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BRANDO:
This is the beginning of the tape.

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We're on mono and we're on microphone 1.

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Okay.

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Now listen,

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let me tell you something that I did.

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I've had my head digitized.

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And they put this laser

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and it goes around you like this...

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and they digitized my face.

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And I made a lot of faces

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and smiled and...

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and made a sad face and...

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So they've got it all on digital.

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And actors are not going to be real,

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they're going to be inside a computer.

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You watch, it's gonna happen.

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So maybe this is the swan song
for all of us.

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(ELECTRONIC NOISES)

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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

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creeps in this petty pace

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from day to day,

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to the last syllable of recorded time;

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and all our yesterdays

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have lighted fools the way
to dusty death.

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Out, out, brief candle.

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Life's but a walking shadow,

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a poor player, that struts
and frets his hour upon the stage,

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and then is heard no more.

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It is a tale told by an idiot,

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full of sound

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and fury, signifying...

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nothing.

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POLICE OFFICER: Copy. All available
units responding to a shooting.

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MALE REPORTER:
Police came to a call to 911,

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but this was no ordinary address,

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the caller no ordinary citizen.

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Marlon Brando was on the line

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to report a shooting at his home.

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Misery...

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has come to my house.

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FEMALE REPORTER: Brando won an Oscar

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for his performance in the 1954 film

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On the Waterfront.

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He was already being acclaimed

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as the greatest American
film actor ever.

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You take the good goods away,
and the kickbacks

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and the shakedown cabbage

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and them pistoleros and you're nothin'.

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Hey, Stella.

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INTERVIEWER:
You can bet that Marlon Brando's impact

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on the world of movie acting

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will still be felt 500 years from now.

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I'm gonna make him an offer
he can't refuse.

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MALE REPORTER: Marlon Brando was here

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at his home at the time of the shooting,

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but police who questioned the actor
say he did not witness it.

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MALE REPORTER 2: The shooting
put a spotlight on the private life

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of one of Hollywood's
most reclusive stars.

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BRANDO: And it's been a struggle

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to try to preserve sanity

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and sense of reality

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that is taken away from you by success.

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BRANDO: It will be
a highly personalized documentary

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on the life activities of myself,
Marlon Brando.

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We establish that he is a troubled man,

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alone, beset with memories,

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in a state of confusion and sadness,

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isolation, disorder.

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He's wounded beyond being able

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to be social in an ordinary way,

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he becomes like a mechanical doll.

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Maybe he felt that he was treated badly.

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And that he's angry about the treatment.

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He's collecting bits
of information here, odd bits of film

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to try to explain why are you this way?

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Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,

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five, four, three, two, one.

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Now let your mind drift

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back,

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way back in time

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to a time when you were very young,

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when you used to wake up in the morning,

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put on your clothes

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while everyone was sleeping,

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and walk down the sidewalk in Omaha

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and sit underneath that big elm tree.

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With the wind blowing the light,

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the shadow of leaves.

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It is like a wonderful, soft dream

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and that soft wind calling.

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That's a wind that you can trust.

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You are the memories.

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I've always in my life had

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a strong sense that I had to be free.

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Standing on that train, I was free.

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I used to love to stand in the car

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and listen to the rails.

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(MIMICS RHYTHM OF A TRAIN'S MOVEMENT)

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You know?

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It's an eccentric kind of rhythm.

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I arrived in New York with holes
in my socks and holes in my mind.

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I remember getting drunk,

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lying down on the sidewalk
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Nobody bothered me.

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I was always somebody who had

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an unquenchable curiosity about people.

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I liked to walk down the street
and look at faces.

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I used to go to the corner
of Broadway and 42nd Street

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in an Optimo cigar store.

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I would watch people for three seconds
as they went by

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and try to analyze their personality

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by just that flick.

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The face can hide many things.

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And people are always hiding things.

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I was interested to guess

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the things that people
did not know about themselves.

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What they feel, what they think,
why they feel.

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How is it that we behave the way we do?

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What is the answer?

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Is there any answer?

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There is something
that you need very deeply.

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Some kind of contact,

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some experience
to give you a sense of fulfillment.

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I had a great feeling of inadequacy,

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that I didn't know enough,

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that I didn't have enough education.

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I felt dumb.

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I became an actor

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pretty much by accident.

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I went to the New School
for Social Research,

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which is an extraordinary institution
of learning.

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My teachers were all Jewish,

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because the New School
was a clearing house

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for Jews that escaped from Hitler.

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They were very respected people.

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The cream of academia.

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Control over your lives

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begins with this class.

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BRANDO: I studied with a woman

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by the name of Stella Adler.

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She was a fine actress,

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a really wonderful actress.

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The smell of the greasepaint

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and lure of the theatrical experience

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came out in her teaching technique.

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ADLER:
The play has nothing to do with words.

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You do not act words,

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you act with your soul.

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BRANDO: I was very shy when I was a kid.

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Sensitive, very sensitive.

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ADLER: In the theater,

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the actor is the boss.

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It's against the nature of human life
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BRANDO: "Don't be afraid," she said.

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"You have a right to be who you are,

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where you are and how you are."

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ADLER:
Be in a state of honesty up there.

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BRANDO:
Allowing yourself to feel things,

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to feel love or to feel rage.

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ADLER: Speak out the thoughts

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that are tormenting you.

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BRANDO: Everybody's got a story to tell,

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something they're hiding.

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ADLER: Do not bring anything
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that doesn't have the past.

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BRANDO: We develop the technique
of acting very, very early.

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Even from the time we're a kid,

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where we're throwing our oatmeal
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just to get attention from our mothers.

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Acting is surviving.

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Yeah, that's my mother.

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That photograph there.

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This is a portrait of my mom

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when she was about forty.

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And she was a marvellous person.

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For instance, she dressed up a pet goose
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She made a Santa Claus out of it,

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made a little red costume for it

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and a beard and everything.

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She was a very inventive
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And I miss her very much.

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I was given by my mother

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a sense of the absurd.

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She had false teeth.

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Once in a while she'd laugh.

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While she was laughing,

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her teeth would come off her gums.

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And the more I laughed,

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the more she thought it was funny

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and we both ended up laughing real hard.

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My mother taught me a love for nature,

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and a sense of closeness with animals.

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You couldn't think of a tune

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she couldn't play on the piano.

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Not one.

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I like remembering about her.

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I used to love the smell of liquor
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And her breath becomes very, very sweet.

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It's a lovely fragrance.

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My mother was an alcoholic.

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We lived in a small town

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and my mother was the town drunk.

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She began to dissolve

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and fray at the ends.

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When my mother was missing.

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Gone off someplace,
we didn't know where she was.

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I used to have to go
and get her out of jail.

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Memories even now

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that fill me with shame and anger.

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ADLER: You have to constantly act.

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It is not important

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to defend your faults in the theater.

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It's important to overcome them.

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BRANDO: Stella very kindly invited me
into her home.

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I then became part of her family.

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When I was really suffering

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and disjointed, disoriented with life,

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she was always very loving towards me.

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I'd never done anything in life

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that anybody ever said I was good at.

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She put her hand on my shoulders

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and said, "Don't worry, my boy."

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"I have seen you,

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and the world is going to hear from you."

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INTERVIEWER:
From the T-shirt clad Stanley Kowalski

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in Streetcar Named Desire,

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the role which catapulted him
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we're very pleased
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as our guest Mr Marlon Brando.

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BRANDO: Streetcar Named Desire
was very satisfying to be in,

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because I thought
it was a wonderful play.

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The story was superb

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and the production was wonderful.

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You must be Stanley.

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Oh, hiya. Where's the little woman?

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BRANDO: It was a very explosive part

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and it electrified everybody.

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You want a shot?

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BLANCHE: No, I rarely touch it.

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Well, some people, they rarely touch it,

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but it touches them often.

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BRANDO: I was quite nutty
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and I would have a lot of energy.

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Rain forever.

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BRANDO:
'Cause you couldn't come out flat,

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you couldn't come out slow.

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After the play was over,

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I felt like a million bucks.

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I was off into the night

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with sparkles and zest

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to see whatever I could find.

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How wonderful it was to drive around

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on a motorcycle with just a T-shirt on.

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Two, three, four o'clock in the morning.

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Some small club
in the black section of town.

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And I was screaming

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when they were playing those drums.

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I'd hear that shit,

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it just used to take me to another land.

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This is my moment,

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I want to take this moment

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and that was wonderful.

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And then your life changes.

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Suddenly, there's a lot more girls

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saying, "Hi, Mar."

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When I was younger,

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I was a fairly attractive kid.

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I had a lot of derring-do and panache.

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I was unpredictable and stimulating

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for a lot of young girls.

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(MIMICS CAT'S SCREECH)

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BRANDO: I was young and destined
to spread my seed far and wide.

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Girls and fun and good food

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and sense of health and purpose...

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It can't get better than this.

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Nothing in life
could be better than this.

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I was always making jokes and teasing,

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playing practical jokes on everybody.

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(LAUGHS)

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To be able to have money.

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I never had any money.

283
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My father was a traveling salesman.

284
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I was making more in six months of work

285
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than he made in ten years.

286
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He measured everything by money.

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He couldn't understand
how this ne'er-do-well son of his

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could possibly do that.

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If I have a scene to play

290
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and I have to be angry,

291
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there must be within you trigger
mechanisms that are spring-loaded,

292
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that are filled with contempt
about something.

293
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I remember my father hitting my mother.

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I was fourteen.

295
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Now that's how
I'm gonna clear the table.

296
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Don't you ever talk that way to me.

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BRANDO: My old man was tough.

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He was a bar fighter.

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He was a man with not much love in him.

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Staying away from home,

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drinking and whoring
all around the Midwest.

302
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He used to slap me around,

303
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and for no good reason.

304
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And I was truly intimidated by him
at that time.

305
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Now what kind of a queen
do you think you are?

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You know that I've been onto you
from the start,

307
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and not once did you pull the wool
over this boy's eyes.

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BRANDO: When things
are extremely painful to you,

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you don't want them
in your consciousness,

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you want to forget about them.

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And you are the Queen of the Nile,

312
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sitting on your throne,
swilling down my liquor.

313
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You know what I say? Ha-ha!

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BRANDO: You can imagine
having to go someplace every night

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and go through all that,

316
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get yourself upset...

317
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To have to cry or to scream

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or to be ruined in some way,
that's work.

319
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That's hard work.

320
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People invariably associated me
with the part I played,

321
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so that it was difficult to believe
that I didn't eat off the floor,

322
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or that I, you know, didn't run up
the street with my shoes off,

323
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and so it's been a hard thing
sort of living that down.

324
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There is nothing about me
that is like Stanley Kowalski.

325
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I hate that kinda guy.

326
00:19:02,058 --> 00:19:03,799
I absolutely hate that person

327
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and I couldn't identify with it.

328
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The brute, dark character that
represented the beasts and the animals.

329
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They sent me to a psychiatrist.

330
00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:18,855
They thought I was going nuts,

331
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losing my mind.

332
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Stella told me,
if you come to the theater

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and you feel a hundred percent,
show eighty.

334
00:19:26,916 --> 00:19:30,705
If you come and you feel sixty percent,
show forty.

335
00:19:31,629 --> 00:19:33,165
If you come to the theater

336
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and you only feel forty percent,

337
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best to turn around and go home.

338
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INTERVIEWER:
I was wondering if you have any plans

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to return to the stage
in the near future.

340
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BRANDO: No, I don't have any immediate
intentions of returning to the stage.

341
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(TAPE RECORDER CLICKS)

342
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BRANDO: The shouts of freedom

343
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are also the rattling of chains.

344
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BRANDO:
You seem to be such a restless man.

345
00:20:09,583 --> 00:20:11,870
Eyes always darting.

346
00:20:12,002 --> 00:20:13,209
BRANDO: I don't know,

347
00:20:13,337 --> 00:20:16,125
I guess I've just got loose feet.

348
00:20:16,757 --> 00:20:22,503
INTERVIEWER: I infer from that that you
do not thoroughly enjoy your profession.

349
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Or you don't enjoy it at all.

350
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BRANDO: No, I think that people
do what they enjoy,

351
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or else they don't do it.

352
00:20:28,394 --> 00:20:30,351
People do what they want to do.

353
00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:34,394
If there are adverse conditions
that surround my work,

354
00:20:34,525 --> 00:20:36,141
they are not adverse enough

355
00:20:36,318 --> 00:20:38,901
to make me change activities.

356
00:20:41,824 --> 00:20:44,737
If I hadn't had the good luck
to be an actor,

357
00:20:44,869 --> 00:20:47,828
I don't know what I would've been.

358
00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:49,867
I'd have probably been a con man.

359
00:20:50,750 --> 00:20:52,582
A good con man.

360
00:20:52,710 --> 00:20:57,171
Tell smooth lies, give impressions
of things that he thinks,

361
00:20:57,339 --> 00:21:00,423
or appears to think
that he doesn't think.

362
00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:02,967
Since I don't do anything else well,

363
00:21:03,095 --> 00:21:05,462
and up to this time I haven't decided

364
00:21:05,598 --> 00:21:06,930
what else I would like to do,

365
00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:08,844
I might as well put all my energies

366
00:21:08,976 --> 00:21:11,389
into being as good an actor as I can.

367
00:21:14,064 --> 00:21:15,771
WOMAN:
Now will you turn your head for us?

368
00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:17,107
Sure.

369
00:21:18,486 --> 00:21:20,193
WOMAN: Now around the other way.

370
00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:24,815
Now all the way around.

371
00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:34,162
All right. Thank you and stay around.

372
00:21:36,212 --> 00:21:37,669
BRANDO: Shakespeare said,

373
00:21:37,797 --> 00:21:39,459
"There is no art to find

374
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the mind's construction in the face."

375
00:21:41,842 --> 00:21:44,425
And there should be such an art.

376
00:21:46,055 --> 00:21:48,843
When the camera is close on you,

377
00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:51,762
your face becomes the stage.

378
00:21:51,894 --> 00:21:54,511
Your face is the proscenium arch

379
00:21:54,647 --> 00:21:56,889
of the theater, thirty feet high.

380
00:21:57,817 --> 00:21:59,934
And it sees all the little movements

381
00:22:00,069 --> 00:22:03,483
of the face and the eye and the mouth.

382
00:22:03,614 --> 00:22:06,197
You have the intensity to act.

383
00:22:09,203 --> 00:22:10,319
I wanted very much

384
00:22:10,454 --> 00:22:13,367
to be involved in motion pictures,

385
00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:15,035
so I could change it

386
00:22:15,209 --> 00:22:17,451
into something nearer the truth.

387
00:22:17,586 --> 00:22:20,203
And I was convinced
that I could do that.

388
00:22:21,841 --> 00:22:23,798
About my playing the tuba...

389
00:22:23,926 --> 00:22:26,259
Seems like a lot of fuss
has been made about that.

390
00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:28,090
BRANDO: In the '30s and '40s

391
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you had a particular kind of acting.

392
00:22:30,766 --> 00:22:33,053
You knew who you were gonna get

393
00:22:33,185 --> 00:22:35,017
when you went to the movies.

394
00:22:35,688 --> 00:22:37,975
Gary Cooper oats.

395
00:22:38,148 --> 00:22:39,810
Shredded Wheat Bogart.

396
00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:43,401
Clark Gable Crunchy Fruit Loops.

397
00:22:43,529 --> 00:22:45,270
They were just like breakfast cereals.

398
00:22:45,489 --> 00:22:47,401
The same in every role.

399
00:22:49,118 --> 00:22:52,111
Gestures of anguish and despair,

400
00:22:52,246 --> 00:22:55,205
and that kind of acting became absurd.

