opening he must have been dreading this scene. 'You know a scene is coming where your going to have to cry and scream and do all those things. And it's always eating away at you. You can't just walk through it. That would be disrespectful. You have to try to do your best. But there comes a time when you just don't want to do it anymore.'
1915fas 1 year ago
The master's class. Still the gold standard in American acting and, in my estimation, a serious contender for the best all around actor in the history of the medium. The performances were wildly uneven over the years; Brando, over time, grew less reluctant to expose or challenge himself and all too often "phoned it in". But here... he is without peer.
JasonHi 1 year ago 2
@neuroticelmo I think brando said any dip shit could act
okbye1 1 year ago
Wow, just wow...
firelione 1 year ago
if people were and still are flabbergasted by the taxi scene of "On the Waterfront",this beat it for a whole nine yards and seven feet deeper.Facing Death and speaking to her;Hamlet improvised without help from the Bard
pendragonU 1 year ago 3
You are not alone. In his autobiography SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME he said 'Don't ask me what it's about.' under the photo from this film.
1915fas 2 years ago
No other actor/actress alive or dead could have done this scene like he did.
Finest actor that ever lived.
poopsicle65 2 years ago 2
Brando said something about how after this film, he vowed never to put so much of himself in a role again. He felt violated. All I can say, is I'm damn glad he did this, that was just amazing.
AgentXPQ 2 years ago 6
Transformation at 4:25:)
Pristine:)
righteousdevil 2 years ago
Man! There's just so much intensity in this part of the film! Makes me cry everytime I watch it. BTW, is it a fact that Marlon Brando actually improvised the whole scene? Cuz if he did, what an actor! My respect to the greatest actor of all time!
geminirooster 2 years ago 5
Every time I watch this scene, it makes me cry. It is so powerful!
elinor33 2 years ago 2
At 5.09 "I'm sorry Rosa I don't know why I did it, I'd do it again but ......(then what?? ...) .... "
can anybody hear what he says next please..?
& strange to say "I don't know why I DID it"
I cannot stop watching this scene, so moving, so real
excellent movie - so much emotion
shishilala 2 years ago
No, he said, "I don't know why you did it. I'd do it too but I just don't know how. If I could just find a way..." Well, he got his wish answered at the end of the film.
IClifeis2B 2 years ago
Ahh Thank you
shishilala 2 years ago
This was amazing! Nobody could do this like him! Nobody ever will either.
Lamporre 2 years ago
probably not because usually a film is only made once?
LucLeFou 2 years ago
This scene blew me away when I saw it when I was a teenager. That's when I understood why people said he was the GREATEST ACTOR OF ALL TIME!
Baldenlong77 2 years ago
What a charisma, what a strong personnality! He did't care a bit for what people thought about him!
tomates87 2 years ago
This is simply one of the best scenes in film history. Unprecedented greatness in acting.
towelboy12 3 years ago 2
This is by far Brando's greatest peformance, and if he had to do one film before he decended into madness, this is the perfect film. He was charming, heartbreaking, scary, but solid. This was a peformance only the greatest actor of all time can pull, and we'll never see peformance like it again. Enjoy it, and be thankful for digital.
DrinkWater22 3 years ago 4
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DrinkWater22 3 years ago
Brando later told Bertolucci that he put SO MUCH of himself into this performance that he couldn't imagine doing something like it ever again. He never did. And you know what? It's our loss, baby, it's our loss.
I'm just thankful Brando left us with one masterpiece before he disappeared into his own self-destructiveness and loathing for Hollywood.
RubyTuesday717 3 years ago 3
Poor guy.
But he did leave another good performance in "Dry White Season" after this film.
Lamporre 2 years ago 3
marlon brando has a so powerful presence
lesassassins 3 years ago 2
what's funny is that during the close-ups on his face during this scene, he is actually reading off of cue cards on the ceiling as well as in front of him. It double serves as an illusion of him thinking about what he's saying.
jpr3y35 3 years ago
It is true. It is a fact.
Dogface310 3 years ago
How is that a negative you imbeciles? Do you have any idea how difficult that is to do. I do not know of any other actor talented enough to do such things. Sorry if for some strange reason you don't like. Watch an interview with him if you doubt it.
