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Sayonara, 1957
I read the novel, Sayonara, and thought it raised interesting issues about human relations but I didn't like the script...I thought the story endorsed indirectly a form of racism. But with a different ending, I thought it could be an example of the pictures I wanted to make, films that exerted a positive force. I told Logan I'd do the picture if the Madame Butterfly ending was replaced by one stating that there was nothing wrong with racial inter-marriage, and that it was a natural outcome when people fell in love.....I ended up rewriting and improvising a lot of the picture, and we had to limp along as best we could.
Sayonara, 1957
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Sayonara, 1957
A collection of script re-writes and notes in Brando's hand for Sayonara, 1957, the notes in blue ballpoint pen, 8pp., including: four pages of re-written script for the romantic dialogues between Brando's character, Major Lloyd Gruver and Hana-Ogi [Miiko Taka]; a page of re-written script for the fight scene between Gruver and Colonel Crawford [Douglass Watson]; and a page of re-written script concerning racial inter-marriage: I heard you gave up your little Japanese dollie...it's alright for Yankee boys to act like damn fools but I think any real American in his heart knows the difference between yellow and white...it's too bad about Kelly and his little yellow chickie. But I think he's really better off dead than bringing half breeds home to impurify the good blood we have there...
A collection of script re-writes and notes in Brando's hand for Sayonara, 1957, the notes in blue ballpoint pen, 8pp., including: four pages of re-written script for the romantic dialogues between Brando's character, Major Lloyd Gruver and Hana-Ogi [Miiko Taka]; a page of re-written script for the fight scene between Gruver and Colonel Crawford [Douglass Watson]; and a page of re-written script concerning racial inter-marriage: I heard you gave up your little Japanese dollie...it's alright for Yankee boys to act like damn fools but I think any real American in his heart knows the difference between yellow and white...it's too bad about Kelly and his little yellow chickie. But I think he's really better off dead than bringing half breeds home to impurify the good blood we have there...