Dennis Hopper (on Apocalypse Now and Marlon Brando)

[AndrewsOpinion15]

GOD GIVE US BACK DENNIS HOPPER IN RETURN WILL GIVE U NANCY GRACE !!!!!

[debzeppeliniv]

Brando was a glutton, you know 1 of 7 deadly sins?

[kingiam91]

'crazy Dennis Hopper' lol!

[ultrakool]

first rule is: photo-journalists are to never question insane colonels. second rule is: be nice to mommy. third rule is: don't talk to commies. fourth rule is: eat kosher salamis

[ScottishJapanese4eva]

@Nelsano3 thats not right! if you watch closley his bandana changes in the shot on him and sheen when they are struck by the bannanas.

[nelsano3]

@ScottishJapanese4eva Yeah your right, he wasnt allowed on the set so when Brando was there he was reacting to what Dennis did the night before and vice versa.. i would have loved to have seen what happened in the story he tells here.. dissing Brando in the theatre whilst watching Seven Samuri and then stumbling away drunk as hell, i bet it was well funny! Dennis was a true nutcase and a hell of a guy! RIP both of them.. they dont have characters like this in the film industry anymore...

[ovarylicker]

R.I.P ... Mr Hopper

[kellyadmirer1]

Everybody ragged on Brando for being this and that, especially Coppolla, but notice the key thing: he came to the Phillipines when there wasn't even an ending to the film, and for some bizarre reason was expected to provide one. Then he went off on a two-week trip with just Coppolla, and when they came back, there suddenly was an ending. Talk about taking him for granted, putting absurd expectations on him that are then actually met! Brando saves all your sorry butts, Hopper, deal with it.

[monk22yrs]

@kellyadmirer1 brando was paid two million dollars for a few weeks work----and brando was totally unwilling to go over the few weeks he was getting paid.

in the 1960s brando was notorious for being in junk just for the right money----which is why the producers of THE GODFATHER paid him so little...and didn't want him for the movie, cause he was trouble; he was even to be fined if he caused any trouble on the set.

and brando's kids were messed up, with his daughter saying he molested her

[kellyadmirer1]

@monk22yrs Um, the molestation claims only came out after his death from his bitter ex-wife. But why not just throw in that he admitted to homosexuality, too? That has about as much to do with his acting in Apocalypse as the other thing, that is, absolutely nothing. And Brando was already a legend when Godfather came around, not some washed-up has-been.

[monk22yrs]

@kellyadmirer1 (1) cheyenne brando said her father molested; she later killed herself, and brando didn't go to her funeral in tahiti; brando's gun crazy son killed her bf.

(2) brando was a legendary has-been before THE GODFATHER----with the director fighting to convince the studio to hire brando, and only convincing the studio after showing them a screentest with brando in so much makeup that they didn't even know it was him that they liked.

(3) actors get away with lots of bad behavior.

[kellyadmirer1]

@monk22yrs All true. But you have to admit he staged a hell of a comeback in the early '70s. And certainly it was a messed-up family, I don't know all the details on the Cheyenne thing but I thought the charge was based on a somewhat interpretable diary entry.

[monk22yrs]

@kellyadmirer1 cheyanne, supposedly, told an interviewer around the time she left a mental ward, about being molested.

maria schneider was in/out mental wards at time of LAST TANGO---and she wound up hating brando cause he came up with the anal rape scene at the last minute.

brando told sophia loren she had long nose hairs.

brando didn't like charlie chaplin, either (chaplin's underage gf, lita, was supposedly the basis for LOLITA)

yeah, brando was a great actor but a mental mess

[monk22yrs]

@kellyadmirer1 p.s.

there was an ending to APOCALYPSE NOW---which was written in 1968, with unknown george lucas to direct; coppola just didn't like the action-packed ending.

CASABLANCA was filmed without a definate ending; at one point bogart and bergman were to go off together.

a number of movies were made without a definate ending; fellini's "8 1/2" ending came from the ad for the movie.

charlie chaplin wrote his movies as he filmed them, tho in those days it was cheap to do that.

[1959billyshears]

that movie was surreal, between Brando and Hopper in Apocalypse...transcended acting...spiritual

[LoKimLinProject]

JEFFY LUBE!!

[giugnhgbvinierngvb89]

Apocalypse now is more than a movie. It is an experince. It's not a movie about Vietnam war. It's the vietnam war. Brando was probably the worst part of the movie. He didnt seem very interested n the movie...

[jwill5587]

When Hopper says the part about "last years levi's, last years motorcycle, last year's bongo drums", he's referring to what Brando once said about James Dean shortly before his death. Brando was accusing Dean of copying his persona.

[trulysarcastic]

@jwill5587 thank you, I had no idea what he was talking about

[sheltondk43]

It's amazing Coppola got this film done considering the extreme habits and behaviors of the actors he had cast.

