

When he's finally released, he wanders into a sushi restaurant and strikes up a relationship with its young chef, Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung). After a friend retrieves him from a police station, he's kidnapped and isolated in a hotel room for 15 years.

Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) gets arrested one night for public drunkenness and misses his young daughter's birthday party. Only your partners, the bedroom ceiling, and maybe Matt Damon should have ever seen that, Ben. We imagine his direction was something like, "Show the world exactly what it's like in Bennifer's real bedroom." Then he probably went back to his trailer and drank until he passed out while Ben Affleck delivered a nauseatingly realistic depiction of the faces he makes in the throes of passion. According to IMDb, the studio forced Brest to turn what originally was a mob movie into a rom-com to "cash in on the relationship between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez." So, our only explanation for the resulting love scenes has to be that they were a vindictive parting shot by a director already set on leaving the business.

When speaking to The Daily Mailin 2007, Schneider revealed that she did indeed feel “raped” and “humiliated” by Brando.Just in case that line of dialogue up there-which is a direct quote of the pillow talk from this movie-wasn't a strong enough indicator of how awful Gigli is, here's another piece of info to solidify that framework: Martin Brest, the director, never made another film after Gigli. “I think she hated me and also Marlon because we didn't tell her,” he added.

"I wanted her to act humiliated,” Bertolucci said in the interview, which was taped at an event at La Cinémathèque Française. The infamous rape scene in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris was non-consensual, according to comments director Bernardo Bertolucci made in an interview he gave in 2013 and recently unearthed by Elle.Īnyone who’s seen the infamous film-for which explicit depiction of sex between a then 48-year-old Marlon Brando and the 19-year-old French actress Maria Schneider sparked widespread outrage-knows exactly what scene Bertolucci is talking about.Īccording to the director, he and Brando didn’t tell Schneider that Brando was going to use a stick of butter as lubricant during the scene, an idea they had on the morning of the shoot.
