What does a chicken know of bombs? A Key to Brando
David Thomson, 5 December 2019
An actor wants to wake up tomorrow as someone else: that’s the delight and the horror in what is sometimes called a profession or an art, as if its risks can be controlled. An actor can be anyone, if he can stand the pace of change and its rootlessness. Cinema as a medium urges us to view ourselves as actors presenting ourselves.
Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando in ‘On the...