So this Marlon Brando fellow...

[WCGreen]

I have heard good things about this actor...

Seriously, in the space of two weeks I taped A Streetcar Named Desire and Mutiny on the Bounty....

From foppish dandy to brooding brute, he surely is a great actor.

I never watched the two movies, which, I suppose; anyone could see the range, so close together.

But it isn't that stark until you watch them back to back.

Now I don't really know if any other actor right now who could play that range of characters and still be believable.

Perhaps Kenneth Branagh or Johnny Depp.

If you ever watched The Libertine and then Fear and Loathing and then What's Eating Gilbert Grape, you would get my drift.

I remember going to see the Libertine in a suburban megaflix establishment right after the first Pirate movie came out....

Oh My, (in my best Sulu impression) the audience was stunned, to say the least....

Although Depp is talented, Brando is in a class of his own.

But it would not be a stretch to say Depp is probably the most versatile actor in Hollywood right now.

[Lionel Mandrake]

1. John Wayne

could play everything from a soldier to a cowboy. What a range!

[WCGreen]

2. Damn straight Pilgram

[alphafemale]

3. you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married

shiver

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Johnny Depp is amazing...

But I can't really compare him to Brando.

Brando is really a mythic figure, almost unbelievable.

I saw Depp in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and I thought he was incomparably great. I don't think I'd ever seen him before, and I hadn't known what to expect.

He was really, really good.

But Brando? As you say, he's in a class of his own.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

5. On the Waterfront along with The Wild One are

among my favorites.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Daniel Day Lewis comes to mind. Jack Nicholson or maybe DeNiro. Pacino?

I think we've been graced with some really great talents....

Brando really is amazing though

[WCGreen]

7. Lewis, yes...

The other two tend to follow charactors that fit their persona.

What I love about Depp is he doesn't proport to be anything he is not.

[riderinthestorm]

8. You know, there's a movie with both Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando in it called Don Juan DeMarco

It also has the fabulous actress Faye Dunaway.

I believe it was one of Brando's last films (he's as big as a house) but clearly all of them are enjoying themselves in the film.

[WCGreen]

9. It's a wonderful movie for Brando to go out with....

Indeed, it was a movie that was fun too watch.

The thing about Depp is he is a unique person who isn't really enamored with hi ability.

He's like a Blue Collar superstar.

[UTUSN]

10. Please must-see this underrated movie: Reflections in a Golden Eye

from the Carson McCULLERS novel. With Julie HARRIS and Liz TAYLOR being an actress instead of Liz TAYLOR. Eroticism in multiple directions. When the HARRIS character, a lady, gets stashed in a mental institution, she looks around at her fellow patients and says, "What a choice crew." The BRANDO character strokes his repression with candlesticks on the mantle and discarded Baby Ruth wrappers. What's the deal with naked horseriding?

[ohiosmith]

11. Did you know that

still photographs of Brando in character as Major Penderton were used later by the producers of Apocalypse Now, who needed photos of a younger Brando to appear in the service record of the younger Colonel Walter Kurtz.

[UTUSN]

12. Did not know that!1 Lots of context around A/N keep surfacing for me

Including views of Vietnam that I never saw while I was there!1