1963 "Wind and Rainy Night in Wushan", 38-year-old Burton. Despite his dark skin and rough face, he has a unique languid sexiness against his chicken coop head. An alcoholic who doesn't want to tempt others, but is alive and well, exudes strong hormones from head to toe.
Deborah Kerr, who played opposite him, wrote in her Nov. 7 diary: "I really enjoyed working with Richard. Easy, sensitive, funny. He had an extraordinary memory - he could talk Poems and lines. Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, the Bible, you name it, he can recite it.
He is now sitting at his peak, strong and confident. But he's a really good artist with a sense of humor and humility. I wish I could see his new Hamlet, I wonder what it looks like. "
In the Tennessee script, Burton played the Irish priest Shannon, a psychopath who drank heavily, had an affair with a woman, doubted God and blamed himself, self-mutilated, and cut his feet bloody. Only alcohol allowed him to escape these paranoia and pretend he was being cynical.
The women tried to redeem him, stop him from committing suicide, and tied him up after his attempted suicide, but he succeeded in the end.
The character fits his life surprisingly well, and even predicts his end. It's just that the director John Huston didn't know that, in order to make the audience like it, he changed the ending to Shannon not dead and was with the innkeeper.
Burton didn't like this change very much, and even came to Deborah Kerr for a drink overnight to analyze the drawbacks of such a change, and she agreed with him. But in the end the script was changed. I think Burton is in the play at this time. He regards Shannon as himself. Burton's way of acting is not himself becoming a character, but a character becoming himself.
That is to say, if he, Richard Burton really lived in the world woven by this script, and he experienced these people and these things, what would he think, do, and choose. He has to follow his heart in order to successfully shape the character.
Burton, who just attempted suicide on Christmas Day a year ago, still wants to commit suicide, just like Shannon threw himself into the sea and was rescued by the female boss, and he committed suicide again in the end. This is the ending that Burton will choose, so he is unwilling to change it to the ending that he and the woman make do with living, just to cater to the audience.
Although the director changed this ending, allowing Shannon to survive. But Burton's heart still sticks to the original ending, so his depression relapsed as filming came to an end.
After the filming was finished, the crew disbanded, and he did not return to the United States. Instead, he stayed in this fishing village, hiding in his room during the day and crying on Taylor's shoulder at night. He didn't want to go back to Hollywood, to the flowery world. .
His spirit is getting worse and worse, but his career is getting better. Come see this charming alcoholic + lunatic
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