He crosses through hate into vulnerability. So beautiful. The way he did is is one of the greatest gifts an actor ever could give to his audience. A lesson. It’s much easier to hate. It’s the shell.
The finest actor in history 💯. His depiction of a grieving man who had lost his wife. A man who despises for what she's done. His remisciant, loathingness disguised by feelings of regret, sorrow, and burning agony. His yearning to die along side with her to redeem himself spiritually. It's a heartbreaking tale of love fallen apart. Brando is an artist conveying his masterful art for us to bare and behold 💯
do you actually believe his performance in this movie is greater than Paul Newman in The Hustler? Think how Newman reacted to his gal pal's suicide. Brando should have watched that before he shot this scene!
@@SteveRunciman Paul Newman openly said Brando was a much better actor than himself...paul Newman said what he has to work his ass off to do Brando can do with his eyes closed
Man i love watching his performances! He inspired top actors today! Marlon really set the precedance of how to embody the realest thing humans experience, which is bereavement, sadness and pain. Marlons perfomance are the definition of a timeless act.
@@GeorgetheGreat because she's technically dead that's how you get a realistic death, they basically drug them fall asleep, then make up for the eyes and all.
As good as Brando is here my favorite part of this film is when he is crying after Paul's life monologue earlier. After living on a farm with a bastard father and a mother that is not much better. I know Brando drew past emotion for the role. Still the most realistic crying ever in movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Laurence Olivier, Jeffrey Wright (terribly underrated), Philip Seymour Hoffman, all of them are on par with Marlon. Brando is arguably the best, though. Personally, I'd still give the distinction to Day-Lewis.
@@susieq360 Laurence Olivier is in the same league with Brando it's between Olivier and Brando as to who's the greatest of all time....day Lewis said of all the actors that came before him.... Brando was the god of them all........no famous actor has said day Lewis is the greatest of all time though.you will hear it said about Brando and Olivier.....Thiers legions of famous actors who say either Brando or Olivier is the greatest....they don't say that about Day Lewis or Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Heath ledger or anyone else
@@susieq360 Exactly. The very fact that this guy even mentions Heath Ledger in the same breath as those other actors suggests that he doesn't know what he's talking about. 😂 I mean, Ledger knocked it out of the park as the Joker, but come on. Probably some kid. But you're right. It's like a person doesn't even know how to make their own assessment if they just go by what the actors say.
@@johnmortimer3947 I know, right? My opinions are my opinions. Who is somebody else to jump in and be like "Well, you're wrong, because Daniel Day-Lewis said blah blah blah"? lol You CAN'T be wrong about something that's subjective.
Great scene , i always believe of last talks to be more of a lie because its tremendous the way the talk treats itself is actually everything. Love Brando❤
He was an incredible actor. I have to be honest though, that music ruins the scene at the end. This entire scene needed to play out in complete, raw silence.
I love Bertolucci but i would say its right, the music might needed to pop up maybe a little later, but what it really ruins it for me is the old lady screaming and interrumpting the moment 😂
I admit, I have never watch this movie as my mother has always told me don’t even think about watching this. There is a rape scene where even the character does not actually penetrate her it is implied and the poor actress suffered a horrible experience from that scene. In fact so much that for the rest of her life she was pretty messed up from it. Well, I decided I’m going to watch this movie anyway. Watching this scene right here shows Marlon Brando‘s genius way of showing how vulnerable he can be. I love Marlon Brando the actor and also Marlon Brando not the actor and as a person. I’m gonna go ahead and watch this movie and just keep an open mind.
I’ll bet MS did not mind the royalties and I am just guessing she did not need to work another day of her life.The best art is often when there’s a blurring of where art imitates life and vice versa.This seems to be what the director was trying to achieve.I have strong sexual recollections of the autumnal season when I first viewed this film.As flawed as this work of un-art is it affected me and many others,it was interestingly enough a prediction of a life to unfold for many of us.Indeed this film was shown in so many venues(from sleazy Midwestern porno drive in theaters that served as low rent places to xxx) all the way to classy art house! This film incited discussions about women’s right and simultaneously served as a soft core sexploitation film and inexpensive aphrodisiac for cheap and easy dates. On the purely aesthetic side,I love the fashion and the film screenplay as well as music score all the to the color scheme.Many love to hate this film as well hate to love it.I am venturing to say that this film like seemingly innocuous punk rock or new wave music will prove to be more influential than could be imagined when it was first released.I still recall the early autumn in Saint Louis when the release of this s film was done under a great deal oppression by the authorities .
