Mel Brooks bought Anne Bancroft the rights to the book "84 Charing Cross Road" for her birthday one year.

@темы: BOOKS, Photo, Anthony Hopkins, Cinema, UK

Давно уже натыкаюсь на название этого фильма.
Вот наткнулась на то, как Дастин говорит о своих теплых отношениях во время работы с Лоуренсом Оливье.
Захотелось посмотреть. Не прочитав про что фильм, увидев только 5 секунд трейлера, я скачала его.
Такого сюжета я не ожидала. Бывшие нацисты, правительство, бриллианты.
Но тем не менее, фильм сильный.
Дастин в роли марафонца, и как актер метода, набегал себе в 38 лет идеальное тело, просто аа!
Лоуренс Оливье, несмотря на то, что в этот период он боролся с раком и боролся с болью, был как всегда, великолепен!
В итоге он победил болезнь и прожил еще 13 лет.



читать дальшеA story circulated for a long time that Dustin Hoffman (being a "method actor") stayed up all night to play a character who has stayed up all night.
Arriving on the set, Laurence Olivier asked Hoffman why he looked the way he did.
Hoffman told him, to which Olivier replied in jest, "Why not try acting? It's much easier."
Hoffman repeatedly denied the story, and finally cleared up the matter in 2004.
The torture scene was filmed early in the morning, Hoffman was going through a divorce from his first wife
and was depressed, and had spent the previous two nights partying hard.
Hoffman told Olivier this and his comment related to his lifestyle and not his "method" style of acting.

The torture scene was shortened after preview audiences were taken sick.

Laurence Olivier was so afraid that he would accidentally hurt Dustin Hoffman while filming the torture scene
that he would constantly ask Hoffman if he was all right after shooting a take.
As a joke, Hoffman tried to make Olivier think that he had really hurt him
by screaming in a very convincing and unexpected manner.

Dr. Szell is based on the real Dr. Josef Mengele, head SS Doctor of Auschwitz,
who was in hiding in South America when the movie was produced.

Although not particularly a fan of William Goldman's original novel,
Dustin Hoffman took the part so that he could work with John Schlesinger again
(the two had previously collaborated on Midnight Cowboy).
He had also heard that Al Pacino was interested in the part and wanted to beat him to it.

Although he was playing a graduate student, Dustin Hoffman was actually 38 at the time of filming.

During the scene where the heavies try to drown Dustin Hoffman in the bathtub,
Hoffman (always the method actor) insisted upon being made to stay underwater as long as possible to make it real.
Several takes were done and Hoffman insisted on being kept down longer in the water.
By the end of the scene, he had to be given oxygen. In his own words,
"I said, 'Don't press on my Adam's apple, but try to really hold me under.
Let me see how long I can stay under. Let me see if I can fight you. Let me see what happens.'"

Dustin Hoffman lost 15 pounds for this role. He ran up to four miles a day to get into shape for playing the part.
He would never come into a scene and fake the breathing.
According to producer Robert Evans, Hoffman "would run, just for a take,
he would run for a half-mile so he came into the scene, he'd actually be out of breath."

The movie's line "Is it safe?" was voted as the #70 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

Producer Robert Evans was set upon getting Laurence Olivier to play the part of Szell.
However, because Olivier at the time was riddled with cancer, he was uninsurable so Paramount refused to use him.
In desperation, Evans called his friends Merle Oberon and David Niven to arrange a meeting with the House of Lords
(the upper body of the UK's parliament).
There, he urged them to put pressure on Lloyds of London to insure Britain's greatest living actor.
The ploy succeeded and a frail Olivier started working on the film.
In the end, not only did he net an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, but his cancer also went into remission. Olivier lived on for another 13 years.

According to "Adventures in the Screen Trade", at one point in rehearsal Laurence Olivier asked William Goldman
if he could change a line slightly, and called Goldman "Bill" while doing so.
Goldman describes it as the high point of his career.

On the last day of shooting, Laurence Olivier visited Dustin Hoffman at his home, bringing with him 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" as a gift.
He then proceeded to read scenes from several of the plays, much to Hoffman's delight.

@темы: Photo, Dustin Hoffman, Cinema, Laurence Olivier

ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНЫЙ ФИЛЬМ!
По сегодняшним деньгам, бюджет фильма составляет примерно 144 миллиона долларов, хоть и в прокате фильм провалился.
Но, честно слово, фильм так масштабен, красив и грандиозен в своей постановке, что аж дух захватывает!
Это фильм о чести и достоинстве, смотреть которого было невероятно интересно.

