I could be great like brando. But as he did, I see the obsurdity of it all. I hate acting and faking in front of anyone. I almost have gotten to the point of outright refusal. My social life has taken quite the hit bc of it, but fuck it. So sick of this acting that everyone does, I want to get to what is real.
mike byers but bro movies & film can be used positively and actually inspiring and life impacting and effective, it's all in what the message is about bro
Although Cavett denies the label, Brando,a genius, sat toe to toe with another genius, while they weren't equal, they were complementary and equivalent. It's no wonder Brando all but retired for so long. He must have grown tired of waiting for we mere mortals to keep up! But Cavett could give and take equally with him. What a treat!
DMB STASH I agree, but Cavett had a live audience and that adds a certain element of performance from both the host and the guest. But yes, Charlie Rose's show definitely delves deeper than almost anything out there today.
He's right, were always acting. At work, with friends and family members. Pretty much every second in your life when you're around people. And most of the time you don't realize you're doing it in the moment. Especially if it's a daily procedure as Brando says. It becomes second nature, the acting you do daily, repetitively.
This clip speaks volumes as to WHY Brando was such a great actor: observation. Like all great actors, he was a keen observer of human nature. The way he succintly describes EXACTLY what Cavett is thinking and feeling (that made Cavett so uncomfortable as if he was naked) is proof of that.
No you missed the entire point of what he was saying. It's not becuse of observation which would imply that acting is just mimicing other people. It's not. He is talking about our inner life and our inner monolouges that goes around in our head all the time. We are always acting. Very rarely are we totally honest. Everytime you have an interaction with someone you want something out of the situation and the way we act is one of the tools we use to get what we want. Brando did not mimic other people. He was trained by Stella Adler and always used himself in every part.
NostalgiNorden I'm talking about his skills as an observer. All great actors are observers of human behavior. And the fact that Brando was observing Cavett so closely is evidence of that. What that fact has to do with mimicry, I don't know. I do agree with you also that Brando used himself in his parts. That's something I think all great actors do. Especially American trained "method" actors.
***** Then your style would be pre-Brando. Acting in movies before the 50s was the same as acting in the theatre. It was acting from the outside in, more heightened, and more indicative. Method acting is all about acting from the inside out: truthful experiences under imaginary circumstances. So most of the actors Brando worked with in movies (that weren't trained the same way he was) were trained in the more traditional school of acting.
Marlon Brando is just a legend. I feel like I am obtaining a great amount of knowledge every time he opens his mouth. Such an intelligent man and such an inspiration
JAY OH I just find his outlook on things very interesting and I agree alot. His view on acting and life in general.. When he mentioned about the interviewer is always acting always editing his thoughts at an insane rate is very true everyone does it. As an aspiring actor I find many of the things he says interesting and knowledgeable
Damn. I grew up hearing Brando's name just like any other old star. But this Brando I see here is truly brilliant. He's doing what I've many times wished I could do in front of a huge, hypnotized audience. Blow the whole thing up, tear it down, and show you something far more interesting: a living human being with no bottom or boundary to their living experience, refusing to be smoothed out, honestly engaging with the discomfort and vagaries of existence. This guy went there.
a serious and poised man, less concerned about the glamour, while the audience seems so eager to laugh at the slightest awkward statement or counterpoint he makes. It's as plain as day that the interviewer is acting in his own role while the audience is unconsciously acting theirs too. Marlon is just simply pointing out that acting is objectively a facade, which is what it is.
Richard Martin but they're still acting like people in a crowd on a game show and putting aside some emotion they feel you know, there's probably some girls that would want to scream his name or run up there but they don't go out of character
The audience and interviewer is annoying. Marlon Brando was hitting an important point. We do act as a survival mechanism. Acting as a profession may be to harness that skill but he's 100% correct that acting is something we do every day. The interviewer actually says "I was motivated" which is Marlon's point. What do actor's ask? "What's my motivation"? Acting as a profession is harnessing what we do every day. This is a brilliant explanation by Brando. I just wish it didn't go over these people's heads.
