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'Last Tango in Paris' rape scene controversy

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One of the most notorious scenes in cinema history, the Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider butter rape scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, is making headlines once again, 44 years after the film's debut.

In a recently resurfaced video interview from 2013, Bertolucci confirms that Schneider, who died in 2011, did not know about the rape scene ahead of time, and that the graphic nature of the scene was improvised on set.

"We were having, with Marlon, breakfast on the floor of the flat where I was shooting. There was a baguette, there was butter and we looked at each other and, without saying anything, we knew what we wanted," the director said then. "I had been, in a way, horrible to Maria because I didn't tell her what was going on."
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"No, I don't feel guilty, but when she died I thought, God, I'm so sorry that I can't apologize for what Marlon and I did with that scene and we decided not to tell her. Her sense of humiliation was very real, but I think what really offended her was that she didn't feel she'd been allowed to prepare for the scene as an actress. But I wanted her reaction as a person, not as an actress."
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https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/hol...-outrage-over-last-tango-paris-050032407.html

I remember years ago reading Melissa Gilbert quite bitter that over years Michael Landon used much the same thinking to "get the best" out of her....the thinking was that the quality of what ended up on film mattered most, the ends justified the means. Lies and emotional manipulation were directors tools on some sets.

And then there is this:
10/18/2016
Bernardo Bertolucci received a standing ovation at his Close Encounter appearance at the Rome Film Fest on Monday, where he discussed his life and work with festivalgoers.
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Rome Film Fest: Bernardo Bertolucci on Directors Being Voyeurs | Hollywood Reporter

What I find interesting is that I heard about all this years ago, but we are getting sold a story that this is all new news. I find that way outrage works fascinating.
 
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