On The Waterfront | "I Coulda Been A Contender" | CineStream

[@victoriajohnson5461]

This is the saddest most heartwrenching performance ever.

[@davids4385]

I get misty every time I see it.

[@gfunk63901]

Nothing sadder than a brother selling out his own brother

[@itsinthetreesitscoming7431]

Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando, bloody hell....

[@theoalbano5538]

Brings me to tears everytime… “it was you Charlie…. It was you”

[@davids4385]

Me too.

[@donaldoneill2117]

Agree this scene killed me at 15 when I saw it. I cry easy and I was a fighter in new England mass trained by the best chin ever in a middleweight champ... The Marvelous one Hagler. Was his sparring guy for yrs!

[@nyshoefly]

Deniro added the "it was you" in raging Bull, interesting that you added that.

[@Bootmahoy88]

Man, I was just gonna say the same thing. No matter how many times I’ve seen this movie, this scene, I tear up, because it touches a nerve deep down. What an amazing film.

[@MelancoliaI]

I was privileged to see this film on the big screen in Pittsburgh with my father years back, preceded by a live interview with Eva Marie Saint and Ben Mankiewicz. When I was growing up, dad always said that there was no substitute for watching a movie in the theater, that it was the only way to be fully engrossed by a film and truly experience what it has to offer.

[@matttttt63]

Your dad was correct.

[@carlrayson3104]

He certainly was.

[@TheBlueprintsOrlando]

Based fact

[@lilaccilla]

so true

[@lilaccilla]

those two were FIRE together

[@phillaw7952]

One of the best scenes in any film.

[@davidfernandezgonzalez4687]

Probably te best in history

[@Zentralrat-der-Luden]

@@davidfernandezgonzalez4687the best

[@antsheeran1515]

Two absolute thespian powerhouses at the very top of their game

[@NolanSullivan-d8v]

“I coulda been a contender!” Is the line. It’s the line that defines the movie, and a new sub-sub-genre of movies from that point out. We remember that line and we quote that line. But upon first watching this movie, the line that moves the picture is, “It was you Charlie.” That’s the line where it all breaks loose. Where brothers be damned, Terry tells Charlie that he’s the one who perpetuates his collapse. He held him back, he screwed him and his whole life. For a couple of bucks. And then what’s he do, try to get him a faux job on the docks? Where men are already getting screwed? This film is monumental and timeless because it is real.

[@andrewhay8955]

The disappointment and the pity in Brando's voice with 'Charlie, Charlie, ' out does the other powerful lines, for me. Mind you Brando performances in every scene throughout movie couldn't be bettered, imo.

[@abhivohra30]

Brando's little gestures . Like when he says" well no one ever stopped you from talking ". " I could've been a contender " connects to everyone who has lost his opportunity because of someone's not supporting them.

[@jeremypayne6307]

One of the greatest films ever made. And this, one of the greatest scenes of all time. Released 70 years ago on the day I am writing this.

[@brucewayne7252]

2:05 The pain in his voice when he says, I could have been a lot better charlie!

[@ariplatt8192]

He pulled a gun on his own brother! Sigh. Poor soul, under so much stress. His face is full of pain. Both of them. What a scene

[@alexanderkhan9224]

This movie is the mother of all movies when it comes to the acting

[@bradhuygens]

4:17 The way Rod Steiger delivers that line in such a depressed way is brilliant. Like he’s trying to bargain with his own conscious about what he did (a huge theme of the movie for Terry as well)

[@James-pq7nf]

best acting Brando ever did

[@Chud_Baker]

Greatest scene of the 1950’s

[@billcook4768]

Steiger is so good here.

[@Count1jt]

I love this movie so much that I couldn’t stop watching it.

[@joaosantos1163]

Marlon Brando was Genius!!! No one else in all history of acting could delivery performance like Brando ! We have amazing actor but they are actor. Brando was Genius!!!

[@iiiiitsmagreta1240]

And this was their last conversation. God damn, what a movie...

[@thomasjorge4734]

Rod Steiger, so under-appreciated, like George C. Scott!

[@erichodge567]

God, I love that scene...

