Boy do I love me my classics.
This is a great one about the fight against the Borg, one man against the (dare I say it?) anonymity of the masses.
In this mob/people's hero hybrid, Brando plays a spectacular character, conflicted between the life he knows and the life he knows is right. Yet, even the meek can only take so much injustice.
On The Waterfront was made in 1954 and, despite my tendency to think of color as having been popularized in the late '30s and early '40s (The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939 in beautiful technicolor), it really didn't catch on until the 1960s. Even so, the black and white film of Waterfront really highlights the grittiness of the film, and it would be very relevant even if the film were released today. Some things are just meant to be gray.
Nonetheless, this is truly a wonderful story. It must have been great making movies back in the day, when all of the good ideas hadn’t already been done…
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