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The Young Lions, 1958
In late 1957 I went to Europe to make The Young Lions, a movie based on Irwin Shaw's novel about three soldiers - two Americans and a German - whose lives intersected before and during World War II... I thought about the script and decided to exercise the right in my contract to change it. The original script closely followed the book, in which Shaw painted all Germans as evil caricatures, especially Christian, whom he portrayed as a symbol of everything that was bad about Nazism...indirectly, Shaw was saying that all Germans were responsible for the Holocaust, which I didn't agree with. Much to his irritation, I changed the plot entirely so that at the beginning of the story my character believed that Hitler was a positive force because he gave Germans a sense of puropse...In The Young Lions, I wanted to show that there were positive aspects to Germans as there are to all people...I decided to play Christian Diestl as an illustration of one element of the human character - that is, how, because of their need to keep their myths alive, people will go to enormous lengths to ignore the negative aspects of their beliefs...
The Young Lions, 1958
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The Young Lions, 1958
A collection of material relating to The Young Lions, including:
- Brando's working script, the first draft continuity script, dated 25 April, 1957, 142pp. of mimeographed typescript, with orange paper covers, 13 pages annotated in pencil or blue ballpoint pen in Brando's or an unknown hand with minor notes and observations on the script;
- a typescript letter, signed, from Tom Ryan dated 17 February, 1958, on Carlyle Productions Inc., From The Office Of Otto Preminger headed stationery, praising Brando's performance in The Young Lions: ...that god-damned performance of yours just won't get out of my mind. I think it is far and away the finest thing you have ever done, and you know how highly I have always rated your work in the past. But here, you seem to me to have pushed through some sort of an acting sound barrier, and gone far beyond anything I have ever seen before. I not only lost all consciousness that this was Marlon Brando I was watching, I forgot that it was an actor, and even that this was a movie. Enough gushing...Life plods along...1p.;
- approximately 12 black and white stills, all depicting Brando as Lt. Christian Diestl, all -- 8x10in. (20.3x25.4cm.);
- and a book: The Young Lions, Random House: New York, 1948; and related material (a lot)
A collection of material relating to The Young Lions, including:
- Brando's working script, the first draft continuity script, dated 25 April, 1957, 142pp. of mimeographed typescript, with orange paper covers, 13 pages annotated in pencil or blue ballpoint pen in Brando's or an unknown hand with minor notes and observations on the script;
- a typescript letter, signed, from Tom Ryan dated 17 February, 1958, on Carlyle Productions Inc., From The Office Of Otto Preminger headed stationery, praising Brando's performance in The Young Lions: ...that god-damned performance of yours just won't get out of my mind. I think it is far and away the finest thing you have ever done, and you know how highly I have always rated your work in the past. But here, you seem to me to have pushed through some sort of an acting sound barrier, and gone far beyond anything I have ever seen before. I not only lost all consciousness that this was Marlon Brando I was watching, I forgot that it was an actor, and even that this was a movie. Enough gushing...Life plods along...1p.;
- approximately 12 black and white stills, all depicting Brando as Lt. Christian Diestl, all -- 8x10in. (20.3x25.4cm.);
- and a book: The Young Lions, Random House: New York, 1948; and related material (a lot)