[@Woozler554]

The greatest scene in one of the greatest films ever made. Naturally Brando was phenomenal, but so was Steiger. Both were terrific method actors.

[@Zack-bl2gg]

Honestly, there’s so many great scenes in this movie. Father’s speech at the dock. When Terry reveals what he did to Edie. Father’s speech when Terry wants to kill the boss. Father’s speech about “follow your conscience”… honestly just all of the scenes with the pastor in it lol. The opening scene. Ugh just the whole movie(we don’t mention the part where Terry assaults Edie though… that scene doesn’t exist)

[@Woozler554]

@@Zack-bl2gg What assault?!?

[@Zack-bl2gg]

@@Woozler554 so context, Terry recently told Edie that he contributed to her brother’s death, so she ran away from him. Terry’s brother Charlie let’s terry go, and terry breaks into Edie’s place. She’s terrified and keeps on pushing him away and saying no, “get away from me”, all that, and he forces himself on her and kisses her. It’s seen as “all better now” because they “love each other” but… y’know… idk if that’s quite right… I’m apologetic for some noir scenes where the guy pushes the kiss on a girl, because a lot of the time it’s one of those toxic relationships where both are in the wrong, but this one was just kind of straight up assault. Edie was a nice girl

[@Woozler554]

@@Zack-bl2gg That's wussy talk.

[@Zack-bl2gg]

@@Woozler554 lol what does that even mean 😂 wussy? Y’mean like p*ssy?(just a different way of censoring it?)

[@fifthbusiness1678]

Rod Steiger was incredible in this scene.

[@maureencora1]

That Scene Won M.B. the Oscar.

[@reneguerrero5221]

Wow this scene was so powerful.

[@Matthew-sw4ie]

Everything Brando touches is gold

[@lilaccilla]

this movie made a super impression on me as a teenager 😢😢😢😢

[@thomasjorge4734]

Charley dies for his brother, as Penance, for not helping him be Somebody, which he finally does become.

[@merhanabdelrahman432]

I do understand why my late dad considered him the best actor ever.He delivered sad, heartrending performance of how he had been done unfair,of how life had cruelly crushed his ambitions in no stagy fashion.Everyone of us can relate to him.We all have cherished big dreams and sometimes they fail to come true.

[@patburke5740]

The best best actor oscar winning performance in history.

[@angelvalle9963]

Hard to top Brando was one of the finest actors who will ever live💪

[@stewarta5993]

Rod and Marlon. who could ask for anything more

[@Angelthedog]

We call this acting. Amazing.

[@paulsolon6229]

Wow Brando was greatness. Change d the world of acting

[@glenn7152]

Streetcar,Waterfront, Godfather,Brando's Utimate acting,in my book!

[@CraigHalliday-h2g]

Marlon Brando is epic in this movie

[@barryedwardchadwick8162]

There will never be another magnificent BRANDO

[@Spyhook]

a powerful scene on so many levels

[@aregold]

Terry Malloy got out of the wrong side of the cab!!!!

[@johnscurlock9402]

Well you don’t really know what was going on in that cab at that exact moment but if you’ve ever ridden in a cab in NYC you never get out on the road side, always on the curb side.

[@johnscurlock9402]

and I realize it was set in NJ but still…

[@scottlaux6934]

Honestly, as good as Brando was, Rod Steiger matched him.

[@walaaandfarida3798]

One ot the best ever scenes

[@bigboi976]

Great scene from a great movie

[@jeromerizzo423]

Elia Kazan made Brando's film career on the 50s.

[@aq803]

You can actually see the clip on KZbin of Steiger speaking about this scene.

[@dariusus9870]

"You don't understand" - so alive how he says it

[@jorgeespinosa3179]

Steiger would not allow himself to be out-acted by Brando in this scene. Read up on it and find out why.

[@Chris-wj8fz]

Who's with me?? Brando sent a Cherokee up to get his Oscar and gave us more than any other

[@Chris-wj8fz]

Stella!!!

[@foto21]

This is pretty the much the lynchpin moment in any man's life, although boxing isn't a good career path. Do you take the risk, or do you miss the boat, or does someone you care about blow it for you.

