Listen to Me Marlon Page #9

of shooting his half-sister's boyfriend.

A young man, Christian Brando.

His half-sister, Cheyenne Brando.

And her boyfriend.

It was a triangle that proved fatal

and brought tragedy to the home

of one of the world's most famous stars.

"I shot him, man."

"But not on purpose."

"It was an accident."

The two men had quarreled

over Drollet's treatment

of Cheyenne Brando.

Mistreatment police say allegedly

included physical beating.

"Two guys with a loaded gun, wrestling."

"It goes off and he's dead."

I saw Dag laying there

and I breathed into his mouth

and I called 911.

Asking leniency for his son,

Brando said Christian's life had been

filled with struggle and unhappiness,

traumatized by a bitter divorce.

I think that

perhaps I failed as a father.

And certainly there were things

that I could've done differently,

had I known better at the time.

I am at fault in this.

And if I could trade places with Dag,

I would.

The total sentence imposed

is ten years in the state prison.

Cheyenne Brando is suffering

from mental and physical problems

and cannot travel here

to testify about what she knows.

Cheyenne is doing her best...

Excuse me... sorry.

Another personal tragedy

for actor Marlon Brando.

His 25-year-old daughter Cheyenne

has committed suicide at her home

in Tahiti.

Cheyenne Brando reportedly

had made several suicide attempts

before hanging herself yesterday.

For Marlon Brando,

Tahiti will never quite be

the same again.

When in disgrace

with fortune and men's eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

and trouble deaf heaven

with my bootless cries,

and look upon myself and curse my fate.

There are times

when you wake up in the morning

and you turn over and feel,

"Sh*t! What a life."

God, I can't figure it out.

Why did it have to be this way?

I've had a hard year.

Maybe harder

than you could possibly imagine.

You try to be as strong as you can be,

but everybody reaches break point

sooner or later.

Pain - I knew I had to deal with it.

I've spent thousands upon thousands

of dollars on psychoanalysts

and those guys do absolutely nothing

but stick pliers and screwdrivers

in your brain.

Life will have given me the truth

and taken in exchange

what's left of my youth.

It took me a while to realize,

you gotta be your own analyst.

Unless we look inwards,

we will not ever be able

to clearly see outwards.

Nobody is born evil.

Most people are simply

getting over bad emotional habits

established in the first ten years

of their life.

Christian was burdened

with emotional disorders

and psychological disarray.

The kind of trouble that I had in life.

I never tried to be like my father,

but one inadvertently takes on

the characteristics of one's parents.

When my father died,

I imagined that he was slump-shouldered,

walking to the edge of eternity.

He looked back and said,

"I did the best I could, kid."

Finally I forgave my father,

because I realized

that I was a sinner because of him.

But he was a sinner,

because his mother left him

when he was four.

He didn't have a chance.

And through introspection

and the examination of my mind,

I feel as though I'm coming closer

to the common denominator

of what it means to be human.

Everybody is capable of hatred,

everybody is capable of love.

If we stretched ourselves

one way or another,

we could become murderers

or we could become saints.

I've done a lot of meditation.

The result is that

I have felt much calmer

and I've had moments

of real tranquility.

Don't you realize that you're thought of

as the greatest actor ever?

Tim's the greatest actor ever.

He pretends he loves me when he wants

something to eat. Get outta here.

Many times

I remember being down in the dumps

and then I saw a movie

that took me away for a few hours

and I was completely restored.

And I realized, oddly enough,

that actors make a contribution

to people's lives,

giving us a gift that you can't buy.

Something that they can imbue

with power and beauty and magnificence.

Something beyond themselves

and we do need that.

Acting is just making stuff up,

but that's okay.

Life is a rehearsal,

life is an improvisation.

I'm gonna have a special microphone

placed in my coffin,

so that when I wake up in there,

six feet under the ground,

I'm gonna say, "Do it differently."

Anthony. Come here, come here.

The death scene.

That's a tough scene to play.

You have to make them believe

that you're dying.

I would hope it would be

with one person.

It would be something simple,

like playing tiddlywinks

or... I don't know, jackstraws.

Oh, no!

Try to think

of the most intimate moment

that you've ever had in your life.

Run down in there. Run in there.

Where are you?

Marlon. Listen to my voice.

Just let go.

Just letting go.

Drift.

Drift like a cloud in the sky.

Drifting into that special state,

the state of peace

of the boy that you remember,

watching the elm leaves come down.

Don't hang on to thoughts,

don't hang on to anything.

They're old tapes,

no longer usable,

no longer useful.

Chuck 'em.

Put 'em aside. You don't need 'em.

You're there, you have arrived.

Your mind is becoming quieter

and quieter.

Bliss is coming over you...

Now.

Until the next time.

Sleep.

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