Brando reading cue cards taped to Duval’s chest while filming a scene from The Godfather. Via Huffington Post
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Brando reading cue cards taped to Duval’s chest while filming a scene from The Godfather. Via Huffington Post
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Awesome photo, John.
The full story of the man is even better–his famous “On The Waterfront” speech to Rod Steiger [“I could have been a contender”] was posted on the roof of the interior of the car. At the end of his career, he had an assistant prompting him with his lines over a wireless earphone.
But most awesome, in Coppola's near-disastrous “Apocalypse Now,” Brando saved the movie, composing his own climactic speech off-script as Col. Kurtz–“The Horror.”
You could look it up. Brando was off the grid. On their off-days shooting “The Godfather,” Duvall and Cazale and James Caan used to come to the set just to watch Brando work.
And his career started as a stage actor–doing Tennessee Williams, whose every line and word is poetry. Brando followed the muse–learning the lines when appropriate, reading the lines when appropriate, making up the damn lines when appropriate.
Great stuff, Tom. Thanks.