"I moved in for one night and stayed five years," he muses. So he was living off a woman who lived off whores. "It's kind of a dump, but not completely a flophouse," he says, but the film clearly shows it as a place where prostitutes bring their clients. His wife in "Last Tango in Paris" owned and ran a little hotel.
LAST TANGO IN PARIS BUTTER SCENE WHEN IN MOVIE MOVIE
This was the greatest movie actor of his time, the author of performances that do honor to the cinema, and yet as Kauffmann notes, he was driven to disparage the profession of acting, which was the instrument of his genius. But here was a man who sometimes prostituted his own talent, who frustrated his admirers by seeming to scorn them, whose "eventual monstrous obesity seemed a clear sign of his hatred for Hollywood," as Stanley Kauffmann wrote in the best of the Brando obituaries. I'm sure Bernardo Bertolucci, the film's director, did not have this in mind, and of course I cannot know what Brando was thinking. I watched it again, this time imagining that Brando was talking to his own dead body - that his anger and love, his blame and grief, were directed toward himself. He doesn't understand why she killed herself, why she abandoned him, why she never really loved him in the first place, why he was always more of a guest in her hotel than a husband in her bed.Īs I watched this scene, I was struck by a strange notion. He tries to wipe off her cosmetic death mask ("Look at you! You're a monument to your mother! You never wore makeup, never wore false eyelashes."). He calls her vile names, then is torn by sobs. "I may be able to comprehend the universe, but I'll never understand the truth about you," he says. The scene where he confronts the body of his wife, who has committed suicide, and mourns her in an outpouring of rage and grief. As I looked at the film yet again, Brando's most powerful scene resonated for me in an unexpected way. Who else can act so brutally and imply such vulnerability and need?" Reviewing "Last Tango in Paris" in 1972, I wrote that it was one of the great emotional experiences of our time, adding: "It's a movie that exists so resolutely on the level of emotion, indeed, that possibly only Marlon Brando, of all living actors, could have played its lead.
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