Marlon Brando in Docks and Tom Hardy in Capone.
"Capone" was broadcast online on May 12, and the film is full of neurotic to deranged muttered lines, which will definitely make Tom Hardy, who plays Capone, happy, which is his strength, such as the "late-night sneak call to the police" shot, Capone: "I'm looking for the police, I think I may have been kidnapped, I don't know what the situation is, but they have weapons in their hands... I'm not me anymore... What is my name? I don't know...... I don't know anyone here, I don't know anyone... That's right, I live on a farm... Not I'm not on the farm, it's in a house! I don't know how this can happen... I gotta go. ”
Tom Hardy played capone, the legendary gang leader who "muttered to himself" in the film Capone.
If Marlon Brando's vague handling of lines is one that is trying to experience and try to figure out "Am I talking?" The reason behind it was clear; and then to Robert De Niro, the classicly rendition of the impromptu self-talk line "Are you talking to me?" The character portrayal is vivid and natural; and in Tom Hardy's case, he seems to be immersed in the sense of character alienation he has deliberately created, constantly torturing himself into the air, "Who am I talking to?" Of course, the so-called answer was not important to him.
Tom Hardy, the star of Capone and Venom, has been practicing the "Brando Method" acting skills, but it is possible that most of his characters are not good at expressing their feelings, so they leave the audience with a freak impression that if he can sometimes restrain the iconic "muttering" performance, he may be far more popular than he is now, in other words, he will return to humanity. >>> Tom Hardy's new film "Capone" released a trailer, which was launched on Streaming on May 12
Brando is the ancestor of "muttering" style show line acting
In the 1950s, the word "muttering" was fixed to the name Marlon Brando for several reasons. Brando, starting with his first film in 1950, The True Colors of a Man, brought Hollywood a new naturalistic mode of performance, the Methodist, a revolutionary way that changed not only the film, but the world as a whole. Those who are accustomed to hearing every actor in a movie say their conversation out loud simply can't understand what Brando is saying.
Brando played Terry Malloy in Docks.
In addition, Brando played roles that had never appeared in a Hollywood film before — most notably Terry Malloy in the 1954 film Docks, a slurred underclassman. This is not just an acting revolution, but an American "who will be a hero" revolution. As the reviewers said, Brando's low-key improvisational speeches were brilliant, and his magnetic and vague voice was part of the "revolution." "The new heroes are those who cannot fully express themselves (at least not in words), which is part of the beauty of their waddling, broken souls."
De Niro, Oldman, and Daniel Day Lewis's "unruly" lines each excel
Stills from "Poor Streets and Bad Alleys" and "Taxi Driver".
More than a decade later, when the new Hollywood generation of actors began to take shape, many actors who grew up under the brando method were attracted to the original marginal roles and their "uninhibited" way of speaking. Robert De Niro was the first to update brando's performance mysteries to the next generation. His attitude toward Brando was like a mixed challenge in the respect of the back wave to the front wave.
In the 1973 film "Poor Streets and Bad Alleys", he plays the little character Johnny with a broken mouth, a pigskin hat, a wide tie, and two young women's arms, which is very much in line with the identity of the debt-hiding boy who is ready to escape at any time. Critics believe that this "talkative" image has gone beyond Brando's methodological category, and De Niro has aptly completed his first great appearance as Brando in the 70s! De Niro then played Travis, a vietnam veteran in the 1976 film Taxi Driver, where he is cynical and traumatic, but the most memorable scene is not his last "for Skywalker" killing ring, but the immersive experience of him muttering "you're talking to me" in the mirror.
Stills from "Open American Schools," "Sid and Nancy," and "My Left Foot."
After De Niro, a new generation of "Brando line acting" emerged, such as Sean Penn, whose first Brando-style performance was played by the muddled playboy Jeff in the 1982 film "Open American School", and the frivolous and rude lines added a lot to the image; but in the 1983 film "Bad Boys", he played the bad young man Mick instead of language with a wild attitude.
Gary Oldman played the punk young Sid in the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy", with a nervous and confused line, he "has a board and an eye" on the screen to explain what is blooming and self-destruction, which is a great performance he can write into film history.
