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Article: Marlon Brando's monster role: himself

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THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU Directed by: John Frankenheimer Screenplay by: Richard Stanley, Ron Hutchinson (novel: H. G. Wells) Starring: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Ron Perlman, Marco Hofschneider, Temuera Morison, William Hootkins Playing at: Cheri, suburbs Rated: PG-13

Painted in kabuki makeup -- chalk-white face and reddened lips -- Marlon Brando suggests his own bloated corpse in "The Island of Dr. Moreau." He enters looking like an overripe melon, swathed in gauze and swaying in a sedan chair bobbing atop a land cruiser, in ghastly parody of a papal procession, suggesting a merciless lampoon of his performance as Kurtz, the demented jungle god in "Apocalypse ...

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