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00:00Marlon Brando has long been considered one of the greatest actors of his generation.

00:27And yet he never really liked being one.

00:30He acted in all his films for various reasons

00:33Make your mother proud, help friends, and fill your bank account

00:37Passion never really drove him

00:39While paradoxically he will stir up this passion among his admirers

00:45A consuming passion for this little guy from the depths of the United States

00:48Who will become a true sex symbol, an exceptional actor

00:52Marking cinema forever and leaving an indelible mark on American culture

00:58A true legendary status that will be tainted more than once by man and his vices

01:03Poisoned by the controversies that will take their toll on his body, his profession and his family

01:08An artistic and personal decline that he readily acknowledges

01:12But an extraordinary life and career that I will tell you about here

01:15In an attempt to uncover the secrets of a man whose mystery remains intact more than 20 years after his death

01:20Marlon Brando was born on April 3, 1924 in Omaha.

01:28Raised with two sisters, Jocelyne and Frances

01:31His childhood will, as so often, define the man.

01:34Building the foundations of your discomfort

01:36But also paradoxically of his talent

01:39His mother is a theater actress

01:40She makes him aware of the subtleties of the arts

01:43But she is also an alcoholic

01:44And young Marlon very often has to go looking for her in the different bars of the city

01:49He takes care of her, at an age when it should be the other way around.

01:52They both join forces against the father

01:55Salesman traveling the country, so rarely there

01:57But marking his presence with raw violence, a lack of affection and empathy

02:01He cheats and beats his wife in front of Marlon

02:04And this toxic relationship will take root in the young man's mind and heart.

02:08A truly incurable disease that will handicap many aspects of his life.

02:11His relationships in particular and his relationship with fatherhood

02:14With adolescence will be born the rebel

02:16He threatens his father when he dares to raise his hand against his mother

02:19But takes blows in turn

02:21He is not yet strong enough to cope

02:23At 17, Marlon's father forced him to attend a military school in Minnesota.

02:27Where he himself had studied

02:29But authority and Brando, that's two

02:31He can't stand being locked up physically and mentally

02:34He was dismissed from the establishment for insubordination towards an officer

02:37A snub to his father and a symbolic event that will confirm the young man's emancipation

02:42At 19, he left his province, determined to take control of life.

02:52And leaves for New York

02:53He doesn't know what to do about it yet.

02:55So he takes on jobs like elevator operator and gravedigger.

02:58Then one day, he arrived almost by chance at the New School

03:01A school where he will become aware of his acting talents

03:04Assisted by Stella Adler, his lifelong mentor, his spiritual mother

03:09He will perfect his art and for the first time in his life, he will be esteemed, loved, even admired.

03:15Stella Adler would later admit that he never needed to learn

03:18That everything was already there, from the beginning

03:20An angelic face, extraordinary charisma, incredible energy

03:24And above all a natural talent, sublimated by years of suffering

03:28Its singularity impresses

03:30Starting with Stella Adler

03:31Who one day told an anecdote about a course she gave

03:34And where she asked her class to act like chickens about to be bombarded by a nuclear device

03:39Most of the students were giggling and running around

03:42But Brando remained calm and pretended to lay nine

03:45Adler then wondered

03:47Why react this way?

03:49And Brando retorted

03:50This anecdote sums up well the way Brando approached his roles.

03:56With a lucidity and realism that had never been seen before

04:00It doesn't take long for him to make his Broadway debut.

04:02Where he performs in plays

04:04And where he begins to create a real reputation for himself

04:06But it is in one room in particular that he stands out.

04:09A play directed by a certain Elia Kazan

04:11And which is called A Streetcar Named Desire

04:13He plays Stanley Kowalski

04:17A young man of unparalleled beauty

04:19Of loving sweetness

04:20Combined with raw violence

04:22Its intensity is then unprecedented

04:24No one has ever seen such an interpretation.

04:26At a time when theatre is synonymous with overacting

04:29Brando, for his part, will dig deep into his being.

04:31To offer a character that is more real than life

04:33New York is conquered

04:35The young man, himself, is exhausted

04:36Having to maintain such a high intensity

04:38Several times a day for all its performances

04:41This is something that will take him away from the theater.

04:43And inevitably draw him to the cinema

04:45In 1950, he played a young quadriplegic soldier

04:48In his first film, The Man

04:50He invests himself greatly in this role

04:52Spends several weeks confined to a hospital bed

04:54To understand his character's discomfort

04:56And makes a remarkable entrance on the big screen

04:58By offering a striking performance of anger

05:01And sensitivity

05:02This is what will define Marlon Brando's acting.

05:04A palpable sweetness

05:05Which hides a fireball ready to explode

05:07This is how he will approach his next role.

05:09In the adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire

05:11The play written by Tennessee Williams

05:14Pulitzer Prize Winner

05:16And still directed by Elia Kazan

05:18Pulitzer Prize Winner

05:22The World

05:24Pulitzer Prize Winner

Marlon Brando 1/6 - Une enfance difficile

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