In Reply to: "Reflections in a Golden Eye" posted by Victor Khomenko on August 7, 2021 at 08:47:45:
From, "A Streetcar Named Desire" to "The Ugly American" to "The Wild One" to "One-Eyed Jacks" to "Mutiny on the Bounty" to "Last Tango in Paris"------------ who else created so many unforgettable characters? Who altered his persona so many different ways and so convincingly? And, of course, that singular ability he had to COMMAND the screen.
I don't think Taylor gets enough credit because of her larger-than-life roles ("Cleopatra"), but she had decent range and also magnetism that made looking away from her an impossibility. She more than held her own with her generations greatest actors, from Clift to Dean to Brando...
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- Brando: the greatest of all film actors. - tinear 09:31:09 08/07/21 (9)
- Brando IMO was highly over-rated... - TWB 11:30:16 08/09/21 (8)
- Tracy is largely forgotten. A good actor, hardly ground-breaking in his - tinear 14:25:50 08/09/21 (7)
- Check out Bad Day at Black Rock NT - Rod H. 23:25:42 08/09/21 (2)
- LOVE Bad Day at Black Rock. - oldmkvi 06:46:59 08/13/21 (0)
- Yup, I've seen both, "Fury," and "BD@BR:" good acting, yeah, - tinear 13:45:27 08/11/21 (0)
- RE: Tracy is largely forgotten - ArdRi 19:47:12 08/09/21 (0)
- MANY actors site Tracy as being their inspiration.... - TWB 14:48:13 08/09/21 (2)
- The problem is your choice of actors to suit your argument. As far as - tinear 13:39:10 08/11/21 (1)
- Brando hated Strasberg, by the way. He considered himself a student of - tinear 14:01:01 08/11/21 (0)