Well put! Tho I think that his words are almost stronger when put into such a shallow enviroment. Atleast for those interested enough to listen. The contrast of the two makes the outlines appear clearer.
Bruce Marlon i don't think its the interviewer who did that. Marlon brando is a goddamn genius and you can totally tell everything he was saying was going over their heads. He just got frustrated and gave up at the end lol
What Brando says makes a lot of sense. In sociology and psychology, they call them "social roles". A set of attitudes, lines and behaviors one has to perform in order to be accepted by the group he or she belongs to, Has anyone ever seen a nice and friendly drill sergeant?
or on the flipside. be it 3am on a parking lot in the inner city, crossing paths with a frail elderly couple that are obviously nervous... An easy smile and just the right amount of gentle tone to a kind "good evening" and there is a little less stress the world has to suffer.
Sometimes you can get more by acting the opposite of your social role. Christopher Walken did this brilliantly at the beginning of Biloxi Blues. He actually played a friendly drill sergeant, at least for a few minutes, and that threw his recruits off so much that he was able to penetrate their obtuse skulls.
The reason why this guy was so nervous was because Brando was laying out there so clearly. Every day I see and hear people reacting to media and entertainment personalities and I don't understand how they don't get that it's an act. How is it that the guys on Sports Talk Radio almost always end up on opposite sides of an argument? How is it that they manage to always upset the callers? Same thing with bloggers, how is it that they seem to always be able to upset people? It's because they know how to do it. It's because they're calculated in a way. And the last thing they want is for people to realize that it's an act. Brando is here talking about this guy as a performer and this guy is desperately thinking: "what are you doing don't let them in on it." It behooves him to come off as the genuine, funny, nice guy. But Brando breaks it down in a calm, sophisticated way. And that's why he starts to squirm. I wish people were more like this nowadays.
This is so true man. Also, what Brando is saying and the people still laugh at what the blond guy says just because its "supposed to be funny". It hurts so much that so many people live in so many different realities
@boomshizzIe I agree... A lot of drug addicts have to believe their own act at unimaginable levels to survive. The line is not only blurred it is obliterated. Sad how trapped they become even when they know it is happening. The illusion of choice is just that, an illusion. ( as in: you can choose not to breath in theory but very different in practice )
@Raikaska I agree that it can be sad to have that happen unknowingly. But even if all the cards were on the table as it were... Personality would still exist to facilitate communication. Even a lie can be a positive thing if the end result is communicating the truth. If every one knew and understood perhaps even assumed that every exchange would involve acting to facilitate understanding, then we might even be criticized for being lazy in our acting. In a way, I think Brando is even saying as much. That it should be a given everyone uses acting to facilitate effective communication. And that as a TV interviewer and media personality that Dick should be very talented as an actor to be effective.
What Brando is refering to here is the Subtext and Inner Monologue of the charater, in life we easily hide these feelings and pretend we are feeling something else, as an actor you must reveal the truth of the inner life of the character, the difference between the characters words and thoughts/feelings
Marlon Brando was a really intelligent and articulate person...and sensible....the interviewer...was disrupting and insecure.... it would have been much, much better if he had been Brando speak..
Ernesto Onofre The interviewer? That's Dick Cavett, a bit of a television icon at the time. Did you notice he said "We got into this on the phone".....He was one of the few that could get Brando to speak on a subject like acting (which bored Brando to death). He's doing his job, they were friends.
I'm sorry, I was just being a jerk. He wasn't so bad, it's just the guy interviewing him is one of the few people that challenged celebrities and asked real questions. Marlon Brando was pretty whacked in the head.
Study the actual acting industry and you come to realize that he not only revolutionized the nature of acting, but changed the expectations & feel of acting. His personal life is his personal life, that is not for me to judge. Print Media/media is not always truthful negatively/positively. He was into psychology & philosophy, and his comment on acting stems from that. He did not boast of his acting ability/wish to be exalted as such. We are all actors at one time or another. That's the message.
