Godfather Brando's tragic life: lovers countless 25 children, late son imprisoned daughter suicide "I spent a lifetime, I learned to be careful, women and children can be careless, but men can't!" This line comes from the classic movie "The Godfather". With the role of the old godfather in the film, Marlon Brando not only successfully won the Oscar for best actor, but also became a symbol of heroism in the hearts of all men. But it is such a seemingly heroic character, the real life is absurd. He starred in nearly 200 movies in his lifetime, and won the Oscar for Best Actor twice, but no matter which movie is far less legendary than his real life story!
His life seemed destined to be a tragedy. Born on April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, Marlon Brando was a professional photographer who was absent from home for many years. His mother was a minor actress, but she was an alcoholic, smoker and was often caught for getting drunk, and it was often Brando who went to the police station to vouch for her mother. In such a bohemian family, Brando was naturally influenced by his parents. In junior high school, he was expelled from the school for riding a motorcycle in the school's corridors, and under his father's arrangement, Brando was forced to go to the military academy, but it was not long before he was expelled from the military academy for committing crimes.
Brando, who had completely lost interest in reading and learning, went to New York to enroll in acting classes that he had been interested in since childhood. It was in the acting class that Brando met Adler, the initiator of his acting career. Speaking many years later about studying acting with Adler, Brando confessed that "she taught me not only acting skills, but more importantly, she was the first person to affirm my acting ability." After studying acting for a while, Brando took to the Broadway stage in 1944. When he stepped onto the stage, he seemed to have his own light, and his mature acting skills and handsome appearance made Brando the most recognized stage actor at that time.
Three years later, at the age of 23, Brando took over the film "Desire StreetCar", and after the film's successful release, the film company remade the film version of "Desire StreetCar" in 1950. In the case of many first-line male stars competing for male number one, Brando is the only male lead candidate recognized by the producer, and the female number one of the film is the hottest actress in Hollywood, Vivien Leigh. It is conceivable that this movie caused a sensation at the time. As it turned out, the film did succeed again, with Vivien Leigh winning an Oscar again after Gone with the Wind for the film, and Brando becoming the hottest male star of the era.
Four years later, the 30-year-old Brando successfully won the Oscar for the movie "Docks". Brando, whose career has gradually reached the peak, has laid the groundwork for his future misfortunes because of his untamed personality. Just when Brando's career was in full swing, his reputation in the circle plummeted. His superb acting skills have made him loved and sought after by thousands of audiences, but the directors or stars he has cooperated with have all felt anxious because of him. He was arrogant on set, often late for no reason, and arguably the hardest superstar of his time to work with.
Brando, who has achieved fame in his career, also has countless affairs in his feelings. In 1954, Brando became acquainted with the psychiatrist Bellange, a young girl from a French fishing village, because of the bitterness of the performance, and became Brando's first wife. But the marriage lasted only three years before it ended in divorce. In the same year (1957), Brando married the actor Anna Kasfi, and after the marriage, the two had a son, Christian, but the good times were short-lived, and in 1959 Brando divorced again. For the next ten years, Brando and Anna Kasfi were constantly entangled in the struggle for custody of their son.
Not long after, Brando fell in love with The Mexican actress Movita, who was 7 years older than him, and after 3 months of dating, Brando ushered in his third marriage. Unsurprisingly, two years later, Movita became Brando's third ex-wife. Brando, who was personally emotionally troubled, chose to return to his career in 1962, and he took over the film "Rebel Ship Blood". But it was during the filming of the film that Brando fell in love with Terita, a dishwasher at the Tahiti Hotel. And at his strong request, Terita became the heroine of the film.
Eventually, the $27 million film became a love affair between Brando and Terita, and after the film ended, Brando married his fourth wife, Terita. For Terita, Brando bought the Tethiye Roa Atoll, surrounded by 12 small islands near Tahiti, and in the company of his wife Terita and his children, Brando lived a very luxurious life on the island. During the year, he spends most of his time on the island enjoying life, and the rest of the time he goes out to make money by filming, and then comes back to repeat his life on the island.
