When you think of Marlon Brando, perhaps you think of his classic performance in The Godfather first.
He also won the Best Actor Award at the 45th Academy Awards.
But what I want to recommend to you today is the film "The Last Tango in Paris" that was released in the same year and won him an Oscar nomination.
In 1972, maria Schneider, who was only 19 years old, and Marlon Brando, then 48, performed what was called the most infamous passion scene in the history of cinema, refreshing the scale of the film at the time.
Therefore, this film is full of controversy, some people say that this is a deviant film, some people say that this is the master in order to express the confusion of modern people, showing people's confusion.
In fact, the plot of the film is very simple, a middle-aged man from the United States who has just lost his wife, Paul, meets a French girl Jeanne in an empty house in Paris.
Without even knowing each other's names, the two began an endless journey of sex.
Later, the man moved his heart to the girl, but was shot and killed by the girl.
The film is said to have originated from director Bernardo Bertolucci's own sexual fantasies.
He had dreamed of seeing an unknown beautiful woman on the street, and without even knowing who she was, he had a physical relationship with her.
Maria's appearance allowed him to find the feeling of the lover of his dreams, so she became the heroine of the film, Jeanne.
What impressed me the most in the film was the agreement between Paul and Jeanne.
He and Jeanne said, but asked each other's names and everything, did not accept human civilization, and only maintained a sexual relationship.
However, later, in his erotic relationship with Jeanne, Paul gradually stepped out of the shadow of his wife's death, like a new life.
He finds Jeanne and expresses his wish to live with her because he loves her. But Jeanne shot him mercilessly.
How ridiculous, it was he who made the agreement, but it was she who carried it out in the end. So what does the title "The Last Tango in Paris" mean?
Director Bernaldo Bertolucci once expressed the creative theme that dancing is a metaphor.
Perhaps tango is a metaphor for love, and the dancing two are like each other in love and fighting with each other.
Paul says that tango is a ritual, and it was after this tango that Jeanne ended Paul's life.
In the last tango, Paul is radiant and radiant, and he seems to want to start over.
He said the famous classic line to her:
I, who had lived by luck, had no assets, no friends, and I thought that if I hadn't met you, I would have spent the rest of my life with a hard chair and hemorrhoids, making boring stories even more boring.
And Jeanne calmly and rationally turned away, and Paul was stalking.
He said he loved her and wanted to know her name, so Jeanne said her name briefly and shot him.
Jeanne didn't love him anymore, it was just that the renewed Paul fell into madness, and he was like the devil, with that fanatical love.
Jeanne may be afraid of being burned to ashes by that enthusiasm, so she finally chooses a plain life, a simple life with her young boyfriend, away from this mysterious and eccentric old man.
And finally, Jeanne practiced alone in the shadows to prepare to say to the police, "I don't know him, he wanted to rape me, so I killed him..."
In fact, she really didn't know him, she didn't even know his name.
Whatever the controversy at the time, it is a landmark work decades later.
The film made Marlon Brando, and some people even commented that even the later "Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" did not have such a wonderful performance.
But what is more ironic is that Maria, as a female lead, has become a sex symbol because of her appearance in this film.
Regrettably, she did not get rid of this image until her death.
In the movie, it is Paul who dies and Jeanne who lives. Back in the acting world, it is Marlon Branda who has a good time, and Maria has sunk because of it.
Reality is always lamentable.