[WintersWar]

RIP Dennis Hopper and RIP interviewer David Bloom

[ihavethebrain]

I think Brando is a great actor and Apocalypse Now (and Redux) is in my top ten, but Brando is prob the weakest part of the movie.

[majesticmaniac]

Crack unit = Unit on crack

[laksa72]

@PsychoSpammer Yep, they will be fighting in hell now....

[2taggs2]

I am glad Hopper told that story. Brando was a dick and disrespected so many people on the sets of movies. Brando was a lazy actor. I am not saying he was not a great actor, because he was. Rather than rembering his lines in many movies, he would improvise or even read off of cue cards (which pissed off Jack Nicholson in 'Missouri Breaks').

Hopper points out how actors would have to work their asses off and Brando would get more money for doing less work. I would resent him, too.

[braddyboy82]

I have traveled so far. I have researched so much. I lost my wife and my house. AND FINALLY!!! I waited all that time and only got a *HALF SECOND* of the world famous and world famously elusive Jiffy Lube commercial I have been seeking for the past 14 years???!!

*bang*

[strangersname]

@braddyboy82

Yes, you've climbed the mountains, you've tried to read Heidegger, you've almost achieved levitation... and yet all you get is a tiny snippet of this Classic Jiffy Lube spot. Is there even a scrap of justice left in this world?

[Chris2O09]

He moves his hands like a thunderbird non-stop.

[bigtoe512]

RIP Dennis Hopper you along with Brando had some of cinema's most memorable characters and performances.

[rgwinful]

When he does his "The Man" lines during Apocolypse now, I detect a heavy amount of Cynicism in describing the "Man". So maybe that was his passive aggresive way of getting back at Brando.

[melikemusicalot]

lol jiffy lube

[fvlak1]

Don't know about the jiffy lube bit though..

[DanielTheWalrus]

I love Brando, but he was a diva. Refuse to act with Hopper only because of THAT?!

[TheDuckseason]

@PsychoSpammer Dennis has been dead almost a year , and Brando longer but out of all I watched Dennis never mentioned a friendship after the movie ... Apocalypse Now

[TheDuckseason]

This man was a presence and genious all his own and he proved that in his own perfmance even without Brando to do a sceen with in Apocalypse Now

[nelsano3]

The scene in Apocalypse Now where Marlon is reading the 'Hollow Man' and Dennis goes off on a tangent about 'no maybes, no supposes' etc etc is amazing, it turns out that it was real and unscripted and when Marlon throws the bananas at Dennis and calls him a mutt it is real. I think Dennis was so spaced out at that point in his life he was unable to relate to in anyway and Marlon just couldnt take it bieng in his presence. Francis casting Dennis in that role however was perfect for the film...

[Lewis1key]

@nelsano3 Absolutely! Dennis Hopper saved the entire ending of this film. He was the bridge between Sheen's character & Brando. At this point in the movie, Coppola lost the focus of his script and without Hopper to tie it together, there would have been a huge gap! What's amazing is that Hopper doesn't even appear to be acting... that's how great an actor he was.

[aussiepicnic]

Lovely. Hopper.. he's a great man, man.

[girl43]

Dennis is quite the story teller :D

It's so sad he didn't actually act with Brando ... Both strange genius men.

Man it's a miracle the movie ever got released!

[shineyhappyperson]

R.I.P Dennis! You  will be missed by so many!

[msudreaming]

"doing a few other things that we had plenty of down there..." gee what do mean Dennis? : )

[doubleAOG]

my condolences to all americans that loved the man and artist , MR. Dennis Hopper...unfortunately, we, the romanians also lost a great actor, the master Jean Constantin, a few days ago (R.I.P.) :(((!!! R.I.P. Dennis Lee Hopper ( may 17, 1936 – may 29, 2010)...STAY STRONG AMERICA!!!

[666skully]

@doubleAOG  You Rock!!!!!

[nomadtv]

a sad day...

[FanOfPopCulture]

R.I.P

[Gen1163]

Love Dennis Hopper and Marlon Brando :)

[myryckyz]

Anyway this great actor is the last rebel and i 've got the news he's dyin' of  a cancer in the middle of a tribute and a divorce.

[myryckyz]

That's what i heard about.

[BlackenedForLife]

Hopper is lying. In reality Marlon didnt want to work with him because Dennis was a known alcoholic and a drug-user at the time. Brando despised those things.

[laksa72]

@BlackenedForLife Wtf ? If you are a professional actor earning million dollars a week, have to put those personal opinions aside. Don't u think so?

[bally28]

brill!!! thanks

[wwwgrampswww]

Thanks that's 7 minutes of my life i won't get back whay post a vid telling a story if you don't have the ending. i won't waste anymore time on you vids and telling everyone i know not to waste their time have a good day

[LucLeFou]

@wwwgrampswww

you fkn stupid, stfu and die