401
00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:00,372
The astounding thing

402
00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:01,915
most people don't realize.

403
00:23:02,089 --> 00:23:04,672
All motion pictures today,

404
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,257
all acting today,

405
00:23:06,427 --> 00:23:08,510
stems from Stella Adler.

406
00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:12,138
INTERVIEWER: Stella, so much
has been talked about Method acting.

407
00:23:12,266 --> 00:23:14,098
What exactly is the Method?

408
00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:17,810
All right, let's start at the beginning.

409
00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:20,271
BRANDO: Stella went to Paris

410
00:23:20,441 --> 00:23:23,775
and studied
with Konstantin Stanislavsky,

411
00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:25,314
the great Russian teacher,

412
00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:28,230
brought back
her experience and knowledge

413
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:30,444
of this particular form of acting.

414
00:23:30,576 --> 00:23:35,321
Reality, realness, carried by an actor

415
00:23:35,539 --> 00:23:37,326
to achieve the truth.

416
00:23:37,499 --> 00:23:39,957
This is the most modern technique.

417
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,411
BRANDO: Everything that you do,

418
00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:43,787
make it real as you can.

419
00:23:43,923 --> 00:23:46,165
Make it alive, make it tangible,

420
00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:48,667
find the truth of that moment.

421
00:23:48,802 --> 00:23:51,169
Mr Stanislavsky understood that.

422
00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:55,303
BRANDO: And the style of acting
changed completely.

423
00:23:56,727 --> 00:23:59,515
The first movie I ever did
was called The Men.

424
00:23:59,647 --> 00:24:01,354
I played a paraplegic

425
00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:04,933
and lived in a hospital
with paraplegics for three weeks.

426
00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:08,733
Physicality is a tough thing.

427
00:24:08,906 --> 00:24:12,820
I spent a lot of time just studying
everything they do.

428
00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:15,990
I wanted to see how
they got in and out of their chairs.

429
00:24:16,163 --> 00:24:19,156
The manner in which you crawled
from one place to another.

430
00:24:20,584 --> 00:24:23,827
Paraplegics,
they do the most amazing things.

431
00:24:23,963 --> 00:24:26,205
Races without their chairs,

432
00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:28,081
I've seen guys walk on their hands.

433
00:24:28,217 --> 00:24:29,628
They can do one-armed pull-ups,

434
00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:31,043
they can do everything.

435
00:24:31,178 --> 00:24:32,840
You have to know your subject,

436
00:24:32,972 --> 00:24:34,588
you have to know your character.

437
00:24:34,723 --> 00:24:37,761
Putting yourself
in a different state of mind.

438
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,846
What they felt like,

439
00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:41,390
what their frustrations were

440
00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:43,805
knowing that they couldn't have sex.

441
00:24:43,941 --> 00:24:46,399
BRANDO AS KEN:
What am I gonna do, where am I gonna go?

442
00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,523
I can't go out there anymore.

443
00:24:50,114 --> 00:24:54,028
BRANDO: He just sits there
and he marinates his mind.

444
00:24:54,159 --> 00:24:56,947
In the intellect; that's all he's got.

445
00:24:57,079 --> 00:24:58,365
Put your heart into it.

446
00:24:58,539 --> 00:25:00,701
Get yourself up emotionally.

447
00:25:01,667 --> 00:25:03,704
At night I think about it,

448
00:25:03,836 --> 00:25:05,043
dream about it

449
00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:07,829
and I wake up being absorbed by it.

450
00:25:07,965 --> 00:25:09,672
People have routines:

451
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,668
acting routines, dancing routines,
painting routines.

452
00:25:12,803 --> 00:25:15,136
The same thing over and over again.

453
00:25:15,264 --> 00:25:17,677
Everything is a cliché.

454
00:25:18,225 --> 00:25:21,844
When an actor takes a little too long
as he's walking to the door,

455
00:25:21,979 --> 00:25:24,141
you know he's going to stop
and turn around and say...

456
00:25:24,273 --> 00:25:27,141
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

457
00:25:27,276 --> 00:25:29,438
BRANDO:
Jersey Joe Walcott, terrific fighter.

458
00:25:29,611 --> 00:25:33,195
He'd be boxing, he'd be throwing
some punches and bing!

459
00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:35,402
He'd have his fist in somebody's face.

460
00:25:35,576 --> 00:25:37,442
You'd think it was coming out
of the southwest

461
00:25:37,619 --> 00:25:39,451
and there it comes out of the northeast.

462
00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:42,531
He would never let you know
where he was going to hit you.

463
00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:43,949
You.

464
00:25:44,084 --> 00:25:47,919
BRANDO: Never let the audience know
how it's gonna come out.

465
00:25:48,047 --> 00:25:49,047
What is your name?

466
00:25:49,173 --> 00:25:51,085
BRANDO: Get them on your time.

467
00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:55,426
Emiliano Zapata.

468
00:25:59,016 --> 00:26:01,349
BRANDO: And when that time comes
and everything is right,

469
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,893
you just fuck, let fly.

470
00:26:04,021 --> 00:26:07,310
O judgment, thou art fled
to brutish beasts,

471
00:26:07,441 --> 00:26:09,228
and men have lost their reason.

472
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,895
BRANDO: Hit them, knock them over.

473
00:26:11,028 --> 00:26:13,145
With an attitude,

474
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,942
with a word, with a look.

475
00:26:15,699 --> 00:26:17,315
I don't like cops.

476
00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:18,658
BRANDO: Be surprising.

477
00:26:18,786 --> 00:26:21,324
Figure out a way to do it

478
00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:22,946
that has never been done before.

479
00:26:23,082 --> 00:26:24,618
You gotta put something down,

480
00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:25,786
you gotta make some jive.

481
00:26:25,918 --> 00:26:27,705
Don't you know what I'm talking about?

482
00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:31,796
BRANDO: You want to stop that movement
from the popcorn to the mouth.

483
00:26:31,924 --> 00:26:37,670
Cry "Havoc,"
and let slip the dogs of war.

484
00:26:37,805 --> 00:26:39,592
BRANDO: Get people to stop chewing.

485
00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:44,468
That this foul deed
shall smell above the earth.

486
00:26:44,645 --> 00:26:46,682
BRANDO: The truth will do that.

487
00:26:48,023 --> 00:26:50,686
Damn, damn, damn, damn.

488
00:26:50,818 --> 00:26:52,400
When it's right, it's right.

489
00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:54,102
You can feel it in your bones.

490
00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:56,904
Then you feel whole,

491
00:26:57,032 --> 00:26:58,489
then you feel good.

492
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,406
It was pre-sixties.

493
00:27:03,539 --> 00:27:05,656
People were looking for rebellion,

494
00:27:05,791 --> 00:27:08,704
and I happened to be at the right place
at the right time

495
00:27:08,836 --> 00:27:10,702
with the right state of mind.

496
00:27:11,922 --> 00:27:14,881
In a sense, it was my own story.

497
00:27:15,008 --> 00:27:17,466
Rebelling for the sake of rebelling.

498
00:27:35,863 --> 00:27:37,775
WOMAN: Hello, Mr Brando.

499
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:40,865
I hope you don't think
I'm too crazy for making this recording.

500
00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:42,575
I wrote you a fan letter once,

501
00:27:42,744 --> 00:27:44,451
but I don't know if you received it.

502
00:27:45,956 --> 00:27:49,540
Once I saw a picture of you
with a white cat. Was it yours?

503
00:27:49,710 --> 00:27:53,545
I'll bet you're one of the kindest,
most interesting fellows in Hollywood.

504
00:27:53,714 --> 00:27:55,797
I suppose I'm judging the book
by the cover,

505
00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:58,712
but perhaps I'm not too far wrong.

506
00:27:58,844 --> 00:28:01,712
Mr Brando?
I hope this isn't too personal,

507
00:28:01,847 --> 00:28:05,056
but I always say what I think,
so I won't stop now.

508
00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:07,517
I admire you very much,

509
00:28:07,728 --> 00:28:09,560
both as an actor and a person.

510
00:28:09,771 --> 00:28:12,263
Many, many other people
feel the same way.

511
00:28:12,399 --> 00:28:14,482
I think one of the main reasons
that I admire you

512
00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:16,602
is because you aren't afraid
to be yourself,

513
00:28:16,778 --> 00:28:19,441
instead of being a carbon copy
of everyone else.

514
00:28:19,573 --> 00:28:20,939
It would be a pretty dull world

515
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:22,815
if everyone behaved in the same way,

516
00:28:22,951 --> 00:28:25,785
so three cheers for you, Mr Brando.

517
00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:34,828
BRANDO: I didn't intend to have
that extraordinary effect.

518
00:28:34,963 --> 00:28:39,754
I became, very quickly, a cult hero.

519
00:28:51,271 --> 00:28:55,311
And now I know that you're as anxious
as I am to find out what actor

520
00:28:55,442 --> 00:28:59,652
has won the Oscar
for the best performance of this year.

521
00:28:59,863 --> 00:29:01,729
The winner is

522
00:29:01,907 --> 00:29:04,615
Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront.

523
00:29:08,372 --> 00:29:09,579
REPORTER: Marlon Brando,

524
00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,910
an actor of very considerable talent.

525
00:29:12,042 --> 00:29:15,001
The youngest actor
ever honoured in this way.

526
00:29:18,006 --> 00:29:20,123
BRANDO: When I saw the picture finally,

527
00:29:20,259 --> 00:29:21,921
I was so embarrassed,

528
00:29:22,052 --> 00:29:24,419
so disappointed in my performance.

529
00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:28,844
It's much heavier than I imagined.

530
00:29:29,851 --> 00:29:32,810
It's like carrying a monkey around
on your back.

531
00:29:32,938 --> 00:29:36,181
They're asking me to put the finger
on my own brother.

532
00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:41,319
BRANDO: It's a very strange thing
this business of storytelling.

533
00:29:41,488 --> 00:29:43,525
You don't always know when you're good.

534
00:29:44,366 --> 00:29:46,653
You wanna hear my philosophy of life?

535
00:29:49,705 --> 00:29:52,197
Do it to him before he does it to you.

536
00:29:52,332 --> 00:29:54,574
BRANDO: People will mythologize you

537
00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:56,497
no matter what you do.

538
00:29:58,171 --> 00:30:00,163
There's something absurd about it,

539
00:30:00,299 --> 00:30:02,416
that people go with hard-earned cash

540
00:30:02,551 --> 00:30:05,168
into a darkened room

541
00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:08,675
where they sit
and they look at a crystalline screen

542
00:30:08,849 --> 00:30:12,638
upon which images move around
and speak.

543
00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:16,972
And the reason they don't have light
in the theater

544
00:30:17,107 --> 00:30:20,100
is because you are there
with your fantasy.

545
00:30:21,403 --> 00:30:23,190
The person up on the screen

546
00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:26,360
is doing all the things
that you want to do,

547
00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:28,483
they're kissing the woman
you want to kiss,

548
00:30:28,618 --> 00:30:30,325
hitting the people you want to hit,

549
00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:33,488
being brave in a way
that you want to be brave.

550
00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:38,293
The audience will lend themselves
to the subject.

551
00:30:39,421 --> 00:30:42,585
They will create things
that are not there.

552
00:30:42,716 --> 00:30:44,628
Listen to me, Terry, take the job.

553
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,717
Just take it. No questions, take it.

554
00:30:46,887 --> 00:30:50,051
BRANDO: There are times I know
I did much better acting

555
00:30:50,182 --> 00:30:52,219
than in that scene
from On the Waterfront.

556
00:30:52,351 --> 00:30:53,717
You don't understand.

557
00:30:53,894 --> 00:30:55,726
I coulda had class.

558
00:30:55,896 --> 00:30:57,683
I coulda been a contender.

559
00:30:57,856 --> 00:30:59,973
I coulda been somebody.

560
00:31:00,734 --> 00:31:02,691
Instead of a bum.

561
00:31:02,903 --> 00:31:05,065
Which is what I am, let's face it.

562
00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:08,361
BRANDO: It had nothing to do with me.

563
00:31:08,492 --> 00:31:10,233
The audience does the work,

564
00:31:10,369 --> 00:31:12,452
they are doing the acting.

565
00:31:12,579 --> 00:31:15,196
Everybody feels like they're a failure,

566
00:31:15,374 --> 00:31:18,788
everybody feels
they could've been a contender.

567
00:31:18,919 --> 00:31:20,660
Inferiority.

568
00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:23,871
I've been very close to it all my life.

569
00:31:28,470 --> 00:31:30,678
ED MURROW: Marlon,
I know your dad is in town tonight.

570
00:31:30,806 --> 00:31:32,638
Is he hiding out somewhere?

571
00:31:32,766 --> 00:31:34,758
BRANDO: No, I'll get him in here. Pop?

572
00:31:34,935 --> 00:31:36,267
Come on out.

573
00:31:36,395 --> 00:31:38,762
ED MURROW: We'll ask Mr Brando
some questions about his son

574
00:31:38,939 --> 00:31:41,647
and I'm sure we'll get
the blunt and direct answers.

575
00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:43,016
Good evening, Mr Brando.

576
00:31:43,151 --> 00:31:46,610
I imagine you're just a bit proud
of your son right now, aren't you?

577
00:31:49,324 --> 00:31:52,158
Well, as an actor not too proud,

578
00:31:52,285 --> 00:31:55,244
but as a man, why, quite proud.

579
00:31:55,372 --> 00:31:56,829
ED MURROW: Mr Brando, tell me this.

580
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,407
Was he hard to handle as a child?

581
00:31:59,543 --> 00:32:01,785
FATHER: I think he had the usual...

582
00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:05,330
childhood traits.

583
00:32:05,465 --> 00:32:07,798
I think he had probably a little more

584
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:11,761
trouble with his parents
than most children do.

585
00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,388
ED MURROW: Marlon, in the interests
of justice and fairness,

586
00:32:14,516 --> 00:32:17,429
would you like 30 seconds
to defend yourself?

587
00:32:17,561 --> 00:32:19,553
Well, I don't feel
I need to defend myself.

588
00:32:19,688 --> 00:32:22,351
I can lick this guy with one hand, so...

589
00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:25,061
Let it go.

590
00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:30,105
BRANDO: We had an act
we put on for each other.

591
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,072
I played the loving son

592
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,819
and they played the adoring parents.

593
00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:38,784
There was a lot of hypocrisy.

594
00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:44,248
When what you are as a child
is unwanted, it's unwelcome,

595
00:32:44,379 --> 00:32:48,544
then you look for an identity
that will be acceptable.

596
00:32:48,675 --> 00:32:53,136
So I had a wide variety
of performances in me.

597
00:32:55,056 --> 00:32:56,763
ED SULLIVAN: I'm very anxious for you.

598
00:32:56,892 --> 00:32:58,929
I know you haven't seen
all of the footage,

599
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:01,222
but your light comedy performance

600
00:33:01,354 --> 00:33:04,267
in Guys and Dolls
is really terrific, Marlon.

601
00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:05,435
Well, I hope so.

602
00:33:05,567 --> 00:33:07,229
I'm very anxious to see it.

603
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,226
In fact, I'm dying to see it.

604
00:33:10,113 --> 00:33:11,649
How was Vegas?

605
00:33:11,781 --> 00:33:14,364
Paradise. For two weeks I gambled
in green pastures,

606
00:33:14,493 --> 00:33:15,574
the dice were my cousins

607
00:33:15,702 --> 00:33:18,820
and the dolls were agreeable
with nice teeth and no last names.

608
00:33:19,748 --> 00:33:21,410
You don't believe I'm a sinner, do you?

