What Happened to The Most Beautiful Boy in the World? Bjorn Andresen's Story
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"rumors that he was a sex worker" No, say what it actually is. He was a minor and could not consent to that so it was rumored that he was sexually assaulted multiple times. I have a sinking feeling that it's true and I feel for him so much, I really hope he's healed from how terribly he was treated
@floridflesh, I saw the movie Death in Venice on Tv some moons ago, and I thought it was disgusting. they couldn't say, out and out the guy lusted after the kid, but it was obvious. In the meantime, you had and still have, this persudo intellectualization of the film when in reality it was very simple what was it about, and what was going on. That world of the film industry is loaded with perverts, and his grandmother should have never ever allowed her grandson to do that film. If the poor kid wasn't molested in real life, I would be highly surprised. Viscounti sounds like he might have been into pedophilia. I wonder if Viscounti molested this kid. I think a lot is still unsaid becuase it's probably too disturbing for the once child actor, now an adult, to talk about.
@@fabergeegg1722 I have a "pseudo intellectualization" of the film? Excuse me? Are you sure you're replying under the right comment? I pointed out a severe error in this video, a minor cannot be a sex worker; he was EXPLOITED and ASSAULTED. A fact. I don't understand why you're being rude to someone who shares the same sentiment. You literally called me pretentious/insincere then reiterated what my comment said like...??
@@floridflesh Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry, but I should have been much clearer. I was in agreement with you. When I said you, I was referring to this little documentary and those who put it together. Once again, I deeply apologize for the misunderstanding. I like your comment a lot! Best to You!
I just want to say that I agree with your comment here. Language is really important and I feel like you worded it well
accidents happen its ok@@fabergeegg1722
So many weirdos in that industry. I feel so sorry for him. I wish never had to go through so much as a kid.
A boy who looks like a girl is not a beautiful boy. Ewww
Goodness he had nobody to chaperone him or watch over him! All those sicko predators took advantage of him and he was helpless.😢
His grandmother was pathetic! She wanted her grandson to be a movie star and tossed him to the wolves- how disgusting!
And the industry hasn't changed. It's worst now then ever-and worldwide.
I totally agree with you. The same kind of people are in Politics too. They're sort of the HOLLYWOOD for ugly people !
I feel him. I was a victim of sexual abuses during my childhood too.
Even in his older years, he is still very striking.
Indeed he is still very handsome. All that hair does not conceal that fact.
Really not imo. He was only handsome and not THAT handsome when he was super young. It vanished by the time he was barely in his 20s 😂🤷🏼♀️ that’s not beauty that not more like…..he had that young perky nose looks like a girl but it’s a guy …..look gays love…..poor kid….
I do agree. He's very handsome.
Hey!..
Alcohol can really age a man, he's living proof..
@@6Haunted-Days nope in his 20s he was def handsome. Just most typical northern virility and not the ambiguity and grace of his teenage , almost an archetype and no wonder that beauty of this kind haunted very aesthetic people like Mann (rumored to be his own son molester, but I didn't dig it) , Visconti and Japanese in general. But even after losing that glow/ peculiarity growing, he was a young handsome man, of course everybody has tastes and preferences but a young man like him now would easily be a top model
Its sickening what these predators do to kids and the parents that allow it for fame
Unfortunately, he is an orphan
He was the most handsome young man. It is so sad how young people are exploited.
Mostly because of lgbt yet western media don't see it
Yeah....poor little Justin Bieber. They put him through so much. Sweet, innocent, little boy, now has nothing but 682 million dollars.
Is there never any adults around that aren’t creeps to take care of these child stars…?
Nope, youre either a compliant or youre dealt.with.
men are beast
not in a satanic society.
@@keetahbrough Hey, that reminds me... George Santos walks into a bar ---
It SHOULD be down to the parents stating the rules and being diligent. THEY ARE DEFINITELY THE ONES TO BLAME, ALWAYS!