This is DEFINITELY something I've been wondering about actors lately, but then again Brando is right, actors aren't the only routine truth benders. Motivation.
I find it fascinating that people could love and be inspired by Brando the actor because he was talented and brought to acting a genius. And others focus on his private life. As someone who was trained at the forefront of the industry he in the capacity of an actor created a land map that others followed - one of the first to play character acting, to play outside comfort, to really experiment with dialect and mannerisms, to draw a magnetism and naturalism out of a role.
Brando is spot on. We all act at some point in our lives, socially, in work ... to get by. Ok, screen acting is a more disciplined art, but they're pretending, just like us.
That was a very real and interesting conversation; we all have our egos and play who we think we should be. Not sure which guy was the most accurate or perceptive, probably Marlon Brando, but Dick Cavett is one of the best interviewers ever.
The world is a stage, we are all actors playing our role in the world, you either choose it or someone else will do if for you. Are you playing the character you want in the world?
Observation is not enough. Just watch Brando acting Marc Antonius in Caesar. He could not manage a more difficult text, that of Shakespeare. He sounds like a college student.
Dick Cavett really shows his limits here. He is asking one of the all-time greatest actors about acting and then arguing with him at every point. Brando is right here, and he's giving Cavett incredible insights into the BEST acting. It's great watching Brando own him! Thanks for posting this!
I don't see it this way. Dick is a great interviewer here- he's challenging Brando to expound on his comments and articulate his thoughts and insight.. with the information Dick got out of Brando, he's got amazing interview skills. At the same time, he was also able to keep it light hearted and entertaining. It was a very good exchange of dialogue, discussion between the two of them.
I agree, I understand where he was coming from because he had a valid point about the whole concept of acting being able to lie but there aren't many people on earth who could be so raw and believable, drawing you in without you even realizing what he's done and when it's all said and done, none of it was real. That is what he has been able to do to me. Last Tango in Paris though, that was real. I cant believe it took me until I was 19 to get the pleasure of seeing this man's career unfold
What Brando says here makes sense to me. Acting is a survival mechanism, and the key is to use that instinct on stage, when reading a paper, when doing a scene, when improvising, whatever. That's how I act aswell, I focus on these steps, to just put in what I do when I lie, or to put in what I do when I want to behave differently socially, stuff like that.
Well for arguements sake I will say that you are right, any situation can be either or (whether I believe the truth that I felt is more EXACT or not). I respect the way you handled the disagreement either way, thank you for conducting yourself respecitvely.
At 4:29 Brando brilliantly psycho analyzed and summarized Cavett's entire professional life. I never understood why people thought Dick Cavett was a good interviewer. To me, he was a goofy, bloviating mess of a host. He always came off as condescending and fake. This interview shows that. Great interviewers know when to shut up. Great interviewers understand nuance and how to ask compelling questions that evoke heartfelt answers. Carson was a great interviewer. Ironically, in this instance, it was Cavett's dim-wittedness that evoked one of the most honest assessments of life and acting from Brando. For good or bad, we're all actors on this grand stage called life.
I don't know when this interview was published....but by watching the audience and interviewer I can surely say Marlon Brando was ahead of his time. it's late but not too late.... when I read all those comments in the box audience has grown more mature than the audience in the video......excuse me for my English.
Daily Dump News No, smart people are the ones who watch it several times because the more you watch the more you learn. And Marlon Brando is the guy to listen to if you want to learn about acting. It's the dumb people that watch this kind of lessons once and move on because those people don't take the moment to appreciate such a source of knowledge that this is.
