"50 Celebrity Legends in the History of World Cinema"
By Ge Ying
Published by Chinese Publishing House
Since the birth of the film, many influential world-class filmmakers have been born, and their outstanding contributions have promoted the development of film history. "Ge Yingdian Film:50 Celebrity Legends of World Film History" is a 50 influential filmmakers in the history of world film carefully selected by film critic Professor Ge Ying, covering outstanding talents in all fields of the film industry, including directors, actors, screenwriters, photographers, composers, producers, presidents of the jury of international film festivals, film company owners, film critics, etc. Teacher Ge Ying's writing style is condensed and unique, and he has repeatedly emphasized that he has two purposes for writing this book: one is to narrow the distance between filmmakers and the general public by telling the anecdotes of these "movie gods"; the other is to popularize film knowledge and let more people read and understand movies through such an easy-to-understand narration.
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On July 1, 2004, an elderly man died in a los Angeles hospital. Few people here know that this old man was one of the most outstanding actors in the American film industry in the 20th century, and he has been nominated for oscars six times and won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice. He is Stanley in The Streetcar Desire, Vito Corleone in The Godfather, and Paul in The Last Tango in Paris. He is Marlon Brando.
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Marlon Brando spent the last days of his life alone on a sickbed, with little companionship from relatives and friends, and most of all by his personal client. The lawyer came to account for his estate and debts while his mind was still clear. It can be said that Brando's death is no different from the death of other ordinary patients.
Born in 1924, Marlon M. Brando has been a particularly rebellious child since he was a child, with a weak personality, and it is not pleasing to anyone's eyes. When he was studying, he was dropped out of several schools in succession, and his father was very anxious, wondering if he should let him go to the army to regulate it, so he sent Brando to a military school to study, who knew that he still brought back a withdrawal notice to his father. His father was almost desperate and decided not to care about him anymore, but Marlon Brando was very calculating of himself, he went to New York, he wanted to study acting, he wanted to put himself on the broadway stage. Today, it seems that his choice to go to New York, rather than the first choice to go to Los Angeles, is the right choice for a generation of movie emperors.
Marlon P. In New York, Brando met an important figure who influenced his life, Lee Lee. Strasberg, who played Haymen in The Godfather 2. Ross. Compared with his own acting, what is really admirable is Lee Lee. Strasberg is revered as the number one figure in American acting education. His students were Marlon M. Brando, Paul A. Newman, Robert A. De Niro, Al A. Pacino, Dustin M. Hoffman, Marilyn M. Monroe, Meryl M. Streep and other well-known actors. In 1948, Lee M. Strasberg founded his actor's studio, where he taught methodological performance techniques, a system of performance created by the great dramatist Stanislavsky. This performance system is quite complicated to say, mainly for the training of actors in two aspects, one is to emphasize improvisation, and the other is emotional memory. In the simplest terms, it is through training that you destroy yourself and become a character.
Lee Strasberg in The Godfather 2
In 1950, Brando, who had been on Broadway in New York for several years, came to Hollywood, preparing to enter the film industry. The first play broke him down, and the acting methods he learned were not put to work. Suddenly, an opportunity came, and the famous director Ilya Kazan began to prepare for the filming of "Desire StreetCar". There is a stage version of this film, brando starred in the stage version of "Desire StreetCar" on Broadway, and this time the actress who played with him was Fei Fei. Wen Li, Fei M. Wen Li is also a stage actor in the UK, and the two hit it off. More importantly, Kazan was the same as Lee Lee. Strathbo
Together, they founded the actor's studio as a partner. It was all there, which brought Brando back to the way he was most familiar with acting. Marlon Brando was a handsome man when he was young, he was physically strong, and his tendon muscles were permeated with the masculine breath of a man.
Brando's Stanley, played by Desire Streetcar, is grumpy and a complete jerk. Blanche, played by Vivien Leigh, is a southern beauty with a very good family background, but unfortunately, her marriage is gone, her property is gone, her lover is dead, and she can only come to her sister. Stanley was her brother-in-law, and the two men and women, who were completely unable to live under one roof, began to torture each other. Blanche was not accustomed to her brother-in-law's rudeness and lack of culture; her brother-in-law did not look down on this sister who had fallen but was still holding it, and she was still a little nervous. Stanley tortured her, destroyed her, and even raped her,
Finally destroyed her. Marlon Brando has conquered mainstream critics and fans with his aggressive and personalized performances. It can be said that through "Desire StreetCar", the young Brando has gained almost all the good word-of-mouth, allowing him to gain a foothold in Hollywood. After that, it was a smooth ride, what to want, Brando also won the first Oscar for best actor in his life.
Stills from "The StreetCar of Desire"
In 1961, MGM was preparing to remake "Rebel Blood", inviting Marlon Starring Brando. At that time, Brando was already a stinky temper, and at first he did not want to take the film, so he offered a series of very harsh conditions, including a request to rewrite the script, and he himself had to serve as a consultant for the film, etc., but he did not expect MGM to agree to it.
So Marlon Brando began to have the screenwriter revise the script over and over again, the main purpose of the revision was to constantly embellish the role he starred in. Filmed in Tahiti in the Pacific, the film did not expect the custom warship to arrive late, during which there were two fires. What's worse is that Marlon Brando also has to change roles, resulting in the cycle of the entire film being repeatedly delayed, and the director finally can't bear it and doesn't do it. MGM immediately changed a big-name director to take over, that is, Mileston, who made "No War on the Western Front", and as a result, Brando and Milestone also had a bad relationship, and it is said that in the end, Milestone directed the plays of other actors, Marlon Brando directs his own plays.
