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One-Eyed Jacks 1961
‘A Film Like No Other’
Somehow, someway, it ended up a masterpiece.
Here’s a fun question — does Brando fit the classical definition of an auteur solely based off of One-Eyed Jacks?
Maybe.
There’s clear intent and lucidity in the abstract ideals presented — inner torment, profound sorrow, the past befalling the present, the cyclical nature of trauma; all are visually and thematically supplanted by Brando, all contextualized succinctly within the fatalist, brooding universe he created. Somber looks frame Brando's detailed mise-en-scéne…
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