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00:00It was in 1962 that the decline of his career began, with the Bounty mutineers.

00:05For this production, the ambition is immense.

00:07At the time, it was the most expensive film ever made.

00:10First film to be shot in Panavision 70 widescreen, relocated to the South Pacific,

00:15HMS Bounty being built to full, working size.

00:18So, everything is there for success to come.

00:21But it's going to be a real disaster in the end.

00:23The weather conditions are very complicated to manage.

00:25But not as much as the behavior of star Marlon Brando, which will completely ruin the atmosphere on the set.

00:31He refused to participate in rehearsals and changed his dialogue without the director's consent.

00:35Frequently argues with his on-screen teammate, Lewis Trevor Howard.

00:39Brando doesn't care about this movie.

00:41All he cares about is Tahiti.

00:42He will fall in love with the archipelago, to the point of obsession.

00:46This is what he says about it.

00:47From the moment I saw it, reality surpassed my fantasies about Tahiti.

00:51And I had some of the best times of my life doing Mutiny on the Bounty.

00:54Filming took place largely on a replica of HMS Bounty, anchored offshore.

00:58And every day, as soon as the director said cut for the last time,

01:01I tore off my British naval officer's uniform

01:04and I would dive off the ship into the bay to swim with the Tahitian extras who were working on the film.

01:08Often we only did two or three takes a day,

01:11which left me hours to enjoy their company.

01:13And I ended up loving them for their love of life.

01:16He therefore has very good memories of the filming.

01:19But the film would turn out to be a box office flop, losing several million dollars.

01:23The actor's reputation will suffer.

01:25He is accused of sabotaging production with his behavior

01:28and Hollywood will start to get suspicious.

01:30But he doesn't care, he's won everything in this story.

01:33He bought an atoll off the coast of Tahiti which would become his sanctuary for years.

01:37He claimed to feel at home there because the people living there did not know who he was.

01:42He was not seen as a freak show, but as a simple human being.

01:45It was also there that he met one of his many wives, Taritha Terripaya.

02:10He will have two children with her, Simon and Cheyenne.

02:13Marlon Brando and women, that's quite a story.

02:16He lived many adventures during his life.

02:18The most famous ones range from Marilyn Monroe to Marlene Dietrich and Bette Davis.

02:23He married three times and had his first child, Christian, with his first wife, Anna Cachefi.

02:28They divorced in 1959 and fought fiercely for custody of Christian.

02:33Marlon eventually won custody, much to Anna's dismay.

02:36his photos will emerge where we see the young woman hitting the actor.

02:40Later, she would pay $10,000 to Mexican thugs to kidnap the child,

02:44who was finally found in California, in a tent, in poor condition and suffering from bronchitis.

02:49Of course, the one who will suffer the most is young Christian,

02:52who will try to live with an absent mother and a father who doesn't care.

02:56This education will cost him a lot, but we will come back to that later.

02:59Today, Marlon Brando has around ten children.

03:04Children he had with his wives, his conquests, his housekeeper,

03:08children he adopted too.

03:10And it's when we listen to his ex-partners today,

03:12that we feel a kind of attachment that persists.

03:15But also a certain bitterness,

03:16of having been tied to a man who played with their feelings to gain the upper hand.

03:20Who had no concept of fidelity or respect when it came to women,

03:24but also men, because the actor admitted in 1976 to having had homosexual relations

03:28and never felt ashamed about it.

03:31He is said to have had affairs with Christian Marquand, with whom he was very close.

03:35He even named his first son in her honor.

03:37He also agrees to play in his film Candy, without even reading the script,

03:41just out of pure friendship.

03:42And perhaps he should have changed his mind given the result.

03:44Because yes, in the 60s, Brando's career was in decline.

03:57His professional choices are sometimes more than questionable,

03:59and guided by financial reasons.

04:01Like the deal he signed with Universal for 4 films.

04:044 films that have their quality,

04:05but which, let's be honest, are not really up to his talent.