At this stage in his life, he would make an excellent Gandalf or Dumbledore.
you betcha good comment hope if he is interested in work he gets such a role
Well as far as appearance goes, maybe.
But has he ever ACTED?
@@renzo6490 Troll
@@donitaforrest9064 …troll=anyone who disagrees with you.
@@renzo6490 I didn't realize you were disagreeing, i thought you were just being stupid - still do. No one cares what your 2 cent opinion is by the way, you only agree with yourself. You have nothing to offer but negativity = troll.
How sad for this person. I saw the movie recently because of Dirk Bogarde. Watching it in the 21st c. it certainly didn't seem so shocking but I can imagine what it would hv been like in the mid 20th c. Visconti certainly would be held accountable if he was alive today. Abuse of a minor is disgusting.
Since the book was published, since the film was released, the International Gay Community went through it's holocaust. Boomers were there for the movie, and for the Event. If you are younger than a Boomer, you cannot ever know, or feel, what devastation gay men experienced because of the AIDS pandemic. Thomas Mann wrote the blueprint for AIDS.
This kid IS DORIAN GRAY, the analogy is barely even metaphorical; Visconti's cardinal sin WASN'T sexual perversion, IT WAS HEDONISM and the corruption of child caused by his hedonist self indulgence, Visconti is to Bjorn what Lord Henry Wotton is to Dorian Gray. Corporeal beauty is INTRINSICALLY tragic because it is INEVITABLY fleeting. The nature of Bjorn's exploitation DOES NOT need to necessarily include sexual abuse, the harm is EXISTENTIAL, because he was put upon a pedestal before the entire world and recognized EXCLUSIVELY for his adolescent beauty, turning 18 must have felt like living death for this kid. This is also the great danger of childhood celebrity in general, and frankly, the danger is GREATER than the harm of being merely sexually abused (I speak from experience in saying so). If I'd been set on the apex of the mountain called "Life" at the age of 15 and then faced my remaining many decades descending from that lost glory I'd develop a taste for alcohol too... anyone would, such a prospect is DEVASTATING to the soul. "To put the eyes on the beauty is to put the eyes on death", Luchino Visconti; HE KNEW everything I just articulated about the tragedy of objectified youth, he's a bastard for THAT REASON, not because he merely recognized that Bjorn was a LITERAL Adonis like everyone did and will always continue to do (if they deign to be honest).
Poor little boy. I hate people that objectify boys or girls. I loathe them.
Same
I will never understand why men can just love beauty and feel the need the possess it, therefore destroy it
I agree. They want to use it up, siphon it up into themselves in the deranged belief that they become, somehow, beautiful, too, by doing so, when all they are making is corruption. The power of strong, incorruptible, good men against such horrible men is profound.
Some individuals have unhealthy obsessions with others
They're like that with animals too look at trophy hunters(and countries re war and nature)the male species regardless of culture and ethnicity just can't let things be free they have to control literally everything and if they can't have control and own something then they will kill, degrade and destroy
It's not just men, it's a very human urge. Ever heard of vampires?
This kid IS DORIAN GRAY, the analogy is barely even metaphorical. Corporeal beauty is INTRINSICALLY tragic because it is INEVITABLY fleeting. The nature of Bjorn's exploitation DOES NOT need to necessarily include sexual abuse, the harm is EXISTENTIAL, because he was put upon a pedestal before the entire world and recognized EXCLUSIVELY for his adolescent beauty, turning 18 must have felt like living death for this kid. This is also the great danger of childhood celebrity in general, and frankly, the danger is GREATER than the harm of being merely sexually abused (I speak from experience in saying so). If I'd been set on the apex of the mountain called "Life" at the age of 15 and then faced my remaining many decades descending from that lost glory I'd develop a taste for alcohol too... anyone would, such a prospect is DEVASTATING to the soul. "To put the eyes on the beauty is to put the eyes on death", Luchino Visconti; HE KNEW everything I just articulated about the tragedy of objectified youth, he's a bastard for THAT REASON, not because he merely recognized that Bjorn was a LITERAL Adonis like everyone did and will always continue to do (if they deign to be honest).
