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Post by moviemouth on Sept 16, 2018 2:58:52 GMT
Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) is the perfect example of the director not being to blame. This movie had one of the most infamous productions ever. John Frankenheimer was hired last minute and the 2 famous stars of the film had much more power then he did at the time. There is a terrific documentary about the making of this movie. According to Thewlis, "we all had different ideas of where it should go. I even ended up improvising some of the main scenes with Marlon". Thewlis went on to rewrite his character personally.[14] The constant rewrites also got on Brando's nerves, and as on many previous productions, he refused to learn lines, so he was equipped with a small radio receiver, so that his assistant could feed his lines to him as he performed - a technique he had used on earlier films.[9] Thewlis recollects: "[Marlon would] be in the middle of a scene and suddenly he'd be picking up police messages and would repeat, 'There's a robbery at Woolworth's'" Like I said, I have seen the documentary. That is all in there but it made it sound like studio interference, Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando were mostly to blame. John Frankenheimer was basically just hired to get the movie finished. |
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