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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Saturday, May 17, 1969
cinema
The tragedy of the
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By JAY CASSIPY
Who is Hubert Cornfield? Hubert Cornfield is the producer-
director of The Night of the Following Day. Nbbody goes to the
Michigan just to see what Hubert Cornfield has done. Hubert Corn-
field is the great tragedy in American film. Hubert Cornfield made
a "because of the unusual ending no one will be admitted during
the final 14 minutes" film that. stars Marlon Brando. That is why
everyone goes to the Michigan.
But I didn't see Marlon Brando. Hubert Cornfield wouldn't,
let me see him. Hubert Cornfield bleached Marlon Brando's hair
blond and cut it so he looks like David McCallum (remember
Man From U.N.C.L.E.?)
Hubert Cornfield doesn't let Marlon Brando say anything
either. Remember when Marion Brando as Terry Mallory in On
The Waterfront says, "Oh Charlie, oh Charlie . . . you don't under-
stand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender. I
could have been somebody, instead of a bum-which is what I
am." The greatest line that Marlon Brando is giver is: "If you're
getting freaky, keep away from the kid."
We never really liked Brando because he was such a great
talker. Pauline Kael said of Brando in Mutiny on the Bounty: "The
inarticulate grunting Method actor is showing off, and it's a
classic and favorite American joke: the worm turns, Destry gets.
his guns, American honor is redeemed."
What we really liked was when he got beat up on the water-
front and when he knocked down Captain Bligh. He was a J. D.,
a rebel, and we loved him when he walked alone across the dock
to unload the ships.
Brando almost has some action. After his airline stewardess-
lover accuses him of being with another woman, he storms in the
room, breaks a whisky bottle on the wall and approaches her. In-
stead of telling her she is a good-for-nothing drugged-up ,whore,
he hands her the bottle and tells her ,he loves her. Brando has
to give in to her-they are both part of the team.
The thing that hurts the most is that Brando is in his own
rebellious element. He wasn't Napoleon in Desiree or the pipe-
smoking ambassador in The Ugly American; he is the young, tough
crook. r
Yet Hubert Cornfield doesn't let Brando do his Method acting;
Cornfield is too busy building his plot of kidnapping which is just
a series of people getting in and out of cars.
"The Rogues" was the best television show ever on. It showed
honorable people -being crooks in order to held honorable people
and causes. The crooks in The Night of the Following Day are
crude and boorish. Richard Boone is the worst; it is really easy to
hate him. The stewardess and her brother want the money because
they are tired of "nipping dollar bills out of coat pockets." Mar-
lon Brando doesn't want to go through with itand maybe we see
a spark of goodness. Maybe not. We never know for sure just what
we feel for these people. We never get a good look at them to know.
Say it loud--say it proud
By LORNA CHEROT form with THE MAN scrawled on his jacket
A bare stage and a black curtain as the back- announces, "There ain't gonna be a second
drop- set the mood-somber. Four young actors, crucifixion. The Man's gonna end it all by drop-
two men and two women, beautiful in their ping a grenade ... as soon as the bars let out
blackness, walk on stage. Dressed in black and at 3 a-m."
white, their facial expression gives no indication / Gary Wilson effectively portrays the self
of what the audience is to expect. righteous minister who preaches against "the
They recite black poetry from the works of sins of the flesh."
Langston Hughes, Oscar Brown Jr., Leroi Jones, Walter Roberson is suggestive and amusing
Margaret Walker and other black authors. as the homosexual, who struts about the'stage
The poetry pulsates, wails, laughs, commise- flicking his erected penis while lauding the
rates and throbs 'as the actors tell that part of - pleasures of the flesh.
life deleted in the history books. Their attitude Adrienne Davis is hysterical as the holy
is not militantly defiant, not Tomishly happy, woman, who charges a young boy with blasphemy
but personally confidential. as he "spills the seed of birth while praying."
The nonchalant attitude of Vic Grayson as he To which Don Morrow, the boy, innocently re-
autcions off a slave woman, and the indifferent plies, "I always get a hard up when I pray."
bidding of the other actors crudely illustrates Jones never loses his theme of frustration
white disregard of black humanness. and futility, even though his play may be easily
Turn her round Roy, let 'em look at her flanks misconstrued as simply being a bawdy satire.
Bid 'em in Jones' theme can be capsuled in the minister's
450 line of lamentation when he learns the boy is
The company does an excellent job with Leroi not the Messiah, "What! Another false alarm;
Jones' The Baptism, a risque parody of the first Simon, then Moses, next Marcus Garvey,
Father Divine Era. It mercilessly jabs at Negro and now you."
over-reliance on the Christian Church as a Black art and culture has finally come to Ann
source of salvation fi'om the world's injustice. Arbor with the appearances of the brand new
David Hunter, the messenger in Panther uni- Ann Arbor Black Theatre.
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