This entire story is sad and disturbing. He’s a cautionary tale of children exploitation in the film industry
it's a tale that never ends no matter the victim...
This kid IS DORIAN GRAY, the analogy is barely even metaphorical; Visconti's cardinal sin WASN'T sexual perversion, IT WAS HEDONISM and the corruption of child caused by his hedonist self indulgence, Visconti is to Bjorn what Lord Henry Wotton is to Dorian Gray. Corporeal beauty is INTRINSICALLY tragic because it is INEVITABLY fleeting. The nature of Bjorn's exploitation DOES NOT need to necessarily include sexual abuse, the harm is EXISTENTIAL, because he was put upon a pedestal before the entire world and recognized EXCLUSIVELY for his adolescent beauty, turning 18 must have felt like living death for this kid. This is also the great danger of childhood celebrity in general, and frankly, the danger is GREATER than the harm of being merely sexually abused (I speak from experience in saying so). If I'd been set on the apex of the mountain called "Life" at the age of 15 and then faced my remaining many decades descending from that lost glory I'd develop a taste for alcohol too... anyone would, such a prospect is DEVASTATING to the soul. "To put the eyes on the beauty is to put the eyes on death", Luchino Visconti; HE KNEW everything I just articulated about the tragedy of objectified youth, he's a bastard for THAT REASON, not because he merely recognized that Bjorn was a LITERAL Adonis like everyone did and will always continue to do (if they deign to be honest).
@@lancewalker2595 absolutely!
How disgusted I feel that Bjorn had to endure the slimy predatory behavior of adults who would use him as a prop for their sick gratification. I cannot watch Death in Venice now knowing how he was used and how the impact of making that movie affected him.
Did you hear about movie Romeo and Juliet produced in 1968? Many beautiful young underage people were invited to Italy where they lived for a while on a villa and were observed by the movie creators. The movie is very beautiful, but those young actors were told to get naked for some scenes. She then was 15, he 16. Not long ago they filed a lawsuit about it, but lost the case.
This kid IS DORIAN GRAY, the analogy is barely even metaphorical; Visconti's cardinal sin WASN'T sexual perversion, IT WAS HEDONISM and the corruption of child caused by his hedonist self indulgence, Visconti is to Bjorn what Lord Henry Wotton is to Dorian Gray. Corporeal beauty is INTRINSICALLY tragic because it is INEVITABLY fleeting. The nature of Bjorn's exploitation DOES NOT need to necessarily include sexual abuse, the harm is EXISTENTIAL, because he was put upon a pedestal before the entire world and recognized EXCLUSIVELY for his adolescent beauty, turning 18 must have felt like living death for this kid. This is also the great danger of childhood celebrity in general, and frankly, the danger is GREATER than the harm of being merely sexually abused (I speak from experience in saying so). If I'd been set on the apex of the mountain called "Life" at the age of 15 and then faced my remaining many decades descending from that lost glory I'd develop a taste for alcohol too... anyone would, such a prospect is DEVASTATING to the soul. "To put the eyes on the beauty is to put the eyes on death", Luchino Visconti; HE KNEW everything I just articulated about the tragedy of objectified youth, he's a bastard for THAT REASON, not because he merely recognized that Bjorn was a LITERAL Adonis like everyone did and will always continue to do (if they deign to be honest).
It's now a beautiful old man.. 💖
I hope Bjorn is living his best life..
He deserves it ..😘
So sad........these predators are sick sick sick. He was just a child.....
I saw Death in Venice a few years ago because I have always been a fan of Dirk Bogarde. Though the movie bordered on homosexuality (imo) and Bjorn was young to be Dirk's grandson I thought it was gracefully done. Bjorn was certainly a very striking boy. I'm sorry for him that his beauty really worked against him.
i agree it was never particularly clear to me that Mann intended to make this entirely about sexuality novella was more in my view about the overwhelming attraction to beauty that a sensitive soul experienced. Viscounti was well known as a homosexual artiste even at that time but he handled this theme in a very discreet and reasonable manner. I saw it in an art house when I was 21 i knew the implication but could still refer back to what I thought was Mann's actual point greek philosophy
It was never about sex, but about obsessive infatuation with beauty and death. Visconti personally had other obsessions.
