The director said he didn’t tell star Maria Schneider because he “wanted her reaction as a girl not as an actress.”
CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains disturbing stories of rape and assault.
It’s known as one of the most infamous rape scenes in Hollywood history—but Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci admitted in a recently surfaced video that star Maria Schneider never consented to it.
Instead,
Bertolucci confessed in the 2013 clip that he and Marlon Brando came up
with the idea to shoot the assault scene in which Brando’s character
uses a stick of butter to rape Schneider on screen. At the time, Brando
was 48. Schneider was just 19.
“The
sequence of the butter is an idea that I had with Marlon in the morning
before shooting,” Bertulocci said in an event held at La Cinémathèque
Française in Paris in 2013. He added that he felt horrible “in a way”
for his treatment of Schneider but defended himself, explaining that he
“wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress.”
“I
wanted her to react humiliated,” he said. “I think she hated me and
also Marlon because we didn’t tell her.” Even so, Bertolucci clarified
that he didn’t “regret” how he decided to direct the scene.
“To
obtain something I think you have to be completely free,” he said. “I
didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation her rage, I wanted her to Maria
to feel…the rage and humiliation. Then she hated me for all of her
life.”
Here is the clip:
After Last Tango in Paris,
Schneider never shot another nude scene. She struggled with drug
addiction and depression following the attention the movie brought her.
In an exclusive to the Daily Mail in 2007, Schneider wrote that she had felt violated by the experience.
“I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci,” she said. “After the scene, Marlon didn’t console me or [apologize]. Thankfully, there was just one take.”
She wasn’t a little raped. She WAS raped. Brando & Bertolucci are despicable.
Sherilyn Fenn tweeted about this today too. Totally fucked up.
It’s
not unreasonable to stand against a force that threatens our ecosystem,
disrespects an already abused nation and ignores all present and
long-term consequences of oil contamination in the name of profit.
Dear fellow white women: we have a bad habit of self destruction. We have to stop aligning ourselves with white men. We are not ‘one of the guys’ socially or politically. They have and will actively try to ruin our lives. They only care about us when… …it suits them.
And our alliance with them HURTS NON-WHITE women. This is key! Women of color lead the way. They know how to fight. If you don’t care about non-white women, first fuck you. Second you are just hurting yourself. I’m ashamed most white women went for Trump but that’s only our most recent act of violence. White women: get your fucking shit together.
If you’re a white woman uncomfortable with this kind of call-out, check yourself. We don’t require acknowledgment of basic human decency. There’s a reason WOC mistrust us. If you don’t like it, BE BETTER. And they’ve been telling us this for years. But if you won’t listen … … to them, first fuck you, second listen to me, then: WOC mistrust of WW is founded. We need to get sorted.
I’m not going to tell Trump voters to unfollow me because I want this kind of post on your timeline. Wake up.
The sort of white ally I fuck with.
*applause*
yes, please, keep calling us out, we need to hear this and believe it
Part of the reason white men will accept us in positions of power is because they know they can rely on us to help them uphold whiteness. We’ll support white men when people of color challenge them, even if we were talking about overthrowing the patriarchy five minutes earlier, because our loyalty to whiteness is that strong.
remember when there were ppl who said ellie’s too young to know she likes girls and the kiss with riley could hypothetically not mean anything like…you fools. you imbecile. she get’s gayer every second look at her now she’s unstoppabl
why is concept art always 300% better than the final product especially in western animation
99% of the replies to this are twelve page essays about how time consuming it would be to animate concept art like . buddy. i know. im in film school for animation. u ppl needa know how 2 see a funie joke on the internet and move on without takin it so seriously
aight but have none of those ppl seen The Book of Life bc uh lemme tell you
the concept art and the finalized versions of sets, characters, and scenes in the film look THE SAME. The Book of Life had a lower budget than Frozen too so uh…….. 👀 y’all need to open ya eyes
