Apt Pupil - Behind The Scenes

A Behind The Scenes Featurette from the movie 'Apt Pupil'.
Starring Brad Renfro, Ian Mckellen and David Schwimmer.
www.bradrenfro.org

[@sunnyscs]

Brad Renfro was one of the best actors of his generation- The Client and Apt Pupil are two of my favorite movies. I will miss you. RIP

[@kmc9662]

The Oscar's didn't even acknowledge Brad in the Memoriam section following his passing that year. 😔

[@robertzuick382]

Disgusting🫣🤮 brad was a wonderful young actor.

[@MelyssaAKASkittlez]

Brad Renfro, the most underrated actor.

[@jessicajaynenc1202]

I agree.

[@deventhomas21]

Too bad Brad was one of the best.

[@LordCaedus-bl7wi]

'Melyssa K' Kennedy he was never underrated probably just unknown to most because of his short career and tragic end. Back in the 90s he was like the hottest property in Hollywood under 21 years old

[@bianca952000]

I haven't watched this movie. Probably never will. But, I agree. Kid was crazy talented. Bully was amazing. Sleepers was excellent. This is tragic.

[@christines-corner]

He really was. His first 3 roles in the client, the cure, and Tom and huck were so raw and well done. He got better as he aged.. but sadly his life didn’t :(

[@TB-om4dd]

This movie is underrated! Brad also is great actor and still can’t believe he only 14 years during this movie

[@charlesbuckwheat2347]

How many times will you cut and paste this??? HE TURNED 15 DURING FILMING.

[@Higg79]

Brad was a very good actor....waw face to face to Ian and he do it so well

[@mikemorris7247]

A brilliant film. Superb, Oscar-worthy performances by McKellan and Renfro.

[@FrickFilm]

The music is also incredibly underrated. That title-song captures the unnerving essence of national socialism.

[@AddictedtoBlistex]

R.I.P. Brad! Hope you're well in heaven.

[@kystars]

What a shock though, this GREAT movie with Brad Renfro, and later Brad Over doses on Heroin. what a shame. He was so talented. He fought the drugs for a long time in his youth. He was so talented, we lost a good one.

[@mariaviolette]

i saw this movie...really great!!! brad just did great in it!

[@daoyang5988]

R.i.p Brad renfro July 25, 1982 - January 15, 2008

[@tbeehler]

Damn, he's been dead 16+ years now.

[@007nadineL]

I can see why Brian Singer was drawn to this story of evil hiding in plain sight involving young hotte boys.

[@christines-corner]

Ugh. Ikr :(

[@martykeaton182]

Any proof?

[@sahej6939]

@@martykeaton182yes there is tons of proof. Lots of detailed articles. read em for yourself

[@Muirmaiden]

Why wasn't anyone looking out for this kid? All these parents/guardians get so wrapped up in the Hollywood ride that they disregard normal precautions and only care about the money rolling in. Terrible.

[@xoxocessa]

He didnt have the greatest relationship, if any relationship, with his parents. He was mostly raised by his grandmother.

[@Muirmaiden]

@@xoxocessa Yes, I know. He should have been taken care of.

[@TB-om4dd]

@@xoxocessa he have, they he made up. His son still close his grandfather.

[@TB-om4dd]

@@Muirmaiden Brad's father is trying to get it right now with Brad's son. It protects the only thing left of your child.

[@sahej6939]

He only had his grandmother. He was vulnerable which is why he was targeted

[@JesusisLvfds6400]

This when he had a romance with Onika Pointer a niece of one of the Pointer Sisters the singing group ..she talked about him a lot in her book. Said he knew he was always gonna die young.

[@TB-om4dd]

this mother of this onika gave him cocaine and heroin too. she speaks in the book. terrible

[@JesusisLvfds6400]

@@TB-om4dd ..Faun Pointer yeah she's a mess .she's Ruth's daughter she grew up with a abusive dad who abused her mom and didn't get affection from her mom .so her life has been a mess.

[@TB-om4dd]

@@JesusisLvfds6400 wow, but she's crazy for giving a 14 year old boy hard drugs…. he was a child

[@tabloidefast5890]

@@TB-om4dd They said that the drugs started before he was 12. Very easy for him to contradict his mother.

