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On the Waterfront (BFI Modern Classics / BFI Film Classics)
by
Leo Braudy
"I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody." So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) in a scene from On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) that is one of the most famous in all cinema. Set among unionised New York longshoremen, Kazan's film (from a screenplay by Budd Schulberg) recounts T...more
Paperback, 88 pages
Published
April 30th 2005
by British Film Institute
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A rather excellent essay on the film and the context of the times. Braudy delves deeply into the issues of the times, all that HUAC/McCarthy stuff, as well as the choices of the filmmaker and the business of making a movie. I watched the film twice last night, once raw, once with the commentary tracks. Both were good.
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This came out on my birthday (the book. and by birthday, i mean April 30. not the year
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Leo Braudy is among Americas leading cultural historians and film critics. His most recent book, From Chivalry to Terrorism, was named Best of the Best by the Los Angeles Times and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Among his previous books, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Jean Renoir: The World of His Films w...more
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