Reply #30: Many people don't understand.... [View All]

Before Brando, acting was a series of movements and voices taken on by the actor. After Brando, acting was pure emotion coming from within the actor outward to the audience. It became from a whole different ballgame. As good as Cagney, Stewart, Grant were, they were good more or less as movie stars. After Brando, movie star acting wasn't good enough. He changed the paradigm. De Niro, Pacino, Hoffman, Streep, Depp, Penn, NO ONE acting today has escaped his influence. It's just difficult explaining this to younger folks nowadays because they havn't seen enough pre-Brando movie acting. I remember when I first saw him act in a movie (Waterfront); he totally blew me away. I still have a hard time watching Desire; it shatters me every time.