约翰·福特 John Ford在《关山飞渡》登上巅峰后拍摄的第一部影片,主要关于林肯年轻时在伊利诺州担任实习律师的故事。情节紧凑、流畅。
亨利·方达 Henry Fonda通过化妆以接近林肯年轻形象,加上大段的独角戏和内心独白,恰如其分的展现其气质。
据说方达开始拒绝这个角色的,因为他对自己能否胜任最能代表美国精神的总统不太确定,但在和福特的会面后,被福特说服了。福特只是简单的说:“你只是扮演一个初出茅庐的实习律师而已。”
可以说福特一向对影片基调的准确把握使得影片不仅显得真实,而且也很好的塑造了人们心目中那个伟人的青年形象:诚实、正直、细腻、聪慧以及那一丝血气方刚。此外影片也生动的描绘了民主初期美国法庭。
One day - a car pulled up in front of the house. And Marlon Brando got out.
He was shooting a film, and he had an hour's break, so he drove over.
He walked up to the front door, and the assistant answered it - told him Clift didn't want to see him, or anybody.
But Clift called out from an inner room, "No, it's okay. Show him in."
Brando walked into that inner room, and shut the door. The two of them were in there alone for about 20 minutes. And then Brando walked out, left the house, got into his car, and drove away.
Montgomery Clift's assistant walked in to see if Clift was okay. What was going on? Brando wasn't a regular visitor, he wasn't Clift's friend, what had he said?
Clift was sitting on the couch, in tears. He said that Brando had put it to him straight. Brando stalked straight into the room and said something along the lines of this:
"Look. I am only where I am today because I have had you to compete with. If I'm good, it's because you've always been better. When I saw Places in the Sun, I thought - Damn. He'll get an Oscar for that. I need to be better. I need to work harder. Because if I'm good, you will always be better. And I need you. I need you. I need to know you're out there, beating me at my own game. So I want you to cut all this **** out. You have to stop drinking and taking pills, you have to get back to work again. Because I don't know what the hell I'm doing if you're not out there doing it, too. You get what I mean?"
Clift barely said a word in the exchange. Marlon talked on like that for about 15, 20 minutes. Basically opened up a can of whup-***. And then, without another word, turned, walked out, and drove away.
Clift said to his assistant, "I had no idea. I had no idea he felt that way. I always felt the same way about him."
And although Clift (with the shining exception of The Misfits) never again found the ease in acting that he did before his accident - it was that conversation with Brando that was the catalyst. For that moment, anyway.
Clift went back to work again.
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