Brando
July 14th 2006 06:06
This is a brilliant book for anyone who's a Marlon Brando fan. It features a write up by the author on every film, play and television appearance Brando ever made, as well as pictures of him in each and every role, as well as quotes from reviews of his performance at the time of release.
I can just flick through this book and look at the pictures forever - but it probably helps that Brando is one of the most beautiful male specimens to ever grace the screen. You can literally see him age year by year, watch the fat pack on and the jowls grow, from his first theatre appearance at the age of 20 to his final appearance in The Score at the age of 77.
Tanitch exhaustively covers everything in Brando's career... there are even photos from the rare and mostly unreleased Johnny Depp film 'The Brave' and the unfinished film 'Divine Rapture', as well as pictures from each of Brando's early theatre appearances. It's also fun to see what people thought of his performances at the time... from the marvellously sycophantic to the damningly poisonous, it's all there, and it's all great.
Mostly, this book just makes me want to track down all the films I'm yet to see, and it serves as a pretty good 'to watch' guide for me. Tanitch has done a few books in this series and I think they're currently re-releasing some of them with updated information. I've seen a Clint Eastood one out and about and I know there's one on Guinness as well. I think there are also ones on Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier and John Gielguld. Any of these would make a fine present next time anyone reading this is looking to get me something nice.
And just for fun, these are the Brando films I have seen so far...
On The Waterfront, The Wild One, One-Eyed Jacks, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, The Missouri Breaks, Superman, Apocalypse Now, The Freshman, Don Juan DeMarco and The Score.
Not nearly enough!
Brando, by Robert Tanitch
I can just flick through this book and look at the pictures forever - but it probably helps that Brando is one of the most beautiful male specimens to ever grace the screen. You can literally see him age year by year, watch the fat pack on and the jowls grow, from his first theatre appearance at the age of 20 to his final appearance in The Score at the age of 77.
Tanitch exhaustively covers everything in Brando's career... there are even photos from the rare and mostly unreleased Johnny Depp film 'The Brave' and the unfinished film 'Divine Rapture', as well as pictures from each of Brando's early theatre appearances. It's also fun to see what people thought of his performances at the time... from the marvellously sycophantic to the damningly poisonous, it's all there, and it's all great.
Mostly, this book just makes me want to track down all the films I'm yet to see, and it serves as a pretty good 'to watch' guide for me. Tanitch has done a few books in this series and I think they're currently re-releasing some of them with updated information. I've seen a Clint Eastood one out and about and I know there's one on Guinness as well. I think there are also ones on Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier and John Gielguld. Any of these would make a fine present next time anyone reading this is looking to get me something nice.
Brando, what the more recent edition looks like.
And just for fun, these are the Brando films I have seen so far...
On The Waterfront, The Wild One, One-Eyed Jacks, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, The Missouri Breaks, Superman, Apocalypse Now, The Freshman, Don Juan DeMarco and The Score.
Not nearly enough!
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