PoppeTheStar You put it nicely. I've watched the full interview at least a few times and have picked up a lot. One thing that stuck out for me on the second viewing was his demonstration of putting on an appearance, for example, resting on your knees and appealing to your boss. But later on in the interview, what does Brando do? The commercial break ends and we see him resting on his knees, and hurriedly leans back against the seat: basically, the most honest part of the interview, telling us that it's all a gag. In another interview, Brando talked about the ethical importance of opening up a dialogue with all of the production's employees, including the director, actors, editor, and the functional role of the camera itself. The man was advocating for a dialectic (that is, a dialogue-based pathway to Truth) on the very phenomenon of image production. And what happened to him in the end? He gets labelled a madman. If losing your mind is a form of death, I consider this man a martyr.
I believe everything he is saying about acting. To not act, is simply impossible. Everyone is acting according to a script, whether it's who you are as your name, your role as a worker, a citizen-- it goes on.
"Dialogue changes but the motivation doesn't." GENIUS.
Frances93130 I was gonna write the same comment !
But if a random person said it you would be like MEH
Brando was actually very unpopular for some reason
This comes from Stanislavski's approach to acting. It's called method acting and is based off of the motivation of the character.
Unpopular as a man and parent but very, very popular as an actor.
"The dialogue changes but the motivation doesn't" - Brilliant!
His name is Marlon. Not Brilliant
Why can't celebrity interviews with actors be this intelligent, honest, and unscripted these days?
because brando saw through the absurdity of celebrity,he had a built in bullshit detector
I could be great like brando. But as he did, I see the obsurdity of it all. I hate acting and faking in front of anyone. I almost have gotten to the point of outright refusal. My social life has taken quite the hit bc of it, but fuck it. So sick of this acting that everyone does, I want to get to what is real.
mike byers I liked your comment, I couldn't agree more.
mike byers but bro movies & film can be used positively and actually inspiring and life impacting and effective, it's all in what the message is about bro
Although Cavett denies the label, Brando,a genius, sat toe to toe with another genius, while they weren't equal, they were complementary and equivalent.
It's no wonder Brando all but retired for so long. He must have grown tired of waiting for we mere mortals to keep up! But Cavett could give and take equally with him.
What a treat!
Gotta love Brando. No small talker ...he goes straight into whats important.
The man is a genius
Strong silent type
Remember when talk shows were shows where people really talked?
you mean they didnt shout at each other? use constant soundbites
Don't have to remember any further back than a few days ago: The Charlie Rose Show
DMB STASH I agree, but Cavett had a live audience and that adds a certain element of performance from both the host and the guest. But yes, Charlie Rose's show definitely delves deeper than almost anything out there today.
That's why I like a lot of Podcasts these days.
Not anymore buddy boy
He's right, were always acting. At work, with friends and family members. Pretty much every second in your life when you're around people. And most of the time you don't realize you're doing it in the moment. Especially if it's a daily procedure as Brando says. It becomes second nature, the acting you do daily, repetitively.
It's a shock to me when I keep to myself and then go socialize and how blatant the lies people tell are, but it's just accepted as normal.
I call it adapting.
This clip speaks volumes as to WHY Brando was such a great actor: observation. Like all great actors, he was a keen observer of human nature. The way he succintly describes EXACTLY what Cavett is thinking and feeling (that made Cavett so uncomfortable as if he was naked) is proof of that.
No you missed the entire point of what he was saying.
It's not becuse of observation which would imply that acting is just mimicing other people. It's not.
He is talking about our inner life and our inner monolouges that goes around in our head all the time.
We are always acting. Very rarely are we totally honest.
Everytime you have an interaction with someone you want something out of the situation and the way we act is one of the tools we use to get what we want.
Brando did not mimic other people. He was trained by Stella Adler and always used himself in every part.
NostalgiNorden I'm talking about his skills as an observer. All great actors are observers of human behavior. And the fact that Brando was observing Cavett so closely is evidence of that. What that fact has to do with mimicry, I don't know. I do agree with you also that Brando used himself in his parts. That's something I think all great actors do. Especially American trained "method" actors.
+NostalgiNorden frn ur right 100 %
True ,a glimpse inside the mind of an acting genius.
Sorry, but you´re wrong. He was not a great actor. He was the best actor ever and forever will be.
Scorsese had said somewhere : Actors can be divided into two eras, Before Brando and After Brando.
