For 10 points, name this Italian director of The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris who won the Best Director Oscar for The Last Emperor.
The star of one of this directorâs movies refused to memorize his lines and suggested writing them on the ass of his costar, who wrinkled feathers by claiming in interviews that she was âbisexual completelyâ and used drugs. He directed another film in which the newly married title character visits Paris with his wife to see Professor Quadri, who he has been tasked to kill by an agent of the state named Manganiello. He directed a controversial scene in which a man anally rapes a 20-year-old woman using butter as lubricant in a film that starred Maria Schneider as a woman who ends an anonymous affair by shooting Marlon Brandoâs character. Another film by this director cast John Lone as the title character and made him the first Western director to receive permission to shoot in the Forbidden City of Beijing. For 10 points, name this Italian director of The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris who won the Best Director Oscar for The Last Emperor.
The star of one of this directorâs movies refused to memorize his lines and suggested writing them on the ass of his costar, who wrinkled feathers by claiming in interviews that she was âbisexual completelyâ and used drugs.
Bernardo Bertolucci