@@donnasherwood283 Ancient Greeks exploited boys horribly.
@@elephantintheroom5678 i don't agree with you. it was originally a form of mentoring and ended when boy developed facial hair. try to remember this was not perceived by the ancients in same manner as today where we cannot manage to raise men at all still living with their parents well into their 30s. Greeks had a spartan warrior ethic where sodomy was considered a higher form of sexuality. All these cultures disappeared as they are unsustainable. Ever hear of spartans, celts today ? hardly and it had to do with the rites of sodomy. Clearly the christianization of the ancient world put an end to such practices but I am uncertain it was viewed through the same prism of our times.
@@donnasherwood283 You are SICK. What the ancient Greeks, and other sodomites do is ABUSE their positions of power compared to the youngsters in order to have sex with them. It is a form of power abuse. You make me sick, excusing pedophilia/ sodomy. Disgusting! Perhaps they THOUGHT it was a higher form of sexuality, but that is because they subjugated the women to such a disgraceful degree that they were seen as little more as chattel or breeders, so they viewed them as inferior to males. Greek men abused power over women, girls AND boys which shows their culture was based on abuse of power, and is certainly NOT to be admired in any way.
He was a stunner. Honestly. And also a sensitive, brilliant intelligence. But when you enter the circuit of a desirable good on the market , you may find yourself exploited like an object. It's a risk that not even adult and ambitious, willing people are always able to manage without being hurted. Let alone a teen, sensitive and naturally (for the age he/she is in) easy to manipulate. Hope he found solace and balance
beautiful child beautiful old man. and not a sexual deviant.
Бьорн красивый и в пожилом возрасте. А в молодости идеал. Античный Апполон.
The evil perverts of this world like nothing better than to desecrate and demean unusual beauty no matter how it appears.
I have often thought about him since I saw the film over 40 yrs. ago. He was mesmerizing and extremely handsome. I am very sad that he went through such a horrible experience with sickos. Hope for his sake, he was able to work through all that happened to him. in his mind and in his heart. Wish him the best.
He became a very handsome man in his later years. Perhaps the wounds of the soul didn't overtake the ability to shine.
I was a huge fan. I saw the movie at the theatre and own the DVD. I always wondered what happened to him. This is so sad.
It's a shame he didn't have support around him to keep him safe from those who wanted to exploit & use him. At 15 there should have been someone with him on set during filming. He was still minor. For those who are nieve entering into the "Biz", it's rough. Because that's what the entertaining world is at its core. A business, and unfortunately there have been a lot of garbage people with power to abuse their performers in one level or another. It's awful what happened to then a mere child. The scars from that is a lifetime. What a sad state of affairs for.him to have to go through.
Nothing in Hollywood has changed. Vultures to pick at the flesh until there's nothing left.
Even though the movie has nothing to do with Hollywood, unfortunately it happens in any film production around the world.
La icónica belleza celestial de Björn Andrésen proviene de la pureza de su alma reflejada en sus ojos y que aún ya mayor conserva es único. Fue un ídolo en Japón en los 70, luego estudió y se convirtió en músico y actor, por favor respeten y dejen de expecular sobre su sexualidad y su adolescencia. Respetenlo a él t a su fanaticada.
So many people, mostly men, no matter their orientation will likely never stop trying to defile any beautiful or innocent thing they come across. As though it's a huge power trip..... to be the *first* at whatever sick thing they choose to do.
