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Marlon Brando anachronism?

posted 9 years ago by dmfreck
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Wasn't this movie set in the 50's? And Keating was doing early 70's Brando Godfather impersonations?

Wasn't this movie set in the 50's? And Keating was doing early 70's Brando Godfather impersonations?

No. That's more a Brando circa "On the Waterfront" impersonation. "I coulda been a contender!"

He was impersonating Brando, as Mark Anthony, in Julius Caesar (1953) with James Mason and John Gielgud. Brando frequently consulted Gielgud on how to deliver the verse during filming.