Marlon Brando is dead at 80.
I can never forget his performance in The Godfather, 1972 (9/10).
Remmember reading the novel before watching the movie...
I was very impressed the way Mario Puzo potrayed the character of Don 'Vito Corleone' and was curious to know how Marlon Brando performs the demanding role.The raspy voice, the feline fondness, the unusual calm, crisp and terse explanations which ironically conveyed the intensity of his resolves, the leadership and respect he demands in his oraganization and among rival mafia families is noteworthy and potrayed brilliantly by Brando.
Critics blamed Vito Corleone to have brought some nobility to the Mafia.
Some Tributes...
And for a man who supposedly disdained acting, he could be extraordinarily eloquent on the subject. "The close-up says everything," he once said. "It's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage."
"A genius who was the beginning and end of his own revolution" - Jack Nicholson
Quotes...
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." - The Godfather
"I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life. I don't apologize to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those big shots. I don't apologize.that's my life . but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. Well, it wasn't enough time, Michael. It wasn't enough time." - The Godfather
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