both Guinness and Donald clashed with director Lean

both Guinness and Donald clashed with director Lean
by olson (2019-11-05 13:49:12)
Edited on 2019-11-05 16:31:54

In reply to: Saw it on the DVD extras, was amazing posted by sprack

Guinness wanted to play his role with a cynical sense of humor/irony (similar to the way William Holden played his role). Lean demanded that Guiness play his character as a strict, no nonsense martinet. Guinness also clashed with Lean over camera angles on some scenes......Lean made the film his way, and Guinness won the Academy Award for best actor.

Donald thought the film was too anti-British

Lean apparently hated working with the British actors in the film & liked American William Holden much better

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It is pretty anti-British, IMHO * - captaineclectic 2019-11-05 21:47:13
That type of background stuff on films fascinates me - sprack 2019-11-05 14:15:16