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Stage and Screen Actor Obie Sho

<p>Obie Sho’s pensive&comma; self-reflecting performance in <em>The Secrets Of Sunflower<&sol;em> gave film historians a glimpse of the great brooding super actor Marlon Brando in some of his earlier films such as&comma; <em>Viva Zapata&comma; On The Waterfront <&sol;em>and <em>A Streetcar named Desire<&sol;em>&period; We know what you’re going to say&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;How did you get all of that by watching a four minute short film&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-1538" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;Present&lowbar;Samurai&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Present&lowbar;Samurai" width&equals;"396" height&equals;"466" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That is a good question&period; The answer&period; Of course&comma; is very simple&period; We said he gave them glimpses of Brando and that’s what we meant&period; Obie’ short showcase exhibited qualities of the unparalleled skills of Marlon&period; His sulking persona&comma; his inner working displayed clearly in a face that underplays all emotion but shows everything&period; This Japanese actor&comma; Obie Sho&comma; can be compared to Brando because he exhibited very similar elements in his performance&period; We don’t think he was impersonating Brando but we think that Obie was simply in touch with the same things that Brando was in touch with when he was in his prime &lpar;and of course&comma; when he played The Godfather&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fundamental nature of Obie’s character was full of thought – or rather – he was constantly questioning the things around him and questioning himself and his conscience&period; Brando did the same thing in almost all of his movies&period; It was his nature to do so and he brought that out of himself and injected it into the character he played and that persona became as real ass a real person can get&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Obie has studied Lee Strasberg’s Method technique and Brando studied with Stella Adler who&comma; although quite similar&comma; did have minor differences in basic functions&period; But&comma; they each dealt with the actor’s inner feelings and urged them to become full human beings on the stage or in front of the camera&period; We feel that Obie did just that in <em>The Secrets Of Sunflower<&sol;em> and succeeded in building his character form the inside out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Obie was born in Tokyo&comma; Japan and has been a professional actor for quite a few years&period; He has done tons of films and stage plays along with commercials and music videos&period; You can find him in Las Vegas&comma; where he is on Team Hara for the great Illusionist Hara&comma; and he also acts in movies in Hollywood&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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