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This cycle started with Catherine Hepburn. Producer Sam Spiegel prepares to package Tennessee Williams' drama "Summer Cry" to Columbia, with Elizabeth Taylor starring. At the same time, he also called for Hepburn. The play was completed by Williams in 1957 and became a sensation. He used the role of drug addiction to reflect his own fear and guilt. His greatest fear comes from death due to drug overdose and homosexual promiscuity. His most unforgiving sin was agreeing to his mother to remove the white matter of his sister's forebrain lobe. Twenty years later, he still loves and hates his mother. The result of the playwright's inner struggle and self-examination is the advent of "Summer Cry". The story tells the story of the brain expert Kaklovich, under pressure from the overbearing noblewoman Venabo, performed a white matter removal operation on her niece Catherine. In fact, she was just anxious and not really out of order. The price of the operation is that if the doctor can stop Catherine’s nonsense (she revealed the mystery of the death of Mrs. Venab’s son Sebastian), then the hospital will get a lot of money.

Spiegel wants Hepburn to play Mrs. Venabau, but he can't make the lead. This position was to be given to playing daughter Catherine, then the world's No. 1 box office star Elizabeth Taylor. The last time Hepburn condescended to second place was in 1933. Taylor wanted her friend Montgomery Clift to play the role of a doctor. Although Clift was in a career low due to alcohol and drugs at the time, he was still as famous as Marlon Brando and Paul Newman. But there is a question of insurance. If a celebrity may suddenly be unable to perform the contract, big companies will not hire you. Spiegel prepares to insure Clift's health. Clift missed an appointment for the first time. He showed up for the second time, but it was quiet and scary. The doctor murmured, thinking that he might be in deep sleep. Announcing that it cannot be insured. In desperation, Spiegel still used him. After that, all the crew members flew to London, but only the old Fox Spiegel went to the office of the Hayes Code Administration and defrauded the seal of approval from Jeffrey Sherlock, who had no interest in the script of the film.

When recalling that episode, Spiegel said, “Sexual perversion or any related suggestion is forbidden,” Sherlock told him that director Joseph Mankiewicz could not make that scene. That is, Catherine revealed that Sebastian has superpowers that can use her and her mother to recruit little boys to engage in sexual games. This episode comes from a flashback of Se, showing that he realizes that he is no longer young and has lost his superpowers. The people he had played with, seeing his current weakness, rallied and punished him in an indescribable way. This film tells the story of a group of demons. Totalitarian mother, cruel homosexual, promiscuous criminal. Sherlock obviously couldn't accept this. Spiegel refused and told Mankiewicz to start shooting. At this time, the director was busy dealing with Clift.

Even when he was awake, Clift was making trouble. At a formal dinner, he bit his fingers, threw tableware, and babbled loudly. Taylor tried to appease him, but she also had her own problems. The third husband, McTed, died in a plane crash for a year and has been in grief. She has just married married singer Eddie Fisher. Mohidis McKampridge played Taylor's mother in the film. She recalled:

"Elizabeth always missed McTed. And Miss Hepburn was also worried about Qusay's illness. Director Mankiewicz seemed to have a skin disease on his hands, so he always wore gloves. You can hardly imagine the screenwriter. Vectra or Tennessee Williams would be particularly happy people. Of course, Clift is being tortured. Everyone involved in the film is going through their own sufferings, and they show it all."

"Summer Horror" On May 25, 1959, it was opened at Spieldon's studio, 55 miles southwest of London. In the middle of summer, the heat waves roll in. In order to drive away the heat and escape the heat, Clift brought his own thermal pot. It's filled with refreshing fruit wine. The screenwriter Edward Ankht took a sip, "What the hell is this?" he asked with a grin.

"Bourbon, crushed analgesics, and fresh juice," Clift replied with a smile.

