Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early scene from his new movie, Don Juan DeMarco, Marlon Brando, playing a psychiatrist, talks the title character (Johnny Depp) out of committing suicide by pleading, "Why lose hope, along with life, along with everything else...
...only life imitated art ... On Easter Sunday Brando's deeply troubled 25-year-old daughter Tarita Zumi Cheyenne hanged herself at the Brando estate in Punaauia, Tahiti. Cheyenne, as she was known, had tried to commit suicide three times before. She had lost hope again after a recent court decision denying her custody of her four-year-old son Tuki-whose father, Dag Drollet, was shot and killed at her father's Hollywood home in May 1990 by her half-brother Christian...
While art often imitates life, it's unlikely a movie could ever be made of the Brando family saga, because it's too complex and twisted for any screenwriter to handle. Where to start? In Brando's recent autobiography, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, he described his mother as "an off-the-shelf drunk" and his father as physically abusive. Where to end? The two-time Oscar winner (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) partly dedicated the book to "my children, who brought me up," yet he barely mentions his 11 (at least) offspring by his three wives and numerous...
...screen relationship between Brando and his younger co-star oddly echoes his appearance in 1990's "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick, which was touted as Brando's last film. With Broderick happily pursuing a career in Broadway musicals, perhaps Brando felt obligated to come out of retirement and reselect a successor to assume his unique place in American cinema...
Dunaway is considerably more relaxed than in recent roles (noteably as Depp's lover in the well-intentioned "Arizona Dream" in 1994). Brando, too, seems content to let the film pass him by, with only a snapshot of him circa "On the Waterfront" to suggest his former power...