Blog focused on archiving and retrieving information about John Boorman's hidden gem, Hell in the Pacific (1968).
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@hellinthepacificarchive
Blog focused on archiving and retrieving information about John Boorman's hidden gem, Hell in the Pacific (1968).
Toshiro Mifune with director John Boorman and crew members filming Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Curious VHS covers for Hell in the Pacific (Bulgarian and Swedish).
Toshiro Mifune in Hell in the Pacific (1968)
"At one point Mifune captures Marvin and enslaves him, but he finds he's haunted by Lee's eyes, which follows him everywhere."
John Boorman in Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
Lee Marvin in between takes while filming Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Rather, they wanted to show that two men who had formed such a bond could not possibly kill one another, and so conceived a dénouement inspired by the final lines of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men." Which ends "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," as the two men, once again faced with the reality of the war, walk off in different directions.
Fragment recovered from The Cinema of John Boorman
Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune on location filming Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune with director John Boorman in between takes while filming Hell in the Pacific (1968)
"Later, Marvin turns the tables on Mifune and, like Mifune, he finds it more difficult to be the master than the slave."
John Boorman in Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
PARALLELS: Hell in the Pacific (1968)/ Brokeback Mountain (2005)
"I wanted to illustrate this by having Lee try to have Toshiro fetch a stick. Treat him like a dog. It was Lee's idea to become the dog himself."
John Boorman in Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman
Lee Marvin with director John Boorman behind the scenes on Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Lee Marvin in between takes while filming Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Lee Marvin & Toshiro Mifune in Hell in the Pacific (1968) dir. John Boorman
Different endings for Hell in the Pacific in The Cinema of John Boorman.
An external source mentions that Marvin's character is decapitated by the Japanese recruits in the second ending.
According to Japanese quiz show 'Did You Know?!' (知ってるつもり?!), Mifune was instructed by director John Boorman to cry upon seeing a photograph of a dead Japanese soldier published in Life magazine, but he strongly opposed this, saying:
“Don't be ridiculous! Japanese soldiers don't cry! They don't show tears in public!”