Brando needs a speech coach


He's got some good stuff in here, but sometimes I can't make out what he's saying. Subtitles?

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He cast a mesmerizing presence in "Streetcar..." but sometime after that he seemed to abandon the earlier discipline gained in his stage work more and more; got fat and started mumbling. I remember during the latter part of his life fitness magazines frequently carried titles like "How not to end up like Brando."

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Yeah what's with the virtually unintelligble southern accent? I had great difficulty trying to determine what he was saying. Some great acting ruined by his mumbling.

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I had to increase the volume every time he spoke.

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I struggled to hear him particularly in his classroom speeches, which was very irritating.

I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl

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I'd swear he was imitating Tennessee Williams! He knew Williams and some the the pronunciations and delivery reminds me of Williams.

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Ah... now that you mention it, that would explain a lot. Especially considering the nature of this character 😉

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I'm so glad it wasn't just me. His mumbling and the accent drove me to subtitles.

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Great actor but the mumbling plus trying to do the southern accent was quite annoying, captions were a must during his scenes.

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I thought it worked to great effect. The Major is in his own little world. While he's lecturing in the classroom he just rambles on and on. The camera cut to the junior officers in the class. They glance at each other, "Man, the Major is seriously off his rocker!" It's the speech pattern of a tortured soul who has lost touch with reality.

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First of all, he did it on purpose, and the role is (in my opinion) utterly brilliant, I've never seen someone tackle shame and the alienation it brings in such a manner.

Apart from that, the man did Shakespeare to wide and overwhelming acclaim. I don't think someone who can do that needs a speech coach. If you don't like his acting choices, that's fine, but it's insulting to say he wasn't educated enough in terms of speech to know what he wanted to do.

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You missed my point-- it was exactly that I don't like his acting choices, in this role. I've seen him in Julius Caesar and he knocks it out of the park. But in this movie, if I (and everyone else who's responded the same way) can't understand the dialog, he should have at least spoken up.

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