Daniel Day Lewis, with his high-society pedigree, is one of the few actors who blends brando's open-ended and lawrence Oliver's rigorous acting dialectical aesthetics, and in the 1989 film "My Left Foot", it was confirmed that Day Lewis's genius performance was definitely the essence of the Brando method. He played Kitty in a wheelchair and could hardly say a word, but Lewis's suffocation, pain, and gritted teeth perfectly portrayed the character's disabled spirit and inner world, and he also won the first Oscar trophy of his acting career with this film.
When will Tom Hardy tear off the "muttering" label
British mesozoic actor Tom Hardy was born in 1977, regardless of age or line handling, he is like Brando's grandson or great-grandson, in fact, he can live a happy life by relying on his ancestors, but he seems to think that he can start a new stove.
Stills from "Runaway Bronson."
As long as the audience pays attention, they will find that Hardy's character seems to be muttering to himself all the time. When Hardy played Britain's most notorious violent criminal, Bronson, in the 2008 film Runaway Bronson, in addition to his frequent use of fist and foot body language, the neurotic muttering was chilling. As he wreaks havoc in the underground black boxing world, his poisonous words are like whips, and even tear the silent boxer Jack Lamotta played by De Niro in "Angry Bull" to pieces.
Stills from Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.
Hardy played Bane, a villain who had been wearing a mask in the 2012 film Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, and Hardy once again managed to steal the scene with a muttered and vague voice, with comments that Bane's voice was evil and weird, "even dwarfing Darth Vader in Star Wars", whose voice was simply too small to be cute, like a 'robot cat' selling cuteness. You can't understand what he's saying half the time, but... Well, it's cool! ”
Stills from Mad Max: Fury Road.
By the time of the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road, Max, who had basically no lines in the first half, was basically tailor-made for Hardy, and the only lines were also "subwoofer" muttering. And it was this madness in silence that allowed him to relay the characteristics of Mel Gibson's version of Max's harsh character, portraying Max as a violent genius who looked like he had done a lobotomy and spoke vaguely and chaotically.
Stills from Venom.
Subsequently, Hardy played a cable journalist Eddie in the 2018 film Venom, but still managed to make his muttering sound like a mess. (That was before Eddie started sharing his body and brain with an alien monster.)
Stills from "Capone".
In the new film "Capone", Hardy chooses to play the legendary gang leader Al Capone in a deep voice, and he has been muttering vaguely, sounding like his vocal cords have been charred. Hardy thinks he has mastered the key to handling Capone's voice — Capone never says funny things and doesn't talk much, so this time Hardy once again plays the mumbling to the fullest, but unfortunately, the script's birth defects and the director's loss of control of the rhythm make the film as full of "incontinence" embarrassment as Capone's whispers. But Hardy still boils down his approach to all the mysterious characters as a fancy way of talking to himself.
He is a hard-working actor who is obsessed with using his own experience to shape the character, and he believes that he has expressed the human words that the character should say, but is sometimes considered to be "not speaking human words". Some commentators have suggested that this can be called the Brando School's counter-argument, "subtracting the Brando-like deduction from human nature."
Stills from Locke.
There has always been controversy over the right and wrong of The Way Tom Hardy handles his lines, however, it's ironic that if you ask Tom Hardy's fans to rank his performances according to preferences, the movie that many put first is the 2013 film Rock, which is all Hardy driving down the road at night, talking to one person after another on a speakerphone, stringing together a series of stories in a gentle tone. Hardy was so committed to acting and so skilful of his lines that after Locke, audiences even thought he could play any role from Hamlet to aliens. Hardy now seems to be convinced that even the character's meaningless dialogue or muttering is his constant open-ended creation of masculinity.
Stills from Dunkirk.
Tom Hardy, who lives in the ego, doesn't seem to think he's acting—or even thinking he's playing the living on screen—unless he's playing some rough savage who lacks the ability to express himself. The muttering performance made him feel the thrill of a challenge. In contemporary times, he is a serious performance artist, inheriting the brando method style with his unconventional performances. This extreme acting school does not even use lines in "Dunkirk", and it is unforgettable to perform with only eyes.
It's not that we don't like Tom Hardy, he has his own acting style among Mesozoic actors. But if he wants to break through his "mumbling" talent, he needs to rejoin human society.
Beijing News reporter Li Yan
Edited by Huang Jialing Proofreader Chen Diyan