[@TB-om4dd]

@@tabloidefast5890 Yes, I already read that interview, but his mother injected him with heroin when he was 12 years old. he smoked weed at age 9

[@mindriot91_96]

The movie is very good, the novella is BRILLIANT.

[@deventhomas21]

Brad was truly one of the best he is absolutely missed.

[@char938]

he deserved more

[@kimmyfreak200]

r.i.p brad renfro!

[@xXxgodHunter]

really loved this movie. shows you how the most innocent looking lads could have the slightest tendency to do & love evil.

[@OtherSideOfTheFence]

Devil invests in evil men. God invests in men just a lil faster/deadlier...those Men...Bloody/Righteous Men who are also evil, to kill devils puppets. "When good men fail to act". God has Fast dangerous men who act, when others won't....how will the Gods know you. " here am I, send me". Isaiah 6:8

[@palltamas100]

R.I.P.Brad

[@davidspisak7494]

5:33. "...and I show up on your doorstep - is that clear". Well, No...."Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Mr. Hand shows up in Spicolli's bedroom. Does anyone see/hear a joke here? Brad's pencil zoom shot and Sean Penn!

[@dustbowl19311939]

1:31 "...adolescent curiosity..." Coming from the pervert himself. I do not want to see the real behind the scenes of this movie. That would be scary and disturbing. 4:53 "I had a great experience working with Bryan. Sure? Hope you stayed away from the pool parties.

[@dvepps6780]

I really hope you aren't anti-gay or anything, because I'm not and I find Singer's behavior disgusting in the same way I find Bill Cosby's behavior disgusting. Maybe the whole gay rights thing will allow people to look clearly at what kind of behavior is and isn't acceptable in same sex relationships. Using power or status as a tool for sexual gratification when it harms young people is horrible and needs to stop.

[@007nadineL]

Word With indicates distance via statement analysis

[@PocketMarmo04]

Lets not crap all over McKellan. This is scarcely his fault.

[@bellamartinsson4076]

Brad is so beautiful 💗

[@charlesbuckwheat2347]

*was

[@bellamartinsson4076]

@@charlesbuckwheat2347 Just because he’s not here anymore doesn’t mean he’s ugly now. He is beautiful!!

[@mamicholo]

brad is gorgeous

[@hejia6427]

abcd12345 Yes!! I think he is a true beauty. But it seems like people prefer his talents. Anyway he is soooo pretty in my eyes.

[@charlesbuckwheat2347]

@@hejia6427 *was

[@tabloidefast5890]

@@charlesbuckwheat2347 hater.

[@Frequency47]

Bryan Singer def thought so.

[@stroinado]

a really good movie. one of the best novel from Stephen King

[@jamalselesi182]

R.I.P. Brad Renfro

[@fika___.]

god bless u brad :)

[@h20overdose]

His life was destroyed by this movie it got him killed. He was a sacrifice for Bryan Singer.

[@petersaysthings]

Lol no. His mother was addicted to heroin and gave him his first dose when he was a kid. He struggled with increasing drug problems throughout his life. That's what killed him. Not Bryan Singer, though I'm not saying Singer isn't questionable.

[@unforgivenxiv]

Peter von Harten Yes, that’s correct. He was doomed before he even shot his movie, he did drugs and drank before he was even 12. My heart hurts for him but he knew nothing more than what he grew up on, and there was no way he could never get out of the trouble in his head. Really hope that Bryan didn’t do anything to him though.

[@brabbit3389]

Bryan singer publicly said Brad was his boyfriend when he was just 14 that sick fuck

[@abdulkarimkarimli1070]

@@brabbit3389 really ?

[@thebrowithnoname1703]

@@abdulkarimkarimli1070 - That’s true. It’s documented in the Atlantic article, which I just read. Sickening stuff.

[@user-mp2mu5qv4c]

Brad is adorable in this movie

[@UnionKid15]

Awesome movie, thanks for the post..!!!

[@joelubas1752]

I wish this adaptation would’ve been more faithful to the novella

[@mindriot91_96]

Agreed. But it would be difficult to market this film if it stayed close to King's novella. I mean, the ending alone would never have been put to film faithfully.