609
00:33:21,541 --> 00:33:24,659
I'm prepared to believe that you are the
biggest sinner I ever met in my life.

610
00:33:25,879 --> 00:33:29,293
BRANDO: It's part of an actor's trade
to be able to play in a light vein

611
00:33:29,424 --> 00:33:33,543
and be an entertainer
as well as a serious storyteller.

612
00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:38,719
And I feel that I perhaps have neglected
that part of my career up to this point.

613
00:33:40,644 --> 00:33:43,853
When I go to set I have a lot of fun,
because it's a gay affair.

614
00:33:44,022 --> 00:33:45,513
It's pleasant to look forward to,

615
00:33:45,649 --> 00:33:47,140
it's a nice way to spend your day,

616
00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:51,064
rather than be in the middle of a miasma
of seriousness and gravity.

617
00:33:52,614 --> 00:33:55,903
As a kid, when I used to sell bottles
and cut lawns

618
00:33:56,076 --> 00:33:59,615
to get my ten cents to go to the movie,

619
00:33:59,746 --> 00:34:01,863
and I would escape everything.

620
00:34:07,587 --> 00:34:09,874
That sense of good feeling,

621
00:34:10,549 --> 00:34:12,211
that got me through the week.

622
00:34:13,468 --> 00:34:16,336
Those moments were magical.

623
00:34:22,185 --> 00:34:25,178
REPORTER: The glittering world premiere
at New York's Capitol Theater

624
00:34:25,313 --> 00:34:30,183
for Samuel Goldwyn's multi-million
dollar production of Guys and Dolls.

625
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,775
♪ Your eyes are the eyes

626
00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:38,570
♪ of a woman in love

627
00:34:38,702 --> 00:34:45,245
♪ And oh, how they give you away

628
00:34:46,459 --> 00:34:49,623
♪ Why try to deny...

629
00:34:49,754 --> 00:34:53,464
BRANDO: Most actors
want to get their name in the paper.

630
00:34:53,592 --> 00:34:56,551
They like all that attention.

631
00:34:57,512 --> 00:35:01,426
I very often am struck
with the illusion of success.

632
00:35:02,267 --> 00:35:04,475
Sometimes it's difficult
when you meet people

633
00:35:04,603 --> 00:35:07,266
because you see
that they have prejudged you,

634
00:35:07,397 --> 00:35:09,684
not to be treated normally.

635
00:35:09,816 --> 00:35:13,730
To have people staring at you
like an animal in a zoo,

636
00:35:13,862 --> 00:35:17,026
or some strange creature
from a distant land.

637
00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:20,816
What it does is remove you from reality.

638
00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:22,488
(FANS SCREAM)

639
00:35:26,875 --> 00:35:29,959
I can't stand it. I hate it.

640
00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:32,745
I had no idea of how discomforting it is

641
00:35:32,922 --> 00:35:36,006
not to be able to be
just an ordinary person.

642
00:35:36,176 --> 00:35:38,509
You can't imagine
how much of a panic it is.

643
00:35:38,637 --> 00:35:39,878
Really, it scared me to death,

644
00:35:40,013 --> 00:35:41,379
because they were hanging on,

645
00:35:41,514 --> 00:35:44,222
they could've been run over or crushed.
It really is...

646
00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:46,850
I've never seen
a really hysterical crowd.

647
00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:48,344
It's a frightening experience.

648
00:35:55,779 --> 00:35:58,066
BRANDO: Relax, Marlon.

649
00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,855
And breathe deeply now.

650
00:36:04,287 --> 00:36:07,496
You don't need to feel frightened,

651
00:36:07,624 --> 00:36:09,832
you don't need to be nervous.

652
00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:21,510
You're very, very comfortable.

653
00:36:21,638 --> 00:36:26,349
Deeply safe,
like when you were with Ermi,

654
00:36:26,476 --> 00:36:29,469
when you slept in her arms,

655
00:36:29,604 --> 00:36:31,561
when you received affection.

656
00:36:31,690 --> 00:36:33,852
Remember those feelings.

657
00:36:37,946 --> 00:36:41,110
She was a governess
hired by my mother.

658
00:36:42,117 --> 00:36:45,326
Lovely Oriental skin.

659
00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:47,661
She had very fine hair.

660
00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:50,577
She was sleeping,

661
00:36:50,709 --> 00:36:53,622
and through the windows
came the moonlight,

662
00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:56,666
and illuminated her body.

663
00:36:57,799 --> 00:37:02,715
I remember arranging myself
on her, over her,

664
00:37:02,846 --> 00:37:06,305
and thinking that she was all mine,

665
00:37:06,433 --> 00:37:08,550
that she belonged to me alone.

666
00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:16,437
Everybody wants a guarantee
that their love is going to be returned.

667
00:37:16,568 --> 00:37:18,525
"I'm going to love you till I die

668
00:37:18,653 --> 00:37:21,487
and we're going to love each other
forever."

669
00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:26,826
All of those adolescent and childish
concepts of what love ought to be.

670
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:32,539
I remember the night she left.

671
00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:33,953
She went away to get married,

672
00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:36,247
but to a seven-year-old mind,

673
00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:38,245
having been with someone intimately,

674
00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:41,920
it was tantamount to desertion.

675
00:37:42,469 --> 00:37:45,086
In a sense, my mother left me,

676
00:37:45,305 --> 00:37:47,467
because she was alcoholic.

677
00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:49,261
And so did Ermi.

678
00:37:51,644 --> 00:37:56,764
It was from that date that I became
a miscreant, badly behaved.

679
00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:04,109
- CAMERAMAN: Okay.
- Okay.

680
00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:06,148
I'd like to begin by asking you

681
00:38:06,326 --> 00:38:10,115
what consumes your thoughts
in your spare time, when you have any?

682
00:38:10,330 --> 00:38:12,071
Well, my thoughts are...

683
00:38:12,207 --> 00:38:13,948
INTERVIEWER: What do you do?

684
00:38:14,083 --> 00:38:17,076
I'm interested in your face.

685
00:38:17,212 --> 00:38:19,955
You're one of the prettiest
interviewers that I've...

686
00:38:20,089 --> 00:38:21,170
INTERVIEWER: Thank you.

687
00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:23,382
You're one of the most gracious hosts
I've ever met.

688
00:38:23,510 --> 00:38:25,376
- Oh really?
- INTERVIEWER: Yes.

689
00:38:25,512 --> 00:38:27,549
I hope to see you in Chicago.

690
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:28,796
(LAUGHTER)

691
00:38:28,932 --> 00:38:31,219
- We'd like to see you in Chicago.
- We?

692
00:38:31,392 --> 00:38:33,429
Is that the collective "we"
or is that the...

693
00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:36,019
There are many people
who would like to see you in Chicago.

694
00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:38,605
- But you don't?
- Certainly, I do.

695
00:38:39,984 --> 00:38:42,943
Well, I'm representing WNAC in Boston

696
00:38:43,071 --> 00:38:45,734
and our viewing audience
would love to know why you're here

697
00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:48,027
and for you to tell us
about your latest movie.

698
00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:50,401
Excuse me,
I didn't mean to touch your ankle.

699
00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:56,040
Well, what can I tell you about it?

700
00:38:56,209 --> 00:38:58,121
INTERVIEWER:
Oh, just some interesting things

701
00:38:58,336 --> 00:38:59,872
that our audience would like to hear...

702
00:39:00,004 --> 00:39:03,588
You talk out of the side of your mouth,
did you ever notice that?

703
00:39:03,716 --> 00:39:06,174
- INTERVIEWER: No, I...
- You talk... It's charming.

704
00:39:06,344 --> 00:39:07,551
INTERVIEWER: Unintentional.

705
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:11,634
It's a physical idiosyncrasy,
but it's a charming one.

706
00:39:12,433 --> 00:39:14,846
We can't see your right eye.

707
00:39:14,978 --> 00:39:17,516
Talking from the side of my mouth?

708
00:39:17,647 --> 00:39:18,933
Wouldn't want to do that.

709
00:39:19,107 --> 00:39:24,774
Would you like to tell us about behind
the scenes while making the picture?

710
00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:26,566
How far behind the scenes?

711
00:39:26,698 --> 00:39:28,234
(LAUGHTER)

712
00:39:32,537 --> 00:39:34,073
BRANDO: Answer me something, is it true?

713
00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:37,994
There are some rumors about you
and Marlon Brando having a romance, huh?

714
00:39:38,126 --> 00:39:39,867
WOMAN: Oh no, we're just good friends.

715
00:39:40,044 --> 00:39:41,285
BRANDO: Just good friends?

716
00:39:41,462 --> 00:39:44,296
Well, it seems the other night,
you were going into Mr Brando's room

717
00:39:44,465 --> 00:39:47,708
and not coming out until early morning.
Is that true?

718
00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:50,593
WOMAN: Well, yes, it's true,

719
00:39:50,722 --> 00:39:52,588
but he is a perfect gentleman.

720
00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:55,011
BRANDO: He's a perfect gentleman. I see.

721
00:39:55,143 --> 00:39:58,011
Is it true there was some love making
going on there?

722
00:39:58,146 --> 00:40:01,810
The people in the next room seem to
have heard some thumping about and...

723
00:40:01,941 --> 00:40:05,776
and some rattling of the bed itself.

724
00:40:05,904 --> 00:40:07,440
WOMAN: Well, I slept with him.

725
00:40:07,572 --> 00:40:10,189
BRANDO: You slept with him?
Well, I don't...

726
00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:11,532
WOMAN: In the same bed.

727
00:40:11,659 --> 00:40:15,152
BRANDO: Well, I don't know if we can
talk about this over the air, I mean...

728
00:40:15,288 --> 00:40:17,621
I hope you folks listening in
will not be...

729
00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:20,036
WOMAN: Just close your ears.

730
00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:25,462
WOMAN 2:
You have what most men want.

731
00:40:25,590 --> 00:40:27,798
You have a lady to fuck,

732
00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:31,670
you have a woman who loves you,
you have a...

733
00:40:31,804 --> 00:40:34,421
(BRANDO LAUGHS)

734
00:40:39,979 --> 00:40:41,515
WOMAN 2: Guilty, aren't you?

735
00:40:43,316 --> 00:40:45,478
BRANDO: I'm not guilty.

736
00:40:46,653 --> 00:40:49,942
It's just the... It's the tequila.

737
00:40:50,073 --> 00:40:52,156
- WOMAN 2: It's the what?
- BRANDO: It's the tequila.

738
00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:53,524
WOMAN 2: I got it.

739
00:40:55,370 --> 00:40:59,034
BRANDO: Past a certain point,
the penis has its own agenda.

740
00:40:59,207 --> 00:41:01,620
It has nothing to do with you

741
00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:05,836
and a lot of your decisions are made
by your penis and not by your brain.

742
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,832
REPORTER:
I'd like to show you a wedding picture.

743
00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:13,052
A wedding that took place
on October 11th, 1957.

744
00:41:13,179 --> 00:41:14,670
The man is Marlon Brando.

745
00:41:14,806 --> 00:41:19,141
The woman? A young Indian actress
and a model, Anna Kashfi.

746
00:41:20,979 --> 00:41:23,266
BRANDO: A good con man can fool anybody.

747
00:41:23,398 --> 00:41:26,357
And the first person that you fool

748
00:41:26,526 --> 00:41:28,313
as a con man is yourself.

749
00:41:29,570 --> 00:41:31,903
She found out about other women
in my life

750
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:37,072
and I had women coming in the door,
going out the window...

751
00:41:37,203 --> 00:41:40,947
The beast aspect of my personality
held sway

752
00:41:41,082 --> 00:41:46,794
and overtook anything that was
reasonable, rational, moral or decent.

753
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,339
Because if you haven't ever been loved,
or ever known love,

754
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,216
you'll never know where it is.

755
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:55,586
You don't know what it looks like
or sounds like.

756
00:41:55,722 --> 00:41:58,305
You look in the most unlikely places
to find it.

757
00:41:59,851 --> 00:42:02,138
REPORTER:
Marriage lasted but a few months,

758
00:42:02,270 --> 00:42:04,432
but a child was born out that coupling.

759
00:42:04,605 --> 00:42:06,141
Christian Devi.

760
00:42:07,650 --> 00:42:10,233
BRANDO:
I can remember the baby breathing...

761
00:42:10,361 --> 00:42:12,353
(BREATHES GENTLY)

762
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,817
Little tiny baby like that...

763
00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:16,941
Then listening to the heart.

764
00:42:19,245 --> 00:42:22,864
I didn't want my father
to get near Christian.

765
00:42:24,208 --> 00:42:28,748
The day he was born, I said it to myself
with tears in my eyes in the hospital,

766
00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:31,629
"My father is never going
to come near that child,

767
00:42:31,758 --> 00:42:34,592
because of the damage he did to me."

768
00:42:41,059 --> 00:42:44,052
INTERVIEWER:
Can I move on to your own acting career

769
00:42:44,187 --> 00:42:46,554
and how your moral beliefs
have affected it?

770
00:42:46,731 --> 00:42:50,566
For example, we associate you
with roles like On the Waterfront,

771
00:42:50,693 --> 00:42:54,061
where you are a man
who is fighting a righteous cause,

772
00:42:54,197 --> 00:42:55,278
a sort of underdog,

773
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:57,489
you've got the whole union machine
against you,

774
00:42:57,658 --> 00:43:00,401
and then there's the roles
like the rebel leader in Viva Zapata!

775
00:43:00,578 --> 00:43:02,069
where you are for the poor.

776
00:43:02,246 --> 00:43:03,953
Do you deliberately choose these roles?

777
00:43:04,082 --> 00:43:08,247
Over your career you've deliberately
chosen roles that have

778
00:43:08,377 --> 00:43:10,494
gone along with your political beliefs?

779
00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:12,249
Yes, I think so.

780
00:43:18,012 --> 00:43:20,971
NARRATOR: On December 23rd, 1787,

781
00:43:21,099 --> 00:43:23,512
His Majesty's ship, Bounty,
sailed from England

782
00:43:23,643 --> 00:43:25,350
bound for the South Seas,

783
00:43:25,478 --> 00:43:27,891
culminating in the most famous mutiny
in history.

784
00:43:28,022 --> 00:43:29,979
CAPTAIN BLIGH:
You can put it in one word. Fear.

785
00:43:30,108 --> 00:43:31,974
Fear of punishment so vivid in his mind

786
00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:33,897
that he fears it even more
than certain death.

787
00:43:34,028 --> 00:43:36,190
In my years of service,
I have never met an officer

788
00:43:36,322 --> 00:43:39,861
who inflicted punishment upon men
with such incredible relish.

789
00:43:41,369 --> 00:43:42,530
It's sickening.

790
00:43:43,538 --> 00:43:47,407
Then go and be sick in your cabin,
Mr Christian.

791
00:43:47,542 --> 00:43:48,953
BRANDO: Human hatred.

792
00:43:49,085 --> 00:43:50,326
What is the answer?

793
00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:53,044
Is there any answer to injustice?

794
00:43:53,172 --> 00:43:56,711
I wanted to make pictures
that are meaningful to me.

795
00:43:56,843 --> 00:43:59,051
CAPTAIN BLIGH:
You'd best join my war, Mr Christian,

796
00:43:59,178 --> 00:44:00,760
for if I don't start winning soon,

797
00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:02,880
the casualty list will be real enough.

798
00:44:04,183 --> 00:44:07,551
BRANDO: You bring part of yourself
to every character,

799
00:44:07,728 --> 00:44:11,392
but some parts
are closer to us than others.

800
00:44:15,820 --> 00:44:18,984
Is the story true about
you going to school in Minneapolis?

