When the script of "A Spring Festival Night" was first delivered to the Burtons, they were on a fast-moving train.
Taylor went to bed first. Burton took the script and watched it in person. It was late at night after reading it. He awoke Taylor and said to her, "Your age is really not suitable for Martha, but this script is very good. You must sign immediately to avoid This role was taken away by other actresses and made them famous. I can be sure that Martha will be your Hamlet, just like Hamlet is to me."
What he said, Sure enough, the role of Martha became the best role in Taylor's actor career, and it also brought her the second Oscar trophy.
Before the Oscars ceremony, Taylor's actress can be sure that there will be no suspense, and Burton is also the movie's biggest favorite.
Because his role as Professor George is considered to be better than Taylor's Martha, Taylor's acting skills are still not up to his level of perfection. He has received unanimous praise and praise from critics, and even some critics believe that this will be a great performance that will be included in the film textbook for all young actors to learn and observe.
Everyone thinks that Burton won the Golden Man in the fifth Oscar nomination, and even Paul Schofield, who was upset and won the Golden Man in the end, was surprised.
He thought it was impossible for him to win the prize and did not go to Los Angeles at all. The first sentence he said when he got the news in the UK was, "Why me, shouldn't it be Richard Burton who won the award?"
But Burton himself does not think so.
He always doesn't watch samples, let alone his finished movies, so he doesn't know how good his performance this time is, let alone the greatest performance of his career. He only heard that the best actor in the Golden Globe Award was not him, and he was completely discouraged and disappointed, thinking that he would not be able to win the award this time.
He has always lacked self-confidence and did not consider himself a good actor. At that time, he had just finished filming "The Dragon in the Sea" in Nice, France. At the beginning of the filming, he heard two bad news.
The first news is that in his hometown of Wales, a slag dump accident occurred in a village next door to his birthplace. An elementary school was buried. 188 children and 22 adults were killed. Only two or three survivors were killed.
After hearing the news, he wept in grief. He immediately set off for a show in London, calling everyone to pay attention to this tragedy. He contacted all the celebrities he knew, and raised a total of more than 3.7 million U.S. dollars in charity to comfort the families of the victims, as well as carry out post-disaster reconstruction and clean up the hidden dangers of slag.
Unexpectedly, the British Lord in charge of coal affairs misappropriated nearly 1 million from this money. He was angry, but helpless, because he had no right to interfere with the specific use of the money.
The second news is that his youngest sister Edith had a heart attack after a heart valve replacement operation and passed away, only in her forties. He went to Wales to attend her funeral. In the constant grief and pain, his depression relapsed.
Because he has been reluctant to take medication, his condition recurred during the filming of "The Dragon in the Sea", and he could only suppress it with uninterrupted alcoholism.
When the film was finished, he and Taylor remained in France, he became more clingy, and he couldn't do without Taylor for a moment. Under this circumstance, the president of Warner Corporation sent a telegram to Taylor, telling Taylor to go to Los Angeles to attend the awards ceremony, Burton panicked.
He fell into an extreme low self-esteem, which made him considered by outsiders to be jealous of his wife.
Burton has always been a very vain person. Imagine that the husband and wife were nominated at the same time, the wife won the prize, and the husband didn't. How embarrassing and embarrassing he would be sitting in the audience watching his wife accept the prize.
If he doesn't go, let Taylor go alone? People will also laugh at him, because they have always been inseparable from the double-entry pair. Oscars such as the big event actually left Taylor to attend alone, and the fool guessed that he was faceless.
A pessimistic and anxious Burton even made up a lie to prevent Taylor from accepting the award.
Taylor said, "He dreamed that my plane crashed in California and he saw me dead. We almost never separated, and now he doesn't want me to go. He is my husband, and he will enter when I am away. This is a terrible state, especially when he is drunk, he only needs me, not me."
After Warner received a telegram that she was not going to attend, he quickly replied with one sentence, "Don't destroy the bridge you just built."
It is said that when Burton saw Warner’s telegram, his reaction was shocking. He actually said, "Urine was on him."
Regardless of whether this rumor is true or not, Taylor ultimately did not go to Los Angeles. She loved Burton very much and couldn't bear to see him leave him alone in France when he was most dependent on her.
Burton has always been emotionally unstable. She was afraid that he would do something radical to hurt herself, just like his self-harm three years ago and the car accident five years ago.
What's more, Burton didn't care about the Oscars. Except for the first nomination, he never participated in the three subsequent nominations.
After being with her, the situation changed. He hated being treated as Mr. Cleopatra or even Mr. Taylor by the media and the audience, so he has been struggling, trying to catch up with her and truly equal her.
Now, his precarious dignity is like a tattered tent in a storm, even if his body is soaked with hard support, he can't give up it. All she can do is stay with him in the storm and support him.
This is a great snub for Hollywood. It seems to give people a hint that their couple is bigger than Hollywood, and they don't care about Hollywood at all.
One critic bluntly pointed out, “It would be very uncomfortable for him to watch his wife receive an award he can’t get in front of the audience.”
Even when Annie Bancroft accepted the award in her place, the host Bob Hope humiliated the couple on stage to the millions of viewers who were present and watching the show, using a joking tone.
"Leaving Richard Burton in France alone is like locking Jackie Gleason in a deli." The picture shows the Burtons in London in '67. The Burtons were interviewed by reporters after receiving the British Film Association Award. . Burton looked at this scene of Taylor's little golden man, the most intriguing, he didn't know what he was thinking at that moment. At this time, he would not have expected that he would never get this trophy in his entire life.
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