Mankiewicz has been indifferent to Clift since the "Dinner" incident. Now, once he trembles, forgets the word, or empties, the director will tell the producer to replace it. Spiegel asked Taylor to talk to Clift. "I tried it and it didn't work." She replied. Hepburn then took the initiative to take care of him. Mankiewicz didn't like Hepburn, but he started to get close to Taylor. "Mankiewicz seems to want to win Elizabeth's favor," Speed ​​said, "but he doesn't respect Catherine." Hepburn believes that the director's open talk about abandoning Clift is too cruel to him. However, personal problems have actually contributed to Taylor's performance in front of the camera. Especially the climax of the monologue:

At the end of the ten-minute line, Taylor began to cry. It can be said that the true feelings are revealed. The colleagues present all ran forward to comfort and encourage her. But she stopped her grief, pushed everyone away, and ran into the dressing room alone.

One day, after Hepburn finished his performance, he walked up to the director Mankiewicz and asked him, "Are you sure you are finished filming?" and repeated three times. When he confirmed that he did not need to take another shot. Hepburn paused, then jumped up and slapped him. To express dissatisfaction with the director. Leave immediately.

The film was officially released on December 22, 1959. This is thanks to Speed. It was he who decided to delete a line, and after a scene, finally settled the bureau. This line is "We hire prostitutes for him." The deleted scene shows two bareback boys touching each other. This kind of censorship seems to be just a pretentious one, it can't fool anyone. "I guess the youngest audience sitting below can understand what's happening on the screen." Pauling Kerr once wrote. Indeed, they understood, and immediately ran to tell their friends who made this film. A similar situation also occurred in "The Cry", which was one of the best-selling films of 1960. Variety appraisal "Summer Horror" is, "The most weird movie ever made by a major Hollywood company." Suddenly one summer (this sentence is the title of "Summer Horror"), two horrors appeared at once. Film, and there is also a creepy and insane mother in it.

Insanity is the main point, and writer Philip Willy can be used as a symbol. He attacked the mother-child relationship that Williams is now describing in the book "The Vicious Generation" published in 1942, which was much talked about. "Oh, Sebastian," Mrs. Venabau said to her son. "What a beautiful summer, it's the two of us. It's always like this. How lucky! To have each other without others. Forever." A thought about a beautiful old woman dominating her aging son, let Willy enter In a kind of exaggerated excitement. "While we recognize American idol beauties (all-beautiful dream girls, glamorous girls), we are insulting women and depriving millions of women of the right to love. To create mother's claws and laugh at the burnt-out residue of youth.

" "Vicious Generation" has been reprinted more than 20 times, with great influence, but also mixed reputation. In particular, Willy attacked tens of millions of soldiers, saying that they had motherhood and would rather chat with pretty girls than drag them into the bushes. "Then who are they going to pull in? "I created you... the devil!" taught in Verina's "Bride of Frankenstein". In the straightforward cursing response, the warning that American mothers of healthy men may turn their sons into the next Sebastian is becoming louder and clearer,

"I made you, mother, "Willy wrote, "I made it, this devastating mother!" "

However, Wiley doesn't have to work hard. The performances of Hollywood glamour stars on and off the screen are enough to teach the monsters among Frankenstein.

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  • Mrs. Venable: Sebastian always said, 'Mother when you descend it's like the Goddess from the Machine. You look just like angel coming to earth' as I float, float into view. Sebastian, my son Sebastian was very interested in the Byzantine. Are you interested in the Byzantine Doctor...?

    Dr. Cukrowicz: Cukrowicz. I don't know very much about the Byzantine.

    Mrs. Venable: It seems that the Emperor of Byzantium - when he received people in audience - had a throne which, during the conversation, would rise mysteriously into the air to the consternation of his visitors. But as we are living in a democracy, I reverse the procedure. I don't rise, I come down.

  • Mrs. Venable: She suffers from something called dementia praecox.

    Dr. Cukrowicz: Dementia praecox?

    Mrs. Venable: Which is say, she's mad as a hatter, poor child.