801
00:44:19,115 --> 00:44:22,324
I went to a military academy called...

802
00:44:24,036 --> 00:44:26,119
Well, I won't tell you the name.

803
00:44:26,247 --> 00:44:27,488
I had a terrible time there.

804
00:44:29,792 --> 00:44:33,331
BRANDO: My father sent me
to military school, away from home,

805
00:44:33,462 --> 00:44:36,546
the one he had attended.

806
00:44:36,674 --> 00:44:39,883
It was a cruel and unusual punishment.

807
00:44:42,138 --> 00:44:45,176
The mind of the military has one aim:

808
00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:48,884
to be as mechanical as possible.

809
00:44:49,979 --> 00:44:52,722
To function like a human machine.

810
00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:57,893
Individuality simply did not exist.

811
00:44:59,989 --> 00:45:02,197
I had a lot of loneliness.

812
00:45:04,035 --> 00:45:07,745
I spent most of the time
up in the library

813
00:45:07,872 --> 00:45:12,617
reading the National Geographic
magazine about Tahiti.

814
00:45:13,753 --> 00:45:17,588
I was entranced
by the expressions on their faces.

815
00:45:17,757 --> 00:45:20,170
They had unmanaged faces,

816
00:45:20,301 --> 00:45:22,543
no manicured expressions.

817
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:23,927
A kindness.

818
00:45:26,098 --> 00:45:27,509
That's where I want to go,

819
00:45:27,642 --> 00:45:29,224
that's where I want to be.

820
00:45:38,611 --> 00:45:41,445
When I made Mutiny on the Bounty,

821
00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:44,815
finally I got a chance to go to Tahiti.

822
00:45:56,420 --> 00:45:58,082
I'd fallen in love with Tahiti.

823
00:45:58,214 --> 00:46:00,080
It was everything I longed for,

824
00:46:00,216 --> 00:46:02,333
everything I hoped it would be.

825
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:08,471
As soon as they'd say cut,

826
00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:11,137
I'd take off my jacket,
dive into the water

827
00:46:11,269 --> 00:46:14,888
and swim under the boats
and play on the beach.

828
00:46:17,483 --> 00:46:20,942
The sky... I've never see a sky like it.

829
00:46:21,070 --> 00:46:24,859
And the sunsets defy words.

830
00:46:24,991 --> 00:46:27,108
My God.

831
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,077
I've only been here a short time.

832
00:46:31,205 --> 00:46:33,572
I have been puzzled
every time I see Tahitians,

833
00:46:33,708 --> 00:46:36,621
because I can't figure out
what they're thinking.

834
00:46:36,794 --> 00:46:40,162
When you watch Tahitians,
it's like watching a wave,

835
00:46:40,298 --> 00:46:43,587
or the wind in the palm tree,
or the palm tree itself.

836
00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:47,135
They'll bring their drums
and their skirts,

837
00:46:47,263 --> 00:46:48,470
and they'll laugh and dance

838
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,551
and drink and make love.

839
00:46:50,725 --> 00:46:52,432
Full of laughter.

840
00:46:56,063 --> 00:46:57,304
CAPTAIN BLIGH: Mr Christian.

841
00:46:59,650 --> 00:47:01,733
Kindly satisfy your lust elsewhere.

842
00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:05,653
Quite actually, sir,
we were simply discussing...

843
00:47:05,823 --> 00:47:06,904
Acknowledge the order.

844
00:47:09,076 --> 00:47:11,693
Lust to be satisfied elsewhere, sir.

845
00:47:11,871 --> 00:47:13,407
Report on board immediately.

846
00:47:17,251 --> 00:47:19,493
You bloody fool.

847
00:47:21,881 --> 00:47:25,124
BRANDO: Mutiny on the Bounty
was perhaps my very worst experience

848
00:47:25,259 --> 00:47:27,216
in making a motion picture.

849
00:47:27,345 --> 00:47:31,180
I never want to do that kind of picture
again as long as I live.

850
00:47:32,975 --> 00:47:35,137
Nobody was agreed when we went in.

851
00:47:35,269 --> 00:47:38,603
We all knew that it was impossible
to shoot that story.

852
00:47:38,731 --> 00:47:41,519
It won't work. That will never work.

853
00:47:41,650 --> 00:47:45,610
You can't have Christian standing aside
not doing anything.

854
00:47:45,738 --> 00:47:48,446
Keep him alive in the story.

855
00:47:49,617 --> 00:47:55,033
I was never consulted
before the writing was done.

856
00:47:55,164 --> 00:47:58,032
And I cared a great deal
about this picture.

857
00:47:59,919 --> 00:48:02,582
You put your life in the hands
of the director,

858
00:48:02,713 --> 00:48:04,579
because the director can screw you up.

859
00:48:04,757 --> 00:48:07,215
You're going too lightly, Quintal.

860
00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:09,551
Lay on with a will
or you'll take his place.

861
00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:12,587
BRANDO: They can't direct actors,

862
00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:15,466
they don't know what the process is.

863
00:48:15,601 --> 00:48:21,188
How delicate it is
to create an emotional impression.

864
00:48:21,315 --> 00:48:25,980
They cover up their sense of inadequacy
by being very authoritative,

865
00:48:26,112 --> 00:48:28,354
commanding things.

866
00:48:28,489 --> 00:48:31,948
INTERVIEWER: Didn't he say he wanted
to talk to you and explain it to you?

867
00:48:32,076 --> 00:48:36,161
BRANDO: He wanted to give me
a long "no", and I favor short "noes".

868
00:48:36,288 --> 00:48:37,324
INTERVIEWER: No, I did...

869
00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:40,949
BRANDO: You can't argue with somebody
who's made up their mind.

870
00:48:41,836 --> 00:48:44,544
Don't ever be intimidated by directors.

871
00:48:47,758 --> 00:48:50,671
You bloody bastard.

872
00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:52,965
You'll not put your foot on me again.

873
00:48:53,097 --> 00:48:56,511
There was a great deal of friction,
confusion and desperation,

874
00:48:56,642 --> 00:48:58,429
disappointment and disgust,

875
00:48:58,561 --> 00:48:59,847
there were fist fights.

876
00:49:00,062 --> 00:49:02,224
Ship's company!

877
00:49:02,356 --> 00:49:04,268
I'm taking command of this ship.

878
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,517
Mr Friar, I'll have the keys
to the arms chest.

879
00:49:06,652 --> 00:49:08,484
You'll give him nothing!

880
00:49:08,612 --> 00:49:12,731
BRANDO:
Hey! I'm not your fucking stamp licker.

881
00:49:12,867 --> 00:49:14,654
You're making a huge error.

882
00:49:14,785 --> 00:49:15,992
Don't make it again.

883
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,954
I don't care if it costs me my job.

884
00:49:19,206 --> 00:49:22,324
Marlon, talk about rage.

885
00:49:22,460 --> 00:49:25,043
Talk about your own rage.

886
00:49:25,171 --> 00:49:29,461
All my life I've questioned
why I should do something.

887
00:49:29,592 --> 00:49:31,333
I had contempt for authority.

888
00:49:31,469 --> 00:49:33,085
I would resist it, I would trick it,

889
00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:35,712
I would outmaneuver it, I would do anything

890
00:49:35,848 --> 00:49:38,761
rather than be treated like a cipher.

891
00:49:39,477 --> 00:49:41,343
REPORTER:
Marlon Brando has been the subject

892
00:49:41,479 --> 00:49:43,971
of a good deal
of controversial publicity.

893
00:49:44,106 --> 00:49:45,813
He's been called a supreme egotist,

894
00:49:45,983 --> 00:49:47,599
uncooperative, temperamental.

895
00:49:47,735 --> 00:49:50,773
I've rarely seen
such a range of vicious critiques.

896
00:49:51,572 --> 00:49:55,612
BRANDO: They were blaming me
for all the delays and everything.

897
00:49:55,743 --> 00:49:57,450
They had to blame it on somebody,

898
00:49:57,578 --> 00:49:59,194
so they blamed it on me.

899
00:49:59,330 --> 00:50:02,494
Well, everybody has to have
a whipping boy and certainly the studio.

900
00:50:02,625 --> 00:50:04,787
They have to find a scapegoat,

901
00:50:04,919 --> 00:50:06,455
they have to find somebody.

902
00:50:06,587 --> 00:50:09,000
I was the most logical person.

903
00:50:09,798 --> 00:50:13,633
The sickening and endless variety
of lies.

904
00:50:13,761 --> 00:50:15,844
They can hit you every day

905
00:50:16,013 --> 00:50:18,630
and you have no way of fighting back.

906
00:50:19,934 --> 00:50:23,678
I was very convincing
in my pose of indifference.

907
00:50:25,105 --> 00:50:27,062
But I was very sensitive

908
00:50:27,191 --> 00:50:29,183
and it hurt a lot.

909
00:50:49,171 --> 00:50:50,503
There are times when you think,

910
00:50:50,631 --> 00:50:53,123
"What the fuck is all this for?"

911
00:50:53,259 --> 00:50:55,421
"Christ, nobody's listening."

912
00:50:56,804 --> 00:50:58,466
There's an old adage in Hollywood,

913
00:50:58,597 --> 00:51:01,260
they say "If you have a message,
go to Western Union."

914
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,347
I didn't make any great movies.

915
00:51:04,478 --> 00:51:06,390
There's no such thing as a great movie.

916
00:51:06,522 --> 00:51:08,434
In the kingdom of the blind,

917
00:51:08,566 --> 00:51:10,523
the man with one eye is the king.

918
00:51:11,944 --> 00:51:13,276
There are no artists.

919
00:51:13,445 --> 00:51:15,402
We are businessmen, we're merchants.

920
00:51:15,573 --> 00:51:17,656
And there is no art.

921
00:51:19,952 --> 00:51:22,660
Agents, lawyers, publicity people...

922
00:51:23,205 --> 00:51:25,413
It's all bullshit.

923
00:51:25,749 --> 00:51:27,490
Money, money, money.

924
00:51:27,626 --> 00:51:29,834
If you think it's about something else,

925
00:51:29,962 --> 00:51:32,500
you're going to be bruised.

926
00:51:33,882 --> 00:51:36,420
I do want to ask you one thing
before we run out of time, Marlon.

927
00:51:36,552 --> 00:51:37,963
You've been quoted
in the papers as saying

928
00:51:38,137 --> 00:51:39,548
that you are going to abandon acting.

929
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,171
Are you really going to do that?

930
00:51:41,307 --> 00:51:45,802
I feel that I'd like to pursue some
other interests that I have long had.

931
00:51:45,936 --> 00:51:47,518
And within two or three years,

932
00:51:47,646 --> 00:51:49,888
I will have come to the end
of my career.

933
00:51:51,358 --> 00:51:53,975
We're all gonna talk about civil rights,

934
00:51:54,194 --> 00:51:55,901
we're all gonna go on the television

935
00:51:56,030 --> 00:51:57,646
and say what we know,

936
00:51:57,781 --> 00:51:59,488
because the country is ignorant.

937
00:52:00,576 --> 00:52:02,613
(APPLAUSE)

938
00:52:04,622 --> 00:52:07,285
I am really moved and motivated

939
00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:10,955
by things that occur that are unjust.

940
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:16,590
I've always hated
people trampling on other people.

941
00:52:19,762 --> 00:52:21,048
I was in a quandary,

942
00:52:21,263 --> 00:52:23,676
a philosophical quandary,
because I thought

943
00:52:23,807 --> 00:52:27,517
if I am not my brother's keeper,
who am I?

944
00:52:27,645 --> 00:52:32,857
Where does my life end and my sense
of responsibility for other lives begin?

945
00:52:34,443 --> 00:52:39,279
Black bodies swinging
in the summer breeze,

946
00:52:39,406 --> 00:52:42,524
and the smell of burning death.

947
00:52:42,660 --> 00:52:44,276
You could stand so much of it

948
00:52:44,411 --> 00:52:45,492
and to see these people

949
00:52:45,621 --> 00:52:48,534
being beaten and kicked and spit on.

950
00:52:49,625 --> 00:52:51,617
That could've been my son lying there.

951
00:52:51,752 --> 00:52:54,995
And I'm going to do as much as I can.

952
00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:58,085
I'm going to start right now

953
00:52:58,258 --> 00:53:02,298
to inform white people
of what they don't know.

954
00:53:02,429 --> 00:53:04,546
The white man can't cool it

955
00:53:04,682 --> 00:53:06,799
because he's never dug it.

956
00:53:06,934 --> 00:53:08,971
And I am here to try to dig it.

957
00:53:10,396 --> 00:53:12,604
King was in Memphis at the time.

958
00:53:12,731 --> 00:53:18,443
He was striking for a small wage
increase for garbage collectors,

959
00:53:18,612 --> 00:53:21,901
which was one of the best jobs
a black man could get.

960
00:53:23,033 --> 00:53:25,696
But I want you to know tonight

961
00:53:25,869 --> 00:53:30,079
that we as a people
will get to the Promised Land.

962
00:53:30,249 --> 00:53:31,740
BRANDO: That speech where he says,

963
00:53:31,875 --> 00:53:33,582
"I've been up to the mountain

964
00:53:33,711 --> 00:53:35,623
and I've seen the Promised Land."

965
00:53:35,754 --> 00:53:39,668
So I'm happy tonight,
I'm not worried about anything.

966
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:41,883
I'm not fearing any man.

967
00:53:42,010 --> 00:53:45,299
BRANDO: "I don't know
if I'm gonna get there with you,

968
00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:47,423
but I am not afraid tonight."

969
00:53:49,810 --> 00:53:52,052
God, I still remember that.

970
00:53:52,229 --> 00:53:54,346
Ah, Jesus. That's terrible.

971
00:53:54,481 --> 00:53:56,564
He knew he was going to get killed.

972
00:54:01,905 --> 00:54:05,569
REPORTER: Have you considered that
you may suffer bodily harm yourself?

973
00:54:11,457 --> 00:54:12,914
Yes.

974
00:54:13,876 --> 00:54:16,118
BRANDO: I'm standing up,
not for the black race,

975
00:54:16,295 --> 00:54:18,287
I'm standing up for the human race.

976
00:54:18,422 --> 00:54:21,460
All men are created equal.

977
00:54:21,592 --> 00:54:22,708
This is life and death,

978
00:54:22,843 --> 00:54:24,004
this is real life.

979
00:54:24,136 --> 00:54:26,844
We're talking about human relations,

980
00:54:26,972 --> 00:54:28,679
we're talking about human rights,

981
00:54:28,807 --> 00:54:31,766
racial issues and that's why I care.

982
00:54:44,948 --> 00:54:49,818
Get any and all reports from the
South Pacific Commission in respect to

983
00:54:49,953 --> 00:54:53,822
discovering what plants grow well
on atolls.

984
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:56,825
How to grow more vegetables
than you can imagine.

985
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,327
And whatever there is on wind power.

986
00:54:59,463 --> 00:55:02,627
We'll get the full library
of information

987
00:55:02,758 --> 00:55:04,294
from the South Pacific Commission.

988
00:55:11,225 --> 00:55:13,308
It was after Mutiny on the Bounty.

989
00:55:13,435 --> 00:55:16,428
I was up in the mountains on Tahiti.

990
00:55:16,563 --> 00:55:19,306
And this guy said, "Do you see
that little island out there?"

991
00:55:19,441 --> 00:55:21,182
And I said, "No, I can't see it."

992
00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:23,442
He says, "Can't you see it?"

993
00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:25,687
"It's called Tetiaroa."

994
00:55:29,910 --> 00:55:31,651
I never was in a place that told me

995
00:55:31,787 --> 00:55:34,325
to quit running the way this place does,

996
00:55:34,456 --> 00:55:36,448
the way these people do.

