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The Prometheus Influence - 3 Movies

3 films that helped Michael Fassbender to get ready for his Prometheus role. All the movies are absolute classics. Check out Michael Fassbender's movie list!
Michael Fassbender
Actor
3 films that helped Michael Fassbender to get ready for his Prometheus role. All the movies are absolute classics. Check out Michael Fassbender's movie list!
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The Godfather: Part III

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
[Speaking about his role as Eric in X-Men] Just let him live! He's trying out: the wife and kid. Just trying to live his life. I know this is what I keep saying, you know, he's trying to get away from the conflict and they just keep dragging him back in like The Godfather 3.
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Buffalo Bill

Scout William F. Cody (Joel McCrea) marries a U.S. senator's daughter (Maureen O'Hara), fights the Cheyenne and leads a Wild West show.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
My favorite? I'm gonna go with Ted Levine: Buffalo Bill
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a fantastic film!
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The Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
I used this (Anthony Hopkins character in "The Silence of the Lambs") recently as a reference for David in Alien.
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Lawrence of Arabia

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
I had Lawrence of Arabia on a loop in my room throughout filming," he says. "Jesus, I watched it so many times." Obsessive repetition is an integral part of his working method.
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Crash

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
That was followed by Naked Lunch [1991] and then The Fly [1986] and then Crash [1996] in later years. I just remember thinking, god, this makes me feel unusual. [laughs] You know, it’s like when you first become a teenager and you’re proposed this idea of society and reality and how we’re all supposed to sort of, you know, follow certain etiquette and behave"
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The Fly

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
That was followed by Naked Lunch [1991] and then The Fly [1986] and then Crash [1996] in later years. I just remember thinking, god, this makes me feel unusual. [laughs] You know, it’s like when you first become a teenager and you’re proposed this idea of society and reality and how we’re all supposed to sort of, you know, follow certain etiquette and behave.
Movies from Michael Fassbender

Naked Lunch

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
That was followed by Naked Lunch [1991] and then The Fly [1986] and then Crash [1996] in later years. I just remember thinking, god, this makes me feel unusual. [laughs] You know, it’s like when you first become a teenager and you’re proposed this idea of society and reality and how we’re all supposed to sort of, you know, follow certain etiquette and behave
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Scanners

After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
I think I saw Scanners [1981] when I was like 14 or 15, and it’s just— - An exploding head. - Yeah, that’s all I can remember.
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Reservoir Dogs

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
The argument continued until, at 17, he directed his own stage production of Reservoir Dogs. “They saw me put on that play and they thought, ‘Shit, he’s serious.’ When they saw that I’d made up my mind, they knew that’s what I was going to do, and I have to say they supported me immediately after that.”
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Throne of Blood

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Michael Fassbender
Actor
Yes, I watched everything on the subject that I could lay my hands on. Kurosawa’s version was grandiose, in my opinion. It’s my favorite movie adaptation.