Listen to Me Marlon Page #7

and say,

"I don't give a f*** about any of you."

And if by chance an honest man

like yourself should make enemies,

then they would become my enemies.

And then they will fear you.

Putting on a mask,

building a life...

Little by little I got into this part.

And then suddenly,

something gets a hold of you.

What is the nature of criminality?

Where does it come from?

We have this antiquated belief

in the myth of goodness and evil.

I don't believe in either one of those.

And I thought it would be interesting

to play a gangster,

not from the point of view

that he was the bad guy,

but that he was very gentle.

A hero.

It is not hard to do the big things.

You can act like a man...

To scream and yell,

to get mad and to let somebody have it

right in the mouth.

It's much harder to do nothing.

They shot Sonny on the causeway.

He's dead.

Just to sit there and think is a lot.

I want all inquiries made.

I want no acts of vengeance.

This war stops now.

Shakespeare addressing all artists.

Suit the action to the word

and the word to the action.

To hold the mirror up to nature,

to show virtue her own feature,

scorn her own image

and the very age and body of the time

its form and pressure.

There wasn't enough time, Michael.

There wasn't enough time.

We'll get there, Pop.

Everything that we do

should reflect the atmosphere

of our lives.

We're living now

in this mad, crazy, murderous world.

If I were brought up in that society,

I'd be like them.

Under certain circumstances,

you could do the same thing.

If anybody would ever try

to take advantage of my children,

hurting somebody that I love,

I'd fight for them,

I would kill them.

Hi, Dad,

I hope you're feeling fine and, uh...

I don't know.

I'm just here. I'm working really hard.

When you come down, I was wondering

if you would send my schoolbooks,

'cause I'm kinda getting behind

on my schoolwork and... You know?

Well, I'll see you whenever

you come, if you come.

Marlon Brando's son

Christian has been kidnapped.

Police initially suspected

mafia involvement

following Brando's portrayal

of godfather Vito Corleone.

Marlon Brando told me,

"Mr Armes, we want him found,

we want him brought back

to Los Angeles,

no matter what it takes."

Armes flew into Mexico in a helicopter

and recovered the 13-year-old boy.

Christian was found

with a bunch of hippie characters.

He had a terrible case of bronchial

pneumonia and he could barely speak.

Why did they say they had him there

in the first place?

They stated they had the boy there

because Anna,

being the mother of the boy,

promised them 10,000 dollars

to hide him out from Marlon Brando.

Christian Brando was

the source of a lengthy custody battle.

A history which saw Christian

used as a pawn in a bitter divorce

and a string

of scandalous public headlines.

I just happen to be his mother.

You are not anybody, is that clear?

When it comes to my son

and my children,

you're speaking to someone

that has a different impulse.

For the very private Marlon Brando,

the public spotlight

was once again painfully bright.

This is the to-do list.

Check Christian's house

and get the door fixed.

Change the locks.

Make them larger.

Install camera

at the gate with radio transmission

at both gates.

Put lights on so we can see at night

who the f*** it is out there.

I'm not going to lay myself

at the feet of the American public

and invite them into my soul.

My soul is a private place.

If they think I'm going to bare my soul

for the next movie,

they're gonna choke

on their shrimp salad.

I don't know what to call you.

I don't have a name.

- You want to know my name?

- No, I don't want to know your name.

You don't have a name

and I don't have a name either.

No names here. Not one name.

I was curious

about the person in front of me,

and the person in front of me

was Brando.

Bertolucci wanted to get a perfect

autobiographical sketch of myself

in this film.

He wanted me to be me.

I want the person I see

when I go to have dinner with him,

when we talk and quarrel and discuss.

And I thought,

"I'm not going to do that."

"I'm not going to do that for you."

"What the f*** do you think I am?"

He was obsessed by privacy.

He never wanted anybody

to go deep inside him.

Smart con people find out

where you want to go emotionally.

They find out what your direction is

and then they help you along with that,

reinforcing it,

guiding it to their own sweet ends.

Marlon, there is nothing to fear.

It's very important

to trust in this process.

Marlon, say something about your past.

Show in my film what you really are.

My father was a drunk.

Tough.

Whore-f***er, bar fighter,

super masculine.

And it was tough.

My mother was very...

very poetic.

But also a drunk.

Go deeper and deeper...

Every time more and more real.

Marlon was invading

the character of Paul.

You lied to me and I trusted you.

You lied and you knew you were lying.

Go on, tell me something sweet.

Smile at me and say...

I just misunderstood.

Go on, tell me.

Maybe you're desperate for love,

always have been in your life.

But you've been distrustful of people.

Is there anything about them

that scares us,

that's dangerous, that's gonna hurt us?

'Cause a lot of people

are frightened to death of love.

F***ing God!

Last Tango in Paris

was a very hard film for me.

I realized,

"You know you're naked, Marlon."

When he saw the movie,

he was shocked.

He felt betrayed by me,

because I stole from him

so many sincere things.

After his comeback

as the ageing romantic hero

of Last Tango in Paris,

and as the Godfather,

Marlon Brando is once again

the brightest

and most bankable of Hollywood stars.

Live, the Academy Awards presentation.

The winner is...

Marlon Brando in The Godfather.

Accepting the award

for Marlon Brando in The Godfather,

Miss Sacheen Littlefeather.

Hello. I'm representing Marlon Brando

this evening

and he has asked me to tell you

that he very regretfully cannot accept

this very generous award.

And the reasons for this being

are the treatment

of American Indians today

by the film industry... excuse me.

I beg we will meet

with love and generosity.

Thank you on behalf of Marlon Brando.

Tell me then, way back,

when you were interested

in the Indians' fishing rights

before it was fashionable to be so,

what triggered that?

What we have learned about the Indians

has been largely taught to us

by Hollywood and by motion pictures.

Seeing Indians represented as savage,

as ugly, as nasty and vicious.

Everything we are taught about

the American Indian is wrong.

There have been 400 treaties

written by the United States

in good faith with the Indians

and every single one of them was broken.

We like to see ourselves

as perhaps John Wayne sees us.

That we are a country

that stands for freedom,

for rightness, for justice.

It just simply doesn't apply.

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