That's pretty much a consensus. Scorsese just happens to be the most famous person to have stated it.
***** Than your style of acting was pre-Brando. It was the actors who came after him who were influenced by him.
***** Then your style would be pre-Brando. Acting in movies before the 50s was the same as acting in the theatre. It was acting from the outside in, more heightened, and more indicative. Method acting is all about acting from the inside out: truthful experiences under imaginary circumstances. So most of the actors Brando worked with in movies (that weren't trained the same way he was) were trained in the more traditional school of acting.
***** :)
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Marlon Brando is just a legend. I feel like I am obtaining a great amount of knowledge every time he opens his mouth. Such an intelligent man and such an inspiration
What kind of knowledge did you obtain from watching this particular interview of brando ? Just curious
JAY OH I just find his outlook on things very interesting and I agree alot. His view on acting and life in general.. When he mentioned about the interviewer is always acting always editing his thoughts at an insane rate is very true everyone does it. As an aspiring actor I find many of the things he says interesting and knowledgeable
you're a cheese ball but i totally agree with you
Damn. I grew up hearing Brando's name just like any other old star. But this Brando I see here is truly brilliant. He's doing what I've many times wished I could do in front of a huge, hypnotized audience. Blow the whole thing up, tear it down, and show you something far more interesting: a living human being with no bottom or boundary to their living experience, refusing to be smoothed out, honestly engaging with the discomfort and vagaries of existence. This guy went there.
Brando destroys the culture of television. Truly profound
It's true Marlon , we are all acting , some with poetry , some not
Where did he say poetry
Actually what he said is stupid. You can lie, but act is playing a character.
@@gtella31 You didn’t understand anything he said which is incredibly sad.
@@gtella31 nope
a serious and poised man, less concerned about the glamour, while the audience seems so eager to laugh at the slightest awkward statement or counterpoint he makes. It's as plain as day that the interviewer is acting in his own role while the audience is unconsciously acting theirs too. Marlon is just simply pointing out that acting is objectively a facade, which is what it is.
the audience is told when to laugh and when to clap. Just like game shows.
Richard Martin but they're still acting like people in a crowd on a game show and putting aside some emotion they feel you know, there's probably some girls that would want to scream his name or run up there but they don't go out of character
The audience and interviewer is annoying. Marlon Brando was hitting an important point. We do act as a survival mechanism. Acting as a profession may be to harness that skill but he's 100% correct that acting is something we do every day. The interviewer actually says "I was motivated" which is Marlon's point. What do actor's ask? "What's my motivation"?
Acting as a profession is harnessing what we do every day. This is a brilliant explanation by Brando. I just wish it didn't go over these people's heads.
Well put! Tho I think that his words are almost stronger when put into such a shallow enviroment. Atleast for those interested enough to listen. The contrast of the two makes the outlines appear clearer.
I can agree with that sir.
Bruce Marlon i don't think its the interviewer who did that. Marlon brando is a goddamn genius and you can totally tell everything he was saying was going over their heads. He just got frustrated and gave up at the end lol
Couldn't of said it any better
Asafmoney You could HAVE learned English.
He’s the most self deprecating celebrity I’ve ever seen and that’s why he’s so amazing to listen to. He doesn’t make it about him.
What Brando says makes a lot of sense. In sociology and psychology, they call them "social roles". A set of attitudes, lines and behaviors one has to perform in order to be accepted by the group he or she belongs to, Has anyone ever seen a nice and friendly drill sergeant?
or on the flipside.
be it 3am on a parking lot in the inner city, crossing paths with a frail elderly couple that are obviously nervous...
An easy smile and just the right amount of gentle tone to a kind "good evening" and there is a little less stress the world has to suffer.
I agree, we're always acting. I'm not the same person with my mom as I am my girlfriend- even if my encounters with them are 2 minutes removed.