This kid IS DORIAN GRAY, the analogy is barely even metaphorical; Visconti's cardinal sin WASN'T sexual perversion, IT WAS HEDONISM and the corruption of child caused by his hedonist self indulgence, Visconti is to Bjorn what Lord Henry Wotton is to Dorian Gray. Corporeal beauty is INTRINSICALLY tragic because it is INEVITABLY fleeting. The nature of Bjorn's exploitation DOES NOT need to necessarily include sexual abuse, the harm is EXISTENTIAL, because he was put upon a pedestal before the entire world and recognized EXCLUSIVELY for his adolescent beauty, turning 18 must have felt like living death for this kid. This is also the great danger of childhood celebrity in general, and frankly, the danger is GREATER than the harm of being merely sexually abused (I speak from experience in saying so). If I'd been set on the apex of the mountain called "Life" at the age of 15 and then faced my remaining many decades descending from that lost glory I'd develop a taste for alcohol too... anyone would, such a prospect is DEVASTATING to the soul. "To put the eyes on the beauty is to put the eyes on death", Luchino Visconti; HE KNEW everything I just articulated about the tragedy of objectified youth, he's a bastard for THAT REASON, not because he merely recognized that Bjorn was a LITERAL Adonis like everyone did and will always continue to do (if they deign to be honest).
So sorry disgusting people did this to you. I'm sure you are not alone.
He’s still a beautiful man in his older age. You’d always give him a second look, well I certainly would.
Outstandingly gorgeous--then and now.
Just so much exploitation of so many young people over the years in that industry. It's utterly tragic and criminal.
First saw Death in Venice in the early 70s when it first came out and then again recently! In Death in Venice , his face reminds me of the actress Dominque Sanda who was in the Italian film, The Garden of the Finzi Continis! BTW, the Louvre, the famous art museum in Paris is pronounced the LOOV, in French not with an "re" on the end, that remains silent!
It's gross how people were objectifying him. He was a young boy. A BOY. Even if someone looks like a girl he's still a young man.
"*Even* if someone looks like a girl"? Are you implying that objectifying girls is fine and normal? Or that men or boys should never be touched unless they arouse you because "he looks like a girl"(which he doesn't; it's just that people *that* beautiful are very few and we are unused to it, so we take it as something "supernatural" and make up words and concepts that have no base in reality just to find an "explanarion")?
If I were to rephrase your sentence I would say "men need to stop thinking with their genitals, because your erection does not determine the morality or immarality of your actions".
Objectification, pedophilia, abuse and rape are wrong, no matter the circumstance: FULL STOP.
(Sorry if this happened to sound aggressive but that "even" is dangerous, very dengerous and the only way to avoid tragedies is having a clear idea of what we are saying and dealing with).
One of the best movies of all time... Death In Venice. 😘😘😘
I'm sorry all that happened to you !
this is such a good video!! great sum up of Björn
He is still an aesthetically beautiful person. It is sad that many people exploit “Beauty”...of visage, of voice, of movement, even of nature…etc., when it should viewed as a priceless gift, and Blessing, and respected for having the power to soothe and inspire.
It was a beautiful movie but stalking is never ok.
I remember him. He's still beautiful ❤️
Ask yourself why auditions are done in hotel rooms……
Good point !!
