James quotes in the contender

“After Julius Caesar, Marlon became, in the words of his friend Billy Redfield, “the only American actor to be seriously thought of as Hamlet,” the great hope of American theater enthusiasts to finally measure up against the English.

“We who saw him in his first, shocking days,” said Redfield, “believed in him not only as an actor, but also as an artistic, spiritual and specifically American leader. We flung him at the English as though we owned him and we all but shouted, ‘He does without your damned elocution lessons, your fruity voices, your artificial changings of pitch and stress, your bleeding love of words, words, words, and your high-toned, fustian, bombace technique.

James quotes in the contender

He throws away your books and burns your academies. He does it from within. And he is better than all of you!”
― William J. Mann, The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando

“But what if the work itself was not the artist’s choice?

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