#1962 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY MOVIE#

The British makers of the film, director Stevan Riley ( Blue Blood) and producer John Battsek, whose credits include Oscar-winning documentaries One Day in September and Searching for Sugar Man, also offer their experiences of uncovering the unknown Brando. Rebecca is now a clinical psychologist and Miko has worked for more than 30 years for the Michael Jackson estate, first as JacksonвЂ™s bodyguard and assistant and, since his death, cataloguing the musicianвЂ™s possessions. From the family, thereвЂ™s Miko Brando and Rebecca Brando, the two children he had with his second wife, Movita Castaneda, a Mexican-American actress in the early 1960s. So, for the New Review, we have brought together a group of people able to elaborate on and contextualise BrandoвЂ™s narrative. The film features no outside interviewees, no talking heads. As his voice rumbles on, itвЂ™s hard not to feel that he is setting the record straight from beyond the grave. The film reveals a Brando we have not seen before: a voracious autodidact, self-doubting, often misinterpreted.

#1962 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY MOVIE#

The images that accompany the recordings are movie clips, archive interviews and an unsettling, digitised 3D rendering of BrandoвЂ™s head that he was measured for in the 1980s. The narration comes from more than 200 hours of personal audio tapes made by Brando, starting in the 1950s and continuing for the next 50 years. A compelling, often surprising new documentary, Listen to Me Marlon, tells his life story in his own words. Five years later, Cheyenne hanged herself, leading the media to call BrandoвЂ™s Beverly Hills mansion вЂњthe House of PainвЂќ.Д«rando rarely spoke out вЂ“ until now. In 1990, his eldest son, Christian, shot the boyfriend of his half-sister, Cheyenne, and wound up in prison. He had three wives and more than 11 children, most biological, some adopted. What we did know of BrandoвЂ™s private life was pure soap opera. The stories that escaped from film sets only encouraged more frenzied speculation: he had a volcanic temper, he was impossible to direct, he was having an affair with Jack Nicholson.Д«rando with Mary Murphy in The Wild One (1953). As a result of BrandoвЂ™s withdrawal from the public eye, an impression of the man began to calcify from those intense early screen roles. His decision to send Sacheen Littlefeather, a Native American, to decline his Oscar for The Godfather was pilloried as much as it was praised. He was an environmentalist вЂ“ buying Tetiaroa, an atoll north of Tahiti, in the 1960s and pledging to protect it вЂ“ and a social activist long before it was commonplace in Hollywood to support such causes. Off screen for much of his long career, Brando distrusted the press and lived reclusively. The director Martin Scorsese believes that acting has to be divided into вЂњbefore BrandoвЂќ and вЂњafter BrandoвЂќ. He was nominated for an Academy Award and it began an extraordinary streak: Viva Zapata!, which led to another best actor nomination, The Wild One and, in 1954, On the Waterfront, his first Oscar win.Д«rando may not have achieved such consistency throughout his career, but he assured his iconic status with later performances as Don Corleone in The Godfather (1972), his second Oscar, Last Tango in Paris and, most controversially, his turn as the unhinged Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now in 1979. Williams would later describe him as вЂњthe greatest living actorвЂ¦ greater than OlivierвЂќ. He arrived, muscular and beautiful, reprising a role he had played in the theatre: Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee WilliamsвЂ™s A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Though he disliked the term вЂњmethodвЂќ, his instinctive, unpredictable performances were in radical contrast to the mannered style of the time. He had studied with the renowned acting coach Stella Adler in New York, using the Stanislavsky system. No actor has ever made such a visceral, game-changing entry into films as Brando did in the 1950s вЂ“ and none, probably, ever will. But perhaps the most outsized aspect of Brando, who died in 2004 aged 80, was the myths that swirled around him. E verything about Marlon Brando was big: his talent his neuroses his sexual appetites and, notoriously, in his later years, his waistline.

1962 mutiny on the bounty