04:09In addition to being commercial failures.

04:10Because that's what will handicap Brando the most.

04:13It doesn't sell anymore.

04:13These movies don't work anymore.

04:15Artistically, we can still highlight certain things from this decade.

04:18His collaboration with Charlie Chaplin, in A Countess from Hong Kong,

04:21his last film and his only one in color.

04:23An idol for Brando, whom he found far too authoritarian on set,

04:27when perhaps it was he who was not serious enough,

04:29but we will never know that.

04:31We can also cite The Relentless Pursuit, in 1966,

04:34and Kaimada, in 1969.

04:36Two films that Brando loved,

04:38because two films committed to causes for which he would fight until the end of his life.

04:41The Relentless Pursuit, first of all,

04:43which has the air of a new Hollywood long before the movement arrived,

04:46and which deals with important subjects like civil rights

04:49and the pervasive racism in the United States at that time,

04:52Brando plays the sheriff of a small town.

04:53who will do everything to stop the emergence of corruption and injustice,

04:57but who, despite his status as a man of law,

04:59will also suffer his violence

05:01and witness the decline of the city's inhabitants,

05:03who, when he does not denounce his violence,

05:05are the main instigators.

05:07One of the actor's best films.

05:08Kaimada, on the other hand, takes place at the end of the 19th century.

05:11Brando plays a mercenary who will trigger a revolt.

05:13on a small Caribbean island

05:15where the slaves will stand together

05:17against the British colonists.

05:19Marlon Brando confesses in his autobiography

05:20be very proud of this film,

05:22so much so that he financed a large part of it

05:24with his personal fortune.

05:26We are in a time when Brando is no longer really a movie star,

05:28but it retains a fairly powerful aura

05:30to put his influence and his money

05:32in the service of a just cause.

05:34He acts in independent films like this one

05:36because these are films he believes in,

05:38with messages that he defends.

05:39Famine in third world countries,

05:41segregation implemented in the United States

05:43and in South Africa,

05:44Americans' contempt for Native Americans,

05:46These are subjects that are close to his heart.

05:48These are the battles he wants to fight.

05:50Change things for the good of all.

05:52We feel it in his career choices,

05:54but also in his television appearances.

06:09He marches alongside Martin Luther King

06:23and fights for civil rights

06:26Americans.

06:27He marches alongside Martin Luther King

06:37and fights for American civil rights.

06:39In 1972, he refused the Oscar for Best Actor.

06:42for his role as Vito Corleone

06:44in order to highlight the mistreatment

06:45Native Americans in Hollywood.

06:46In 1975,

07:10he participates in a protest rally

07:12against American investments

07:14in South Africa and for the release of Nelson Mandela.

07:17In 1989,

07:18he is coming out of a retirement of almost 10 years

07:20and accepts a union salary

07:21to play the role of Ian McKenzie

07:23in A Dry White Season.

07:26A film directed by Ezan Palkly

07:27and which shows the raw and violent reality

07:29of Apartheid in South Africa.

07:31So he makes sure that his influence is useful,

07:34that his fame has meaning.

07:35Because other than that,

07:36he never liked this iconic status

07:38to be reduced to a mere movie star.

07:40It was just cancer for him.

07:42which prevented him from living his life as he wanted.

07:44He was, according to him,

07:45misrepresented by the media

07:46who never understood it.

07:48He didn't like his job as an actor,

07:50stating more than once

07:50that if he were paid just as much

07:52to sweep,

07:53he would do it.

07:53And this conflicting relationship that he has always had with his status,

08:15The Hollywood industry never really digested it.

08:17Studio executives were frustrated

08:19to see this man,

08:20which in no way respects the sacrosanct cinema,

08:23to be so successful,

08:24to be so popular and talented

08:26by doing the bare minimum.

08:27But his many commercial failures

08:29will get the better of him.

08:30And the controversy of his next film

08:32will finish the divorce

08:33between the actor and the industry.

Marlon Brando 3/6 - Un homme engagé

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