Marlon Brando Junior

Brando in Superman (1978) when He's 055-Years Old

Marlon Brando filmography
Brando from a scene for the film *Superman* (1978).

**Marlon Brando Jr.** (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist. Widely considered one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two ***Academy Awards***, two ***Golden Globe Awards***, one ***Cannes Film Festival Award***, and three ***British Academy Film Awards***. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the ***Stanislavski system of acting*** and ***method acting*** to mainstream audiences.

After a hiatus in the early 1970s, Brando was generally content with being a highly paid ***character actor*** in supporting roles of varying quality such as Jor-El in *Superman* (1978), as ***Colonel Kurtz*** in ***Apocalypse Now*** (1979) and as Adam Steiffel in ***The Formula*** (1980) before taking a nine-year break from film. The last two decades of Brando's life were marked with controversy, and his troubled private life received significant attention. He struggled with mood disorders and legal issues. Brando continues to be respected and held in high regard.

## Early life and education, Career

### Late 1970s

In 1978, Brando narrated the English version of ***Raoni***, a French-Belgian documentary film directed by ***Jean-Pierre Dutilleux*** and Luiz Carlos Saldanha that focused on the life of ***Raoni Metuktire*** and issues surrounding the survival of the ***Indigenous tribes in north central Brazil***. Brando portrayed Superman's father Jor-El in the 1978 film *Superman*. He agreed to the role only on assurance that he would be paid a large sum for what amounted to a small part, that he would not have to read the script beforehand, and that his lines would be displayed somewhere off-camera. It was revealed in a documentary contained in the 2001 DVD release of *Superman* that he was paid $3.7 million for two weeks of work. Brando also filmed scenes for the movie's sequel, *Superman II*, but after producers refused to pay him the same percentage he received for the first movie, he denied them permission to use the footage. "I asked for my usual percentage," he recollected in his memoir, "but they refused, and so did I." However, after Brando's death, the footage was reincorporated into the 2006 recut of the film, *Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut* and in the 2006 "loose sequel" *Superman Returns*, in which both used and unused archive footage of him as Jor-El from the first two *Superman* films was remastered for a scene in the Fortress of Solitude, and Brando's voice-overs were used throughout the film.

## Filmography and accolades

Main articles: Marlon Brando Junior filmography and List Of Awards and Entire Nominations Received by Marlon Brando Junior
## External links

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* Official website
* Marlon Brando Junior on IMDb
* File:Tcmdb2.png Marlon Brando Junior on TCMDb
* File:Ibdb2.png Marlon Brando Junior on IBDB
* *Vanity Fair*: "The King Who Would Be Man" by ***Budd Schulberg***
* *The New Yorker*: "The Duke in His Domain" – ***Truman Capote***'s influential 1957 interview.
* *Excess after success: Marlon Brando*

## Himself As Jor-El

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### Quotes

#### Superman The Movie

Jor-El : [bidding his son farewell, as Lara looks on] You will travel far, my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you... even in the face of our death. The richness of our lives shall be yours. All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel... all this, and more, I... I bequeath you, my son. You will carry me inside you, all the days of your life. You will make my strength your own, and see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father the son. This is all I... all I can send you, Kal-El.

[as Clark discovers his heritage, this is his father's final message to him]
Jor-El : Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. But always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.

[first scene: General Zod and his minions are on trial. Jor-El states the accusations]
Jor-El: This is no fantasy, no careless product of wild imagination. No, my good friends. These indictments I have brought you today, specific charges listed herein against the individuals - their acts of treason, their ultimate aim of sedition... These are matters of undeniable fact. I ask you now to pronounce judgement on those accused...
[Jor-El approaches the accused and indicates Non]
Jor-El : On this... this mindless aberration, whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction.
[Jor-El indicates Ursa] On the woman Ursa, whose perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind have threatened even the children of the planet Krypton. [Jor-El indicates Zod] Finally, General Zod - once trusted by this council, charged with maintaining the defense of the planet Krypton itself. Chief architect of this intended revolution, and author of this insidious plot to establish a new order amongst us - with himself as absolute ruler. [pause] You have heard the evidence. The decision of the council will now be made.
[all members of the Council announce "Guilty!"]
General Zod: The vote must be unanimous, Jor-El. It has therefore now become your decision. You alone will condemn us, if you wish, and you alone will be held responsible by me. [pause] Join us.[wordlessly, Jor-El turns and walks off] You have been known to disagree with the council before. Yours could become an important voice in the new order, second only to my own! I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El! Take it! Join us!

[Jor-El doesn't even look back]

Jor-El : [DELETED LINE, mostly to himself] I've seen the likes of your new order, too many times before. And I know only too much about what you call "greatness".
General Zod : You \*will\* bow down before me, Jor-El! I swear it! No matter if it takes an eternity,
[voice rising to a shout]

General Zod : you \*will\* bow down before me! Both you and, one day, \*your heirs!\*

Ursa : [All three criminals are imprisoned within the Phantom Zone] Forgive me...!

General Zod : I shall return...!

Jor-El: [in the Fortress of Solitude] You... enjoyed it.

Superman: I don't know what to say, Father. I'm afraid I just got carried away.