Sometimes you can get more by acting the opposite of your social role. Christopher Walken did this brilliantly at the beginning of Biloxi Blues. He actually played a friendly drill sergeant, at least for a few minutes, and that threw his recruits off so much that he was able to penetrate their obtuse skulls.
"The dialogue changes but not the motivation" wow wow
The reason why this guy was so nervous was because Brando was laying out there so clearly. Every day I see and hear people reacting to media and entertainment personalities and I don't understand how they don't get that it's an act. How is it that the guys on Sports Talk Radio almost always end up on opposite sides of an argument? How is it that they manage to always upset the callers? Same thing with bloggers, how is it that they seem to always be able to upset people? It's because they know how to do it. It's because they're calculated in a way. And the last thing they want is for people to realize that it's an act.
Brando is here talking about this guy as a performer and this guy is desperately thinking: "what are you doing don't let them in on it." It behooves him to come off as the genuine, funny, nice guy. But Brando breaks it down in a calm, sophisticated way. And that's why he starts to squirm. I wish people were more like this nowadays.
sad thing is it's not always an act
This is so true man. Also, what Brando is saying and the people still laugh at what the blond guy says just because its "supposed to be funny". It hurts so much that so many people live in so many different realities
@boomshizzIe I agree...
A lot of drug addicts have to believe their own act at unimaginable levels to survive. The line is not only blurred it is obliterated. Sad how trapped they become even when they know it is happening. The illusion of choice is just that, an illusion. ( as in: you can choose not to breath in theory but very different in practice )
@Raikaska
I agree that it can be sad to have that happen unknowingly. But even if all the cards were on the table as it were... Personality would still exist to facilitate communication. Even a lie can be a positive thing if the end result is communicating the truth. If every one knew and understood perhaps even assumed that every exchange would involve acting to facilitate understanding, then we might even be criticized for being lazy in our acting. In a way, I think Brando is even saying as much. That it should be a given everyone uses acting to facilitate effective communication. And that as a TV interviewer and media personality that Dick should be very talented as an actor to be effective.
I still can't understand that, but I'll give it a thought. Thanks :3
Brando had such an insight into human nature. Remarkable.
remarkable and sad.
I have watched this 3 times and still want to view it again. Marlon you are a crazy genius!
What Brando is refering to here is the Subtext and Inner Monologue of the charater, in life we easily hide these feelings and pretend we are feeling something else, as an actor you must reveal the truth of the inner life of the character, the difference between the characters words and thoughts/feelings
2:57 to 3:42 - Marlon just sadly described my life in a nutshell.
Brando....Genius even De Nero admired and emulated.
My God this is brutal :) How can you not love Brando - just says it like it is.
Hes right.. we can act the hell outta LIFE!!
I admire Brando's honesty
The guy is a genius.
The greatest actor ever, and very intelligent ! Love it!
Marlon was the king in showing vulnerability within ego that why he was an incredible actor.
totally the reason why i am so obsessed with him
A screen legend and a wise man, you gottta love Brando
Crazy Knowledge here. He is such an inspiration! Thanks for uploading.
Marlon said exactly what I always thought of dick cavette...always thinking of a million things and saying a joke to cover up awkward moments
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Man, I still continue being amazed by Marlon Brando a little more each day... Thanks!
Really makes you look at yourself and how much we put on in social situations outside our comfort zones
Brando is brilliant here!
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He fascinates me.. That smile ... Omg
"Lenard, I think that's terrific!"...dialogue changes, but the motivation doesn't .....its just beautiful... :)
Marlon Brando was a really intelligent and articulate person...and sensible....the interviewer...was disrupting and insecure....
it would have been much, much better if he had been Brando speak..
Ernesto Onofre The interviewer? That's Dick Cavett, a bit of a television icon at the time. Did you notice he said "We got into this on the phone".....He was one of the few that could get Brando to speak on a subject like acting (which bored Brando to death). He's doing his job, they were friends.
Thanks for your comment Pitt. I just wished Dick would had left Brando tell the story he was about to tell...and did not do...
