![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I confess, I don't care for Elizabeth Taylor as an actress, but she is so right for the part, that I can't think of anyone else to fill it. And domineering or, as Big Daddy and Maggie would have it, masterful, ready to take charge - if he could just get over himself. Yet, in his way, he's a chip off the old block - self-absorbed, insensitive. Paul Newman's Brick, is as afraid of life as Big Daddy is in love with it. Burl Ives's Big Daddy is larger than life, insensitive, domineering, self-absorbed. The casting is brilliant: Tennessee Williams's Big Daddy was indeed big - larger than life, domineering, insensitive, self-absorbed. Burl Ives gives the greatest portrayal of a literary character in film history, and he wasn't even recognized by an Oscar nomination, further evidence of the Academy's complete lack of credibility as an arbiter of screen excellence. ![]()
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