I´ve watched this scene the first time and i cried like a little bitch, i mean, its just devastating, raw, powerful, its not acting, you cannot act something so intimate like this, its a performance, Brando never gave another powerful showcase of his powers, until Apocalypse Now.
Bertolluci later said he filmed a scene of Brando's penis, but then decided to cut the scene. Personally, I think Brando, if given the option, would have said, "You can have my penis. Cut this scene!" I think Brando felt much more invaded revealing this much of himself to the world. Afterwards, he said, "I'll never do that again." Still, a great performance.
I can't imagine the agony Brando went through when he saw the final edited scene with the horrific saxophone music mess. Why was that music necessary? How incredibly spare and riveting and beautiful that full scene would have been without music. I find it a lot more interesting to watch this entire movie as a silent movie. Mute it. The Barbieri score is insufferable. It's only trying to capitalize on the residue of the success of On The Waterfront, and mimic (badly) the shockingly brilliant Bernstein score. But you can't go home again. It's a disingenuous process, and bound to fail. Why try to re-make something that can't ever possibly be bettered? Leave it alone. Wouldn't it have been much more moving to use Dixieland music for this entire scene? Or HipHop...
I always think of the score as somehow ironic, like the score is "trying to be" a French romance but it keeps getting ripped apart and dragged down by the actual scenes. I think it makes the scenes more poignant that they keep getting cut off by the very predictably-placed "cues", like the banality of real life intruding. IDK. I actually love the score when played independently of the movie. A great variation set. Barbieri's sax is intense
Jack Nicholson who said Brando was the greatest of all time.said thier was a competition between actors as to who could say the best things about Brando's acting
He had some bad moments, but in absolutely pure nuances and tone and certain transitions, I have seen Marlon do some very very realistic things that were so damn original, I agree with the rest of the top actors who ALL agree he was the king. In the young lions when he slams the door next to the girl just to scare her, or in reflections of a golden eye when he silently talks to himself in the mirror that was admittedly copied by Robert de Niro in taxi driver....in a streetcar he was Soo damn natural you can tell the difference in transition from the old school grandiose voice theatrical mannerisms to just Brando's raw natural being, it's all there day and night....you have a whole generation of pros who completely disagree with you. The man was a genius, fucked up but a genius.
@@lagunacorona yeah,they say he couldn't speak well.his diction wasn't good.he often slurred his words.he's known for that too😁😁.... but that has more to do with laziness, lack of trying.not really acting ability
This might be the best acting scene I've ever seen..
it is,it's brando
It’s up there with the Geoffrey Hitchings monologue as the superintendent in ‘Made in Britain’ as some of the best acting I’ve ever seen.
He crosses through hate into vulnerability. So beautiful. The way he did is is one of the greatest gifts an actor ever could give to his audience. A lesson. It’s much easier to hate. It’s the shell.
" I have to go sweetheart. Someone's calling me". omg!
See the whole film. The impression of Brando’s character will linger in your mind for days, it’s that powerful.
The finest actor in history 💯. His depiction of a grieving man who had lost his wife. A man who despises for what she's done. His remisciant, loathingness disguised by feelings of regret, sorrow, and burning agony. His yearning to die along side with her to redeem himself spiritually. It's a heartbreaking tale of love fallen apart. Brando is an artist conveying his masterful art for us to bare and behold 💯
do you actually believe his performance in this movie is greater than Paul Newman in The Hustler? Think how Newman reacted to his gal pal's suicide. Brando should have watched that before he shot this scene!
@@SteveRuncimanI haven't seen that film. I'll check it out.
this movie radically changed my life
@@SteveRunciman Paul Newman openly said Brando was a much better actor than himself...paul Newman said what he has to work his ass off to do Brando can do with his eyes closed
@@raysierra4194 well, yeah, but, I mean, no matter what they say, Newman's performances were better, so doesn't that settle the question?
Literally the greatest acting in human history....right here right now
101% true none better
He was the best. I love how he drops the whole scene and returns to the everyday with "yes. .I'm coming"
Kids always ask me "what's so great about Brando?" I tell them- go watch this monologue - they NEVER dout his greatness again!
Cool story
what a king of acting this scene is making me cry !!
Man i love watching his performances! He inspired top actors today! Marlon really set the precedance of how to embody the realest thing humans experience, which is bereavement, sadness and pain. Marlons perfomance are the definition of a timeless act.
