
Listen to Me Marlon
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This is the beginning of the tape.
We're on mono and we're on microphone 1.
Okay.
Now listen,
let me tell you something that I did.
I've had my head digitized.
And they put this laser
and it goes around you like this...
and they digitized my face.
And I made a lot of faces
and smiled and...
and made a sad face and...
So they've got it all on digital.
And actors are not going to be real,
they're going to be inside a computer.
You watch, it's gonna happen.
So maybe this is the swan song
for all of us.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
creeps in this petty pace
from day to day,
to the last syllable of recorded time;
and all our yesterdays
to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle.
Life's but a walking shadow,
a poor player, that struts
and frets his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound
and fury, signifying...
nothing.
Copy. All available
units responding to a shooting.
Police came to a call to 911,
but this was no ordinary address,
the caller no ordinary citizen.
Marlon Brando was on the line
to report a shooting at his home.
Misery...
has come to my house.
Brando won an Oscar
for his performance in the 1954 film
On the Waterfront.
He was already being acclaimed
as the greatest American
film actor ever.
You take the good goods away,
and the kickbacks
and the shakedown cabbage
and them pistoleros and you're nothin'.
Hey, Stella.
You can bet that Marlon Brando's impact
will still be felt 500 years from now.
I'm gonna make him an offer
he can't refuse.
Marlon Brando was here
at his home at the time of the shooting,
but police who questioned the actor
say he did not witness it.
The shooting
put a spotlight on the private life
of one of Hollywood's
most reclusive stars.
And it's been a struggle
to try to preserve sanity
and sense of reality
that is taken away from you by success.
It will be
a highly personalized documentary
on the life activities of myself,
Marlon Brando.
We establish that he is a troubled man,
alone, beset with memories,
in a state of confusion and sadness,
isolation, disorder.
He's wounded beyond being able
to be social in an ordinary way,
he becomes like a mechanical doll.
Maybe he felt that he was treated badly.
And that he's angry about the treatment.
He's collecting bits
of information here, odd bits of film
to try to explain why are you this way?
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
Now let your mind drift
back,
way back in time
to a time when you were very young,
when you used to wake up in the morning,
put on your clothes
while everyone was sleeping,
and walk down the sidewalk in Omaha
and sit underneath that big elm tree.
With the wind blowing the light,
the shadow of leaves.
It is like a wonderful, soft dream
and that soft wind calling.
That's a wind that you can trust.
You are the memories.
I've always in my life had
a strong sense that I had to be free.
Standing on that train, I was free.
I used to love to stand in the car
and listen to the rails.
You know?
It's an eccentric kind of rhythm.
I arrived in New York with holes
in my socks and holes in my mind.
lying down on the sidewalk
and going to sleep.
Nobody bothered me.
an unquenchable curiosity about people.
I liked to walk down the street
and look at faces.
I used to go to the corner
of Broadway and 42nd Street
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