Dogface310 3 years ago 2
You are right. His acting makes the movie so emotional and troubling, it's almost painful to watch. He involved so much.
ioalid 3 years ago 2
Existential drama!
skoraya03 3 years ago
This is the greatest piece of acting I have ever seen. It's close to perfection.
cattachi 3 years ago 8
If that don't make you ball nothing will.
clarkewi 3 years ago
brilliant...
jeawonr 3 years ago 2
Go on, tell me...tell me something sweet. Smile at me and say it was--I just misunderstood.
Go on, tell me!
RubyTuesday717 3 years ago 5
Brando's performance in this movie is otherwordly. It is divine. I would say that it's his best work, but it's useless to make such claims.
clintisiceman 3 years ago 3
I noticed many people compare him to a god, and I think this gives an accurate idea about his power to perform.
ioalid 3 years ago
Brando was fearless. The screen disappears.
jacquesjapan 3 years ago 12
jacquesjapan, you are absolutely right! Very eloquent.
1915fas 3 years ago 2
go on, smile you cunt.
killuminati1234 3 years ago 3
This is one of the best things Brando ever did. Brilliant piece of acting.
searcherboy 3 years ago 8
Often, I sit back and look at how society rewards movie stars. The fantastic salaries, the obscene lifestyles, the childish public and media obsession, the fawning sycophancy. It seems utterly bizarre the level of respect and adoration afforded a group of people whose one skill is pretending to be other people. How shallow and facile and pathetic. Unfortunately, I then remember Brando in this scene and this film, and somehow I lose. Brando: the best argument for not firebombing Hollywood.
BottleImp 3 years ago 27
Amen, Brother. . .Amen.
mlv30645 3 years ago 11
Funny, your criticism of Hollywood echoes Brando's own but I'm not sure anyone will have the impact he had on so many people around the world. I'm not so sure Hollywood shouldn't be firebombed now.
1915fas 3 years ago 2
That comment rocks! :)
You made my day:) Thank you!
righteousdevil 2 years ago 2
@BottleImp Well, this isn't a Hollywood movie. It's French and Italian. The original cast would have been Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dominique Sanda. She got pregnant and he saw a chance to bail out. Marlon needed money and after spending time with the director in his house on Mulholland he agreed to do the film. He wrote in his autobiography, 'Don't ask me what it's about.'
1915fas 1 year ago
You cant get anymore raw and naked in characterization as we witness here with Brando. I dont even consider this acting.
SatiricalTruth 3 years ago 6
It completely amazes me how smoothly he went into each new emotion. That had to have been ridiculously hard.
mumskid87 3 years ago 5
Yes, the transistions are seamless and have the verisimilitude of all his great performances. He may be checking his lines occassionally when he pauses or his eyes suddenly dart or roll, but it makes his timing seem all the more spontaneous.
1915fas 3 years ago
Great scene.
Very Commanding performance from Brando.
urntcookin045 3 years ago 2
Lo maximo de Brando, lo mejor de lo mejor increible e insuperable actuacion es lo mejor de el ,la pelicula entera , viva el gran brando..
tete28akira 3 years ago 2
brilliant dialogue, brilliant performance... it still gives me goosebumps till now... powerful, disturbing. Brando is simply the Best.
hybrid1310 3 years ago 4
This is as sublime deep as the image of Bergman's Seventh Seal,though much more allegoric,Max von Sydow talking off Death herself on a chess match
pendragonU 3 years ago 3
I thought death was a guy.
1915fas 3 years ago
I agree, this film showcases Brando at his best.
ribiniho 3 years ago 6
wow, thats not even acting. marlon is for real.
spacecowboy95 3 years ago 4
greatest actor of all time and I dont give shit what anybody says!
s7ightly4ltered 3 years ago 3
He manages to do scenes like this whilst also avoiding any pretense ; you can tell that he legitimately hurt as a man.
adamscott 3 years ago 2
Marlon said he wanted to use cards instead of memorising the dialogues of the character... thats very interesting cause he said it makes people believe that the character is thinking... in these scenes you can notice Marlon reading cards for the way his eyes move... so Unique Marlon!
Carlos2012Ms 3 years ago 2
Somehow Marlon was able to draw on all these inner conflicts to create the unique role of a grieving widower. Although the groundbreaking sexuality of the film was what most people talked about, Brando's improvised monologue addressed to his wife's coffin in the film was a painfully autobiographical portrayal of his complex mix of anger and sense of lost love as he dredged up his feelings at the premature death of his mother.- Vanity Fair
- I could sense this:)
righteousdevil 3 years ago 8
My favourite actor of the 20th century.
adamscott 3 years ago 5
Oo wow! This looks great!
camillle30jd 3 years ago 3
God, this was so real. This couldn't possibly have been mere acting. He was a genius. The pain was so raw, so real, so true. When he cries..god damn!, I cried with him:). I don't cry easily. I just love Brando, what a tormented, stunning, talented man.
righteousdevil 3 years ago 8
Wow!!! Just wow!!!
kuren444 3 years ago
My God, what a performance. Where does someone summon that kind of emotion, make that kind of emotion available, for a scene in a movie? Amazing. Brando deserved his Oscar nomination.