997
00:55:43,382 --> 00:55:48,173
If I've come closer to a sense
of peace, it would be there.

998
00:55:54,852 --> 00:55:57,390
I didn't think of myself
as an owner of the island,

999
00:55:57,521 --> 00:56:01,014
I just thought that I'd paid
for the privilege of visiting there.

1000
00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:04,142
I had nothing to give to them.

1001
00:56:04,361 --> 00:56:06,569
They had everything to give to me.

1002
00:56:09,908 --> 00:56:11,365
They don't care who you are,

1003
00:56:11,493 --> 00:56:13,075
they don't care what you do.

1004
00:56:13,203 --> 00:56:15,411
They don't know
that you're a movie star.

1005
00:56:15,539 --> 00:56:16,871
They couldn't care less.

1006
00:56:16,999 --> 00:56:22,211
You cannot lay dollars down
on the table and buy their soul.

1007
00:56:22,921 --> 00:56:25,959
Very warm, loving people.

1008
00:56:26,091 --> 00:56:28,083
They come up and put their arm
around you,

1009
00:56:28,218 --> 00:56:30,426
come and kiss you for no reason at all.

1010
00:56:30,554 --> 00:56:32,386
They just take love for granted.

1011
00:56:33,015 --> 00:56:34,472
INTERVIEWER: Is there any actress

1012
00:56:34,641 --> 00:56:37,759
that you've especially enjoyed
working with, and why?

1013
00:56:37,895 --> 00:56:39,852
(BRANDO LAUGHS)

1014
00:56:39,980 --> 00:56:42,188
BRANDO: That is funny.

1015
00:56:42,316 --> 00:56:44,148
Don't look at me.

1016
00:56:49,197 --> 00:56:50,813
If you took some kid

1017
00:56:50,949 --> 00:56:52,440
and you brought him up in Tahiti,

1018
00:56:52,576 --> 00:56:54,659
he'd be a completely different kid.

1019
00:56:54,786 --> 00:56:59,747
He wouldn't have this cruel, mean
society killing him every day,

1020
00:56:59,875 --> 00:57:01,582
killing the life out of him.

1021
00:57:01,752 --> 00:57:02,993
All these kids of mine

1022
00:57:03,128 --> 00:57:05,211
are filled with love from Tahiti.

1023
00:57:11,136 --> 00:57:12,752
Here comes Cheyenne.

1024
00:57:12,888 --> 00:57:16,472
Hi, honey. She's going to give you
a little song here.

1025
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:18,341
- Ready?
- (CHEYENNE SPEAKS FRENCH)

1026
00:57:18,769 --> 00:57:20,931
(CHEYENNE SINGS IN FRENCH)

1027
00:57:41,750 --> 00:57:43,616
(CHEYENNE LAUGHS)

1028
00:57:46,171 --> 00:57:50,211
BRANDO: Ah, beautiful.
That's my very favorite song.

1029
00:57:50,342 --> 00:57:52,459
I love to hear you sing that.

1030
00:57:56,682 --> 00:58:00,471
Tahitians have the beauty
of sleeping children.

1031
00:58:00,602 --> 00:58:02,184
And when they waken,

1032
00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:05,931
they will waken into the nightmare

1033
00:58:06,066 --> 00:58:08,308
that the white man lives in,

1034
00:58:08,527 --> 00:58:11,736
the nightmare of the want of things.

1035
00:58:15,534 --> 00:58:17,491
MAN OVER PHONE: Hello. Don Wagner.

1036
00:58:17,619 --> 00:58:20,202
If you're back from vacation,
give me a call.

1037
00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:21,741
(HANGS UP)

1038
00:58:21,873 --> 00:58:24,206
WOMAN OVER PHONE:
I want to get a script to Marlon Brando.

1039
00:58:24,334 --> 00:58:26,792
United Artists gave me your number.

1040
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,877
(HANGS UP)

1041
00:58:29,006 --> 00:58:31,373
WAGNER OVER PHONE:
We're trying to locate you, Marlon,

1042
00:58:31,550 --> 00:58:34,133
and I don't know where you are.

1043
00:58:34,261 --> 00:58:36,924
If you get the message,
can you talk to us a little bit?

1044
00:58:37,055 --> 00:58:38,421
(HANGS UP)

1045
00:58:38,598 --> 00:58:40,681
MAN OVER PHONE: Hello?

1046
00:58:40,851 --> 00:58:44,640
Hello? I can't believe
there isn't somebody there. Hello?

1047
00:58:44,771 --> 00:58:45,852
Shit.

1048
00:58:47,232 --> 00:58:49,440
BRANDO:
I'm interested in making enough money

1049
00:58:49,568 --> 00:58:52,732
so I can say "fuck you" to money,
but that's all.

1050
00:58:55,157 --> 00:58:59,401
Acting afforded me
the opportunity of time.

1051
00:58:59,619 --> 00:59:01,656
I didn't have to do anything.

1052
00:59:01,788 --> 00:59:03,029
I only had to do it once a year

1053
00:59:03,165 --> 00:59:05,282
for three months at the most.

1054
00:59:07,210 --> 00:59:10,294
It became just a way of making a living.

1055
00:59:14,843 --> 00:59:16,960
LAWRENCE JAMESON:
You're certainly unprincipled.

1056
00:59:17,095 --> 00:59:18,927
Lying and cheating
come naturally to you.

1057
00:59:19,056 --> 00:59:21,594
You're completely without moral qualms.

1058
00:59:21,725 --> 00:59:25,014
Yeah, you see, everybody's got
a good side if you look for it.

1059
00:59:26,396 --> 00:59:29,810
BRANDO: Lying for a living,
that's what acting is.

1060
00:59:29,941 --> 00:59:34,231
All I've done is just learned
how to be aware of the process.

1061
00:59:35,155 --> 00:59:37,568
All of you are actors.

1062
00:59:37,699 --> 00:59:41,443
And good actors,
because you're all liars.

1063
00:59:41,620 --> 00:59:44,158
When you're saying something
you don't mean,

1064
00:59:44,331 --> 00:59:46,823
or refraining from saying something

1065
00:59:46,958 --> 00:59:48,415
that you really do mean,

1066
00:59:48,627 --> 00:59:49,708
that's acting.

1067
00:59:53,256 --> 00:59:55,418
Let me give you an example.

1068
00:59:57,260 --> 01:00:00,753
You're coming home, four o'clock
in the morning, reeking of whiskey,

1069
01:00:00,889 --> 01:00:04,678
and there she is, waiting at
the top of the stairs, your wife.

1070
01:00:06,019 --> 01:00:08,227
You wouldn't believe me, sweetheart.

1071
01:00:08,396 --> 01:00:11,059
You wouldn't believe
what happened to me.

1072
01:00:11,191 --> 01:00:13,979
Your mind is going 10,000 mph.

1073
01:00:14,111 --> 01:00:15,898
You're lying at the speed of light.

1074
01:00:16,029 --> 01:00:17,861
You're lying to save your life.

1075
01:00:17,989 --> 01:00:21,608
The last thing in the world
you want her to know is the truth.

1076
01:00:25,455 --> 01:00:26,912
You lie for peace,

1077
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:28,372
you lie for tranquility,

1078
01:00:28,500 --> 01:00:29,957
you lie for love.

1079
01:00:32,546 --> 01:00:34,708
So, we all act.

1080
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,957
Some people get paid for that.

1081
01:00:38,218 --> 01:00:41,211
In my experience, with the camera,

1082
01:00:41,346 --> 01:00:44,339
if you're a liar
or you're telling a lie,

1083
01:00:44,474 --> 01:00:48,013
you better be able to do it
with consummate skill.

1084
01:00:48,145 --> 01:00:49,477
If you're not thinking properly,

1085
01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:50,807
if you're not in your part,

1086
01:00:50,939 --> 01:00:53,977
it just shows up and there's nothing
you can do about it.

1087
01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:56,108
(BUZZER)

1088
01:01:01,950 --> 01:01:05,569
I was ridiculous in the part
that I played.

1089
01:01:05,787 --> 01:01:07,369
Everything went bad.

1090
01:01:08,165 --> 01:01:10,077
Take off those pajamas.

1091
01:01:10,208 --> 01:01:11,208
This is silly.

1092
01:01:11,334 --> 01:01:13,371
We'll see how silly this is.

1093
01:01:15,172 --> 01:01:16,458
(SQUEALS)

1094
01:01:18,383 --> 01:01:19,624
What is your name?

1095
01:01:19,759 --> 01:01:20,795
Candy.

1096
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:25,509
BRANDO: Probably the worst movie
I ever made in my life was called Candy.

1097
01:01:28,393 --> 01:01:30,976
Oh Jesus, Mother Mary.

1098
01:01:33,857 --> 01:01:35,940
How can you do that to yourself?

1099
01:01:36,067 --> 01:01:38,400
Haven't you got any fucking pride left?

1100
01:01:41,156 --> 01:01:42,988
I've lost the audience.

1101
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,903
You can see it
when you walk into a restaurant.

1102
01:01:48,038 --> 01:01:50,325
"Are you still making movies?"

1103
01:01:50,498 --> 01:01:51,989
If you've made a hit movie,

1104
01:01:52,125 --> 01:01:56,165
you get the full 32-teeth display.

1105
01:01:58,006 --> 01:01:59,372
You gotta be somebody.

1106
01:01:59,507 --> 01:02:02,215
If you're not anybody,
you've committed a sin.

1107
01:02:03,428 --> 01:02:05,465
And you're on your own.

1108
01:02:05,597 --> 01:02:09,307
You're on a goat trail way up,
and you're alone.

1109
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:23,737
BRANDO: Hello?

1110
01:02:25,158 --> 01:02:26,524
Hello?

1111
01:02:28,453 --> 01:02:31,992
Sensitivity is too high.

1112
01:02:32,123 --> 01:02:34,581
The sensitivity is too high.

1113
01:02:42,801 --> 01:02:48,047
The neurotic individual's entire
self-esteem shrinks to nothing

1114
01:02:48,181 --> 01:02:51,140
if he does not receive admiration.

1115
01:02:52,852 --> 01:02:55,765
To be admired and to be respected

1116
01:02:55,897 --> 01:02:58,014
is a protection against helplessness

1117
01:02:58,149 --> 01:03:00,391
and against insignificance.

1118
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:06,238
And because
he's continually sensing humiliation,

1119
01:03:06,366 --> 01:03:10,110
it will be difficult for him
to have anyone as a friend.

1120
01:03:14,124 --> 01:03:16,616
I used to think I'd never grow up.

1121
01:03:17,502 --> 01:03:20,119
I thought that life would go on forever.

1122
01:03:21,381 --> 01:03:23,464
And then I worried,

1123
01:03:23,591 --> 01:03:25,253
somewhere in the middle years,

1124
01:03:25,385 --> 01:03:28,549
life is going away and I haven't done
this and I haven't done that.

1125
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:30,171
I've been denied that experience,

1126
01:03:30,307 --> 01:03:32,970
I've denied myself that experience.

1127
01:03:34,394 --> 01:03:37,683
There was a famous dancer, Ulanova.

1128
01:03:37,856 --> 01:03:41,440
And she asked what would be her dream.

1129
01:03:42,736 --> 01:03:46,571
"If I can dance for one minute,

1130
01:03:46,698 --> 01:03:48,189
perfectly...

1131
01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:52,819
that is all I would ever ask."

1132
01:04:11,556 --> 01:04:16,142
Francis Coppola wanted me
for the part of the The Godfather,

1133
01:04:16,269 --> 01:04:18,761
but the studio was fighting it.

1134
01:04:19,606 --> 01:04:23,850
It was demeaning to do a screen test,

1135
01:04:23,985 --> 01:04:26,352
but I needed a part at that time.

1136
01:04:27,697 --> 01:04:30,440
I wasn't sure
I could play that part either.

1137
01:04:31,743 --> 01:04:35,453
I got some cotton and I put some here,

1138
01:04:35,580 --> 01:04:37,242
little bit of cotton down there.

1139
01:04:37,374 --> 01:04:39,912
(SPEAKS HOARSELY)
And the first thing you know,

1140
01:04:40,043 --> 01:04:41,784
I'm talking like this.

1141
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:44,624
(NORMAL VOICE) Like I took a shot
in the throat or something.

1142
01:04:44,756 --> 01:04:46,793
(MUMBLES)

1143
01:04:46,966 --> 01:04:48,798
Mumbled my way through it.

1144
01:04:50,261 --> 01:04:54,175
The greatest fear an actor has is fear.

1145
01:04:54,307 --> 01:04:55,548
How you're gonna be judged.

1146
01:04:56,893 --> 01:04:59,681
I don't wanna get caught trying,

1147
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:02,521
I don't wanna get caught being afraid

1148
01:05:02,649 --> 01:05:04,982
that my story, my pretending,

1149
01:05:05,110 --> 01:05:06,817
my lie

1150
01:05:06,986 --> 01:05:09,273
is going to be disbelieved.

1151
01:05:09,406 --> 01:05:13,195
That's gonna steal
your performance away.

1152
01:05:15,203 --> 01:05:17,490
You have to look at the cameraman,

1153
01:05:17,622 --> 01:05:19,329
the producer lurking in the corner

1154
01:05:19,457 --> 01:05:24,373
and say,
"I don't give a fuck about any of you."

1155
01:05:24,504 --> 01:05:27,542
And if by chance an honest man
like yourself should make enemies,

1156
01:05:27,674 --> 01:05:29,791
then they would become my enemies.

1157
01:05:32,429 --> 01:05:34,216
And then they will fear you.

1158
01:05:35,974 --> 01:05:40,184
BRANDO: Putting on a mask,
building a life...

1159
01:05:40,311 --> 01:05:42,553
Little by little I got into this part.

1160
01:05:44,357 --> 01:05:46,223
And then suddenly,

1161
01:05:46,359 --> 01:05:48,351
something gets a hold of you.

1162
01:05:48,486 --> 01:05:51,479
What is the nature of criminality?

1163
01:05:51,614 --> 01:05:53,150
Where does it come from?

1164
01:05:58,788 --> 01:06:01,280
We have this antiquated belief

1165
01:06:01,416 --> 01:06:04,250
in the myth of goodness and evil.

1166
01:06:04,377 --> 01:06:06,790
I don't believe in either one of those.

1167
01:06:07,797 --> 01:06:10,835
And I thought it would be interesting
to play a gangster,

1168
01:06:11,009 --> 01:06:12,671
not from the point of view

1169
01:06:12,802 --> 01:06:14,384
that he was the bad guy,

1170
01:06:14,512 --> 01:06:16,674
but that he was very gentle.

1171
01:06:17,348 --> 01:06:18,805
A hero.

1172
01:06:20,101 --> 01:06:22,684
It is not hard to do the big things.

1173
01:06:22,812 --> 01:06:24,394
You can act like a man...

1174
01:06:24,522 --> 01:06:25,763
BRANDO: To scream and yell,

1175
01:06:25,899 --> 01:06:30,109
to get mad and to let somebody have it
right in the mouth.

1176
01:06:30,236 --> 01:06:33,650
It's much harder to do nothing.

1177
01:06:33,781 --> 01:06:36,865
They shot Sonny on the causeway.

1178
01:06:37,035 --> 01:06:38,367
He's dead.

1179
01:06:39,496 --> 01:06:41,488
(SIGHS)

1180
01:06:43,416 --> 01:06:47,035
BRANDO:
Just to sit there and think is a lot.

1181
01:06:51,758 --> 01:06:54,216
I want all inquiries made.