I haven't read all 108 comments, but what I have seen is that people have been misled by the approach of this video, which provides no context about the film and, more importantly, the novella on which it is based. "Death in Venice" (Der Tod in Venedig) by Thomas Mann (1875-1955), published in 1912, is one of the greatest works of German literature. It is not about "the most beautiful boy in the world," but about an older man - a conventionally successful, established writer who has been married and has children, struggling with his homoerotic feelings for a young boy. He falls in love with the boy's beauty and attempts - pathetically - to come closer to Tadzio by changing his appearance. It is a poignant, tragic, exquisitely written story and cannot be equated with "objectification" or "stalking" - two very 21st-century, "woke" words. The novella has autobiographical undertones, because Thomas Mann - who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 - had many similarities with the fictional writer Gustav von Aschenbach. His first novel, "Buddenbrooks" (1901) charts the demise of a North German merchant family (his own background) and how the last generation dies out because they lack vigour or, depending on how you look at it, are "decadent" and the youngest figure, whose name escapes me now - a boy - would certainly be seen as "gay" today. "Tonio Kröger," another novella, also has homoerotic undertones: a teenage boy (half German, half South American - as was Thomas Mann) idealises his blond, blue-eyed friend (Tonio Kröger). Visconti's film adaptation of "Death in Venice" is a masterpiece, although he directs the boy Tadzio to be far more coquettish than he is in the book. If the actor playing Tadzio was abused in any way, that's disgusting - of course Visconti (his first name, by the way, is pronounced "Lookeeno") shouldn't have taken him as a minor to a gay club! But we all know that this sort of thing goes on constantly in the film industry (eh... Harvey Weinstein???), as it does in the fashion industry. The actor's grandmother shouldn't have let it happen, that is obvious. However, it was all a very long time ago, and Bjorn Andresen has had many years to make his own life and overcome whatever it was that happened to him. Can we please "rewrite the victimhood narrative" ??? I am ten years younger than Andresen, and many bad things have happened to me in my life. But let's - PLEASE - stop feeling sorry for ourselves. I would be very interested to hear Roseimmon Girl's thoughts on my analysis.
My only intention was to share Bjorn Andresen's story based on the documentary about his life. But you're allowed to have your perspective about Bjorn if that's how you feel about it.
@@Rosinemmon I was reacting more to the comments about your video than the actual video itself, even if I don't necessarily agree with some of your points. I suppose the greater message is that we should be a little more differentiated in our judgements. The documentary of Bjorn Andresen's life will of course also have been shown from a certain perspective (I haven't seen it and therefore cannot judge), without putting the whole thing in context - context being the operative word. And I repeat that a man of 68 will have learnt his lessons, one of them being that he must move forward and refuse to see himself as a victim... I would be fascinated to hear your take on the way the novella was adapted for film!
The plot is not fine just because the main character suffers and is pathetic. The book seems to have resonated with the director for all the wrong reasons . Both the book and the director exhibit predatory behavior. It isn’t woke to be called a victim when you’re a juvenile being pursued by a aged man. These young boy(s) are victims, no matter how tormented their pursuers. Pedophilia has a bad name for a reason. Wait until they get to the age of consent (or better yet, decisional maturity) before approaching them romantically
@@CSmith-tn8nv Have you actually read "Death in Venice"? And, you had better be careful with your last sentence. It has extremely insulting implications since you use an imperative, which I assume is addressed to me. I am in no way a paedophile nor do I condone it in any way whatsoever. You are treading on very thin ice to make such remarks in public.
@@tobyalleyne-gee8966 uhh…exactly whose thin ice am I treading? What are these consequences you are threatening if the ice breaks? I was responding to the statements in your comment & describing the director’s behavior & the older gent’s romantic obsession in the novel as pedophilic. I know nothing of you & your life except what you just telegraphed with your response. Woooow!! My last sentence was a general summary of my preceding points.
I watched this movie on TH-cam last night. Mainly because I am a fan of Banana Fish since 2010 when it was an out of print Manga. In those days I did not think it would become a anime. Anyways this movie gets mentioned in it.
I read that Visconti looked at hundreds of boys from all over the world before deciding on Bjorn. To me, Death in Venice is his masterpiece.
I love him.. he so interesting. I wonder who his wife was. And where his daughter is today
"once you put your eyes on beauty,you put your eyes on death..."
Bless him, it was cruel and bloody heartless to put a young teenage boy through that exposure, he was young and extremely vulnerable, it must have been such a monstrous experience, the director was cruel and callas. bless you. if your still alive,
Bjorn story breaks my heart
Just to make things clear, Evgeniy Ponasenkov says that nothing better than Visconti's "Death in Venice" will ever be filmed in the world.
Leif Garrett from the late 70’s looked very similar to him.
Inolvidable,único y maravilloso. Te queremos y admiramos. Siempre Bjorn!!
Hey guys, the video says the Paris thing took place in 1976, when Bjorn was well into 21 years old.