Спасибо Микки Рурку, за то что он напомнил мне об этом фильме и ускорил мой просмотр.
Он говорил о своем первом серьезном впечатлении, которое произвел на него актер этого фильма.
Он имел ввиду, конечно, Марлона Брандо.
Смотря этот фильм, я поняла, что Марлон - ВЕЛИЧАЙШИЙ АКТЕР ЗА ВСЮ ИСТОРИЮ КИНЕМАТОГРАФА.
И хоть среди своих любимых актеров, я всегда никого не выделяю, здесь у меня просто связаны руки.
Да, он был сумасшедшим, эксцентричным, неуправляемым и с ним было тяжело, не нелегко, а именно тяжелом работать.
Но это черт возьми стоит того. Каждый гений сумасшедший, иначе они не были бы ими.
В каждом его движении столько грации. Его эмоции - будь то страх, то гнев, отчаяние, ревность или любовь так сильны, что становится даже страшно.
И как многие гении вчера и сегодня, при жизни их понимают очень немногие.
В заключительной сцене, невероятной сцене, я была вся в слезах.

Впереди меня ждут еще две постановки 1935 года с Кларком Гейблом и 1984 года с Мелом Гибсоном.
Не знаю как скоро я соберусь смотреть эти фильмы, т.к. сильнейшее впечатление от этого фильма у меня задержится надолго.
А точнее, навсегда.



читать дальшеThe final scene was filmed exactly a year after filming had begun.

The scene where the ship arrives in Tahiti to be rapturously greeted by the natives was filmed in exactly the same spot
where the real Bounty dropped anchor 150 years before. 6000 local extras were used for the sequence.

Ironically, the breadfruit seedlings which Bligh brought to Jamaica as an inexpensive food for the slaves working on English plantations were an utter failure.
The slaves took one bite, and refused to eat any more. In effect, they mutinied, just like Bligh's crew.

Marlon Brando and Tarita, the actress who played Maimiti, met during filming and later married.

Marlon Brando, wearing his naval uniform, was widely booed and jeered at the New York premiere, while Trevor Howard received thunderous applause.
Brando walked out of the cinema after the audience started laughing at his English accent.

Marlon Brando refused to really hit Richard Harris in a scene which was subsequently edited from the film.
At one point Harris whispered, "Shall we dance?", and later he startled Brando by kissing him on the lips.

According to Bob Thomas's 1973 biography "Marlon: Portait of the Artist as a Rebel", after the firing of Carol Reed,
Marlon Brando began to usurp the power of replacement director Lewis Milestone - a well-respected veteran with two directing Oscars to his credit.
Milestone noticed that the cameramen would continue rolling in scenes featuring Brando after he had said cut, and would only desist after being signaled by Brando.
Milestone considered quitting, but was dissuaded from doing so as it would generate more bad publicity for the film and M.G.M.
He stayed on, but loafed around the set, leaving Brando to his own devices. One afternoon, a legendary occurrence transpired:
The operating cameraman himself called cut, explaining that the sleeping director's feet were in the frame.
When asked about the incident in 1979, Brando dismissed any criticism, saying that actors essentially directed themselves anyways.
Hollywood insiders were outraged by Brando's treatment of Milestone, and the backlash from his behavior on this picture
(he was blamed fairly or unfairly for the massive cost-overruns that doomed the picture financially)
began the steady waning that led to the eclipse of Brando's star by the end of the 1960s.

Trevor Howard was initially reluctant to play Bligh, because he felt he was far too old for the part.
The real life Lieutenant William Bligh was 33 when the Bounty set sail, and 35 at the time of the mutiny.
After all the problems filming, Howard said he wished he had turned the film down.

Hugh Griffith was fired during filming when his alcoholism became unmanageable.
That is why his character disappears for large portions of the film.
Indeed, his behavior was considered so bad that he was not allowed back onto the island for the final scenes.

For almost four decades, the ship used in this film, built to MGM's specifications at Lunenburg's Smith and Rhuland Ltd.,
has been a popular tourist attraction in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Visitors get to tour the ship itself and learn more about both the historical H.M.S. Bounty and MGM's two screen versions of the Nordhoff and Hall book.
She was reused as the Edinburgh Trader in Пираты Карибского моря: Сундук мертвеца, and sank during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Marlon Brando's notorious on-set antics reached a pinnacle on this film.
According to Peter Manso's Brando biography, Brando had so much clout by this point that he got MGM to green-light virtually every outrageous idea he had.
At one point, he pulled people off the film crew to decorate and design a friend's wedding in Tahiti.
Another time he had airplanes filled with cases of champagne, turkeys and hams flown to Tahiti for parties.

