European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Brando today. During shooting of the freshman the actor fell on the ice and sprained his neck. Brando Leftin the 1972 film the godfather. Brando with Maria Schneider in last tango in Paris and right in Mutiny on the be Sjuls spent Igwe Ekson. It s horrible he says of the Reshman. It s going to to a hop but after this. I m tiring i m so fed up. This picture except Lor the Canadian Crew the canadians were the Only ones who came of Well in this Canadian interview was an s extremely unpleasant experience. I wish i had t finished Vilh a Stinker. This is my last Day. Two More shots and m done with this madness. You can t imagine How o f Sarto Lorn All the roles he s played in a career Nin Lour decades and 33 movies Brando Oil screen performance As an aging adolescent has become his least admirable. He has demonstrated an unerring Genius Lor making a spectacle of himself in the name of his principles. Take his tantrums during the remake of Mutiny on the Bounty when to made a distinguished director. Carol the third Man Reed miserable and added $6 million to the Cost overruns or his sending a Ninor actress named Maria Cruz dressed As an american Indian and calling Hersell Sachsen Illie teacher to reject his Oscar Lor the godfather and disrupt the Academy award ceremonies by trying to Nad a 15-Page speech about Hollywood s crimes against indians. It s not that actors should t talk about serious issues. 3ul Brando s behaviour has seemed juvenile. He routinely sabotages his own interests and ideals like a rebellious adolescent whose glands do his thinking Lor him As a Soult he s failed to win converter he has yet to persuade anyone to make his Long hoped Lor to series in the history of America s ind ans he has been forced o abandon his ambitious plans to create a utopian showplace Lor innovative non polluting sources of i Energy on his polynesian Island of Teti Aora unlike Laurence Olivier and Alec guinness his British allows Brando has not worked a lifetime at perfecting us Craft. Brando is contemptuous of the acting profession. He has called acting silly and contended Lor years that the on a reason i m in Hollywood is that i Don t have the moral courage to refuse the ii sounded. Cynical but honest an Extension of the ambivalent. Hawed males to embodied in the men a Streetcar named desire on the waterfront and Viva Zapata. What was extracted by the world s wire services irom thai Toronto interview was t Brando s musings on native american affairs and the terrible state of the world but his casual cruelly to people like Matthew Brodeck who signed on to do the freshman because he wanted to work with Brando of course Brando did have his neck in a Brace. He d Lallen on the ice several limes while filming a skating scene the Day before and sprained his neck. He was in pain to was drugged with painkillers. But character is action. And what kind of act is it to bad Mouth people who Trust you this then is Brando s most embarrassing performance among Many both on and Oil screen his Liming is Olf his Stylo is Tacky and later when he apologizes in a Ivy Page statement written at Home in Beverly Hills Calif and issued by the film s publicists in new York Brand will claim to be As shocked As everyone else by what came out of his Mouth. I have been of late experiencing some very trying times of a personal nature and it is certain that these feelings caused me to express such a dim View of Many things to explains presumably referring to the injury of one of his six children in an Auto Accident the week before his tirade. Money played a part in his ire As Well. A Low level Tri Star pictures functionary is rumoured to have nixed payment Lor Brando s trip to los Angeles to be with his daughter and the actor was said to be furious. Brando does t mention in the statement his threat to retire. In act the Day Brando said he was retiring his lawyer was in London signing a contract for his client to act in David lean s upcoming production of Joseph Conrad s nostrome. Trying to defuse his dismissal of the freshman Brando says clearly i was wrong Aboul the Quality of the picture. I remember telling mat whew Broderick that when i saw the first Cut of on the water Roll i was convinced that it was a failure i loll the cutting room unable to look my director Elia Kazan in the lace. I was astounded that people thought enough of the picture to have made it a film worthy of remembering. Now thai i have seen most of the freshman it is Clear to me that the movie contains moments of High comedy that will to remembered for decades to Como i have heard discussions Aboul a possible sequel and i would be Happy in i were asked to appear in it. There is no substitute Lor laughter in this frightened and endlessly twisting world.". B Rando peaked Early like Orson Welles an lived on past James Dean who died you Gand remains always in our memory the you Grebel without a cause. The two Best performances of Brando s Middle age were the neurotic sensual St fixated on a nubile Young woman in last tango in pans and the charismatic underworld Kingpin in the godfather who holds his gang in Thrall but Whoso greatest pleasure is playing in the Garden with his grandson. When it opens in Heaters next Spring the freshman will show whether Brando can still give a Lull bodied Lull length performance. I came to Toronto to see the return of a legend and i found a Man who continues to fascinate and disappoint us like a father who has shaped our lives and then is unable or unwilling to grow up and age gracefully. The actor whose porn romances created the Marlon Brando legend is a memory preserved on tape in your local video store. The Brando i saw in Toronto is not the Man we loved which is Providence s cruel trick on him and us 8, 1989 the stars and stripes Paga 15
