{"id":3634,"date":"2008-07-22T20:32:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T03:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2008-07-22T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T03:32:19","slug":"afi-100-on-the-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/22\/afi-100-on-the-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI 100:  On the Waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having come from the generation that knew Marlon Brando primarily as Superman&#8217;s dad, Dr. Moreau, and the default punchline for Johnny Carson fat jokes (once Raymond Burr kicked the bucket), it&#8217;s amazing to see the guy at the top of his game, making every actor unfortunate enough to share a scene with him look like a rank amateur.  Made in 1954, <em>On the Waterfront<\/em> seems right on the cusp of the transition from old-school &#8220;stagey&#8221; performances and new-fangled &#8220;method acting&#8221;, with a Brando leading the charge, mumbling and stuttering his way through his portrayal of Terry Malloy, small-time hood with a heart of gold (or, at least, a weakness for blondes).  This film would have been a perfect 10 for me were it not for the ending, which I found too pat and the ruination of what would have otherwise been a pitch-perfect and unrelenting piece of <em>noir<\/em>.  Humorous aside:  I was completely broadsided by the &#8220;coulda been a contenda!&#8221; bit&#8211;as god as my witness I always though De Niro delivered that line in <em>Raging Bull<\/em>.  Learn somethin&#8217; new every day.  9\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having come from the generation that knew Marlon Brando primarily as Superman&#8217;s dad, Dr. Moreau, and the default punchline for Johnny Carson fat jokes (once Raymond Burr kicked the bucket), it&#8217;s amazing to see the guy at the top of his game, making every actor unfortunate enough to share a scene with him look like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}