Listen to Me Marlon Page #2

Synopsis: With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
Director(s): Stevan Riley
Production: Showtime Networks
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 5 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
87
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
Year:
2015
103 min
$249,756
Website
1,019 Views


that doesn't have the past.

We develop the technique

of acting very, very early.

Even from the time we're a kid,

where we're throwing our oatmeal

on the floor

just to get attention from our mothers.

Acting is surviving.

Yeah, that's my mother.

That photograph there.

This is a portrait of my mom

when she was about forty.

And she was a marvellous person.

For instance, she dressed up a pet goose

we had for Santa Claus.

She made a Santa Claus out of it,

made a little red costume for it

and a beard and everything.

She was a very inventive

and artistic woman.

And I miss her very much.

I was given by my mother

a sense of the absurd.

She had false teeth.

Once in a while she'd laugh.

While she was laughing,

her teeth would come off her gums.

And the more I laughed,

the more she thought it was funny

and we both ended up laughing real hard.

My mother taught me a love for nature,

and a sense of closeness with animals.

You couldn't think of a tune

she couldn't play on the piano.

Not one.

I like remembering about her.

I used to love the smell of liquor

on her breath.

And her breath becomes very, very sweet.

It's a lovely fragrance.

My mother was an alcoholic.

We lived in a small town

and my mother was the town drunk.

She began to dissolve

and fray at the ends.

When my mother was missing.

Gone off someplace,

we didn't know where she was.

I used to have to go

and get her out of jail.

Memories even now

that fill me with shame and anger.

You have to constantly act.

It is not important

to defend your faults in the theater.

It's important to overcome them.

Stella very kindly invited me

into her home.

I then became part of her family.

When I was really suffering

and disjointed, disoriented with life,

she was always very loving towards me.

I'd never done anything in life

that anybody ever said I was good at.

She put her hand on my shoulders

and said, "Don't worry, my boy."

"I have seen you,

and the world is going to hear from you."

From the T-shirt clad Stanley Kowalski

in Streetcar Named Desire,

the role which catapulted him

to international fame,

we're very pleased

to have with us this morning

as our guest Mr Marlon Brando.

Streetcar Named Desire

was very satisfying to be in,

because I thought

it was a wonderful play.

The story was superb

and the production was wonderful.

You must be Stanley.

Oh, hiya. Where's the little woman?

It was a very explosive part

and it electrified everybody.

You want a shot?

No, I rarely touch it.

Well, some people, they rarely touch it,

but it touches them often.

I was quite nutty

when I was young

and I would have a lot of energy.

Rain forever.

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Stevan Riley

Stevan Riley is a BAFTA and EMMY nominated British film director, producer, editor and writer. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern History. His films include Blue Blood (2006); Fire in Babylon (2010); Everything or Nothing (2012); and Listen to Me Marlon (2015). Stevan went to school in Dover, Kent, Dover Grammar for Boys. more…

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