When film was film. Shit is so real and yet so surreal. It’s an incredible sequence in a film that’s impossible to comprehend in any rational sense.
I think he acts this scene magnificently , but she still tops it for me. So realistically dead.
Idk if your joking a Little lol but it’s true I forgot that was even an actor
He adds so many layers to what is essentially a French sex farce.
@@GeorgetheGreat because she's technically dead that's how you get a realistic death, they basically drug them fall asleep, then make up for the eyes and all.
greatest acting in film history
the 200 years line is wild - he's even more of a genius than I thought if he improvised that
Incredible Realistic Acting from Marlon thinking about his Mother !
Godfather and this movie back to back.
This was Brando dropping the mic as the greatest to ever do it. Right when people thought he was washed up.
The GOAT
His brilliance is not knowing where he is going to land, and neither do we.
that's brilliant
this is acting. the platonic form of a dramatic performance
I watch this movie last night.....Marlon Brando Soo good
As good as Brando is here my favorite part of this film is when he is crying after Paul's life monologue earlier. After living on a farm with a bastard father and a mother that is not much better. I know Brando drew past emotion for the role. Still the most realistic crying ever in movies.
Brando - my God! No one comes close.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Laurence Olivier, Jeffrey Wright (terribly underrated), Philip Seymour Hoffman, all of them are on par with Marlon. Brando is arguably the best, though. Personally, I'd still give the distinction to Day-Lewis.
@@susieq360 Laurence Olivier is in the same league with Brando it's between Olivier and Brando as to who's the greatest of all time....day Lewis said of all the actors that came before him.... Brando was the god of them all........no famous actor has said day Lewis is the greatest of all time though.you will hear it said about Brando and Olivier.....Thiers legions of famous actors who say either Brando or Olivier is the greatest....they don't say that about Day Lewis or Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Heath ledger or anyone else
@@raysierra4194 Their opinions are still just opinions. It's a lemming who takes their opinions as factual without forming his own.
@@susieq360 Exactly. The very fact that this guy even mentions Heath Ledger in the same breath as those other actors suggests that he doesn't know what he's talking about. 😂 I mean, Ledger knocked it out of the park as the Joker, but come on. Probably some kid. But you're right. It's like a person doesn't even know how to make their own assessment if they just go by what the actors say.
@@johnmortimer3947 I know, right? My opinions are my opinions. Who is somebody else to jump in and be like "Well, you're wrong, because Daniel Day-Lewis said blah blah blah"? lol You CAN'T be wrong about something that's subjective.
Speechless for once I am!
Brando reading his lines at 1:30.
Great scene , i always believe of last talks to be more of a lie because its tremendous the way the talk treats itself is actually everything. Love Brando❤
God! He was transcending.
If he would have just made her an offer she couldn't refuse.
Really something how that rickety chair makes such noise as he gets closer to the coffin.
so good
I can see him reading the cards but it’s still fantastic!! How is this possible?
Marlon Brando actor legendary Best 🎭
Theatre 🎭
This movie was so crazy
Damn 48 looks 60 on him.
Watch it
He was an incredible actor. I have to be honest though, that music ruins the scene at the end. This entire scene needed to play out in complete, raw silence.
True that Kyle!
yeah too much toppings on the pizza. the direction is distracting as hell too... for such intensity, more simple touch is needed
I love Bertolucci but i would say its right, the music might needed to pop up maybe a little later, but what it really ruins it for me is the old lady screaming and interrumpting the moment 😂
Why did she have to die ???? Stelllaaaa
You are all idiots..
I admit, I have never watch this movie as my mother has always told me don’t even think about watching this. There is a rape scene where even the character does not actually penetrate her it is implied and the poor actress suffered a horrible experience from that scene. In fact so much that for the rest of her life she was pretty messed up from it. Well, I decided I’m going to watch this movie anyway. Watching this scene right here shows Marlon Brando‘s genius way of showing how vulnerable he can be. I love Marlon Brando the actor and also Marlon Brando not the actor and as a person. I’m gonna go ahead and watch this movie and just keep an open mind.
Brando said that he pored his emotional heart and soul in these scenes. Said he would never do it again.
This is a masterpiec of filmography.