Always felt for Joe Delassandro. Couldn't have been easy for him either.
You're joking, right? Joe was well aware of his desirability, and dived head-first into prostitution...he exploited himself, and doesn't seem to have any big regrets about it.
He's pale and interesting but not the most beautiful boy in thee world! However, I can see how someone could think that as we all see beauty in our own way! I liked the book by Thomas Mann. There was nothing offensive, or in the film. I thought it sensitive and dealt with a forbiden love which was dealt with by considerable restrain by the enchanted older man. He didn't act upon his desires at all. He was aware this was someone under the age of consent. Of course, in those days it was a criminal act between consenting adults! Ridiculous. To be tarnished a criminal over it, is abhorrent. Thank someone up there, it's decriminalised in civilised society now. There are some middle eastern countries that throw homosexuals from high buildings to their death!
Family pimped him out
He didn’t have family. Only an older grandmother who had no clue what was going on.
He is very beautiful he almost looks like a girl in some of those pictures. He was gorgeous.
How beautiful majestic he is
I truly hope you can get past what happened to you. You are not the only victim of peodophiles.
Knowing that he's not the only one probably doesn't help .
True!@@MK-hh1vo
I don't feel bad abt growing old and ugly anymore, no one can escape it, even the most beautiful boy in the world, my beauty is no compare, nothing to miss
Beauty is subjective
I saw him in Midsommar, but didn't realize who he is. He's still very striking looking.
why is the world. so fullll of evil men looking to destroy the young
Where were his parent's? His hair is gorgeous!
Was an orphan
He was raised by a single mother who died when he was still very young. His grandmother ended up taking over raising him after his mum died. It's in this video in the first few minutes, didn't you watch this video? It explains he was orphaned!
If you even WATCHED THE VIDEO, in the beginning it is explained
All I know is that Death in Venice was parodied in Me, and Earl and The Dying Girl as Death in Tennis where Earl plays a shirtless Tennis player lol
Sadly and arguably miscast. Yes, he had that effeminate bleary-eyed photogenic look ~ but, how gangly and so elongated and awkwardly tall a youth he was for the part? His choosing for the role says more about Visconti's predilection for 'his type' and not of the author Thomas Mann who didn't describe a tall Polish youth in his novel did he?
Haunting!
For anyone who can remember more than a week before their last bowl of weed, the dumbest thing that convinced me that I would never again buy one more piece of filth from Hollywood ever again was in seeing John Cena making fun of what was done to him. Obviously they had to put him through the process to gain access into the Hollywood boys club. But in anyway no matter who they claim to be or how moralistic they might say just like John doing that, he proved he was part of their sleeze.
His gorgeous now i say!
He looked like a young Jodie foster
The whole entertainment industry is deep down truly sickening.
Got to see this movie. Got to get tissues for sure. Where can one see this movie?
it's on google play and the criterion channel
@@LilithsCosmicLounget's one of history's most sublime films. Who told you that?
I watched it on TH-cam movies last night.
You can only be a beautiful boy for a brief moment in time. Get over it.
The industry really feminized him.
I mean he naturally has a feminine face so nobody is “feminizing him”. Timothee Chalamet and Harry Styles also has a similar appeal. Plus he dressed in typical male clothing.
What happened to the “most beautiful boy in the world”?!?!? He was molested……..of course. Evil humans.
bjorn, thats the business. visconti was an art predator, well said, he would do anything to make it be the way he imagined it in his head, no less no more. he used your charismatic looks for this great movie, you got famous but used no chance to go further but nobody abused you.
People like you will find every way to dehumanise a sa victim, trying to gaslight them that they weren't sa
Im so sad for him , he has beautiful soul 😢
If you hear stories of some female models, they often went through the same kind of treatment as 14-15 years old 😑
This is not about them though? Have some respect
This is a bit like Judy Garland with all those munchkins doing things to her 😢
He was beautiful
I remember being captivated by Death in Venice when it came out. It was considered to be one of the "films" to see if you wanted intellectual street cred, along with anything by Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. D in V was my favorite because of Mahler's music. I thought the "beautiful boy" was striking, but Dirk Bogarde stole the show for me. I still remember his performance after all these years.
