马龙·白兰度病逝，享年80岁。

以下报道转载自http://us.imdb.com/news/flash/
2 July 2004
Marlon Brando Dies at 80

Marlon Brando, the legendary actor whose performances in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris made him one of the most important screen actors of all time and whose larger-than-life persona offscreen dominated his later years, died Thursday at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles; he was 80. According to Brando's attorney, David J. Seeley, the cause of the actor's death was being withheld because the actor was "a very private man." The most famous proponent of Method acting and considered by many to be America's finest actor, Brando paved the way for a new style of acting in the 40s and 50s, first working on Broadway, where he created his first signature role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. He made his screen debut in 1950's The Men, which was followed by his Oscar-nominated re-creation of Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film of A Streetcar Named Desire. Riding his sudden superstardom, roles in Viva Zapata, Julius Caesar, The Wild One and On the Waterfront followed, the latter of which won him his first Oscar. Once he became a true icon in the late 50s and 60s, he branched into directing (1961's One Eyed Jacks) and a troubled, bloated adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty, where his need for perfection (and infatuation with the south Pacific) put the movie over budget and over schedule.
That film marked the beginning of a string of failures in the 60s, and by the early 70s the actor's star seemed to have faded. However, it was a little gangster film in 1972 called The Godfather that catapulted Brando back into the spotlight, and his phenomenal turn as mob boss Vito Corleone earned him a second Oscar – which he notoriously refused, sending an actress dressed in Native American garb to the Academy Award ceremony to reject the award with a diatribe against the wrongs done to Native Americans by the U.S. He courted even more controversy with Bernardo Bertolucci's X-rated Last Tango in Paris (though he grabbed another Oscar nomination), and appeared in both Hollywood projects (Superman, for which he received a record salary at the time) and award-winning films (appearing as Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's troubled masterpiece Apocalypse Now) through the 70s. Sporadic film appearances marked the end of his career, including The Freshman, A Dry White Season and Don Juan De Marco, and his later years were dominated by scandal, when his son, Christian Brando, shot and killed the lover of half sister, Cheyenne, at the family's home; Christian was jailed and Cheyenne committed suicide five years later. Legal fees rumoredly drained the actor's fortune, and contributed to the stories of Brando's bizarre offscreen antics. He lived in seclusion for the past few years, and most recently was the target of yet more rumors to be published in an unauthorized biography (one of many). Details about funeral arrangements were not immediately forthcoming. --Mark Englehart, IMDb.com

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惋惜，一颗明星陨落了。

[这个贴子最后由刘一人在 2004/07/02 08:26pm 第 2 次编辑]

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     olivivien 楼主：俺早上在《上海早晨》电视新闻里已经看到了，那位在《教父》海报上的酷脸已经镌刻在影迷心底了。随即就想起冯小刚的《大腕》最终未能请动“马老”（有网友去年还为“马胖子”的昵称争执过几句呢！）成行，让萨瑟兰代他出席“大腕的葬礼”，否则，他就会在中国电影史留下浓墨重彩的一笔了，更多的中国影迷就能更觉地球村的小而有趣了！
    现在窗外风雨大作，也许是这条“马龙”老爷子临行时巡回地球村特别的告别方式吧！“让暴风雨来得更猛烈些吧！”——高尔基《海燕》

为这位影帝感到惋惜！哀悼！

但愿《现代启示录》不要因为老马的去世而涨价！

《教父》算的了什么，他在我们中国人心目中有什么地位，他的成名作在我们中国人的心目中知道多少，比起象《虎口脱险》等一些经典的影片来，他的成名作真是不只得一提，萨瑟兰才是真的大腕。他主演的《白求恩》，不知道有多少人称赞，说马龙-白兰度为马胖子”一点不为过，今天在看娱乐新闻中看到了一段马龙-白兰度为儿子辩护出庭的那样，真是汗~~~如果真的要说在老牌明星中到老了还有好的形象，那就只有007的主演者肖恩康纳利，肖恩康纳利的样子才是越老越有魅力。

我没觉得胖胖有什么惨的