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.