This rebellious Marlon Brando, whose uncooperative and deliberate destruction made "Rebel Ship Blood" a victim. At that time, even President Kennedy was asking: What happened to this crew? Throughout the filming Marlon Brando's weight increased dramatically, weighing 40 pounds in a few months, causing the crotch of his pants to crack frequently, and it is said that the costumer thought of a way to replace that part of the cloth with a retractable material. While filming on location in Hawaii, Marlon Brando even fell in love with a local 19-year-old girl, and the two later married, had three children, and finally parted ways, of course.
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"Rebel Ship Blood" became the negative teaching material of the whole Hollywood, almost bankrupting mgm, Marlon Brando was beaten into the cold by Hollywood, and all the companies respected him. This, coupled with brando's own film company, also suffered a financial crisis, leading him to lower himself in the early 1970s and work with Coppola on The Godfather. Coppola's heart wanted to make Marlon Brando starred as Don Quixote. In the role of Corleone, Paramount's top brass firmly opposed, after all, "Rebel Ship Blood" is still in the ear. However, Coppola repeatedly proposed that he must use Marlon Coppola. Brando, as a result, Paramount executives put forward several conditions: first, Brando himself demoted his own value to 250,000 US dollars, which was not enough for him to plug his teeth a few years ago; second, Brando had to audition like other actors, which was simply an insult to his personality. Unexpectedly, Marlon Brando, who was in financial crisis at the time, actually agreed to everything, and the result was a wonderful scene in the history of auditions.
Stills from The Godfather
That day Marlon Brando gave himself a Vito Don Corleone look when he auditioned. Today, we can also see through the production tidbits of "The Godfather" that he smeared shoe polish on his hair and took two water-absorbing cotton pads in his mouth, which turned the familiar star face into the appearance of a bulldog. And he was a little vague in his recitation, but he actually reinforced this flaw when he auditioned, so he created an unexpected but very flavorful gangster image. To be honest, the biggest highlight of "The Godfather" is Marlon Lee. Brando's performance, he played a mafia boss, a father, a weak old man into three points, just the so-called "martyr twilight, strong heart"
Through the filming of this film, Brando became a hot actor in Hollywood, and his words and deeds also brought out a new generation of movie stars like Al Pacino. But soon, his old mistake was committed again. When the Oscars were awarded the following year, he was awarded the Best Actor Award, who knew that he refused to accept the award, and sent a little Indian girl to the stage to explain the situation, on the grounds that Hollywood movies have portrayed indians as a savage and brutal image, and only when this phenomenon has changed will he show new respect for the Oscars. Marlon P. Brando is such an interesting person. He not only refused the Oscar, but also resolutely resigned from the role of the old godfather in "The Godfather 2". We know that the situation when "The Godfather 2" and "The Godfather" were filmed was not the same, when the first episode was recognized by the market and awards, the actor's budget increased significantly, and Marlon Brando could have made a big profit with the same role in the second episode, but he didn't want to repeat the same role, which is really a good actor! To some extent, only such a more real actor can create many unforgettable roles.
In "The Last Tango in Paris", he once again uses the method of emotional memory to portray the American writer Paul, who is nearly fifty years old, and this role has too many similarities with the real life of Marlon Brando. The rape scene in "The Last Tango in Paris" a few years ago was turned over again, and some people accused Marlon Blanc of being a "thump- Brando and director Bernardo Bertrudge co-orchestrated the real physical assault on actress Schneider. In fact, the actress knew that there was such a scene, but she did not expect that Brando would come to the real thing. It was because of Brando's improvisation on the spot that Schneider was caught off guard and felt a great shame, and all the reactions were a girl's real psychological state, and the director just wanted to capture such a state. After this old story was turned over, many people angrily blamed the director, saying that the personality of the actress should not be destroyed because of artistic pursuits. Whose idea was it in the first place? It's not clear now. But for the sake of performance, daring to do anything is indeed an important means of the so-called methodological training, and it is also quite in line with Marlon Lee's training. Brando's consistent character.
Stills from The Last Tango in Paris
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In hollywood, Marlon Brando's private life has always been a high and a low, and to this day we don't know, and even Brando himself doesn't necessarily know how many children he has. His favorite child was the eldest son born to him and his first wife. Marlon Brando broke up with the woman after a year of marriage, but he worked hard for 16 years to fight for custody of the child, which shows how much he cares about the child.
The kid grew up to be an actor and played small roles, but what really made him famous was in 1990, when he shot his sister's boyfriend to death in his father's mansion on Mulholland Road in Hollywood, when she was six months pregnant. The son was charged with first-degree murder and bail of up to $10 million, all of which Brando had given. For this lawsuit, he began to take on bad films, and he has been interceding for his son, hoping to alleviate the guilt. But the son eventually died in 2008, and his sister committed suicide in 1995 after giving birth to her widow.
The chaos of Marlon Brando's love history is staggering, and it is said that six lovers committed suicide for him.
2004 Marlon M. Brando died, and in accordance with his wishes, his family sprinkled his ashes together in Death Valley, California ("California").
Marlon Brando is a super energetic man who has created so many wonderful characters that his private life must be full of energy. And he loves the acting skills of the Method school all his life, on the screen he can stitch up his real experience and role, back to real life, he will also unconsciously stitch the character he created with his own life, which may be the root of his tragedy.