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...medium-budget ($1,800,000) western. Producer: Brando. Star: Brando. Director: Stanley (Sparta-cits') Kubrick. Kubrick obviously had to go. and he soon did, leaving Brando with the megaphone and, as one Paramount saddle." executive put it, "Stanislavsky in the First day on the set. Brando tossed his script aside and mumbled to his actors: "We're going to improvise." And for the next six months, at an average cost of $42,000 a day, Brando improvised. Some times he just flicked on the cameras and let them roll while his actors ad-libbed...
...recent script instructed one character to "speak out of his private Gethsemane...
...hard to get angry at anyone directly responsible for the picture; the script is riddled with cliche, but script writer Paul Osborn was obliged to follow a text, and most of his grating lines are merely transcribed from John Steinbeck's novel, a diffuse and stilted book of well over 600 pages...
Dean, somehow, manages to remain oblivious to the inanities of the script. As in his other films, his portrait of inarticulate and rejected adolescence is magnificently--and almost frighteningly--convincing. Puffing furtively at a forbidden cigarette, rubbing his hair in sudden embarrassment--every gesture fits, and even some of the lines sound right...
...space on the right? 'H. Panisse,' it says." He reaches into a drawer and pulls out five signletters. "These have been waiting for 30 years: this is F, this is I, this is L, this is S, this is &. Panisse & Fils."), draws out the full scope of Pagnol's script...