Loved his cameo in Midsommar. Bit blink and you miss it though.
I would not say he was the most beautiful, looked rather creepy to me
If i had the money
I’d hire him to act in a short film where he is a Wise magical Teacher
Or wise grandfather
Nowadays Visconti would be held responsible for abuse of a minor or some such thing😮
Ew that plot.
It was ew. I watched it actually on TV a long time ago. And it was gross.
It was all abt normalising pedophilia
I am cursed with handsomeness.
It was said that Dirk Bogarde hated him during filming as this boy used to play pop music
No, I think Dirk was very friendly and kind toward him, according to Bjorn.
most beautiful boy? thats subjective, beauty isss in the eye of the beholder
Bjorn was photogenic in the midst of the transitional years, but I wouldn't say he's the most beautiful. It was film hype and I'm sorry he had to be the victim of it all. There seems to be a relentless demon that drives us to want to destroy what we love.
So sad and such a, sensitive face. He can still pull his life together. It is never too late. Shave off that beard and give life a go. I lost respect for Visconte
disgusting ....I feel so sad for that poor boy
A pity that he didn't get out of that.
He looked even more attractive as a man and as an old man.
This kid IS DORIAN GRAY, the analogy is barely even metaphorical; Visconti's cardinal sin WASN'T sexual perversion, IT WAS HEDONISM and the corruption of child caused by his hedonist self indulgence, Visconti is to Bjorn what Lord Henry Wotton is to Dorian Gray. Corporeal beauty is INTRINSICALLY tragic because it is INEVITABLY fleeting. The nature of Bjorn's exploitation DOES NOT need to necessarily include sexual abuse, the harm is EXISTENTIAL, because he was put upon a pedestal before the entire world and recognized EXCLUSIVELY for his adolescent beauty, turning 18 must have felt like living death for this kid. This is also the great danger of childhood celebrity in general, and frankly, the danger is GREATER than the harm of being merely sexually abused (I speak from experience in saying so). If I'd been set on the apex of the mountain called "Life" at the age of 15 and then faced my remaining many decades descending from that lost glory I'd develop a taste for alcohol too... anyone would, such a prospect is DEVASTATING to the soul. "To put the eyes on the beauty is to put the eyes on death", Luchino Visconti; HE KNEW everything I just articulated about the tragedy of objectified youth, he's a bastard for THAT REASON, not because he merely recognized that Bjorn was a LITERAL Adonis like everyone did and will always continue to do (if they deign to be honest).
But didn't he also say the exact opposite, like all of us do in life? That he really enjoyed his life?
Kind of like getting drunk with your buddies. It's really, really fun. Then you puke the entire next day.
Kind of like marriage. It's awesome for years and years. And then you get divorced. And then you're in hell forever.
Lesson learned: follow your dream not your ass parents
I apologise for the typos but the with a modicum of intelligence, those will know what I'm saying!
The title of that movie still makes me cringe -- If THAT'S not the sexualization of a child, then WTF IS?
Schade das er kein Schauspieler geworden ist, denke ich mal. Da fällt Wikinger Mut weiter zu machen und um bessere Zeiten zu kämpfen
Bjorn Andresen has aged and changed like every other young person.
"The Most Beautiful Boy in the World "?
Nonsense from the start.
Just looking at the documentary again now, and to me Bnorn/Tadzio does not have the beautifully balanced ‘Golden Mean’ face, perfect cheekbones and jawline, long full eyelashes, and smooth long neck that make adolescent Louis breathtakingly pretty.
Bjorn had a long rather equine face with a long slightly craggy nose, and to me the only pretty features were his cheekbones and eyes.
I.D.T.S. THERE ARE A HELL OF ALOT BETTER LOOKING ONES THAN HIM.
Hasta ahora es el mas bello