Brenno Martignoni: “Errol Flynn, a colorful fragment in a dull world”

Brenno Martignoni Polti

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn. Legend. At twenty-six he is already a star. Errol Flynn. “Baron”. Valiant. Cloak and dagger. He. Features unique to him. Unaltered. For the benefit of this movie. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Minimum three modules. Hero of the sea. Old West. Absolute. Of all the stories. All the time. Robin Hood. String your bow among the trees of Sherwood Forest. Duel on the deck of a galleon. Rides at the head of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. From time to time. Custer. Back when Indians were still the bad guys. William Tell. Don Juan. Earl of Essex. Ideal materializations. Indelible. About unique charm. Models are printed in collective memory. His presence was devastating. For example, correlate diction and acting skills. Australian. Naturalized in the United States in 1942. Born in Tasmania. In Hobart. June 20, 1909. Missing in Canada. October 14, 1959. In Vancouver. He was there to build his yacht. Zach’s favorite. This was the set for The Woman from Shanghai. Orson Welles. Flynn makes a brief appearance as the captain in one scene. Money is tight. Chronic pathologies. Incurable. It is premature to take his life. From a heart attack. Announced in the autopsy room, which became famous. Now the Police Museum. He was fifty years old. He wanted to be buried with four bottles of whiskey. Director Raoul Walsh got his wish. Flynn, in fact, feared that he would not be able to find alcohol in the afterlife, and found the eternity of a teetotaler unbearable. His romantic and adventurous traits have already gone down in history. In a happy artistic couple with Olivia de Havilland. Together in eight successful films. De Havilland said she was stunned when she first met him. “There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.” In private, Errol was no exception to his fictional roles: “I like to be seen as a colorful fragment in a monotonous world.” A big drinker, ready for any excess, even in relationships. Countless. Women and men. Even those accused by two minors. Declared innocent. At the end of two trials through which rivers of ink flowed. Three marriages. Always with actresses. First marriage to Lilly Damita (son Sean, a reporter who died in 1970 on the battlefield during the Vietnam War), then Nora Eddington (two children, Deirdre and Rory), finally Patrice Wymore (daughter Arnella, killed in (1998) Naturally, he was always ready to embroider his own image. He was believed to have died in Spain in 1937. He was later said to have been a Nazi spy. Charles Higham’s controversial 1980 biography shows the deep friendship between the described actor and a member of the Third Reich. Even reminiscent of a secret meeting with Adolf Hitler himself. Shortly before his disappearance, he was in Cuba. There, shaking hands with Fidel Castro, he said: “The last Robin Hood.” The accumulation of excesses led him to an inexorable and premature decline. At the age of forty, he was already was compromised. Addictions, a form of malaria and more are noted. Autopsy reveals a deeply damaged body. Biologically eighty years old. He was never Indiana Jones or Jack Sparrow. He cannot be compared to Harrison Ford and Johnny Depp. They. People. Imperfect. Lively and polemical. Errol Flynn. Already under threat to divinity. Bringer of dreams and magic. Specially created for an inspired audience. Through unconditional respect. Ideal idols. Evergreens. Out of time. In an era when those who pierced the screen were timeless. Unattainable. Immortal. Today again.