As his fame grew, Brando's temper grew, he hardly took on films under $2 million, and all kinds of unreasonable demands emerged, and even during the filming of the film, he had a party, and eventually the huge consumption had to be paid by the crew. In such a state of arrogance, Brando made six films in succession that failed at the box office. For a time he went from superstar to "box office poison". At the same time, brando and his wife, Terita, also lit up a red light, and the 10-year marriage officially ended in 1972. Since then, Brando has never been married, but he has constantly had emotional entanglements with housekeepers, female directors or actors, according to statistics, he has about 25 children and illegitimate children outside in the four marriages.
Just when his career and marriage were not satisfactory, Brando ushered in a turning point in his life. At that time, the unknown director Coppola was preparing for the filming of "The Godfather", and in Coppola's mind, Brando was the only candidate to play the Godfather. But the production company did not agree with Coppola's choice, because Brando had already made several money-losing films, and he was notoriously difficult to work with, so the production company firmly opposed Brando's appearance in the film. Finally, under Coppola's arguments, the production company asked Brando to audition and listed a long list of requirements, and only after Brando's audition was successful and agreed to the performance request, they agreed to let Brando star in "The Godfather".
You know, for a superstar of Brando's level, it is simply a shame to audition him, and the filmmakers only agreed to pay Brando 250,000 US dollars in demand, and the work must be completed according to the agreed time during filming, and there is a specific amount of compensation for being late or absent from work without reason. If it had been before, Brando would have rejected these "humiliating" requests without even thinking about it, but Brando, anxious to prove himself, agreed to all the requirements of the producer. He recorded an audition film that was successfully recognized by the producers, so in 1972, Brando shot "The Godfather", which has been regarded as a classic by countless people.
During the filming of "The Godfather", in order to better interpret the characters, the 47-year-old Brando painted old age makeup, which was consistent with the 67-year-old godfather in the movie from the appearance. In order to reflect the godfather's feeling of not being angry and arrogant, Brando put a small cotton ball in each of the cheeks every time he said his lines, in order to increase the realism of the characters. The effort paid off, and with the role of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Brando won the 1973 Oscar for Best Actor again. Only this time he did not go on stage to receive the award, in order to protest Hollywood's unfair treatment of Indians, Brando sent an Indian girl to ask him to receive the award.
The girl said on the podium, "I am receiving this award in place of Mr. Marlon Brando, Brando asked me to speak his mind, American movies are slandering Indians, and everyone here has an unshirkable responsibility for this." As soon as this statement came out, Brando's relationship with oscars ended. In the years since, Brando has also had many classics, but he has never won any Oscar awards. Perhaps because there are too many children, Brando in his later years gave up his passion for movies and fell into a desperate life again because of his children's problems.
In May 1990, at his home in Los Angeles, Brando suddenly heard a gunshot, and his eldest son, Christian, shot his sister's boyfriend, Deger. According to Brando at the hearing later, his son Christian was drunk and thought that Deger was violating his sister, so he made an impulsive move. He defended his son with all his might, and even said some "heartfelt words" that were later criticized by the world, but in the end, his son was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The daughter also hanged herself in 1995 after suffering from the death of her boyfriend who was too sad to be depressed and became addicted to drugs.
The disaster of his son and the death of his daughter were a disastrous blow to Brando, who became overeating, quickly gaining 140 kilograms of weight and developing diabetes. At the same time, he is also reluctant to contact people, and after deleting most of his friends' contact information, Brando moved back to the island alone. In his later years, Brando gradually became a tragic figure, his career was completely crushed by his private life, and his life began to count down in despair. On July 1, 2004, brando passed away at the age of 80. Looking back on his magnificent life, he came to the world from a tragic family, and finally ended his life in a tragic way.