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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

"Meet Marlon Brando" is a black-and-white documentary from 1966, so this one has its 50th anniversary this year. The directors were Albert and David Maysles (brothers, a while before their Oscar nomination) and the uncredited Charlotte Zwerin. This little movie runs for slightly under half an hour and shows several excerpts of interviews with Marlo Brando. As the title tells us already, this is a more personal take on things. Brando is there to speak about his new movie "Morituri", but he is not really in the mood and, instead, tries to make a more personal, maybe even romantic, connection with some of the female interviewers, all of them very stunning, one even a Miss USA beauty contest winner. Obviously, Brando has difficulties to focus on his film in that scenario of who interviews him. And apart from these scenes, there is also some talk between Brando and male interviewers, but this is also not really about the film, but more on a personal note about other stuff. So yeah, if you really want to find out about the Oscar-nominated "Morituri", then this is not worth seeing for you as you basically find out nothing about it apart from the fact that Brando plays a German and a decent snippet of background information on director Bernhard Wicki. But if you want to find out about the private person that Brando was, then this is exactly what you want to see. A somewhat different little documentary and set of interviews. I recommend the watch as I was well--entertained, but I also need to say that the runtime was perfect as at 1 hour or even more, this may have started to become repetitive and drag perhaps.

That's what Marlon Brando has got in abundance, and i must say that although it's only 25 minutes long, his performance here is better than a lot of his less than enthusiastic movie roles. He manages to constantly entertain while at the same time not compromising himself with cheap 'hukster' talk. He comes back often to the theme of thinking for yourself (as John Lennon, another of my idols, often did too)and not believing propaganda, and ingredient x comes out in the looks he gives which say a thousand words. When one of the interviewers says his new picture 'must be good' (or similar) his look said 'you didn't mean that', 'making movies is boring' etc....I was impressed that most of the interviewers, after starting in her t.v voices and with a conventional approach, played along with Marlon and were funny themselves.quite a rare film. i saw it by accident in the t.v listings today on BBC4 and watched it with joy. see it if you can!!

the most vivid memory I have of this film is when one interviewer turns out to be this just absurdly beautiful woman, imagine like Faye dunaway in "the Thomas crown affair" she is also impeccably done up, stylishly dressed and coiffed, a real vision, and Marlon Brando can barely keep a straight face at the absurdity of this total boner giving lady trying to ask him questions it really is adorable. also I remember a funny part in which he plays very straight saying that audiences should go see the picture to make up their own minds about it, with a glint of humor so that you get the idea he's not about to express his perhaps less than ravished feelings about the film itself. he is totally brilliant and I also I believe he was very likely flying high on amphetamines given the film's vintage and the symptoms displayed! hopefully this will come as a DVD extra or something . . . cause it's very short, would be perfect as one. . .

***SPOILERS AHEAD***A half-hour documentary featuring Marlon Brando on a press tour for one of his films. Marlon's really Mr. Personality in this movie: he's witty, personable, intelligent--you can see how he got so famous. One reporter comments that he's hardly the typical "ugly American." He even speaks French! Brando's political concerns also come to the fore; he comments briefly on the plight of the American Indian, and--during an interview conducted in the street--grabs a black woman nearby to get her opinion on racism and the U.S. government. Worth watching, if you can find it.