Ernesto Onofre Go chug a little richard. Not sure if you are aware, but, Marlon Brando was full of shit and namely himself.
I did not know. I guess he fooled me. The bastard. I do not know what you mean by"" go chug a little richard". English is not my first language.
I'm sorry, I was just being a jerk. He wasn't so bad, it's just the guy interviewing him is one of the few people that challenged celebrities and asked real questions. Marlon Brando was pretty whacked in the head.
This is a brilliant interview here. Some really fascinating points being batted back and forth.
I'd give anything to smoke a blunt with this guy. I love the way he talks about life and the human mind
Brando was truly a great actor. Love hearing his insights.
what an insightful man. Love ya Mr. Brando!!
gotta love these guys, both of them, outstanding in their fields.
An actor who wouldn't have others or himself recognise his greatness, truly the best to have graced the screen or stage.
What a FASCINATING interview.
The "God Father" of acting
Is he always in Apocalypse Now-mode? Lol, RIP Marlon Brando. Crazy smart and thought-provoking in real life and his roles.
Study the actual acting industry and you come to realize that he not only revolutionized the nature of acting, but changed the expectations & feel of acting. His personal life is his personal life, that is not for me to judge. Print Media/media is not always truthful negatively/positively. He was into psychology & philosophy, and his comment on acting stems from that. He did not boast of his acting ability/wish to be exalted as such. We are all actors at one time or another. That's the message.
This is DEFINITELY something I've been wondering about actors lately, but then again Brando is right, actors aren't the only routine truth benders. Motivation.
It's funny hearing him tell Brando that's not acting. I think knew a little bit about what acting is, or is not.
I find it fascinating that people could love and be inspired by Brando the actor because he was talented and brought to acting a genius. And others focus on his private life. As someone who was trained at the forefront of the industry he in the capacity of an actor created a land map that others followed - one of the first to play character acting, to play outside comfort, to really experiment with dialect and mannerisms, to draw a magnetism and naturalism out of a role.
This is a discourse on existentialism.
Interesting interview, Brando has profound insight !!
Wow. My respect for Marlon Brando has gone way up. He speaks the truth - we ALL put on an act. He just does it with much more finesse.
Brando is spot on. We all act at some point in our lives, socially, in work ... to get by. Ok, screen acting is a more disciplined art, but they're pretending, just like us.
That was a very real and interesting conversation; we all have our egos and play who we think we should be. Not sure which guy was the most accurate or perceptive, probably Marlon Brando, but Dick Cavett is one of the best interviewers ever.
The world is a stage, we are all actors playing our role in the world, you either choose it or someone else will do if for you. Are you playing the character you want in the world?
SEEING A SOUL OF WISDOM AND KNOWINGNESS IS AWESOME, THANKY OU BRANDO 2012
Only brando could acknowledge that cavett could do some things better than him..hats off to humility and greatness
He actually is answering the question!! Observation is Brando's craft
Observation is not enough. Just watch Brando acting Marc Antonius in Caesar. He could not manage a more difficult text, that of Shakespeare. He sounds like a college student.
Awesome what he thinks about acting.....!!!
One of best explanation you can have for what accutuly acting.... 👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
All the world is a stage and we all have our parts to play
Very down to earth guy...rip Brando
So true!!! Acting is a survival mechanism!!❤
Dick Cavett really shows his limits here. He is asking one of the all-time greatest actors about acting and then arguing with him at every point. Brando is right here, and he's giving Cavett incredible insights into the BEST acting. It's great watching Brando own him! Thanks for posting this!
I don't see it this way. Dick is a great interviewer here- he's challenging Brando to expound on his comments and articulate his thoughts and insight.. with the information Dick got out of Brando, he's got amazing interview skills. At the same time, he was also able to keep it light hearted and entertaining. It was a very good exchange of dialogue, discussion between the two of them.
So deep...literally getting goose bumps
amazing - takes him to task without a suggestion of doubting why or what he is doing on national television.
