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It's been over 30 years since I saw LT. Can't for the life of me figure out why Brando was killed. Such a disturbing end, where it could, easily, have gone the other way. He professes his love for her and she kills him? Seemed so incongrous regarding her nature throughout the movie. I don 't get it.
Anyone on this? thanks in advance..warren
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Brando broke the rules he established, instead of a non-possessive sex fantasy that existed outside of their regular lives, he tried to make it part of their lives. She grew more and more afraid as she lost the ability to keep the fantasy compartmentalised. And as he moved from fantasy to obsession.I considered the film a "near miss" at the time (and even a bit less of a su) but there are three brilliant ad libs by Brando in the film,
- The scene at his wife's coffin
- The monologue after the butter incident
- Brando's death scene
Bertolucci simply told Brando what he wanted and let him improvise while the cameras rolled.
All good reasons, but not for murder. Kill him? Just a little over the top, with no indication from her previous behavior that she was capable of it. Incongruous with her movie persona. Hey, I still loved it. with
ending isn't easily understandable...does all art have to be transparent?
Brilliant cinematography, music, pacing.
Hell, maybe he didn't use enough butter and she was still sore (at him)...
...welcome back, anyway! LOL!
ps...30 years for me also o I won't comment...
Let’s see….there’s this guy who is mumbling self-indulgent, pseudo-intellectual, angry crap, his excuse being his wife just killed herself (entirely understandable she did).Then there’s this dumb chick (maybe she’s just young and confused, but “bimbo” was mentioned a few times in the film) who seemed to dig all this pretentious nonsense, so they kept meeting up for sex in a rented Paris apartment. (By the way, the actress playing the role seemed to equate emotions with shouting her lines.)
One day he snapped out of his supposed grieving and started behaving like the flirty middle-age bloated balding asshole that he is. The girl got bored (what took her so long?) and tells him to shove-off . He doesn’t get the hint (can’t really blame him, after all, the girl said ‘No! No! No!’ many times before and CAME BACK for more). So he kept pestering her. Finally, she’s had it and shot the geezer dead.
(Although not shown on film, I think she got away with the homicide - by claiming attempted rape.)
Don't you think Jeanne (Maria) was over reacting just a tad murdering MB? Where in her personality in the movie do we get, even an inkling, that she is capable of murder? She's a cutie with a great tush, bubbly, fun, passionate, sexual with no hint of a temper or hostility. Now, all of a sudden, after he tells her, quite tenderly, that he loves her: bang!! Don't get it...What was Bertolucci thinking?
less of temper or hostility, more of fear and loathing. I mean, she's got a psycho, balding guy stalking her all the way back to her apartment. (The earlier trysts were all in a neutral, non-committal rented room.)In her eyes, he did not become 'nice' or 'tender' in the latter part of the film. He became mundane, ordinary, loathsome.
Anyway, I don't disagree with you. I think the film is full of shit anyway. Maybe, in the 70's, people went to see it for it's graphic sexual content. But now there are less encumbered sources.
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