How Marlon Brando Changed Acting: Inside a Scene from On the Waterfront

Marlon Brando has now been gone for more than two decades, and so thoroughgoing was his impact on the art of film acting that younger generations of movie-lovers may have trouble pinning down what, exactly, he did so differently on screen. In the new video above, Evan “Nerdwriter” Puschak shows them — and reminds us — using a single scene from Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront. No, it’s not the scene you’re thinking of even if you’ve never seen the mo