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TheGodfather -> RE: The Last Classic I Watched... (26/2/2013 1:02:53 PM)
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On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan`s most raw and realistisc film, about corruption in the harbour unions in New York and New Jersey.
As Martin Scorsese correctly says in one of the extra`s on the blu-ray: Kazan really takes you into the sad worker`s milieu, for almost two hours you really become a part of it.
Marlon Brando is brilliant as the young man who against his will becomes a part of the corrupt system and falls in love with the sister of the man he helped to get killed.
A fantastic, raw film that in Hollywood started a new era: the making of a new sort of film that was different from anything else we`ve seen before.
9,0/10
A Streetcar Named Desire
One of the many Tennessee Williams plays that Elia Kazan turned into a movie meant the breakthrough of Marlon Brando on the big screen.
It`s pretty clear that this first was a stage play (that Kazan made as well), it shows in the way the film is shot and staged. It looks like Kazan doesn`t wanna get rid of his stage setting. And let`s face it: he doesn`t really need to.
The film is almost entirely set in the small appartment of Stanley (Marlon Brando) and Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter). Therefor he doesn`t have a lot of space but he really doesn`t need it to tell this story, either.
It creates a clautrophobic atmosphere, you feel a bit locked up inside the appartment.
Brando and Vivien Leigh (who plays Blanche DuBois, the mentally unstable sister of Stella) give amazing performances. The bring out the fireworks in this gripping drama, that luckily now (as opposed to when it was playing in cinema`s back in 1951) can be watched in the full uncensored version.
This way we can fully enjoy one of Brando`s very best roles.
8,8/10
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