I really don’t get how else you could read this headline.

The headline is correct. The SCENE was not consensual.

No, it’s not. Not at all. I just think people are only reading the headline and not the entire story.

Yeah, it’s been a part of the film’s wiki entry for years. It’s not exactly a secret. Better late than never, I suppose, but it’s an insult over injury that this collective realization over how incredibly fucked up this was came after Schneider died.

Right but the information was always there...it’s just that it was coming from her mouth

Au contraire. Sadistically hurting your actors, especially pretty young actresses, was what classy directors did in the 1960s and 1970s. Hitchcock, Kubrick, Bertolucci, can you argue with the greats?

I’m not sure what your point is. Yes, this is awful, and it’s sad that people are only now paying attention. It’s also not at all uncommon for stories like this to get ignored for decades before they get widespread media attention. (Think of how Bill Cosby was able to go scot-free until quite recently.)

This is disgusting. I’m so sorry Schneider never got any kind of justice — or even got to see that she wasn’t alone, that people were horrified on her behalf — before she died.

Ha! That’s what Laurence Olivier suggested to Dustin Hoffman,” My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”.

Adding: She tells people what happened for years, no one pays attention. He speaks up and everyone finally listens.

There is a strange obsession from some film directors to get “real” emotions from their actors on set. Ridley Scott did it with the chestburster scene in Alien, Kubrick with Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining, and clearly Bertolucci did it with this film. Now those first two examples are far less egregious than…

Doesn’t the act seem to you to be, at the very least, sexual assault?

I always hated this movie, for a reason. How is this news now?

Definitely not the same thing, but I always roll my eyes when actors go to extreme lengths to “get real.” Oh excuse me. Method acting. Anne Hathaway starving herself for Les Mis. Dustin Hoffman denying himself sleep in Marathon Man. Jared Leto being an asshole in general on movie sets.

And no one cared for the 44 years in between? None of the known facts about what happened have changed. She wasn’t hush-hush about it...she literally said she felt raped by Marlon Brando.

That’s the part that enrages and baffles me the most (aside from everything else, I honestly can’t decide). You literally hire actors to pretend to feel emotion. There is no reason to force them to actually feel it. There is no fucking reason to make a woman really feel like she’s going to get raped. Talk to her like…

Imagine having to go back to that set day after day. The director and the star sexually assaulted you literally yesterday, and the day after that you have to go back and listen to their thoughts about what you’re all going to do today. Break time! Go ahead, take some lunch with the guy who quietly stood by and…

But how else would he and Brando have gotten a chance to get away with rape and torture? The rape and the torture were the end, not the means.

How much more authentic John Snow getting stabbed would have been if he had really been stabbed!

If she objects in the moment, she’s called unprofessional and is still pressured into doing it.