Some things are chance, some people are fateful Bole.
This phrase is most appropriate to describe Marlon Brando. Marlon Brando was an excellent actor, however, before playing "The Godfather", he was a famous box office poison, acting in any film, the film was dismal at the box office.
At that time, the status of the book "The Godfather" was quite high.
Author Mario Puzo, an Italian-American whose work The Godfather led the way in sales after it hit the shelves, topping the New York Times bestseller list for 67 consecutive weeks, translating 37 Chinese words and setting a record of more than 21 million copies.
Puzo, once a troubled family member and struggling with his life, became a sought-after writer, and the 21 million bestsellers quickly attracted Investment from Hollywood. They asked Francis Ford Coppola to work with Puzo on the screenplay. At that time, Coppola was famous and poor, because his "American Diorama" was also in urgent need of cash turnover.
It was the original authors Puzo and Coppola who took a fancy to Brando, who they thought was best suited to play the Godfather of a generation, Victor Corleone. However, At that time, Paramount's president Stanley Jaffe did not agree, they bought the film and television rights to "The Godfather" at a low price in order to make a high-priced movie, Paramount was about to fall, and had to rely on a good work to turn over. Looking for White Horse Brando, a free and loose guy who is also a box office poison and a high-paid actor, that is not OK. Jaffe said in front of Coppola, "I told you as president of Paramount that Marlon Brando couldn't play this role, and you're not allowed to talk to me about it again." "
Coppola's brain is very active, he quickly said "must give me a chance", while pretending to faint because of too much excitement, so that Paramount executives frightened him to rush to the hospital, and compromised Coppola, giving him the opportunity to let Marlon Brando audition, but Paramount came up with several conditions, to sum up, that is, audition, salary cut, no looseness. With the efforts of all parties, in the end, Marlon Brando played a generation of old godfathers (there is already a coffee spot, and the old horse who won an Oscar once has to rely on the director to pretend to faint, and has to audition to get the role, which is also quite humiliating. ）。 At that time, Marlon Brando, who was already paid millions of dollars, paid $300,000 in "The Godfather", but after acting in "The Godfather", he became a super celebrity with a salary of tens of millions of dollars, and it is said that he was the first to become a big coffee with a salary of tens of millions of dollars.
In order to play the godfather well, Marlon Brando stuffed two cottons in his mouth, so when you watch "The Godfather", you can see that his cheeks are bulging, and his unique pronunciation makes the role of the godfather deeply rooted in people's hearts. Throughout the film, you can hardly see the godfather's excitement, and the godfather you see is always calmly and calmly dealing with everything, including the trauma after the eldest son was killed, the younger son was hunted down, and he angrily rebuked the people of other families. His seven passions and six desires are wrapped up, but they are remembered by many.
In 1972, when the first "Godfather" was released, it swept the North American box office of 134 million, and the global box office reached a total of 245 million US dollars, and many people survived on this movie. The "Godfather" series of three films, swept nine Oscars.
It can be said that "The Godfather" is marlon Brando's second spring and Coppola's second spring. No one can surpass Marlon Brando's Victor Corleone, and no one can make such a classic movie, no pompous gunfight, only a monologue that can poke straight into the heart.
Speaking of this film, it is necessary to mention Uncle Mario Puzo, who was forty-five years old when he wrote the book. His job is as a government clerk and editor of a magazine, which is a bit like a web editor. He wrote this novel, originally called "Mafia", and he went to countless publishing houses with the manuscript, but the fat uncle was always rejected until he met G. p. putnam's sons, finally published, took five thousand dollars in advance payment.
The book "The Godfather" was very popular, and the people who read it were excited, and there was also the saying that sinatra, the king of white Jazz in the United States at the time, wanted to beat Puzo to death, and he felt that the Johnny Fontan in "The Godfather" was talking about him.
Although "The Godfather" was a big hit, Coppola, who wrote the script with Puzo, said that when he read "The Godfather", he felt that the theme of the original book was very deep, but the writing style was vulgar. Puzo, of course, did not agree, and the two began to hate each other. Coppola carefully tore off the pages of the book, and although the two finally wrote the script separately, the finished product was gratifying. "The Godfather" also won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Adaptation twice, and Coppola also won an Oscar for Best Director.
Let's review the classic words of this classic.
· Great people are not born great, but the more they live, the greater they become.
· A man is not a real man if he is not willing to be a good father.
· Don't say impossible, nothing is impossible.
· People who see the essence in one second and those who spend half their lives unable to see the essence of a thing are naturally different fates.
· What is written on paper affects history, but it does not affect life. Life is a different history.
· Threats are the most foolish self-exposure, and unleashing anger without thinking is the most dangerous wayward manifestation.
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