{"id":8600,"date":"2010-06-08T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2010-06-08T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:22:41","slug":"meet-marlon-brando-junket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/06\/08\/meet-marlon-brando-junket\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Marlon Brando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=It968-zzSAs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8601\" title=\"Meet Marlon Brando\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Meet-Marlon-Brando.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>This footage of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlon_Brando\">Marlon Brando<\/a><\/strong> doing a press junket in 1965 is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>It took place at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.150cps.com\/\">Hampshire House<\/a> in New York and features him talking to a variety of journalists about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059470\/\">Morituri<\/a>, a World War II film which also starred Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin and Trevor Howard.<\/p>\n<p>As the voiceover says at the beginning, the reporters ask predictable questions but he gives few predictable answers.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that he was was deeply fed up with the process but decided to have a few drinks and enjoy talking about anything but the film.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/It968-zzSAs&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/It968-zzSAs&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQ-D3XYi4rE&amp;feature=related\">Part 2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gDE4hLOuQmo&amp;NR=1\">Part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The way he admits open scepticism about the whole business of promoting a Hollywood film.<\/li>\n<li>His still-relevant insight into the &#8216;merchandising aspect&#8217; of the press (just substitute <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Burton\">Richard Burton<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Taylor\">Elizabeth Taylor<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brad_Pitt\">Brad Pitt<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angelina_Jolie\">Angelina Jolie<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The interviewer who cuts to Brando whilst he is eating roast beef and vegetables.<\/li>\n<li>The bit where he speaks on the street to a French TV crew &#8211; in fluent French &#8211; before asking a random woman about Civil Rights.<\/li>\n<li>A discussion of a baboon and man&#8217;s capacity for violence.<\/li>\n<li>A German-speaking contest with another journalist<\/li>\n<li>The way he chats up a young female journalist (&#8220;How old are you? 21 in March?&#8221;) who turned out to be Miss USA the previous year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/2010\/06\/_one_day_in_196.php\">Hollywood Elsewhere<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilarious footage of Marlon Brando doing a press junket in 1965 for Morituri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}