[@joelubas1752]

@@mindriot91_96 how so?

[@joelubas1752]

@@mindriot91_96 ending alone could’ve been

[@nereitaammc_99]

Beautiful and talented

[@TB-om4dd]

Bryan take as long as you're going to pay for everything you did with Brad on the set of this movie.

[@charlesbuckwheat2347]

Stop coming back here repeatedly to make stupid comments.

[@xxkissmeketutxx]

Is that you Bryan 🤣

[@fatcatnwo]

He's still on the run. Has extradition orders in 15 countries. We'll never hear from him again.

[@tabloidefast5890]

All those people making the movie didn't notice anything?

[@TB-om4dd]

@@tabloidefast5890 yes, but they didn't do anything, there's a report from someone in production that he hit Brad in front of the whole team

[@JesusisLvfds6400]

He also told her he been doing coke since the age of 11.

[@TB-om4dd]

this is a lie, but unfortunately something else is terrible, his mother gave him heroin when he was 12 years old

[@robertzuick382]

Depressing. Him and river phoenix dead at 23 and 25

[@mamicholo]

brad was so hot i had a secret crush on him

[@TheNostaglicFlower]

Bradley! ♥

[@TheSANDIEGONAZI]

I myself have hat allot of Apt Pupils more then you can Imagine

[@KJLesnick]

I liked the novel more than the movie. It was way more detailed as well as fucked up and disturbing

[@890slay]

@gartnavel89 About the rifle, you're right. But as far as I remember the boy had nothing to deal with the old Nazi' death. He commetted suicide at the hospital, revealed by Morris Heisel, an elderly jewish man who recognizes Denker.

[@mindriot91_96]

He took about 12 Seconals and OD'd in the novella. I realize the OP is 13 years ago, but just thought I'd point that out.

[@Bakauhead13]

The book of this was so damn sick and twisted...

[@tabloidefast5890]

Yes, people saying the book is better, but Stephen was wrong: If he was a psychopath who would become a serial killer, why was he so disturbed to hear the Nazi's stories? It doesn't suit a psychopath, that's more true in the movie. I liked the movie better, I just wish it was longer.

[@Checker222]

It's a dark and fascinating subject!

[@Whitguy86]

The commercial talks about the boy uncovering evil when he himself was evil

[@davidspisak7494]

I sat across from Brad at The Pilot Light, late 90's. His facial charisma = right eyebrow twitch and raising left upper cheekbone (rather like Elvis and his pelvis). I suspect that Ian is Heath Ledger's Joker father...(and by implication, Heath was playing Brad). They died about a week apart from each other. To comments about "true evil" Ireland sided with the Nazis, the Pope just shy of excommunicating anti-Nazi Catholics. Adolf Hitler, the Millennial 2'nd Coming.

[@skywalkerpotter21]

FOX that year hired BRYAN SINGER for "X-MEN" ... and Singer had the impression he had 2 years to film it, but FOX wanted it done in 1 year.

[@palltamas100]

4:11 and Ian McKeen

[@027220]

4:33 - :38 Yes it is.

[@spaceballs44]

If I were him, if I had fingerprints and using my phone and recording him and they looked alike, the same person that’s been a wanted man I would of just went to the FBI, end of story. In the real world.

[@tabloidefast5890]

Youthful curiosity.

[@gartnavel89]

@890slay Didn't the boy go on a murder rampage with a rifle or something in the book? Didn't he also murder the old Nazi?

[@peggypenny1]

WEIRD HOW HIS LIFE WAS DOCUMENTED.......HE GREW UP IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA JUST LIKE I DID........IMAGINE BEING GARRY HIXON WITH A NAME LIKE THAT I MEAN THE FIRST CAMERA WAS A STILL CAMERA WHEN I WAS YOUNG THEY STARTED SNAPPING

[@jbLover9811]

sadness :(

[@yorkchan1783]

what is the meaning of "Apt" in here?

[@ndrthrdr1]

It means that he is a very good pupil.

[@dvepps6780]

It means ready or fitting. It basically says that the fertilized, watered lawns of American suburbs is ripe to produce the evil of fascist Germany.

