The Wild One (1953)

Marlon Brando was the coolest man on the planet at this point.

Will

What I wanted: Marlon Brando acting moody in a leather jacket and skinny jeans for 80 minutes What I got: Marlon Brando acting moody in a leather jacket and skinny jeans for 80 minutes So why complain?

Ethan ☀️

Not wild enough.

Nico Vargas

only watched it for brando and it was worth it

dan

🏍️“What are you rebelling against?” “Whaddaya got?”That line alone could summarise an era, a man, a mythology. The Wild One isn’t simply a film — it’s the quiet birth cry of post-war disillusionment, the sound of America’s moral seams tearing in the wake of sterile order.…

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Brando’s fat juicy cakes

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Recently, I've been watching a couple of films that Jeff Nichols cited as inspiration for "The Bikeriders," as I'm hopefully watching it this week. "The Wild One" was one of those films, and I actually quite enjoyed it. Even if some of the themes might feel outdated…

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Sorry, but I refuse to accept that Lee Marvin was ever a youth—be it of the “gone wild” variety or otherwise. He simply came into being as a fully-formed middle aged man with leathery skin and whiskey on his breath. That’s the only way it could’ve happened.

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Pauline Kael suggested it takes a latent talent "to tell the audience that you know that what you're doing isn't worth doing and still do it better than anyone else in the movie." She was talking about Orson Welles, but may have as well have been discussing Marlon Brando in…

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