1182
01:06:54,344 --> 01:06:56,631
I want no acts of vengeance.

1183
01:06:57,931 --> 01:07:00,093
This war stops now.

1184
01:07:00,808 --> 01:07:04,677
BRANDO:
Shakespeare addressing all artists.

1185
01:07:04,812 --> 01:07:07,020
Suit the action to the word

1186
01:07:07,148 --> 01:07:08,935
and the word to the action.

1187
01:07:09,108 --> 01:07:12,442
To hold the mirror up to nature,

1188
01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:16,029
to show virtue her own feature,

1189
01:07:16,157 --> 01:07:18,023
scorn her own image

1190
01:07:18,159 --> 01:07:21,402
and the very age and body of the time

1191
01:07:22,121 --> 01:07:23,407
its form and pressure.

1192
01:07:23,540 --> 01:07:25,497
There wasn't enough time, Michael.

1193
01:07:25,625 --> 01:07:27,241
There wasn't enough time.

1194
01:07:27,418 --> 01:07:28,784
We'll get there, Pop.

1195
01:07:29,754 --> 01:07:31,620
BRANDO: Everything that we do

1196
01:07:31,756 --> 01:07:35,340
should reflect the atmosphere
of our lives.

1197
01:07:35,468 --> 01:07:40,429
We're living now
in this mad, crazy, murderous world.

1198
01:07:44,435 --> 01:07:47,928
If I were brought up in that society,

1199
01:07:49,148 --> 01:07:50,514
I'd be like them.

1200
01:07:51,359 --> 01:07:53,442
Under certain circumstances,

1201
01:07:53,570 --> 01:07:55,778
you could do the same thing.

1202
01:07:57,740 --> 01:08:01,450
If anybody would ever try
to take advantage of my children,

1203
01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:03,820
hurting somebody that I love,

1204
01:08:03,955 --> 01:08:05,287
I'd fight for them,

1205
01:08:05,415 --> 01:08:06,906
I would kill them.

1206
01:08:11,629 --> 01:08:13,291
(TAPE RECORDER CLICKS)

1207
01:08:13,423 --> 01:08:16,336
CHRISTIAN OVER PHONE: Hi, Dad,
I hope you're feeling fine and, uh...

1208
01:08:16,467 --> 01:08:17,467
I don't know.

1209
01:08:17,594 --> 01:08:20,132
I'm just here. I'm working really hard.

1210
01:08:20,263 --> 01:08:23,097
When you come down, I was wondering
if you would send my schoolbooks,

1211
01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:26,934
'cause I'm kinda getting behind
on my schoolwork and... You know?

1212
01:08:27,103 --> 01:08:29,595
Well, I'll see you whenever
you come, if you come.

1213
01:08:30,982 --> 01:08:32,564
(HANGS UP)

1214
01:08:37,488 --> 01:08:40,606
FEMALE REPORTER: Marlon Brando's son
Christian has been kidnapped.

1215
01:08:40,742 --> 01:08:43,234
Police initially suspected
mafia involvement

1216
01:08:43,369 --> 01:08:46,703
following Brando's portrayal
of godfather Vito Corleone.

1217
01:08:46,831 --> 01:08:49,039
MAN: Marlon Brando told me,

1218
01:08:49,208 --> 01:08:50,870
"Mr Armes, we want him found,

1219
01:08:51,002 --> 01:08:53,665
we want him brought back
to Los Angeles,

1220
01:08:53,838 --> 01:08:55,454
no matter what it takes."

1221
01:08:57,008 --> 01:08:59,591
FEMALE REPORTER:
Armes flew into Mexico in a helicopter

1222
01:08:59,719 --> 01:09:02,132
and recovered the 13-year-old boy.

1223
01:09:02,305 --> 01:09:05,218
ARMES: Christian was found
with a bunch of hippie characters.

1224
01:09:05,391 --> 01:09:09,681
He had a terrible case of bronchial
pneumonia and he could barely speak.

1225
01:09:09,812 --> 01:09:12,475
Why did they say they had him there
in the first place?

1226
01:09:12,649 --> 01:09:15,107
They stated they had the boy there

1227
01:09:15,234 --> 01:09:18,147
because Anna,
being the mother of the boy,

1228
01:09:18,279 --> 01:09:21,238
promised them 10,000 dollars

1229
01:09:21,366 --> 01:09:23,653
to hide him out from Marlon Brando.

1230
01:09:23,785 --> 01:09:27,028
MALE REPORTER: Christian Brando was
the source of a lengthy custody battle.

1231
01:09:27,246 --> 01:09:28,862
FEMALE REPORTER:
A history which saw Christian

1232
01:09:28,998 --> 01:09:30,455
used as a pawn in a bitter divorce

1233
01:09:30,583 --> 01:09:32,791
and a string
of scandalous public headlines.

1234
01:09:32,919 --> 01:09:35,411
ANNA OVER PHONE:
I just happen to be his mother.

1235
01:09:35,588 --> 01:09:38,877
You are not anybody, is that clear?

1236
01:09:39,008 --> 01:09:40,544
(HANGS UP)

1237
01:09:40,677 --> 01:09:43,465
BRANDO: When it comes to my son
and my children,

1238
01:09:43,596 --> 01:09:46,430
you're speaking to someone
that has a different impulse.

1239
01:09:46,557 --> 01:09:48,844
FEMALE REPORTER:
For the very private Marlon Brando,

1240
01:09:48,976 --> 01:09:52,469
the public spotlight
was once again painfully bright.

1241
01:09:57,276 --> 01:10:00,189
(DOG BARKS IN THE DISTANCE)

1242
01:10:04,117 --> 01:10:06,860
BRANDO: This is the to-do list.

1243
01:10:06,994 --> 01:10:09,828
Check Christian's house

1244
01:10:09,997 --> 01:10:11,909
and get the door fixed.

1245
01:10:13,251 --> 01:10:15,459
Change the locks.

1246
01:10:15,586 --> 01:10:17,498
Make them larger.

1247
01:10:19,006 --> 01:10:20,918
Install camera

1248
01:10:21,884 --> 01:10:25,878
at the gate with radio transmission

1249
01:10:26,013 --> 01:10:27,379
at both gates.

1250
01:10:28,349 --> 01:10:32,514
Put lights on so we can see at night

1251
01:10:32,645 --> 01:10:34,602
who the fuck it is out there.

1252
01:10:46,075 --> 01:10:49,864
I'm not going to lay myself
at the feet of the American public

1253
01:10:49,996 --> 01:10:52,989
and invite them into my soul.

1254
01:10:53,124 --> 01:10:54,786
My soul is a private place.

1255
01:11:09,348 --> 01:11:12,637
If they think I'm going to bare my soul
for the next movie,

1256
01:11:12,769 --> 01:11:15,261
they're gonna choke
on their shrimp salad.

1257
01:11:15,396 --> 01:11:17,183
I don't know what to call you.

1258
01:11:17,356 --> 01:11:19,723
I don't have a name.

1259
01:11:19,859 --> 01:11:23,819
- You want to know my name?
- No, I don't want to know your name.

1260
01:11:23,988 --> 01:11:26,150
You don't have a name
and I don't have a name either.

1261
01:11:26,324 --> 01:11:28,782
No names here. Not one name.

1262
01:11:30,912 --> 01:11:34,781
BERTOLUCCI: I was curious
about the person in front of me,

1263
01:11:34,916 --> 01:11:37,784
and the person in front of me
was Brando.

1264
01:11:39,420 --> 01:11:42,379
BRANDO:
Bertolucci wanted to get a perfect

1265
01:11:42,507 --> 01:11:45,250
autobiographical sketch of myself

1266
01:11:45,384 --> 01:11:46,795
in this film.

1267
01:11:46,969 --> 01:11:50,679
He wanted me to be me.

1268
01:11:50,807 --> 01:11:54,551
BERTOLUCCI: I want the person I see
when I go to have dinner with him,

1269
01:11:54,685 --> 01:11:57,302
when we talk and quarrel and discuss.

1270
01:11:57,939 --> 01:12:00,682
BRANDO: And I thought,
"I'm not going to do that."

1271
01:12:00,817 --> 01:12:02,649
"I'm not going to do that for you."

1272
01:12:02,777 --> 01:12:04,609
"What the fuck do you think I am?"

1273
01:12:05,822 --> 01:12:09,236
BERTOLUCCI: He was obsessed by privacy.

1274
01:12:09,408 --> 01:12:13,618
He never wanted anybody
to go deep inside him.

1275
01:12:15,957 --> 01:12:18,950
BRANDO: Smart con people find out

1276
01:12:19,085 --> 01:12:21,873
where you want to go emotionally.

1277
01:12:22,004 --> 01:12:23,961
They find out what your direction is

1278
01:12:24,090 --> 01:12:26,332
and then they help you along with that,

1279
01:12:26,467 --> 01:12:28,049
reinforcing it,

1280
01:12:28,177 --> 01:12:31,215
guiding it to their own sweet ends.

1281
01:12:33,432 --> 01:12:36,721
Marlon, there is nothing to fear.

1282
01:12:36,853 --> 01:12:40,142
It's very important
to trust in this process.

1283
01:12:41,065 --> 01:12:45,105
BERTOLUCCI:
Marlon, say something about your past.

1284
01:12:45,236 --> 01:12:47,944
Show in my film what you really are.

1285
01:12:50,575 --> 01:12:53,864
My father was a drunk.

1286
01:12:56,122 --> 01:12:57,579
Tough.

1287
01:12:57,707 --> 01:13:01,291
Whore-fucker, bar fighter,
super masculine.

1288
01:13:02,670 --> 01:13:05,708
And it was tough.

1289
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:07,706
My mother was very...

1290
01:13:09,093 --> 01:13:11,631
very poetic.

1291
01:13:11,762 --> 01:13:13,674
But also a drunk.

1292
01:13:13,806 --> 01:13:16,890
BERTOLUCCI: Go deeper and deeper...

1293
01:13:17,894 --> 01:13:20,637
Every time more and more real.

1294
01:13:23,691 --> 01:13:27,480
Marlon was invading
the character of Paul.

1295
01:13:31,282 --> 01:13:33,569
BRANDO:
You lied to me and I trusted you.

1296
01:13:33,701 --> 01:13:35,658
You lied and you knew you were lying.

1297
01:13:35,786 --> 01:13:38,199
Go on, tell me something sweet.

1298
01:13:38,331 --> 01:13:42,041
Smile at me and say...
I just misunderstood.

1299
01:13:43,586 --> 01:13:45,202
Go on, tell me.

1300
01:13:45,922 --> 01:13:49,086
BRANDO: Maybe you're desperate for love,

1301
01:13:49,216 --> 01:13:51,253
always have been in your life.

1302
01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:54,511
But you've been distrustful of people.

1303
01:13:54,639 --> 01:13:56,801
Is there anything about them
that scares us,

1304
01:13:56,933 --> 01:13:59,971
that's dangerous, that's gonna hurt us?

1305
01:14:00,102 --> 01:14:03,140
'Cause a lot of people
are frightened to death of love.

1306
01:14:05,524 --> 01:14:08,517
(TRAIN APPROACHES)

1307
01:14:10,613 --> 01:14:12,605
Fucking God!

1308
01:14:17,536 --> 01:14:21,496
BRANDO: Last Tango in Paris
was a very hard film for me.

1309
01:14:22,333 --> 01:14:26,373
I realized,
"You know you're naked, Marlon."

1310
01:14:29,966 --> 01:14:32,629
BERTOLUCCI: When he saw the movie,
he was shocked.

1311
01:14:33,803 --> 01:14:35,544
He felt betrayed by me,

1312
01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:40,892
because I stole from him
so many sincere things.

1313
01:14:42,395 --> 01:14:43,852
REPORTER: After his comeback

1314
01:14:43,980 --> 01:14:47,018
as the ageing romantic hero
of Last Tango in Paris,

1315
01:14:47,149 --> 01:14:48,731
and as the Godfather,

1316
01:14:48,859 --> 01:14:51,146
Marlon Brando is once again
the brightest

1317
01:14:51,278 --> 01:14:54,112
and most bankable of Hollywood stars.

1318
01:15:00,663 --> 01:15:04,282
(FANFARE ON TV)

1319
01:15:04,417 --> 01:15:07,831
PRESENTER:
Live, the Academy Awards presentation.

1320
01:15:10,339 --> 01:15:11,921
The winner is...

1321
01:15:16,387 --> 01:15:18,720
Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

1322
01:15:18,848 --> 01:15:20,259
(APPLAUSE)

1323
01:15:23,019 --> 01:15:26,808
PRESENTER: Accepting the award
for Marlon Brando in The Godfather,

1324
01:15:26,981 --> 01:15:29,268
Miss Sacheen Littlefeather.

1325
01:15:38,868 --> 01:15:43,203
Hello. I'm representing Marlon Brando
this evening

1326
01:15:43,330 --> 01:15:44,946
and he has asked me to tell you

1327
01:15:45,082 --> 01:15:48,666
that he very regretfully cannot accept

1328
01:15:48,794 --> 01:15:51,787
this very generous award.

1329
01:15:51,922 --> 01:15:54,585
And the reasons for this being

1330
01:15:54,717 --> 01:15:57,801
are the treatment
of American Indians today

1331
01:15:57,928 --> 01:16:01,763
by the film industry... excuse me.

1332
01:16:01,891 --> 01:16:05,430
(BOOING AND APPLAUSE)

1333
01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:12,308
I beg we will meet
with love and generosity.

1334
01:16:12,443 --> 01:16:15,607
Thank you on behalf of Marlon Brando.

1335
01:16:17,782 --> 01:16:19,318
INTERVIEWER: Tell me then, way back,

1336
01:16:19,450 --> 01:16:21,783
when you were interested
in the Indians' fishing rights

1337
01:16:21,911 --> 01:16:25,370
before it was fashionable to be so,

1338
01:16:25,498 --> 01:16:27,239
what triggered that?

1339
01:16:27,416 --> 01:16:31,035
What we have learned about the Indians
has been largely taught to us

1340
01:16:31,170 --> 01:16:34,379
by Hollywood and by motion pictures.

1341
01:16:34,507 --> 01:16:38,501
Seeing Indians represented as savage,

1342
01:16:38,677 --> 01:16:41,465
as ugly, as nasty and vicious.

1343
01:16:42,306 --> 01:16:46,095
Everything we are taught about
the American Indian is wrong.

1344
01:16:48,145 --> 01:16:49,977
There have been 400 treaties

1345
01:16:50,106 --> 01:16:53,099
written by the United States
in good faith with the Indians

1346
01:16:53,234 --> 01:16:56,068
and every single one of them was broken.

1347
01:16:56,195 --> 01:16:59,654
We like to see ourselves
as perhaps John Wayne sees us.

1348
01:16:59,824 --> 01:17:03,158
That we are a country
that stands for freedom,

1349
01:17:03,285 --> 01:17:05,868
for rightness, for justice.

1350
01:17:06,038 --> 01:17:08,246
It just simply doesn't apply.

1351
01:17:08,374 --> 01:17:11,333
And we were the most rapacious,

1352
01:17:11,460 --> 01:17:13,372
aggressive, destructive,

1353
01:17:13,504 --> 01:17:17,339
torturing, monstrous people,

1354
01:17:17,508 --> 01:17:20,125
who swept from one coast to the other

1355
01:17:20,261 --> 01:17:23,880
murdering and causing mayhem
among the Indians...

1356
01:17:24,014 --> 01:17:25,380
(ONE PERSON APPLAUDS LOUDLY)

1357
01:17:25,516 --> 01:17:27,223
There is one Indian in here.