Jor-El: I anticipated this, my son. I...

Superman: [surprised] You couldn't have! You couldn't have imagined...

Jor-El: ...How good it felt. [Clark nods] You are revealed to the world. Very well, so be it. But you must still keep your secret identity.

Superman: But why?

Jor-El: The reasons are two. First, you cannot serve humanity twenty-eight hours a day.

Superman: Twenty-four.

Jor-El: Or twenty-four, as it is in Earth time. Your help would be called for endlessly, even for those problems which human beings could solve themselves. It is their habit to abuse their resources in such a way.

Superman: And, secondly?

Jor-El: Secondly, your enemies will discover their only way to hurt you: by hurting the people you care for.

Superman: Thank you, Father.

Jor-El: Lastly... Do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton. Our destruction could have been avoided had it not been for the vanity of some who considered us indestructible. Were it not for vanity, why... at this very moment... [sadly] I could embrace you in my arms. My son. [Kal-El reaches yearningly toward his father's image; Jor-El fades, leaving Kal-El alone]

Jor-El: [at the Fortress of Solitude] So, my son. Speak.

Young Clark Kent: Who am I?

Jor-El: Your name is Kal-El. You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. Even though you've been raised as a human, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered.

[as Jor-El is preparing to send his son to Earth before the destruction of Krypton, Lara enters the room with the infant, Kal-El]

Lara: Have you finished?

Jor-El: Nearly. It's the only answer, Lara. If he remains here with us... he will die as surely as we will.

Lara: But why Earth, Jor-El? They're primitives, thousands of years behind us.

Jor-El: He will need that advantage to survive. Their atmosphere will... sustain him.

[He looks at his son and walks over to the area where the ship that will carry Kal-El lies. There are information crystals placed in slots on the edges]

Lara: He will defy their gravity.

Jor-El: He will look like one of them.

Lara: He won't \*be\* one of them.

Jor-El: No. His dense molecular structure will make him strong.

Lara: He'll be odd. Different.

Jor-El: He'll be fast. Virtually invulnerable.

Lara: Isolated. Alone.

Jor-El: He will not be alone.

[He holds up a clear crystal and takes a long look at it]

Jor-El: He will never be alone.

[He places it in one of the slots along with the other crystals in the ship]

Jor-El: It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history. Rather, let your leadership stir others to.

Jor-El: [to Kal-El] The early history of our universe was a bloody mosaic of interplanetary war.

First Elder: [following the trial and sentencing of General Zod and Company] An unpleasant duty has been masterly performed, Jor-El. They have received the fate they deserve: isolation in the Phantom Zone, an eternal living death.

Jor-El: A chance for survival, nonetheless... as opposed to us, if we continue to ignore these facts. It's suicide! No, it's worse. It's GENOCIDE!

First Elder: Be warned, Jor-El. The Council has already evaluated this outlandish theory of yours.

Jor-El: My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given to wild, unsupported statements. And I tell you that we must evacuate this planet immediately!

First Elder: Jor-El, you are one of Krypton's greatest scientists.

2nd Elder: Ah, yes, but so is Vond-Ah.

Vond-Ah: It isn't that we question your data. The facts are undeniable. It's your conclusions we find unsupportable.

Jor-El: This planet, and its red sun with it, will destabilize and burst within thirty days... likely within seven.

Vond-Ah: I tell you Krypton is simply shifting its orbit.

2nd Elder: Jor-El, be REASONABLE.

Jor-El: My friend, I've never been otherwise. This madness is yours.

Jor-El : Krypton!

First Elder : [after the Council of Elders has voted unanimously against Jor-El's desperate proposal] Any attempt by you to create a climate of fear and panic among the populace must be deemed by us an act of insurrection.

Jor-El : You would accuse me of insurrection? Has it now become a crime to cherish life?

First Elder : You would be banished to endless imprisonment in the Phantom Zone, the eternal void which you yourself discovered. Will you abide by the Council's decision?

Jor-El : I will remain silent. Neither I, nor my wife Lara, will leave Krypton.

Jor-El : My son, you do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I'm your father.

Jor-El : The knowledge that I have, matters physical and historic, I've given you fully on your voyage to your new home. These are important matters, to be sure, but still matters of mere fact. There are questions to be asked. And it is time for you to do so.

Jor-El : Your powers will far exceed those of mortal men.

Jor-El : Come with me now, my son, as we break through the bonds of your earthly confinement. Traveling through time and space in the six known dimensions.

Jor-El : How does a good man live? What is virtue? When does a man's obligation to those around him exceed his obligation to himself? And these are not simple questions. Even on Krypton, there is no precise science which provides us with the answers. I can only tell you what I myself believe.

Jor-El : We shall examine the human heart. It is more fragile than your own.

#### Superman Returns

Jor-El : [Superman is remembering Jor-El's last message to him from the first film] Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.

[first lines]
Jor-El : You will travel far my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you. Even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father, the - The son.

Jor-El : [Superman is flashing back to things his father told him] The human heart is still subject to monstrous deceits.

Jor-El : You will travel far, my little Kal-El, but we will never leave you-even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father. And the father, the son.

Jor-El : They could be great people Kal-El if they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way, this reason above all is why I send them you, my only son.