American Legends: The Life of Marlon Brando

By Charles River Editors

*Includes Brando's complete filmography *Includes some of Brando's most colorful quotes and quotes about him by other actors and critics.*Includes pictures of Brando from some of his films and important people in his life. *Discusses Brando's troubled childhood and the controversies surrounding his life. "He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando'." - Martin Scorsese A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Marlon Brando. Few names in the acting professional evoke such a strong, almost visceral reaction. Over the course of his long, prolific career, he was considered perhaps the greatest actor of the 20th century as well as one of the most complicated and misunderstood. Uniquely able to be both emotionally charged and technically constrained in the same performance, he single-handedly changed the direction of not only the American style of acting, influencing successors such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and even Johnny Depp, but the acting profession on a global scale. His iconic interpretations of characters such as Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire), Terry Malloy (On the Waterfront) and Vito Corleone (The Godfather) have been forever burned into the collective memory of film and theatre aficionados, scholars and critics for their immense passion, rage, love, defiance, vulnerability, cruelty and tenderness - basically, the full spectrum of the human condition. With several Oscars and Golden Globes to his name, Brando's contributions remain the gold standard of the acting craft, and the American Film Institute has listed him as the 4th greatest screen legend in history. Brando was one of his generation's sex idols, its most versatile actors, and a political activist, but who was the person behind the legend? What propelled a young man from the Midwest to become such a powerful, capricious and dominating force in the acting arena? How was he able to penetrate the human condition, replete with all its multilayered emotional baggage, and convey its strengths, weaknesses and delicate nuances so successfully, often while plagued by his own personal tragedies and demons? American Legends: The Life of Marlon Brando looks at the life and career of the acting legend and analyzes his enduring legacy. Along with pictures, you will learn about Marlon Brando like you never have before, in no time at all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492392634
• ISBN13: 9781492392637
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"