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Marlon Brando: Appreciating "Mr. Mumbles"
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 445853" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>Yes, THE CHASE was infamous for behind-the-scenes conflicts (as I may have mentioned earlier in the thread) between screenwriter, producer, director, studio and Brando. The movie wants to be something -- or several things -- and it doesn't quite know what that is.</p><p></p><p>The studio (and the producer, Sam Spiegel) wanted a traditional potboiler melodrama, the screenwriter (Lillian Hellman, basing her script on a Horton Foote play) wanted to do something more provocative about oil law with veiled allusions to the Kennedy assassination; the director (Arthur Penn) wanted a claustrophobic pre-BONNIE AND CLYDE frenetic style to the picture; and Brando wanted something more to eat.</p><p></p><p>The cast is strong, but Robert Redford is too green to pull off the doomed escaped convict role. (Maybe the oil magnate's son would have been better for him -- Robert Blake reportedly wanted in on the film). Why was he imprisoned anyway? The stolen money ($50) seems like a ruse. What did actually do -- or witness -- that turned him a crucifixion candidate? How did his mother (Miriam Hopkins supplies the obligatory <strong>Scorpio Rising </strong>creepy note) betray him, and what did she do to get her house from the oil baron? That appears to be where Hellman's narrative was compromised.</p><p></p><p>Critical references to the oil depletion allowance were removed from the script under pressure (a decade earlier there was an attempt to delete similar references in GIANT). </p><p></p><p>The story's teeth were surgically extracted, so what was left was a soap about worthlessly slutty smalltown folks.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/32972095/1118full-the-chase-screenshot.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/thechase1966.19800.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://www.virtual-history.com/movie/photo/pr30/large/the_chase10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 445853, member: 57984"] Yes, THE CHASE was infamous for behind-the-scenes conflicts (as I may have mentioned earlier in the thread) between screenwriter, producer, director, studio and Brando. The movie wants to be something -- or several things -- and it doesn't quite know what that is. The studio (and the producer, Sam Spiegel) wanted a traditional potboiler melodrama, the screenwriter (Lillian Hellman, basing her script on a Horton Foote play) wanted to do something more provocative about oil law with veiled allusions to the Kennedy assassination; the director (Arthur Penn) wanted a claustrophobic pre-BONNIE AND CLYDE frenetic style to the picture; and Brando wanted something more to eat. The cast is strong, but Robert Redford is too green to pull off the doomed escaped convict role. (Maybe the oil magnate's son would have been better for him -- Robert Blake reportedly wanted in on the film). Why was he imprisoned anyway? The stolen money ($50) seems like a ruse. What did actually do -- or witness -- that turned him a crucifixion candidate? How did his mother (Miriam Hopkins supplies the obligatory [B]Scorpio Rising [/B]creepy note) betray him, and what did she do to get her house from the oil baron? That appears to be where Hellman's narrative was compromised. Critical references to the oil depletion allowance were removed from the script under pressure (a decade earlier there was an attempt to delete similar references in GIANT). The story's teeth were surgically extracted, so what was left was a soap about worthlessly slutty smalltown folks. [IMG]https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/32972095/1118full-the-chase-screenshot.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/thechase1966.19800.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.virtual-history.com/movie/photo/pr30/large/the_chase10.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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