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shotswerefired added 1 item to In Praise of Marlon Brando list
"When we were doing The Chase, one scene which is a terrible scene of a bunch of town bullies coming down and beating up the sheriff. I started to do it in a conventional way which is you know let's get some stuntmen in here and let's have them lay out the scene. Marlon said 'No,' and he said: 'Have you ever seen a fight - a real fight?' I said: 'Yeah I was in the war Marlon you know.' He said: 'Get them to throw a punch.' And he said: 'Let's undercrank a couple of frames a second.' Ordinarily a film was shot at 24 frames a second. But if you move down to 20 frames, you can speed up normal action and will add the velocity. This was a lesson for me, because I used it later on in the ending of Bonnie and Clyde, changing speeds. I ganged up 4 cameras together, all running at different speeds. It came from this experience with Marlon." 6 years ago
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Favorite Modelsshotswerefired added 1 item to In Praise of Marlon Brando list
"They're different types - Brando and DeMille - but each also is unlike all other directors. Most of them work for the awards for the respect of Hollywood. But DeMille directed for the world, to give people what they wanted. And Brando shares that ability to ignore what Hollywood will think of his work. His only concern is to present the story as he sees it."
- When asked to compare Brando's directing style to Cecil B. DeMille's (a director he previously worked with).6 years ago
shotswerefired added 1 item to In Praise of Marlon Brando list
"As a rule, I don't approve of the actor-director breed. Orson Welles has made it work once, and Laurence Olivier has succeeded in doubling his chores on several occasions. There are exceptions, however, in the ledger book that numbers many disasters for each successful effort.
I have directed one-and-a-fraction films. Time Limit, in which I did not appear, I directed in entirety; more recently, when Delmer Daves was taken ill, I directed the final sequences of The Hanging Tree, in which I was acting with Gary Cooper and Maria Schell. This harrowing experience reaffirmed my personal conviction: one thing at a time.
After watching Brando, the director, creating his first Western, I believe another exception may be in prospect.
On the practical level, Brando, the director, is patient, determined and intelligent.
From time to time I have been asked to explain the secret of another man with whom I've had the privilege of working frequently...Elia Kazan. What makes Kazan such a fine director? In a word, homework. His script is usually several thicknesses larger than any other on the set; he has thought of every contingency and prepared for it.
In evaluating Marlon Brando, the director, I might use the same standard. Brando, too, does his homework."
- From the article "The Two Faces of Brando" originally published in Films and Filming, August 1959.
When asked how he was as a director: "As an actor, the same brilliance. It's a shame they didn't let him go on directing."6 years ago
