How could people find Marlon Brando hot in this film
He's character was so disgusting that makes me want to almost throw up just seing his face. Amazing actor though, brilliant performance but what a horrible, horrible character.
shareHe's character was so disgusting that makes me want to almost throw up just seing his face. Amazing actor though, brilliant performance but what a horrible, horrible character.I agree on both counts. Brando's Kowalski as a physical "object" was beautiful, but his character itself was never meant to add to his beauty. Kowalski's beauty was almost a paradox for both, the two women in the film and for the audience - despite loathing his actions, they can't help being attracted to his features.
Most performances by male actors are supposed to be judged on their talent - which is a double standard in view of the importance of a lead actress's beauty - but Kowalski is a character whose portrayal can't be effective unless he is played by an exceptionally good-looking actor. If he were ugly, the audience would never understand why Stella hasn't left him after three scenes into the play. share
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Nah. That behavior was brutish aggression, but not abusive. Stella was attracted to this, while Blanche on the other hand was repulsed by the aggression.
shareBlanche was not repulsed by Stanley. In fact she was insanely attracted to him. What did repulse her was his ignorant views on everything.
Stanley was not repulsed by Blanche. He wanted her from the get go. Probably to the point where he thought he married the wrong sister. What he hated was the class warfare she used against him.
So the repulsion was not physical it was intellectual. Intellectual revulsion smacking right up against a wall made of sexual attraction. That is why their interactions with one another were so unstable.
Of course, it helped a lot that Brando and Leigh were so scarily attractive. And they tried so hard to make Leigh look faded but it didn't work at all. In fact that the was the film's only misstep. They should have walked on the wild side and let Leigh keep her raven locks.
I didn't say she was repulsed by Stanley, I said she was repulsed by the aggression.
shareShe liked his aggression just fine. It was his ignorance that repulsed her.
The problem with Stanley is not that he is dumb, he is just too stubborn to change his ignorance. He thinks the world should bend to serve him not the other way around.