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Movie Meltdown - Episode 443

This week we return to our coverage of WonderFest as we sit down with actor John Amplas and discuss this week\'s Sofa Theater feature On the Waterfront. John is not only an actor (and part of many of George Romero\\u2019s early productions including Martin, Dawn of the Dead, Knightriders, Creepshow and Day of the Dead) but he has also spent the majority of his life teaching acting. So who better to delve into the acting style of Marlon Brando and the complex director that was Elia Kazan.

And while we try to decide which order to place Eva, Marie and Saint we also mention\\u2026 Daphne & Velma, a Lake Placid marathon, Rule 34, it\\u2019s ok to pretend, that alluring mystique, Betty White, working-class people, faux geeks, where American realism became the path for a lot of actors, Karl Malden, Bill Pullman wins, Stanislavski, completely therapeutic, vintage cereal, a lot of those folks came out of what then became the Actor\\u2019s Studio\\u2026 which I\\u2019m not sure I\\u2019ve ever bought into\\u2026 as a process, Lee J. Cobb, Martin works\\u2026 because it was me, Colin Ferguson, it\\u2019s about\\u2026 how do I approach this\\u2026 how do I best recreate what needs to be created, street justice, young Paul Newman, an opportunity to live a bit of a simpler life, leap across the table and throat punch her immediately, John Schneider, worked in the steel mills in Pittsburgh, primary emotions, a new era of the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Rod Steiger, extraordinary people\\u2026 regardless of what their profession is\\u2026 come with eccentricity, Corin Nemec, there\\u2019s still some scars from the blacklisting that took place during that time, Cloris Leachman, boxing in the basement, \\xa0the mob union, going to see a psychoanalyst, the dramatic dynamics of the business, that sugary sludge, did you know science fiction was invented in the 1980\\u2019s Sylvester Stallone and Godzilla in a business suit.

Spoiler Alert: Spoilers for On the Waterfront... but I mean, you need to see that movie.

\\u201cThat\\u2019s what good movies are about\\u2026 they\\u2019re about us.\\u201d

For more on John, follow him on Twitter: \\xa0https://twitter.com/Jamplas

And for more on WonderFest, go to: https://wonderfest.com/