[@gino423]

It was you Charlie !!!!!.....it was youuuuuuuu

[@ArminioIndustries]

This movie is from a time when movies were intelligent with great acting. I miss those days. 😞😞😞

[@angloaust1575]

Method actors from the school of how to be somebody!

[@alfredopampanga9356]

Why is something this good impossible to replicate today ? Have we lost something? Mediocrity rules?

[@jeromerizzo423]

Replicating isn't art. New ideas is art. Richard Dreyfuss even implies this.

[@alfredopampanga9356]

@@jeromerizzo423 I think you may be confusing replicating with duplicating

[@jeromerizzo423]

@@alfredopampanga9356 I think you just made no sense with this reply. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@alfredopampanga9356]

@@jeromerizzo423 I’m crushed

[@ivantopolcic]

Rod is actually a year younger, both born in April...

[@shinymetalobjects]

Hard to believe that when this was filmed, Rod was only 28 years old.

[@fifthbusiness1678]

$400 a week back then was crazy money.

[@amafirenze-vi1uh]

The mentioned Billy Cohn was the boxing lightheavyweight champ in The Forties. He challenged heavyweight champ Joe Louis and was winning the match before being KO'ed.

[@DominicR-y5d]

Billy didn't listen t his corner man who told him he was winning so stay away from Louis.

[@anthonycosta6461]

What actors 😢

[@StuartSmith-d4q]

Dats right!!! I gotta tell my Charlie...deres more to dis than i thought! ...😢

[@daviddaniel387]

Stanley zpornack brought me here😂😂

[@michaelunderwood6658]

The line “ I coulda been a contender originated from a former Welterweight James Donoghue …..as a consultant to Elia Kazan , teaching Brando to look like a fighter, during a break in production ….Kazan posed the question “ if you hadn’t murdered that guy in the ring ( Donoghue retired after one subsequent fight ) ….could you have been a champion ? No , but I could have been a contender

[@DominicR-y5d]

Is this true?

[@Chris-wj8fz]

I am 71 years old and am conventional quoting desirous pacino and Brando as not so much the best actors as who gave me most 🎉

[@maniacodepresiv0]

Defeat is nothing compared to this Wilson leading a dignified life, the complete opposite of him. that is the real defeat

[@paulorlando5877]

Brando wasn't in the car on his close ups, movie editing

[@billthestinker]

Brando suffered from uncontrollable flatulence and let go in this scene causing many retakes 💨

[@gino423]

Ny/NJ piers were King than...Lots of money to be made.

[@JohnKeegan-yv7bg]

Steiner blows out Brando who's always been an overblown ham.

[@aq803]

Steiger was a great actor. He didn't like this scene. When they were doing the close ups of Rod Steiger , Marlon Brando went off saying " That's it I'm done here" so Rod just did the scene to the camera . He thought Brando was unprofessional for doing this.

[@Chris-wj8fz]

I coulda been a contender icoulda been somebody instead of what I became...a bum!!

[@jensonank2409]

Brando was actually a year older than Steiger

[@AllMi3htykid]

400 a week being good money is so unfathomable 😂

[@kevinfrimpong969]

Mike Tyson after the Jake Paul "fight"

[@ronrice1931]

Love the guy, but at 0:50, referring to ambition: "Well, I always figured I'd live a little bit longer without it." That's just a blown delivery.

[@seandenzelrhymer760]

What if they stole your job?

[@bjjacobsmeyer4696]

Brando

[@seandenzelrhymer760]

What is a cheesy supeinii

[@rolirolster]

Great film, shame it was an allegory for the McCarthy witch hunts

[@timheavyable]

The witch hunts were a shame on America.

[@SAYBOW69]

Know it’s the way it was back then. But scene would been so much better without the blaring violin/orchestra they used in dramatic scenes back in the day. 😉

[@DannyBott]

I just saw this in the cinema for the first time and respectfully disagree! Bernsteins score really underpins the melodrama, stakes and crisis of the scene for me, shook me to tears! Though this is just personal taste and can see how the score might come across as didactic to some.

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[@donaldoneill2117]

Do y know steiger was younger than Brando at this time😮