He's completely right, we all act in our everyday lives!
what a gentle soul
.....thanks for isolating this part of the interview
I love this man..
Great Person - MARLON Brando!!!!
Brando read him, while brilliantly dissecting what acting is. He was one of GOATS!!!
Holy smoke. Truth...truth...truth. We are all actors after all...
Marlon makes so much sense
Brilliant just brilliant
I agree, I understand where he was coming from because he had a valid point about the whole concept of acting being able to lie but there aren't many people on earth who could be so raw and believable, drawing you in without you even realizing what he's done and when it's all said and done, none of it was real. That is what he has been able to do to me. Last Tango in Paris though, that was real. I cant believe it took me until I was 19 to get the pleasure of seeing this man's career unfold
Be This Guy. Be Brando😎
Brilliant answers and explanation starting at 4:02
What Brando says here makes sense to me.
Acting is a survival mechanism, and the key is to use that instinct on stage, when reading a paper, when doing a scene, when improvising, whatever.
That's how I act aswell, I focus on these steps, to just put in what I do when I lie, or to put in what I do when I want to behave differently socially, stuff like that.
Well for arguements sake I will say that you are right, any situation can be either or (whether I believe the truth that I felt is more EXACT or not). I respect the way you handled the disagreement either way, thank you for conducting yourself respecitvely.
i love his thinking
At 4:29 Brando brilliantly psycho analyzed and summarized Cavett's entire professional life. I never understood why people thought Dick Cavett was a good interviewer. To me, he was a goofy, bloviating mess of a host. He always came off as condescending and fake. This interview shows that. Great interviewers know when to shut up. Great interviewers understand nuance and how to ask compelling questions that evoke heartfelt answers. Carson was a great interviewer. Ironically, in this instance, it was Cavett's dim-wittedness that evoked one of the most honest assessments of life and acting from Brando. For good or bad, we're all actors on this grand stage called life.
thats why brando is a genius he describ him enterely in a very spontaneous way
I don't know when this interview was published....but by watching the audience and interviewer I can surely say Marlon Brando was ahead of his time. it's late but not too late.... when I read all those comments in the box audience has grown more mature than the audience in the video......excuse me for my English.
You really have to watch this interview twice to fully understand the message he's trying to bring across
smart people watch it once and move on.
Daily Dump News No, smart people are the ones who watch it several times because the more you watch the more you learn. And Marlon Brando is the guy to listen to if you want to learn about acting. It's the dumb people that watch this kind of lessons once and move on because those people don't take the moment to appreciate such a source of knowledge that this is.
Amen xo
Daily Dump News I'm with you. I've seen it, I got it...job done.
PoppeTheStar You put it nicely. I've watched the full interview at least a few times and have picked up a lot. One thing that stuck out for me on the second viewing was his demonstration of putting on an appearance, for example, resting on your knees and appealing to your boss. But later on in the interview, what does Brando do? The commercial break ends and we see him resting on his knees, and hurriedly leans back against the seat: basically, the most honest part of the interview, telling us that it's all a gag.
In another interview, Brando talked about the ethical importance of opening up a dialogue with all of the production's employees, including the director, actors, editor, and the functional role of the camera itself. The man was advocating for a dialectic (that is, a dialogue-based pathway to Truth) on the very phenomenon of image production.
And what happened to him in the end? He gets labelled a madman. If losing your mind is a form of death, I consider this man a martyr.
This interview is utterly scary. Truly brilliant from Brando.
He speaks on such deep topics
This guy does the best Brando impression.
Good interview
All the world's a stage...
0omgw3tf Performers and portrayers.
Brilliant.
ooh ok thanks much for clarifying
Nothing but respect ✊
I believe everything he is saying about acting. To not act, is simply impossible. Everyone is acting according to a script, whether it's who you are as your name, your role as a worker, a citizen-- it goes on.
Saved this video to my “important shit” playlist 😂
Wow! Just wow!
Legend!!!!!
Brando: a real man in an unreal world
Cavett's supporting role is remarkable. Great acting.