2013年4月3日——《永垂不朽》幕后照，马龙·白兰度，弗雷德·金尼曼，蒙哥马利·克里夫特，1953年摄于哥伦比亚电影制片厂，好莱坞。
当时白兰度在隔壁棚拍摄《飞车党》，他和蒙蒂在50年代可以说是并驾齐驱的两位最优秀的新生代男演员。成为明星前他们曾是室友，蒙蒂发迹得早一些，白兰度一直视他为偶像，为目标，为假想敌。1956年拍摄《雨树县》期间一场车祸几乎毁了蒙蒂的半张脸，从此他作为演员的自信心遭到了强烈的打击，一蹶不振，并开始足不出户，依赖药物。一天白兰度突然到访，他只停留了片刻，一番话却将蒙蒂从深渊中解救出来。根据蒙蒂当时的助理回忆，那天的故事是这样的：
One day - a car pulled up in front of the house. And Marlon Brando got out.
He was shooting a film, and he had an hour's break, so he drove over.
He walked up to the front door, and the assistant answered it - told him Clift didn't want to see him, or anybody.
But Clift called out from an inner room, "No, it's okay. Show him in."
Brando walked into that inner room, and shut the door. The two of them were in there alone for about 20 minutes. And then Brando walked out, left the house, got into his car, and drove away.
Montgomery Clift's assistant walked in to see if Clift was okay. What was going on? Brando wasn't a regular visitor, he wasn't Clift's friend, what had he said?
Clift was sitting on the couch, in tears. He said that Brando had put it to him straight. Brando stalked straight into the room and said something along the lines of this:
"Look. I am only where I am today because I have had you to compete with. If I'm good, it's because you've always been better. When I saw Places in the Sun, I thought - Damn. He'll get an Oscar for that. I need to be better. I need to work harder. Because if I'm good, you will always be better. And I need you. I need you. I need to know you're out there, beating me at my own game. So I want you to cut all this **** out. You have to stop drinking and taking pills, you have to get back to work again. Because I don't know what the hell I'm doing if you're not out there doing it, too. You get what I mean?"
Clift barely said a word in the exchange. Marlon talked on like that for about 15, 20 minutes. Basically opened up a can of whup-***. And then, without another word, turned, walked out, and drove away.
Clift said to his assistant, "I had no idea. I had no idea he felt that way. I always felt the same way about him."
And although Clift (with the shining exception of The Misfits) never again found the ease in acting that he did before his accident - it was that conversation with Brando that was the catalyst. For that moment, anyway.
Clift went back to work again.
PS: 多么适合拍成电影！！！ |
发表于 2013-4-2 13:01
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