I agree with Brando - Stanley’s a tool.
But like most everybody else in the thread, for Brando himself at the time… Rrrowr.
I don’t know whether, if I were in a situation where dating Stanley was a possibility, my distaste for him, personally, would overwhelm my physical attraction to him, or vise versa, though I’d hope the former.
(Also, THE iconic Brando is Don Vito Corleone.)
Sweat and ignorance does not make a man attractive, no matter how (otherwise) appealing his face and physique may be. Stanley - no thanks. I’d rather do Karl Malden’s character (shudder).
Roddy
Yup. If Brando were always that hot, I’d be a major fan. But to me, he went pretty much downhill from that.
The character is exactly the kind of loutish, drunken he-man that I have absolutely no attraction to IRL. HOWEVER, Brando himself is so physically gorgeous in that film, that I did not and do not pay attention to the annoying character he happens to be playing. I think I was about 11 the first time I saw it, it’s the first time I remember feeling sexually attracted to a grown man.
That was his peak, though, and it didn’t last long. Shame.
I read the play before I saw the movie, so my disgust at Stanley was set in stone.
Marlon Brando was very, very hot when he was young, and not bad when he got older.
This line needs to be quoted more.
Damn it, how could forget the lesbians? I beg forgiveness. :smack:
That is one goodlooking man.
Oops, I made the same mistake. I just skimmed the post; I gathered that Brando hated the role, and then just read the line “But these days…” and watched the clip, with the sound off. I’ve never seen “Streetcar”, but given the fact that, even with the sound off, I found it pretty off-putting when at the end, he intentionally scared her and then laughed, I’m going to hazard that I wouldn’t have voted a 4 if I were answering correctly.
The thing is, for me, at least, there are four different entities: the actor, the actor-as-the-character, the character-as-portrayed-by-the-actor, and the character.
Marlon Brando himself is generally not that sexy to me, but in this role, he looks like a total sexpot and seems like he’d be amazing in bed. But to be clear, I’m still talking about Brando: his work in this role makes me consider him in a new light. Stanley, however, is another thing entirely, and I get the impression I wouldn’t care for him.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Sherlock Holmes are a perfect example.
The actor: Sure, I’d give him (BC) a tumble.
The actor-as-the-character: Oh, lordy. Now that I’ve seen that he can positively ooze raw sexuality, I’d be all over him (BC).
The character-as-portrayed-by-the-actor: Very hot, but kind of a dick, and not just a little terrifying. I’d be attracted to him (SH), but wouldn’t want to risk getting involved, even if he would have me - which he wouldn’t.
And for contrast, consider the classic SH: Jeremy Brett
The actor: Cute, but the way he (JB) comes off in interviews does nothing for me. Meh.
The actor-as-the-character: Okay, he’s shown that he’s (JB) got some sex appeal, but still, I probably wouldn’t bother.
The character-as-portrayed-by-the-actor: Somewhat less sexy than BC’s version, but just as witty and sharp, and significantly more gallant and kind. I would trust him with my life, and tumble into bed with him (SH) in a hot minute.
And finally, the character (independent of any actor’s portrayal): I’d marry the hell out of him (SH).
Why yes, I *do *have a bit of a thing for Sherlock Holmes.
Rowr. I’ll be in my bunk…
Sorry, but I have to disagree. Brando’s looks only, at the time, with those oh-so-tight tees, and on a 0-5 scale, rate at least a 12.
Agreed on the character being an ass, but then, I’ve never bought the bad-boy mystique.
I’ve never seen the movie, and watched the scene with the sound off. The first thing I noticed was the gum-chewing. That just turned me off, and I never got back on board.
He’s definitely an attractive physical specimen, but nothing else about him does a single thing for me.
Commenting that something is interesting is “over-the-top” now? If either of us needs to remain calm, I think it may not be me. It just struck me when I read the poll and OP that there was an option for straight men to respond only that they were straight, with no other comment on Brando/Stanley’s attractiveness or lack thereof, but not for homosexual women to do the same. Just a remark. I wasn’t suggesting that Kobayashi should feel “shame”, or making any assumptions about their or anyone else’s gender, orientation or anything else, as you appear to have done to me. Which I also find interesting, but there I go being “over-the-top” again. Forgive me.
A similar archetype was Paul Newman in Hud, who was rejected by Patricia Neal; who fell for Michael Rennie in The Day The Earth Stood Still. Proving that even the bad boys who rode motorcycles to school still came in second to the English foreign exchange students.
(Using Patricia Neal as my own personal gold standard. YMMV, but for me, for George Peppard to pass that up in Breakfast at Tiffany’s showed he was crazier than Blanche Dubois.)
BTW, does anyone else remember the rumor that a photo once surfaced of Brando performing fellatio (presumably on Wally Cox?)
Very very pretty - 4/5. I have pretty much forgotten about his character in the film, though, so take my vote with a grain of salt.
I’ve seen it. It’s online. Could be Brando. Could be someone who looks a bit like Brando. Definitely a dude with a cock in his mouth, so I’m not going to be linking to it here.
You pretty much nailed it for me too. Part of what interests me about that movie is how Brando could make someone so attractive seem so repellant. There’s a sort of horror in watching the film and realizing you have a sexual attraction to that horrible person. I could see total brain shutdown sensory overload occurring around a guy like that. Which kind of explains Stella. Despite his deplorable character, there is some kind of animal magnetism there that supercedes all rational thought.
I’ve known a number of men and women who would eat Stanley alive, rate him 5+++, then not give a flip about him 5 minutes later. Not everybody’s Stella. Brando didn’t create the character, Tennessee Williams did, Brando played the character on Broadway, too, anybody who worked and partied with Williams that much would have tried just about everything, silly to gossip about Brando blowing a guy, bet he had all kinds of fun. Another great Williams/Brando character is Snakeskin from Orpheus Descending, he wore a snakeskin jacket, carried Ledbelly’s 12 string, and had been kicked out of New Orleans for sexual mischief, which has to be hard to do. If you want to lust after a Brando character try Terry Malloy from Waterfront, tougher than any bad boy but the heart of an angel…
For me, Stanley = (blush) 5+++.
I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of abused women and high school friends who were abused by their boyfriends. It scared the hell out of me when my hs friends said that their boyfriends punching them meant that they loved them.
I would have run hard and fast from Stanley. I saw part of the movie when I was a teen and it totally creeped me out.