![]() ![]() “And I storm out and stagger into some motorcycle and fall into some bushes. Facing hordes of zombies (courtesy of a nasty strain of mad cow disease), the films protagonists use any and all weapons at their disposal to make it to their. And at one point, I get up and say, ‘There’s an actor in here that said of a dead friend of mine (James Dean) that he wore his last year of Levis, drove his last year of motorcycle and did his last year of bongo drums, and I sure would like. “We go to see the Seven Samurai in a movie theater and I am sitting behind him. Hopper took the outburst and insults “very personally” and made it a point to antagonize Brando the rest of the evening, first at a boxing match, then at a theater, he said. He gets up and says ‘I don’t have to listen to this! I don’t have to take this!’ And he is screaming and yelling ‘Why do I have to hear it from him? I have to hear it from this punk!’ And he storms out of the house.” And he thinks I am talking about Heart of Darkness, but I don’t know this at the time. “And I say to Brando, sitting across from him at dinner, I bet you haven’t read the book. “I didn’t know this, but Francis had been on him for not reading the book, Heart of Darkness (which the film was based on), and we have to do a story conference and there’s no ending,” Hopper explained. And one night, once Brando had arrived, the cast all went to dinner. While he was in “training,” Hopper had been given a special services “little red book,” used by the Green Berets, he said. And I have this crack unit we’re doing drills, we’re doing karate, we’re doing Jiu-Jitsu, we’re climbing trees, we’re scouting … we’re a crack unit,” explained Hopper, who played an unnamed American photojournalist and disciple of Brando’s Kurtz in the film. “When Brando finally arrives, I had been down there a month and a half. Hopper noted he had only agreed to do the film on the condition he get one line onscreen with Brando. Coppola agreed. It all began when Brando, who was notoriously difficult work with, arrived to set weeks after he was scheduled to begin, which meant the rest of the cast and crew had to wait on him.
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