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Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris director, dies aged 77
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At least he admitted he felt a little bad about having an actress actually raped for a fucking movie before he died. B.I.H.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-tango-paris-rape-scene-confession-bertolucci
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-tango-paris-rape-scene-confession-bertolucci
This should not be taken lightly or ignored, not even in this thread. He was a great director, and dead by cancer is always one of the worst ways to go, but this is still inexcusable.
RIP.
That "butter" scene... One of the most ICONIC - and controversial - scene in cinema history.
That "butter" scene... One of the most ICONIC - and controversial - scene in cinema history.
He made some great stuff, but by all accounts was a monstrous tool. The last news cycle involving him was earlier this year when he criticized Ridley Scott for dropping Kevin Spacey from All the Money in the World for crying out loud. Now that's a complicated legacy...
Holy fucking shit, I didn't know about this.
"I feel guilty but I do not regret. To make movies sometimes to obtain something we have to be completely free." Free to remove the freedom of others. Fucking scum.
EDIT: From what I understand she was not technically raped, but that doesn't mean she wasn't abused and treated like shit.
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Was she actually raped? I thought they didn't tell her there was a rape scene and surprised her with that. I didn't think Brando actually penetrated her with butter. But i could be wrong. By the way, i also think not telling your actress what the next scene will be like and then surprise her with a rape scene is disgusting on its own.
She was obviously traumatized by the event.
Edit: it's in the article you posted........................................... Maybe you should read what you post:
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RIP to one of the last giants of Italian Cinema.
What a career he had.
The Conformist
The Sheltering Sky
Novecento
The Dreamers
Last Tango in Paris
The Last Empreror
Stealing Beauty
She wasn't raped, she just didn't know about the inclusion of the butter in the scene. The sex scenes were simulated.
What a career he had.
The Conformist
The Sheltering Sky
Novecento
The Dreamers
Last Tango in Paris
The Last Empreror
Stealing Beauty
She wasn't raped, she just didn't know about the inclusion of the butter in the scene. The sex scenes were simulated.
A remarkable cinematic visionary and total shit human being. Predators should have no place in free society, not even the "forgiving" world of art. Good riddance.
like most amazing filmmakers, from most accounts he had his terrible moments.. including amping up the rape scene without her prior knowledge. While she wasn't raped or sexually assaulted, the trauma caused by making it more violent than what was in the script, and doing so without her prior knowledge or consent.. is a total dick move. Shit doesn't have to be illegal to destroy someone's life.......
a complicated legacy indeed. like most of cinema's most influential filmmakers.
a complicated legacy indeed. like most of cinema's most influential filmmakers.
Yep. Bertolucci is a scumbag but the Conformist is a masterpiece.
This.
Love both Performance and The Dreamers by each of these directors. Both very influential and huge part of my early interest in film and music etc when I was 16/17.
The Conformist (one of the most beautiful movies ever), Last Tango and 1900 was such a fantastic trifecta. RIP
If your art requires you to actually harm people in order to make it, you should not be considered a great artist. I like several of Bertolucci's films but he's at best tainted goods in my eyes. Huge asterisk next to his name.
The gulf between the respect he had in not using a frontal nude shot that Brando didn't want in the film and what he did to Schneider isn't even in the same universe as 'most amazing filmmakers' and shouldn't be hand-waved away as a common minor character flaw. What he did was deeply fucked up so to hell with this uncritical chorus of praise.
Garbage human being.
So you made some good movies? Yeah, so did lots of other people who weren't pure trash.
So you made some good movies? Yeah, so did lots of other people who weren't pure trash.