Day #21 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #21 of 30 Day Film Challenge

The prompt is A Film that you dozed off in

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I not only dozed off - I fell asleep. It was at least on my television set - rented, not in the movie theater. I don't fall asleep in movie theaters.
And I didn't just fall asleep once. I rewound it, and did it again.

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

No, I don't remember what movie Ann saw. Probably just as well, since she really didn't intend to dis it. ;o)

There was a time when having seen him in On the Water Front, and as Mark Antony in a 1950s version of Julius Caesar Brando was one of my favorite actors. But he got a big head, and except for the Godfather he didn't show much good acting skills for a long time. By the time you were old enough to pick your own movies he was pretty far gone.

Actually, Guys and Dolls came after Desiree so someone must have thought they looked good together.

[shadowkat]

Interesting. Brando was an interesting actor. Very good in films like "Streetcar Named Desire", "Guys & Dolls", "On the Water Front", and "The Godfather", but he despised acting and everything associated with it. He just happened to be very good at it - and couldn't do anything else.

Hollywood kind of ate him alive. He was a sensitive soul - and fame is toxic. I saw the Brando documentary - and it's painful. He was addicted to food and used it to deal with pain. And could not lose weight as a result.

Also he was in the studio system - and didn't get to pick a lot of his own movies - like you said. So ended up getting a lot of roles he hated and basically walked through.