1358
01:17:27,351 --> 01:17:29,343
(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)

1359
01:17:34,692 --> 01:17:37,059
But that isn't revealed,

1360
01:17:37,194 --> 01:17:39,402
'cause we don't like
that image of ourselves.

1361
01:17:40,865 --> 01:17:44,449
I don't think the Americans
want to face the truth.

1362
01:17:44,660 --> 01:17:47,573
(WHISPERS)
We are all living on stolen land.

1363
01:17:49,748 --> 01:17:53,037
I've seen so many of my friends killed.

1364
01:17:53,169 --> 01:17:55,035
Shot. Stabbed.

1365
01:17:56,297 --> 01:17:57,754
Where do you draw the line?

1366
01:17:57,882 --> 01:17:59,168
At what point do you say,

1367
01:17:59,300 --> 01:18:01,633
"God damn it, this is my turf."

1368
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:03,001
"I was here first."

1369
01:18:03,137 --> 01:18:06,221
"One more step on this land
and you're gonna get it."

1370
01:18:07,933 --> 01:18:12,428
I was with Indian armed resistance
in Kenosha, Wisconsin...

1371
01:18:13,480 --> 01:18:16,973
insisting a piece of land
belonged to them.

1372
01:18:18,736 --> 01:18:19,772
(GUNSHOT)

1373
01:18:19,904 --> 01:18:23,568
Then I heard the rifle shot
from the National Guard.

1374
01:18:23,699 --> 01:18:24,735
(GUNFIRE)

1375
01:18:24,867 --> 01:18:27,200
Bullets started sizzling by me.

1376
01:18:27,328 --> 01:18:29,490
(MIMICS THE HISS OF PASSING BULLETS)

1377
01:18:29,622 --> 01:18:32,205
Four feet away from death.

1378
01:18:33,375 --> 01:18:36,243
There was an effort
on the part of the government

1379
01:18:36,378 --> 01:18:39,371
to cover up the military involvement.

1380
01:18:39,506 --> 01:18:43,250
And any cover-ups
are going to be looked into.

1381
01:18:43,385 --> 01:18:48,096
After Watergate and all that corruption
going on, we just can't afford it.

1382
01:18:48,974 --> 01:18:50,806
INTERVIEWER:
Are most Indian phones tapped?

1383
01:18:50,935 --> 01:18:52,096
BRANDO: Of course.

1384
01:18:52,228 --> 01:18:54,094
- INTERVIEWER: Is yours?
- BRANDO: Of course.

1385
01:18:54,230 --> 01:18:55,641
INTERVIEWER: Do you think that you

1386
01:18:55,814 --> 01:18:58,272
are considered a dangerous person
to the FBI?

1387
01:18:59,235 --> 01:19:01,022
BRANDO: I'm putting myself on the line

1388
01:19:01,153 --> 01:19:03,440
and I have to make it my business
to find out,

1389
01:19:03,572 --> 01:19:06,815
and all these bones
are gonna come out of the graves.

1390
01:19:07,868 --> 01:19:09,655
So they lie.

1391
01:19:09,828 --> 01:19:14,664
Congressmen, presidents, all of them.

1392
01:19:15,751 --> 01:19:17,663
They lie when they're alone,

1393
01:19:18,170 --> 01:19:20,253
they lie when they're asleep.

1394
01:19:20,965 --> 01:19:24,959
They never see faces
without lies anymore,

1395
01:19:25,094 --> 01:19:26,926
except the dead ones.

1396
01:19:27,930 --> 01:19:30,138
They're the true assassins,

1397
01:19:30,266 --> 01:19:32,053
the true murderers.

1398
01:19:34,603 --> 01:19:36,390
Are you an assassin?

1399
01:19:37,273 --> 01:19:38,639
I'm a soldier.

1400
01:19:41,860 --> 01:19:43,317
You're neither.

1401
01:19:45,447 --> 01:19:47,188
You're an errand boy.

1402
01:19:48,409 --> 01:19:50,901
Sent by grocery clerks.

1403
01:19:54,290 --> 01:19:56,031
To collect a bill.

1404
01:19:58,335 --> 01:19:59,701
BRANDO: These are random notes

1405
01:19:59,878 --> 01:20:04,213
on the subject
of the picture Apocalypse Now.

1406
01:20:04,341 --> 01:20:08,051
Find out the details
of actual special forces operations

1407
01:20:08,178 --> 01:20:09,840
in the jungle of this kind.

1408
01:20:09,972 --> 01:20:13,215
I want to get
as many reports as possible.

1409
01:20:14,268 --> 01:20:17,306
Check the gruesome pictures
in Life magazine.

1410
01:20:17,438 --> 01:20:20,351
Also the pictures
that Larry Burrows took.

1411
01:20:22,443 --> 01:20:25,026
People talk about how proud they are

1412
01:20:25,195 --> 01:20:27,687
of their son who died in Vietnam,

1413
01:20:27,865 --> 01:20:29,982
fighting for his country.

1414
01:20:31,118 --> 01:20:34,532
They had parents so hogwashed

1415
01:20:34,663 --> 01:20:37,451
that rather than alter
their belief system,

1416
01:20:37,583 --> 01:20:39,324
would kill their children.

1417
01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:44,080
Conviction of the myth is everything.

1418
01:20:44,214 --> 01:20:46,171
We need myths,

1419
01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:48,007
we live by myths,

1420
01:20:48,177 --> 01:20:50,089
we die for myths.

1421
01:20:53,474 --> 01:20:56,683
I read the script and it was stupid.

1422
01:20:56,852 --> 01:20:58,388
It was awful.

1423
01:20:59,605 --> 01:21:04,270
I told Francis, "You are making
an enormous error."

1424
01:21:04,401 --> 01:21:08,361
"This guy, Kurtz, don't misuse him."

1425
01:21:09,323 --> 01:21:11,861
I rewrote the entire script.

1426
01:21:13,243 --> 01:21:14,905
And I have it all on tape.

1427
01:21:15,037 --> 01:21:16,619
I have a tape of everything.

1428
01:21:17,623 --> 01:21:18,909
Here is a story note.

1429
01:21:19,041 --> 01:21:21,829
The guy has to be intelligent.

1430
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:23,667
He is without mercy,

1431
01:21:23,796 --> 01:21:25,879
not because he's a merciless man,

1432
01:21:26,006 --> 01:21:28,749
but simply because
that's the logic of it.

1433
01:21:28,926 --> 01:21:30,337
If you're gonna have a war,

1434
01:21:30,469 --> 01:21:33,678
you get all in or all out.

1435
01:21:34,890 --> 01:21:38,429
To kill without feeling,

1436
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:39,892
without passion...

1437
01:21:41,397 --> 01:21:44,231
without judgment, without judgment...

1438
01:21:45,734 --> 01:21:49,353
BRANDO:
I told Francis how I wanted to be lit.

1439
01:21:49,488 --> 01:21:51,730
Half shadow and half light.

1440
01:21:52,783 --> 01:21:54,945
He should be mysterious,

1441
01:21:55,077 --> 01:21:56,818
a mythological figure.

1442
01:21:57,037 --> 01:21:59,996
He is the heart of darkness.

1443
01:22:00,165 --> 01:22:03,533
BRANDO AS KURTZ: Horror has a face,

1444
01:22:03,669 --> 01:22:05,501
and you must make a friend of horror.

1445
01:22:06,839 --> 01:22:10,628
Horror and moral terror

1446
01:22:10,759 --> 01:22:12,091
are your friends.

1447
01:22:14,471 --> 01:22:17,805
BRANDO: And I felt myself coming apart,

1448
01:22:17,975 --> 01:22:20,433
splitting in two, and it scared me.

1449
01:22:23,272 --> 01:22:25,480
And yet I've gone so far.

1450
01:22:27,192 --> 01:22:29,434
I don't think...

1451
01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:33,154
that I can ever return.

1452
01:22:34,199 --> 01:22:35,940
BRANDO: And then I said to myself,

1453
01:22:36,076 --> 01:22:37,612
why are you so frightened?

1454
01:22:37,744 --> 01:22:40,327
Let the fear take you.

1455
01:22:40,456 --> 01:22:42,038
The horror.

1456
01:22:42,166 --> 01:22:44,954
BRANDO: And go with the fear.

1457
01:22:47,671 --> 01:22:49,378
The horror.

1458
01:22:52,092 --> 01:22:54,675
My film is not about Vietnam.

1459
01:22:54,803 --> 01:22:56,510
(TRANSLATES INTO FRENCH)

1460
01:22:56,638 --> 01:22:58,755
- It is Vietnam.
- (TRANSLATES INTO FRENCH)

1461
01:22:58,891 --> 01:23:00,257
It was crazy.

1462
01:23:00,392 --> 01:23:02,304
REPORTER: Director Francis Ford Coppola

1463
01:23:02,436 --> 01:23:05,019
had to contend with shooting
in the Philippine jungle,

1464
01:23:05,147 --> 01:23:08,140
a raging civil war and Marlon Brando.

1465
01:23:08,275 --> 01:23:11,188
Coppola was appalled
when Brando arrived grossly overweight

1466
01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:12,811
and had to be filmed in shadowy light.

1467
01:23:12,988 --> 01:23:15,150
COPPOLA:
He was already heavy when I hired him.

1468
01:23:15,282 --> 01:23:17,569
But he was so fat,
he was very, very shy about it.

1469
01:23:17,701 --> 01:23:20,284
REPORTER: But that was the least
of the director's problems.

1470
01:23:20,454 --> 01:23:22,366
Pulling his notorious delaying tactics,

1471
01:23:22,498 --> 01:23:23,989
Brando was up to his old tricks again

1472
01:23:24,124 --> 01:23:25,706
with endless script conferences,

1473
01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:28,417
costing the production
hundreds of thousands of dollars.

1474
01:23:28,545 --> 01:23:32,414
COPPOLA: Clearly he had just
kind of left me in a tough spot.

1475
01:23:32,549 --> 01:23:35,007
BRANDO: Francis Coppola, he's a prick,

1476
01:23:35,135 --> 01:23:36,671
a card-carrying prick.

1477
01:23:36,803 --> 01:23:38,339
I mean the cocksucker.

1478
01:23:38,472 --> 01:23:40,179
How could he do that to me?

1479
01:23:40,307 --> 01:23:41,548
I saved his fucking ass

1480
01:23:41,683 --> 01:23:43,891
and he shows his appreciation

1481
01:23:44,061 --> 01:23:46,895
by dumping on me.

1482
01:23:48,690 --> 01:23:50,773
Let the tension flow out of you.

1483
01:23:50,901 --> 01:23:52,688
Let it flow out of your mind.

1484
01:23:52,819 --> 01:23:54,731
Five, four...

1485
01:23:54,863 --> 01:23:57,446
Going down in an airplane.

1486
01:23:57,574 --> 01:23:59,736
Softly coming in.

1487
01:23:59,868 --> 01:24:02,235
One, zero.

1488
01:24:04,164 --> 01:24:06,577
You hear the Tahitians singing.

1489
01:24:06,708 --> 01:24:08,825
Far, distant laughter.

1490
01:24:10,128 --> 01:24:13,041
And it's just after the sun
has gone down.

1491
01:24:13,173 --> 01:24:14,835
A star comes.

1492
01:24:14,967 --> 01:24:16,799
The first star of the evening.

1493
01:24:16,927 --> 01:24:19,135
Peace and love.

1494
01:24:22,599 --> 01:24:24,261
And I'm looking

1495
01:24:24,393 --> 01:24:27,431
at this very deep, indescribable night.

1496
01:24:27,563 --> 01:24:30,476
I think, "God, I've no importance."

1497
01:24:30,607 --> 01:24:32,223
"Whatever I do or don't do,

1498
01:24:32,401 --> 01:24:33,562
or what anybody does

1499
01:24:33,694 --> 01:24:37,563
is no more important than
the grains of sand that I'm lying on."

1500
01:24:37,698 --> 01:24:40,782
(SPORTS COMMENTARY ON TV)

1501
01:24:42,786 --> 01:24:45,494
BRANDO: I've had 110 fights.

1502
01:24:46,582 --> 01:24:48,073
Lost twelve.

1503
01:24:49,585 --> 01:24:51,201
I'm really...

1504
01:24:51,336 --> 01:24:53,794
I've taken too many fucking punches.

1505
01:24:53,922 --> 01:24:56,209
I don't want to be stressed anymore.

1506
01:24:56,383 --> 01:24:58,670
(SPORTS COMMENTARY ON TV)

1507
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:06,091
BRANDO: You want me to play this guy?

1508
01:25:06,226 --> 01:25:07,592
I'll play that guy.

1509
01:25:08,770 --> 01:25:11,353
I'm just a service person.

1510
01:25:14,151 --> 01:25:16,484
Now, no more bullshit.

1511
01:25:16,612 --> 01:25:19,980
We come to
how are you going to fill up my pockets?

1512
01:25:20,157 --> 01:25:22,274
What are you gonna give me?

1513
01:25:27,873 --> 01:25:31,287
I've made as much as 14 million dollars

1514
01:25:31,418 --> 01:25:34,911
for 12 days' work
on a rather silly movie.

1515
01:25:35,047 --> 01:25:38,461
My friends, you know me to be
neither rash nor impulsive.

1516
01:25:39,259 --> 01:25:42,593
And I tell you that we must evacuate
this planet immediately.

1517
01:25:42,721 --> 01:25:46,556
BRANDO: I used to paste the cue card
on actors' faces.

1518
01:25:46,683 --> 01:25:48,299
It saved me a lot of time.

1519
01:25:48,477 --> 01:25:50,560
And I had things that I'd much rather do

1520
01:25:50,687 --> 01:25:53,225
other than studying the fucking lines.

1521
01:25:54,399 --> 01:25:56,641
I have found this other way to do it.

1522
01:25:56,777 --> 01:25:58,313
I had a pocket recorder

1523
01:25:58,445 --> 01:26:01,984
and I had a thing in my ear,
like a hearing aid.

1524
01:26:02,157 --> 01:26:03,693
Let's take a little walk.

1525
01:26:03,825 --> 01:26:06,192
Do you mind if I get on this side?
I got bum ears.

1526
01:26:06,328 --> 01:26:09,537
- Sure.
- My machine is on this side.

1527
01:26:09,665 --> 01:26:12,874
BRANDO: I'd get fed lines,
just a suggestion of a line,

1528
01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:16,460
and then I'd take the line and mould it.

1529
01:26:16,630 --> 01:26:18,462
It's effective.

1530
01:26:19,216 --> 01:26:22,926
I was using it in that movie.

1531
01:26:23,053 --> 01:26:25,386
I can't even remember the name of it.

1532
01:26:27,557 --> 01:26:30,800
Your eyes are closing,

1533
01:26:30,936 --> 01:26:33,679
getting heavier and heavier.

1534
01:26:34,022 --> 01:26:37,356
Just think of all the good things
that you like.

1535
01:26:38,193 --> 01:26:41,607
Like apple pie and ice cream

1536
01:26:41,738 --> 01:26:43,946
and brownies and milk.

1537
01:26:45,992 --> 01:26:48,905
But you must eat them

1538
01:26:49,037 --> 01:26:51,324
not quite so often.

1539
01:26:51,456 --> 01:26:54,415
Day by day, minute by minute,

1540
01:26:54,543 --> 01:26:58,787
second by second, you will lose fat.

1541
01:27:05,220 --> 01:27:07,132
When you get as fat as me,

1542
01:27:07,305 --> 01:27:08,671
you gotta start thinking,

1543
01:27:08,807 --> 01:27:11,174
"Well, what's the matter
with the machine?"

1544
01:27:11,309 --> 01:27:13,517
The machine isn't working right.

