The singer Bono called the Marlon Brando of rock
The worlds of music and cinema were never that far apart, but Bono felt that this singer did what Marlon Brando did for the silver screen.
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Wed 12 February 2025 8:30, UK
Most musicians don’t create their best work with the goal of achieving Hollywood-level fame. The power of a song from the heart can leave a deeper impact than a single film scene. Even the most masterful on-screen performance is a different challenge from connecting with an audience solely through the sound of one’s voice. While Bono has built an enormous following through his music with U2, he has always believed that some of his favourite artists could rival the greatest actors in history.
Then again, there’s a lot in common between the songwriters of the world and the most prominent actors of their time. Each of them might be working in a completely different medium, but the ones that are true artists are going to try to leave the audience with a certain impression once the song is over or the lights go up in the theatre, almost making them feel like they’re a different person for having seen them.
That’s not what rock and roll was born into before Bono’s time, though. The biggest names at the moment were people like Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, and while both of them were responsible for breaking down doors in their prime, it wasn’t until The British Invasion came along that people started to hear that it wasn’t simply a fad. But most British Invasion acts that stuck around knew to take a few cues from Bob Dylan.
While he was far more interested in folk music when starting out, Dylan’s words have always been a constant in 20th-century life. Despite his unwillingness to embrace the ‘voice of a generation’ card that most people threw on him, Dylan always spoke to the people directly whenever he sang, touching on the hardest issues of the time and never mincing any of his words.
At the same time, cinemas were also pushing the boundaries of what could be done after Dylan broke down everything. Marlon Brando already had a fantastic knack for performance when working on projects like Guys and Dolls and A Streetcar Named Desire, but as Dylan was moving into his experimental phase, the actor’s turn towards projects like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now felt like a reaction to musicians that were pushing the boundaries of what art could do.
Brando may have been in a different league than most actors, but Bono felt that there was a lot of the actor’s signature style in Dylan, saying, “Dylan did with singing what Brando did with acting. He busted through the artifice to get to the art. Both of them tore down the prissy rules laid down by the schoolmarms of their craft, broke through the fourth wall, got in the audience’s face and said, ‘I dare you to think I’m kidding.’”
The U2 frontman isn’t even that far off when it comes to both of their ways of inhabiting their craft. While Brando could break down the fourth wall in a literal sense when he appeared onscreen, Dylan was the one who helped pull the wool off of people’s eyes and made them see the world for what it was, whether that be the ugly parts of the subtle hints of beauty that people forget are there.
So, while Dylan and Brando might not have been the easiest people to get along with during their time in the spotlight, all of what they did was indebted to being the best artists they could be. Most people might fall into a holding pattern after that first major breakthrough, but they both understood that if they wanted to be respected in their craft, that meant keeping the audience on their toes at every turn.
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