Inner monologue during Guys and Dolls (1955)
[Movie starts - on the big screen at the film club]
Haha, this is going to be so weird! I've only ever seen Marlon Brando in The Godfather, I'll never be able to unsee that, I just know it!
[Fifteen minutes in]
Oh God he's doing that trademark mumbling too! Hahaha! This just feels so wrong, Marlon Brando in a cheesy Goldwyn musical, this is gonna be weirder than that first time I saw Clark Gable singing and tap dancing. Look at him, he's not even conventionally leading-man handsome! Though he... he does look pretty good in that black suit...
[Jean Simmons and Brando sing 'I'll know'...]
Now COME ON! I love this song, and they give it to a guy who hasn't got a singing voice at all! Who made these horrible decisions?
[...before they kiss]
Wait, did I... did I just sigh? Hang on, which one of them am I envious of? I'm... I'M CONFUSED.
[DANCE NUMBER!]
OH NO PLEASE DON'T TELL ME HE'S GOING TO DANCE. I'M PRETTY SURE THAT'S NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO SEE EVER AND IT'LL BE oh hey. Hey. Heeeey. That's awesome! Looking mighty fine on that dancefloor Mister Brando. Yeah, work that tush...
[Brando turns around and sends Simmons a Look.]
*Tilly absentmindedly bites on her neck pendant before realizing what she's doing*
--
Yeah, by the time he'd done a fairly decent rendition of 'Luck be a lady' I was already reduced to a puddle on the floor. Ladies, I've been converted to the Brando way. Guys and Dolls might not have been the perfect vehicle for him (because really, he didn't have much of a voice) but it did teach me that still pictures did not do this man justice. Jesus, the way he moves on that big screen...
I'd ought to have learned my lesson by now. If someone was regarded as a sex symbol in the fifties, it might have had less to do with the movie studio's PR department and more to do with that person oozing sex. God, I gotta get my hands on The Wild One...
Haha, this is going to be so weird! I've only ever seen Marlon Brando in The Godfather, I'll never be able to unsee that, I just know it!
[Fifteen minutes in]
Oh God he's doing that trademark mumbling too! Hahaha! This just feels so wrong, Marlon Brando in a cheesy Goldwyn musical, this is gonna be weirder than that first time I saw Clark Gable singing and tap dancing. Look at him, he's not even conventionally leading-man handsome! Though he... he does look pretty good in that black suit...
[Jean Simmons and Brando sing 'I'll know'...]
Now COME ON! I love this song, and they give it to a guy who hasn't got a singing voice at all! Who made these horrible decisions?
[...before they kiss]
Wait, did I... did I just sigh? Hang on, which one of them am I envious of? I'm... I'M CONFUSED.
[DANCE NUMBER!]
OH NO PLEASE DON'T TELL ME HE'S GOING TO DANCE. I'M PRETTY SURE THAT'S NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO SEE EVER AND IT'LL BE oh hey. Hey. Heeeey. That's awesome! Looking mighty fine on that dancefloor Mister Brando. Yeah, work that tush...
[Brando turns around and sends Simmons a Look.]
*Tilly absentmindedly bites on her neck pendant before realizing what she's doing*
--
Yeah, by the time he'd done a fairly decent rendition of 'Luck be a lady' I was already reduced to a puddle on the floor. Ladies, I've been converted to the Brando way. Guys and Dolls might not have been the perfect vehicle for him (because really, he didn't have much of a voice) but it did teach me that still pictures did not do this man justice. Jesus, the way he moves on that big screen...
I'd ought to have learned my lesson by now. If someone was regarded as a sex symbol in the fifties, it might have had less to do with the movie studio's PR department and more to do with that person oozing sex. God, I gotta get my hands on The Wild One...