1545
01:27:13,645 --> 01:27:15,978
It's something out of balance here.

1546
01:27:17,274 --> 01:27:19,357
Food was always a friend.

1547
01:27:20,944 --> 01:27:22,651
When I was a kid,

1548
01:27:22,779 --> 01:27:24,065
I'd come home from school

1549
01:27:24,239 --> 01:27:25,946
and I'd open the icebox

1550
01:27:26,074 --> 01:27:28,737
and there'd be apple pie in there

1551
01:27:28,869 --> 01:27:30,451
and cheese and...

1552
01:27:30,620 --> 01:27:32,612
They'd say to me, "Come on, Mar,

1553
01:27:32,748 --> 01:27:34,614
why don't you be a pal and take me out?"

1554
01:27:34,750 --> 01:27:36,742
"I'm freezing in here."

1555
01:27:38,128 --> 01:27:39,994
The dishes were in the sink

1556
01:27:40,130 --> 01:27:43,544
and the house was unkempt.

1557
01:27:45,719 --> 01:27:48,678
I had the fear that everybody was dead

1558
01:27:48,805 --> 01:27:50,797
and pretending to be alive.

1559
01:27:54,019 --> 01:27:55,885
One time, my old man

1560
01:27:56,021 --> 01:27:57,853
was punching my mother

1561
01:27:57,981 --> 01:27:59,597
and I went up the stairs

1562
01:27:59,733 --> 01:28:01,019
and I went in the room.

1563
01:28:01,151 --> 01:28:04,144
And I had so much adrenaline,

1564
01:28:04,321 --> 01:28:05,732
and I looked at him

1565
01:28:05,864 --> 01:28:08,857
and I fucking put my eyes
right through him

1566
01:28:08,992 --> 01:28:10,699
and I said, "If you hit her again,

1567
01:28:10,827 --> 01:28:13,069
I am going to kill you."

1568
01:28:13,205 --> 01:28:14,286
(GUNSHOT)

1569
01:28:14,456 --> 01:28:15,788
(POLICE SIREN)

1570
01:28:17,459 --> 01:28:20,998
POLICE OFFICER: Copy. All available
units responding to a shooting.

1571
01:28:21,129 --> 01:28:22,870
REPORTER: The son of actor Marlon Brando

1572
01:28:23,006 --> 01:28:24,918
facing murder charges this morning.

1573
01:28:25,050 --> 01:28:30,011
32-year-old Christian Brando accused
of shooting his half-sister's boyfriend.

1574
01:28:30,138 --> 01:28:32,630
REPORTER 2:
A young man, Christian Brando.

1575
01:28:32,766 --> 01:28:35,008
His half-sister, Cheyenne Brando.

1576
01:28:35,143 --> 01:28:36,975
And her boyfriend.

1577
01:28:37,103 --> 01:28:39,220
It was a triangle that proved fatal

1578
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:41,601
and brought tragedy to the home

1579
01:28:41,733 --> 01:28:44,897
of one of the world's most famous stars.

1580
01:28:45,028 --> 01:28:46,644
LAWYER: "I shot him, man."

1581
01:28:46,822 --> 01:28:48,654
"But not on purpose."

1582
01:28:48,824 --> 01:28:50,406
"It was an accident."

1583
01:28:50,534 --> 01:28:52,241
REPORTER: The two men had quarreled

1584
01:28:52,369 --> 01:28:54,452
over Drollet's treatment
of Cheyenne Brando.

1585
01:28:54,579 --> 01:28:58,368
Mistreatment police say allegedly
included physical beating.

1586
01:28:58,500 --> 01:29:01,789
LAWYER:
"Two guys with a loaded gun, wrestling."

1587
01:29:02,420 --> 01:29:04,833
"It goes off and he's dead."

1588
01:29:08,635 --> 01:29:10,877
I saw Dag laying there

1589
01:29:11,847 --> 01:29:14,681
and I breathed into his mouth

1590
01:29:14,808 --> 01:29:16,720
and I called 911.

1591
01:29:18,186 --> 01:29:20,143
REPORTER: Asking leniency for his son,

1592
01:29:20,272 --> 01:29:24,812
Brando said Christian's life had been
filled with struggle and unhappiness,

1593
01:29:24,943 --> 01:29:27,856
traumatized by a bitter divorce.

1594
01:29:27,988 --> 01:29:30,446
I think that
perhaps I failed as a father.

1595
01:29:30,615 --> 01:29:33,699
And certainly there were things
that I could've done differently,

1596
01:29:33,827 --> 01:29:35,489
had I known better at the time.

1597
01:29:35,620 --> 01:29:37,452
I am at fault in this.

1598
01:29:37,581 --> 01:29:41,325
And if I could trade places with Dag,
I would.

1599
01:29:41,459 --> 01:29:45,294
The total sentence imposed
is ten years in the state prison.

1600
01:29:46,590 --> 01:29:50,174
REPORTER: Cheyenne Brando is suffering
from mental and physical problems

1601
01:29:50,385 --> 01:29:53,128
and cannot travel here
to testify about what she knows.

1602
01:29:53,263 --> 01:29:55,550
Cheyenne is doing her best...

1603
01:29:59,895 --> 01:30:02,638
Excuse me... sorry.

1604
01:30:03,440 --> 01:30:06,524
REPORTER: Another personal tragedy
for actor Marlon Brando.

1605
01:30:06,651 --> 01:30:09,064
His 25-year-old daughter Cheyenne

1606
01:30:09,195 --> 01:30:11,562
has committed suicide at her home
in Tahiti.

1607
01:30:11,698 --> 01:30:14,782
Cheyenne Brando reportedly
had made several suicide attempts

1608
01:30:14,910 --> 01:30:17,072
before hanging herself yesterday.

1609
01:30:18,830 --> 01:30:20,196
REPORTER 2: For Marlon Brando,

1610
01:30:20,332 --> 01:30:24,076
Tahiti will never quite be
the same again.

1611
01:30:39,184 --> 01:30:43,224
When in disgrace
with fortune and men's eyes,

1612
01:30:43,355 --> 01:30:46,063
I all alone beweep my outcast state,

1613
01:30:46,191 --> 01:30:47,807
and trouble deaf heaven

1614
01:30:47,943 --> 01:30:50,276
with my bootless cries,

1615
01:30:50,445 --> 01:30:53,779
and look upon myself and curse my fate.

1616
01:31:04,292 --> 01:31:06,909
BRANDO: There are times
when you wake up in the morning

1617
01:31:07,045 --> 01:31:10,664
and you turn over and feel,
"Shit! What a life."

1618
01:31:13,593 --> 01:31:15,334
God, I can't figure it out.

1619
01:31:15,512 --> 01:31:17,128
Why did it have to be this way?

1620
01:31:19,599 --> 01:31:20,965
I've had a hard year.

1621
01:31:22,727 --> 01:31:25,686
Maybe harder
than you could possibly imagine.

1622
01:31:31,903 --> 01:31:35,943
You try to be as strong as you can be,

1623
01:31:36,074 --> 01:31:39,943
but everybody reaches break point
sooner or later.

1624
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:45,573
Pain - I knew I had to deal with it.

1625
01:31:47,002 --> 01:31:53,169
I've spent thousands upon thousands
of dollars on psychoanalysts

1626
01:31:53,299 --> 01:31:56,883
and those guys do absolutely nothing

1627
01:31:57,012 --> 01:32:01,006
but stick pliers and screwdrivers
in your brain.

1628
01:32:03,226 --> 01:32:05,889
Life will have given me the truth

1629
01:32:06,021 --> 01:32:08,183
and taken in exchange

1630
01:32:08,314 --> 01:32:10,226
what's left of my youth.

1631
01:32:12,068 --> 01:32:14,355
It took me a while to realize,

1632
01:32:14,529 --> 01:32:16,816
you gotta be your own analyst.

1633
01:32:18,825 --> 01:32:20,782
Unless we look inwards,

1634
01:32:20,910 --> 01:32:24,950
we will not ever be able
to clearly see outwards.

1635
01:32:26,791 --> 01:32:29,283
Nobody is born evil.

1636
01:32:29,419 --> 01:32:33,459
Most people are simply
getting over bad emotional habits

1637
01:32:33,631 --> 01:32:36,920
established in the first ten years
of their life.

1638
01:32:40,055 --> 01:32:44,390
Christian was burdened
with emotional disorders

1639
01:32:44,601 --> 01:32:47,389
and psychological disarray.

1640
01:32:47,562 --> 01:32:50,054
The kind of trouble that I had in life.

1641
01:32:53,068 --> 01:32:55,606
I never tried to be like my father,

1642
01:32:55,737 --> 01:32:58,480
but one inadvertently takes on

1643
01:32:58,656 --> 01:33:01,569
the characteristics of one's parents.

1644
01:33:03,328 --> 01:33:05,240
When my father died,

1645
01:33:05,413 --> 01:33:07,996
I imagined that he was slump-shouldered,

1646
01:33:08,124 --> 01:33:11,492
walking to the edge of eternity.

1647
01:33:11,711 --> 01:33:13,828
He looked back and said,

1648
01:33:13,963 --> 01:33:15,875
"I did the best I could, kid."

1649
01:33:17,717 --> 01:33:19,458
Finally I forgave my father,

1650
01:33:19,636 --> 01:33:24,256
because I realized
that I was a sinner because of him.

1651
01:33:24,390 --> 01:33:25,631
But he was a sinner,

1652
01:33:25,767 --> 01:33:28,305
because his mother left him
when he was four.

1653
01:33:28,436 --> 01:33:30,052
He didn't have a chance.

1654
01:33:32,774 --> 01:33:35,733
And through introspection

1655
01:33:35,860 --> 01:33:38,227
and the examination of my mind,

1656
01:33:38,363 --> 01:33:40,480
I feel as though I'm coming closer

1657
01:33:40,657 --> 01:33:42,523
to the common denominator

1658
01:33:42,700 --> 01:33:44,737
of what it means to be human.

1659
01:33:49,499 --> 01:33:52,663
Everybody is capable of hatred,

1660
01:33:52,794 --> 01:33:55,207
everybody is capable of love.

1661
01:33:55,380 --> 01:33:58,373
If we stretched ourselves
one way or another,

1662
01:33:58,550 --> 01:34:00,041
we could become murderers

1663
01:34:00,176 --> 01:34:02,088
or we could become saints.

1664
01:34:03,555 --> 01:34:05,547
I've done a lot of meditation.

1665
01:34:05,723 --> 01:34:09,012
The result is that
I have felt much calmer

1666
01:34:09,144 --> 01:34:12,808
and I've had moments
of real tranquility.

1667
01:34:14,149 --> 01:34:18,359
Don't you realize that you're thought of
as the greatest actor ever?

1668
01:34:18,486 --> 01:34:20,694
Tim's the greatest actor ever.

1669
01:34:20,822 --> 01:34:23,940
He pretends he loves me when he wants
something to eat. Get outta here.

1670
01:34:25,368 --> 01:34:29,112
BRANDO: Many times
I remember being down in the dumps

1671
01:34:29,247 --> 01:34:31,034
and then I saw a movie

1672
01:34:31,166 --> 01:34:34,125
that took me away for a few hours

1673
01:34:34,252 --> 01:34:36,744
and I was completely restored.

1674
01:34:38,590 --> 01:34:40,798
And I realized, oddly enough,

1675
01:34:40,925 --> 01:34:43,918
that actors make a contribution
to people's lives,

1676
01:34:44,053 --> 01:34:47,091
giving us a gift that you can't buy.

1677
01:34:48,016 --> 01:34:50,474
Something that they can imbue

1678
01:34:50,685 --> 01:34:52,927
with power and beauty and magnificence.

1679
01:34:53,062 --> 01:34:55,054
Something beyond themselves

1680
01:34:55,190 --> 01:34:56,977
and we do need that.

1681
01:34:58,568 --> 01:35:02,061
Acting is just making stuff up,

1682
01:35:02,197 --> 01:35:03,688
but that's okay.

1683
01:35:03,823 --> 01:35:05,610
Life is a rehearsal,

1684
01:35:05,742 --> 01:35:07,324
life is an improvisation.

1685
01:35:08,786 --> 01:35:12,245
I'm gonna have a special microphone
placed in my coffin,

1686
01:35:12,373 --> 01:35:14,865
so that when I wake up in there,

1687
01:35:15,001 --> 01:35:16,333
six feet under the ground,

1688
01:35:16,461 --> 01:35:19,124
I'm gonna say, "Do it differently."

1689
01:35:23,593 --> 01:35:27,052
Anthony. Come here, come here.

1690
01:35:29,432 --> 01:35:31,173
BRANDO: The death scene.

1691
01:35:31,309 --> 01:35:32,971
That's a tough scene to play.

1692
01:35:34,896 --> 01:35:38,765
You have to make them believe
that you're dying.

1693
01:35:38,900 --> 01:35:42,109
I would hope it would be
with one person.

1694
01:35:42,237 --> 01:35:44,103
It would be something simple,

1695
01:35:44,239 --> 01:35:46,606
like playing tiddlywinks

1696
01:35:46,783 --> 01:35:50,117
or... I don't know, jackstraws.

1697
01:35:51,246 --> 01:35:52,327
(MOANS)

1698
01:35:54,332 --> 01:35:56,665
- (ANTHONY CRIES)
- CORLEONE: Oh, no! (LAUGHS)

1699
01:35:58,086 --> 01:35:59,577
(CORLEONE LAUGHS)

1700
01:36:01,381 --> 01:36:04,044
BRANDO: Try to think
of the most intimate moment

1701
01:36:04,175 --> 01:36:06,167
that you've ever had in your life.

1702
01:36:07,637 --> 01:36:09,629
Run down in there. Run in there.

1703
01:36:11,099 --> 01:36:12,465
ANTHONY: Where are you?

1704
01:36:12,976 --> 01:36:14,512
(LAUGHS)

1705
01:36:16,479 --> 01:36:18,937
(COUGHS)

1706
01:36:39,877 --> 01:36:43,621
BRANDO: Marlon. Listen to my voice.

1707
01:36:44,674 --> 01:36:46,791
Just let go.

1708
01:36:47,719 --> 01:36:49,506
Just letting go.

1709
01:36:50,888 --> 01:36:52,379
Drift.

1710
01:36:52,515 --> 01:36:55,428
Drift like a cloud in the sky.

1711
01:36:57,603 --> 01:37:00,641
Drifting into that special state,

1712
01:37:00,815 --> 01:37:02,147
the state of peace

1713
01:37:02,275 --> 01:37:04,938
of the boy that you remember,

1714
01:37:05,069 --> 01:37:07,152
watching the elm leaves come down.

1715
01:37:13,202 --> 01:37:15,660
Don't hang on to thoughts,

1716
01:37:15,830 --> 01:37:17,742
don't hang on to anything.

1717
01:37:19,751 --> 01:37:22,038
They're old tapes,

1718
01:37:22,170 --> 01:37:23,877
no longer usable,

1719
01:37:24,047 --> 01:37:25,333
no longer useful.

1720
01:37:26,924 --> 01:37:28,631
Chuck 'em.

1721
01:37:28,760 --> 01:37:31,628
Put 'em aside. You don't need 'em.

1722
01:37:33,431 --> 01:37:36,674
You're there, you have arrived.

1723
01:37:39,562 --> 01:37:43,852
Your mind is becoming quieter
and quieter.

1724
01:37:44,859 --> 01:37:48,023
Bliss is coming over you...

1725
01:37:50,406 --> 01:37:51,772
Now.

1726
01:37:53,201 --> 01:37:54,988
Until the next time.

1727
01:37:59,165 --> 01:38:00,952
Sleep.