RandyAKing 3 years ago 2
Brando's last great performance.
TulseLuper 4 years ago
He did. Lost to Jack Lemmon for Save The Tiger. He probably wouldn't have won anyway since he had just got it the year before for The Godfather (and I don't think they remembered his rejection of it too kindly).
TulseLuper 4 years ago 2
Brando saw and portrayed people they way they really are, and we can't stand it.
That's why he was called "controversial."
The truth is hard to countenance -- or to endure.
dobgood 4 years ago 3
Actually I think we want to follow him. We are drawn to him because it is art but it is real.
jacquesjapan 4 years ago
Brando's acting is like a John Coltrane solo, a punch from Muhammad Ali at the height of his career, Picasso sketching.
rpence 4 years ago 16
that crying was absolutely real....
alilondonmet 4 years ago 10
Glad they still talk like this
wengilee 4 years ago 3
It's about truth as against the lie humanity lives, believing that to be the truth. Does that make sense? It won't unless you see the whole film at least a 100 times and think about it.
RonAlmeida 4 years ago 4
one word... Damn!
this is perhaps the most amazing scene I saw in brando. So real, so powerful.. its wonderful and yet scary to watch. Hands down to brando. The man!
D1enlightened1one 4 years ago 5
Brando later told Bertolucci that he put SO MUCH of himself into this performance that he couldn't imagine doing something like it ever again. He never did.
RubyTuesday717 4 years ago 8
god.
treesapp 4 years ago 3
Isn't Brando speaking to his own self here? Listen.
jacquesjapan 4 years ago 11
...and to Hollywood...and to his talent? The dialogue is a brillant loathsome riddle.
jacquesjapan 4 years ago 6
Brando was a genius
DNY21 4 years ago 8
one of the best film monologues ever. thanks for posting this!
towelboy12 4 years ago 7
No, that's wrong. He won THE PREVIOUS YEAR for "The Godfather." In 1973, when he was nominated for "Last Tango in Paris," the winner was Jack Lemmon for "Save the Tiger," another brilliant film about midlife crisis, however, alas, not as brilliant as Brando's performance.
bootpig1 4 years ago
Wow; there are no words. I started to cry when he was crying.
HawaiiBombay 4 years ago
INCREDIBLE!
dagodino 4 years ago 2
When he says, "I have to go...I have to go, sweetheart," I lose it. You can tell that that's how he truly feels about her, not the 4-letter words he calls her. Only Brando could reveal a world of pain in a single word.
RubyTuesday717 4 years ago 3
It's no wonder this movie shattered Brando emotionally. So much of his own, real pain is lain out for us to see, such as in this scene. So brilliant.
cranky1chick 4 years ago 4
Excellent
300k 4 years ago
Gênio da dramaturgia
lnopq 4 years ago
Who the hell beat Brando outta the Oscar that year?
This is one of the most brilliant performances of all time. Brando was/is a genius.
KellyGreen5555 4 years ago 2
Jack Lemmon (for "Save the Tiger") beat out Brando that year. While Lemmon was great, you don't have the feeling that he was sharing his vulnerability the same emotionally heart-shattering way that Brando did.
RubyTuesday717 4 years ago
Jack Lemmon for 'Save the Tiger' - he was a garment manufacturer who torches his factory for the insurance. This was the year after Brando had rejected his Oscar for 'The Godfather.' Maybe the Academy didn't want to be embarrassed two years in a row by another rejection. He thought awards for anything were inappropriate at a time when American Indians were trying to acquire their rights under signed treaties from a hundred years earlier.
1915fas 4 years ago
SUPERB!!! one of the best scenes in one the of the best films of all time
Rouzbeht 4 years ago
Brilliant scene, tears my heart out...
swyke 4 years ago
If I ever get married, I'm going to use this monologue as my wedding vows. Either this, or the dialogue from the photo booth scene in Buffalo 66.
MarcosElMalo 4 years ago
merveilleux!
Miracle67 4 years ago