Bernardo Bertolucci, the film director, and screenwriter, openly confessed to an S- an assault that had occurred in his film Last Tango in Paris.
The World Day against Gender Violence was celebrated, a day to vindicate and raise awareness in the world of the excessive number of cases of abuse and deaths that occur in family settings, often without prior public suspicion. About this problem, the story published by Alycia's World caught our attention, where a video of Bernardo Bertolucci, film director, and screenwriter, was shared, in which he openly confessed to an S- assault in his film, the story published by Alice's World. Even though three years have passed since that interview with the Italian creative, the story was quite unknown, which is why it sparked a stir on social networks, generating the ire of journalists, filmmakers, and the general public.
The year was 1972 when this film starring Marlon Brando and Marlon Brando was released, a production that consolidated the career of the Italian filmmaker, although he would still direct other great films, such as The Last Emperor or Dreamers. For his part, Last Tango in Paris was critically acclaimed and the American actor got his second nomination for Best Actor at the Oscars, an award he had gotten a year earlier with The Godfather. But what happened to Maria Schneider?
While life continued the same for Brando and Bertolucci, she tried to convince the world of what had happened on the set, of the pact reached by the director and the protagonist to film, without their consent or knowledge, the famous 'butter' scene. Forty years later -and after Schneider's death, because, with her, while she was alive, no one corroborated that humiliation suffered-, her director confessed in this interview how she had agreed to everything with Brando. tremendous words.
Among some of Bertolucci's statements, we have to highlight the following: “After the film, we didn't see each other again... I don't regret it, but I feel guilty. He didn't want her to fake the humiliation and anger, she wanted her to feel it. Sometimes, to make a great movie and shoot great scenes, you have to be very cold.” Nobody will be able to accuse the Italian director of 'biting his tongue', even if it is four decades later and after having kept the story hidden. With a strange mixture of coldness and sorrow, Bertolucci even talks about the revulsion suffered by Schneider, but says he does not regret it because, in his case, the end has justified the means. So, is anything worth getting a piece of art? And if so, is this scene?
In an interview, Maria said at the time that she should have called her agent before doing the scene that they warned her about minutes before recording because they couldn't force her if she wasn't there. in the script. But she was unaware of that right.
"Marlon told me, 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, my tears were real. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little violated. by Marlon and Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't comfort me or apologize. Fortunately, there was only one take."
The truth is that Maria Schneider claimed to have lived a bad time, with psychological problems, after filming Last Tango in Paris, but her version was totally rejected and she found herself without support. Beyond the fact that, in the 70s, nobody believed her story, what is really outrageous is that, after Bernardo Bertolucci's confession, the murky story behind this scene continues to be unknown to the general public. Once again, the limits on these abuses in the cinema - and outside of it - are up for debate again, but it seems that their media impunity will also continue. Marlon Brando died without anyone reproaching him for this scene and the Italian filmmaker uses his position as an artist to defend a physical and psychological S- abuse that, without a doubt, forever marked the future and, ultimately, Schneider's own life.