Marlon Brando later wrote a long letter to Trevor Howard apologizing for his behavior during filming.
Howard was largely responsible for helping the American star win a libel action against a British newspaper concerning the film.
He also agreed to appear with Brando in Morituri.

The film cost an estimated $19 million in 1962 (approximately $144 million in 2012 dollars), which was a huge expenditure at the time.
Lawrence of Arabia, which had an even longer shoot - 17 months, compared to eight for "Bounty" - was brought in for approximately $5 million less.
Though this film broke even, it was considered a flop, as MGM earned back only a little over half the budget in rentals (the amount remitted to the studio from theaters).
By contrast, "Lawrence" grossed twice as much as Bounty and generated more than twice the amount of rentals for its studio.)
Though some claim the second "Bounty" film eventually went into profit with its sale to TV,
films were generally sold in packages, so it is unlikely that the film ever stopped the flow of red ink on MGM's books.
The flop of this picture signaled the end of Marlon Brando's grasp on super-stardom for roughly a decade, until his Oscar-winning role in Крёстный отец.

Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor were criticized in the media for what was perceived as their part in causing the budgets of their epic films
("Mutiny on the Bounty" and Cleopatra) to balloon out of control.
Aside from their paychecks ($1.25 million for Brando, with overages; a minimum of $1 million to Taylor, both record salaries for the time),
the press claimed it was prima donna behavior on the part of the two stars that caused the resulting fiscal hardships at their respective studios, MGM and 20th-Century Fox.
Although both films were costly, and neither made a profit, "Cleopatra" was a far more costly flop.
It was budgeted at $44 million (approximately $330 million in 2012 dollars,
making it the most expensive film ever made when adjusted for inflation)
and earned the studio only $26 million in rentals, against a budget of $19 million and less than $10 million in losses for "Bounty."
While MGM was hurt financially, "Cleopatra" nearly bankrupted Fox.
In his defense, Brando later pointed out that MGM charged $500,000 - paid in the mid-1930s to the book's two authors
- to the budget of the remake, an example of creative accounting that makes Hollywood profit-and-loss statements highly suspect.
Whatever the truth, the fact is that Brando's career went into decline after "Bounty,"
whereas Taylor went on to win a second Oscar and remained among the highest paid movie stars in the world throughout the 1960s.
Brando would regain his star power, however, during the 1970s.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Marlon Brando, Cinema, - ART -, Любимые фильмы, ~La Vita e Bella~

@темы: Photo, Сериалы, Ricky Gervais

Одна из лучших речей которые я слышала. Честно и в стиле Микки Рурка, как же иначе.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Video, Mickey Rourke, Cinema, Awards

Фильм начался хорошо, и даже середина была интересной, но вот решения проблемы для героев фильма и их брака, не было предложено сценарием в конце.
Неопределенность в этом случае бесит. А вообще забавный фильм. Смотреть на Ширли МакЛейн и Энтони Хопкинса вместе certainly одно удовольствие.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine, Cinema

Воистину, этот актер остается для меня загадкой.
Великолепный актер! Невероятно харизматический мужчина!
У него невероятно выразительны глаза. В них есть какая-то магия, сила которая притягивает к себе ...
Но я поймала себя на мысли, что не имею никакого понятия, что он за человек?
Сложный ли у него характер? Скорее всего ...
Хотя это на самом деле, эта таинственность даже хороша.
Чарли Чаплин как-то в своей автобиографии процитировал кого-то, не могу вспомнить имени.
Но суть в том, что актер сохраняющий тайну своей личной жизни,
и мало являющийся публике поддерживает великую иллюзию кино и его героев.

Как это у меня часто бывает, в последние несколько дней я планирую посмотреть одно, замечаю там другое, и из всего этого выходит третье.
И вообщем завтра, пока что в планах, фильмография Хопкинса.

@темы: Mickey Ryan, Photo, Anthony Hopkins, Cinema, Charlie Chaplin, ~La Vita e Bella~, Цитаты

Albert Finney turned down the role of Vic Brown.

This only really found an audience at home in the UK when it landed the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

At the start of the film, Vic and some of his friends are seen perusing a magazine filled with shots of topless models.
This is one of the first instances in British cinema of bared breasts.

@темы: Photo, Cinema, UK

@темы: Video, Сериалы, Awards, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Fry

@темы: Photo, Jodie Foster, Cinema