{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"When They Were Making It","title":"Marlon Brando, Part 3: The Final Act — The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse Now, and the Death of a Legend","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5956,"description":"By 1970, Hollywood had decided Marlon Brando was finished.\nHe had gone more than a decade without a major hit. His films lost money. His reputation had become almost impossible to insure. He was deep in debt, increasingly isolated, and more interested in escaping to his island in Tahiti than proving anything to the industry that had once crowned him its greatest actor.\nThen came The Godfather.\nPart 3 of our three-part series on Marlon Brando follows one of the most extraordinary reversals in Hollywood history — from the actor Paramount refused to cast as Don Corleone to the performance that returned him, almost overnight, to the height of his power.\nIt traces the making and enormous success of The Godfather, before following Brando into the deeply personal and emotionally exposed Last Tango in Paris — a film built partly from his childhood, his parents, his grief, and the parts of himself he would later feel he had revealed too completely. It also examines the film's complicated legacy, Maria Schneider's experience, and the decisions made by Brando and director Bernardo Bertolucci behind the camera.\nAs Hollywood attempted to celebrate his return, Brando remained as resistant to the industry as ever. His refusal of the Academy Award for The Godfather, delivered through Sacheen Littlefeather in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans and the occupation at Wounded Knee, became one of the most controversial moments in Oscar history.\nFrom there, the episode follows Brando through Superman, Apocalypse Now, retirement, his return for A Dry White Season, and the increasingly chaotic final decades of his career.\nIt also explores the tragedies that overtook the Brando family: the fatal shooting of Dag Drollet by Brando's eldest son, Christian Brando; Christian's manslaughter conviction and imprisonment; and the devastating final years of Brando's daughter Cheyenne. The case exposed the instability, absence, conflict, and complicated love that had shaped...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Tes24ZxB1qT02fjSVHxfJY99rJ8MnAs1gX-xKNBvoeY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZDVj/YjVjNTA5NWZiZTdh/Mjk1OWU2MDQ1M2Nm/MDdiYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}