COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Marlon Brando
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Spaces: dark, closed in feeling, fire escapes, you can never see the whole way through. Music: foreboding, almost frantic and the scene builds toward joey being pushed off the roof. Only terry (the main character) seems to care about what has been done. Charlie is terry"s brother (charlie is a bad guy in the gang) Kazan (producer) thought that marlon brando was perfect for the part (terry) because he had the right kind of ambivalence in him. The film presents opposing sides (good guys and bad guys) and terry has to decide which one to be on. Edie doyle (blonde girl): good side (innocent, not corrupted) Johnny friendly: bad guy (boss in charge of the gang) Gang forces people to be d and d (deaf and dumb). They can"t say anything and they don"t hear anything. Used as a parallel to the people who tend them.