The director of this movie said about Brando that "my camera is not worthy of his acting"
I’ll bet MS did not mind the royalties and I am just guessing she did not need to work another day of her life.The best art is often when there’s a blurring of where art imitates life and vice versa.This seems to be what the director was trying to achieve.I have strong sexual recollections of the autumnal season when I first viewed this film.As flawed as this work of un-art is it affected me and many others,it was interestingly enough a prediction of a life to unfold for many of us.Indeed this film was shown in so many venues(from sleazy Midwestern porno drive in theaters that served as low rent places to xxx) all the way to classy art house! This film incited discussions about women’s right and simultaneously served as a soft core sexploitation film and inexpensive aphrodisiac for cheap and easy dates. On the purely aesthetic side,I love the fashion and the film screenplay as well as music score all the to the color scheme.Many love to hate this film as well hate to love it.I am venturing to say that this film like seemingly innocuous punk rock or new wave music will prove to be more influential than could be imagined when it was first released.I still recall the early autumn in Saint Louis when the release of this s film was done under a great deal oppression by the authorities .
@@jeffreycabanellas8113 read my reply to you ^_^
I see a lot of fletcher christian carried over into this performance. Incredible…
especially since I experienced it!
Haha Marlon is hilarious
Right about too many flowers.
I´ve watched this scene the first time and i cried like a little bitch, i mean, its just devastating, raw, powerful, its not acting, you cannot act something so intimate like this, its a performance, Brando never gave another powerful showcase of his powers, until Apocalypse Now.
Bertolluci later said he filmed a scene of Brando's penis, but then decided to cut the scene. Personally, I think Brando, if given the option, would have said, "You can have my penis. Cut this scene!" I think Brando felt much more invaded revealing this much of himself to the world. Afterwards, he said, "I'll never do that again." Still, a great performance.
Yeah he feel violated in this movie even he never speak to the director again after his finished this movie.
Anyone notice the similarities between this monologue and the one from “The Descendants” by George Clooney? There are some verbatim overlaps.
"You look ridiculous with that makeup" OMG😢
I can't imagine the agony Brando went through when he saw the final edited scene with the horrific saxophone music mess. Why was that music necessary? How incredibly spare and riveting and beautiful that full scene would have been without music. I find it a lot more interesting to watch this entire movie as a silent movie. Mute it. The Barbieri score is insufferable. It's only trying to capitalize on the residue of the success of On The Waterfront, and mimic (badly) the shockingly brilliant Bernstein score. But you can't go home again. It's a disingenuous process, and bound to fail. Why try to re-make something that can't ever possibly be bettered? Leave it alone. Wouldn't it have been much more moving to use Dixieland music for this entire scene? Or HipHop...
So true, i never understood Bertolucci's choice of Barbieri.....
I always think of the score as somehow ironic, like the score is "trying to be" a French romance but it keeps getting ripped apart and dragged down by the actual scenes. I think it makes the scenes more poignant that they keep getting cut off by the very predictably-placed "cues", like the banality of real life intruding. IDK. I actually love the score when played independently of the movie. A great variation set. Barbieri's sax is intense
The score is magnificent you edgy boy, it completes the scene
Marilyn Manson brought me here
How?
@@benalbrecht4437 He used a sample from it in his song Dogma
@@lisalegato0109 cake and sodomy
She was a b....
Nothing special about this mediocre acting, just watched Nefarious that's some legendary acting
He wasn't that great an actor. Overrated. The only thing he could do well was remember and do a monologue.
Lol he normally improvises and has cue cards or a ear piece. The guy never remembered his shit. But Brando the goat.
Jack Nicholson who said Brando was the greatest of all time.said thier was a competition between actors as to who could say the best things about Brando's acting
Have you seen streetcar named desire. You think he's overrated. I think you're wrong. But you're entitled to your opinion.
He had some bad moments, but in absolutely pure nuances and tone and certain transitions, I have seen Marlon do some very very realistic things that were so damn original, I agree with the rest of the top actors who ALL agree he was the king. In the young lions when he slams the door next to the girl just to scare her, or in reflections of a golden eye when he silently talks to himself in the mirror that was admittedly copied by Robert de Niro in taxi driver....in a streetcar he was Soo damn natural you can tell the difference in transition from the old school grandiose voice theatrical mannerisms to just Brando's raw natural being, it's all there day and night....you have a whole generation of pros who completely disagree with you. The man was a genius, fucked up but a genius.
@@lagunacorona yeah,they say he couldn't speak well.his diction wasn't good.he often slurred his words.he's known for that too😁😁.... but that has more to do with laziness, lack of trying.not really acting ability
This is probably my first and the most I hear Brando drop F-bombs like De Niro or Pesci does.