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Marlon Brando’s mother had just passed away when the film was filmed, so he signed a contract with the crew and could only work until 4 o’clock a day, because he was going to see a psychiatrist, and some of the shots in the film were made up after he left the set. Taken.
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The biggest difficulty encountered by director Ilya Kazan during the filming of the film was to try his best to keep the actors on the scene, because the weather was very cold at the time, and most of the actors were extremely reluctant to shoot on location shots.
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In order to better collect information, the screenwriter Bud Schuberg spent several years mixing in several larger docks in New York to understand the living conditions of the workers.
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In order to increase the authenticity of the film, the crew filmed for 36 days in the docks, slums, and bars of New Jersey. In the film, the foreman's bodyguards were all played by real boxers.
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Eva Marie Cent’s glove fell to the ground and Marlon Brando helped her pick it up and put it on her hand. The shot was made by the two of them temporarily.
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Thomas Handley was paid $500 for participating in the film, but he did not enter the showbiz for this, but became a real dock worker.
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The role of actor Terry was originally tailored by the director for John Garfield, but John Garfield died before the film began.
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In the early scripts of screenwriter Bud Schuberger, Terry was not a dock worker, but a divorced investigator with a cynical heart.
On the Waterfront behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Micaela 2022-03-28 09:01:02
There are both good lines and good chapters: the meticulous portrayal of group consciousness (the first shot of the gun) is just as wonderful as the hymn of individual heroism. When Brando tells Edie the truth, the background is a sharp and noisy whistle, and the camera switches back and forth between Brando's silent confession and Edie's painful expression, which is a masterful work of dramatic tension. Brando and Kazan's previous films were all proletarian workers/peasants, from the Polish beasts of A Streetcar Named Desire to the peasant uprising heroes of Zapata to the dockers in this work, but he This role is actually more complicated than the first two combined. The involuntary gang accomplice (the dove in the cage symbolizes him) has experienced the battle between heaven and man and is driven by multiple factors (love/family/religion/guilt). In the end, he chose to fight against the powerful gangsters alone and became their most hated informer. Combined with the "Whistleblower" incident outside Kazan's play, Brando's role may be his justification and glorification for himself. Lee Cobb would be fine as a violent thug or a furious scout, but the role of a mob boss would still look too reckless.
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Erwin 2022-04-23 07:01:41
At the end of the film, Terry and the gang leader did not take advantage of the head-to-head duel at the wharf, or even completely at a disadvantage, but his fighting spirit inspired the working class and made the former gang lose their power. This kind of spiritual victory can also be said to have a great ending. Reunite.
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Terry: You know this city's full of hawks? That's a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.
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Father Barry: You'd better get rid of that gun, unless you haven't got the guts, and if you don't, you'd better hang on to it!