There are times, I know I did much better acting than in that scene "On The Waterfront."...
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Marlon Brando, Himself:
There are times, I know I did much better acting than in that scene "On The Waterfront." It had nothing to do with me. The audience does the work. They are doing the acting. Everybody feels like they're a failure. Everybody feels they could have been a contender
There are times, I know I did much better acting than in that scene "On The Waterfront." It had nothing to do with me. The audience does the work. They are doing the acting. Everybody feels like they're a failure. Everybody feels they could have been a contender
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BRANDO There are times I know I did much better acting
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than in that scene from On the Waterfront
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You don't understand
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I coulda had class
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I coulda been a contender
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I coulda been somebody
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Instead of a bum
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Which is what I am let's face it
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BRANDO It had nothing to do with me
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The audience does the work
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they are doing the acting
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Everybody feels like they're a failure
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everybody feels they could've been a contender
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Movie Summary
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
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