With a naturalistic acting style, Marlon Brando portrayed Terry Malloy, an inarticulate, struggling, brutish hero and small-time, washed-up ex-boxer who took a regrettable fall in the ring.Scottie notices that her single lock of swirling (vertigo-like) hair and hand-corsage bear a striking resemblance to the bouquet and hairstyle in the painting.She phoned and cancelled our engagement at exactly seven o""clock.After that...McPherson:...you ate a lonely dinner, then got into the tub to read."" Why did you write it down? Afraid you""d forget it?Lydecker: I am the most widely mis-quoted man in America.He turns on the light in his shared office and staggers o his desk.Wounded and bleeding from a gunshot wound, clearly dying, Neff sits in his swivel chair, loosens his tie, takes out a packet of cigarettes, dumps them onto the desk, picks one of them up and lights it one-handed with a wooden match, and then rolls himself over to his office dictaphone [a new invention at the time], uncovers it, and inserts a new cylinder in the recorder.