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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 16, 2021 14:07:54 GMT
I do think DDL has more comic things on his resume out of the "great actors who get criticized for not doing comedy" than the other males mentioned as "missing" it - DDL/Hopkins/Washington/Scofield/Clift/Duvall - he has the most impressive comic angle to him than the others in his dramatic work of these guys.... One of my favorite scenes of his - like I would put it in his highlight reel - is this one and of course his wryly funny "do you have a gun" scene from The Phantom Thread which can be read as a comic work in a lot of scenes overall too (though I don't exactly read it that way).
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Post by hugobolso on Dec 30, 2021 22:27:19 GMT
I think talking about Brando in comedias or Day Lewis (he had a funny supporting role in the mis 80, the JB and Lena Olí trío is algo a dramatic commedy where he is hilarious) is like talking about Peters Sellers or David Niven doing drama. They can, they could even be great, but they will not remember for it.
Still Brandon made at least half a dozen goofy comedies. With dramadies should be at 12 in less than 40 titles. Not bad!!!
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Post by JangoB on Dec 30, 2021 22:35:05 GMT
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Post by SZilla on Dec 31, 2021 0:04:57 GMT
There's a story that during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, Marlon Brando disappeared from set one day to steal a rowboat and go out to the middle of the lagoon with a five gallon tub of ice cream and just went to town on it.
How anyone could think this man couldn't be funny is beyond me.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 31, 2021 0:10:39 GMT
There's a story that during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, Marlon Brando disappeared from set one day to steal a rowboat and go out to the middle of the lagoon with a five gallon tub of ice cream and just went to town on it. How anyone could think this man couldn't be funny is beyond me. ^ That's actually covered in the thread though with Robert Duvall too - a guy who is known for being very funny as a practical joker irl - but like Brando doesn't have "much" in film where he was funny..........actually Anthony Hopkins too - I mean Anthony Hopkins on his social media posts is pretty hilarious at 80+.......but movie characters played by Anthony Hopkins ...........not really much of them on film........
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Post by franklin on Dec 31, 2021 3:25:31 GMT
I do think DDL has more comic things on his resume out of the "great actors who get criticized for not doing comedy" than the other males mentioned as "missing" it - DDL/Hopkins/Washington/Scofield/Clift/Duvall - he has the most impressive comic angle to him than the others in his dramatic work of these guys.... One of my favorite scenes of his - like I would put it in his highlight reel - is this one and of course his wryly funny "do you have a gun" scene from The Phantom Thread which can be read as a comic work in a lot of scenes overall too (though I don't exactly read it that way). I always thought DDL was darkly hilarious in both Gangs of New York and Phantom Thread. As for Brando, yeah i think he would have exhibited terrific comedic chops on film.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 31, 2021 3:57:39 GMT
There's a story that during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, Marlon Brando disappeared from set one day to steal a rowboat and go out to the middle of the lagoon with a five gallon tub of ice cream and just went to town on it. How anyone could think this man couldn't be funny is beyond me. ^ That's actually covered in the thread though with Robert Duvall too - a guy who is known for being very funny as a practical joker irl - but like Brando doesn't have "much" in film where he was funny..........actually Anthony Hopkins too - I mean Anthony Hopkins on his social media posts is pretty hilarious at 80+.......but movie characters played by Anthony Hopkins ...........not really much of them on film........ Instagram Hopkins should appear in all of the Wes Anderson movies.
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Post by countjohn on Dec 31, 2021 6:11:09 GMT
Thought I'd posted in this thread before but apparently I've just been lurking.
Anyway, DDL can absolutely "do" comedy, regardless of what genre you want to call his films, which is subjective anyway. If someone wanted to call Phantom Thread a comedy or dramedy I wouldn't really argue. I think Daniel Plainview is hilarious but I know I don't have a lot of company on that one. I also think he's good in Nine even if the movie failed.
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Post by hugobolso on Dec 31, 2021 17:14:50 GMT
There's a story that during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, Marlon Brando disappeared from set one day to steal a rowboat and go out to the middle of the lagoon with a five gallon tub of ice cream and just went to town on it. How anyone could think this man couldn't be funny is beyond me. ^ That's actually covered in the thread though with Robert Duvall too - a guy who is known for being very funny as a practical joker irl - but like Brando doesn't have "much" in film where he was funny..........actually Anthony Hopkins too - I mean Anthony Hopkins on his social media posts is pretty hilarious at 80+.......but movie characters played by Anthony Hopkins ...........not really much of them on film........ I found Hopkins hilarious in severas films, specially his horror films (like Dracula or the wolfman). But one thing is being funny and other being a comedias, specially american commedy. I mean why Hopkins or Duvall should co-star an Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy or Jim Carrey Goodyear and elastic commedy. I guess was a wise choice. Duvall or Hopkins with a funnier face or George Clooney and Hugh Grant face, could make more. The same Brando if he had Cary Grant Face. Or if he was Woody Allen or Billy Wilder the alterego and fave actor[ br] And here is another question the main diference of being funny and being a comedian. Nicole Kidman or Charlize Theron with the propper script could be hilarious. But they arent comedians. Emma Thompson and Julie Waters are comedians, despide the fact are more famous for dramas. They studied brittish commedy at theatre. Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock are comedians, at least a third of their Work are commedies.
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