[@danoella2673]

Like aptitude

[@sifugurusensei]

Wished they stuck with the ending in the book. The movie's ending was anticlimactic.

[@kystars]

what was the ending in the book? just type SPOILER ALERT for the book and tell me. I don't want to buy the book.

[@sifugurusensei]

@@kystars Spoiler alert. The cops close in on him and Todd arms himself to shoot whoever he sees. Finally the cops take him down. Oh, before that happens, Todd's guidance counselor/teacher (i forgot which one) confronts him about that old man not being his grandfather. So Todd shoots him. As he's dying, he's calling out his baby daughter's name. That part was actually badass. The novel was just too dark for my taste when I first read it but it grew on me. The book is called Different Seasons and has four stories which three were made into film. I liked all adoptations except Apt Pupil. There were some excellent performances but overall the script and directions were bad.

[@tabloidefast5890]

@@sifugurusensei But Stephen was wrong on one point: If he was a psychopath who would become a serial killer then why was he so terribly disturbed to hear the Nazi's stories? It doesn't match a psychopath, that's more right in the movie. I liked the movie more, I just wish it was longer.

[@marinamoetter1879]

Der Muster Schüler guter Film 🎥

[@chloethatkaratekid]

Goose Pimples? Do people even refer to it as that??

[@afroman255]

Chloe Marchand it was the 90s.

[@lalalivy2854]

And yes they still do

[@bella9342]

what happened to brad how did he die

[@Mamtachuphal]

27/07/2007

[@feingetarntesfischfilet4841]

Seriously: How can it be that "Dussander" seems to have a German accent even when he's not acting❓ Could it be Scottish or Welsh❓🤔

[@Tempe1962]

@dragonair907 what did he die of?

[@WhiteTiger72589]

A.B. Heroin overdose

[@JJA1987]

@Tempe1962 Heroin Overdose

[@rachell7867]

Goose pimples

[@unassumingchannel5]

@missvenezuela2 I hate to break it to you, but he's dead.

[@peggypenny1]

GARRY HIXON WAS AN EXPERIMENT IN FAME HE WILL DIE ONE DAY....ON THAT DAY THE EXPERIMENT WILL BE OVER

[@Havenscope]

I loved the movie, but the ending was horrible. They should have gone more with the book, I think.

[@90sdbest62]

why the good looking celebs more likely to get into drugs?

[@taylorcookson8336]

it wasn’t his fault, his mother gave him drugs at a very young age

[@abrahamlupis9354]

It was the season of the drugs, that's why the Patnership for a drug free America poorly tried to scare people to stop then from using drugs

[@erkicaplatz7212]

Singer hahahaha

[@RubyLioness]

Singer talkin’ about “adolescent curiousity”- 🤢

[@TB-om4dd]

Bryan take as long as you're going to pay for everything you did with Brad on the set of this movie.

[@matos.783]

Fucking drugs....

[@027220]

Not mimicable.

[@890slay]

This movie is fucking mockery on stephen King story! the novella is so much better! I just can say first read watch after

[@screenpuller]

A terrible adaptation of a King story. Poorly told, miscast... just doesn't do the novella any justice. Brad Renfro is entirely unbelievable as a human being, let alone as Todd Bowden. McKellan is a great actor, but his part in this movie is utterly forgettable. Stay away from this steaming pile & watch "Shawshank Redemption" or "Stand by Me" instead.

[@dvepps6780]

Yeah, this wasn't a bad movie. But the take away I had from the original story is that evil lies everywhere. The kid in the story was far from naive and as much of a sociopath as the SS man. That tendency toward doom in the original just wasn't there in this one. Renfro seems really miss some opportunities here.

[@punkpoetry]

I just love American simpletons who believe "Shawshank Redemption" or "Stand by Me" are the pinnacle of human creativity lol

[@tabloidefast5890]

But Stephen was wrong on one point: If he was a psychopath who would become a serial killer then why was he so terribly disturbed to hear the Nazi's stories? It doesn't match a psychopath, that's more right in the movie. I liked the movie more, I just wish it was longer.

[@michaelmagic988]

i was a huge nazi and was exited when this came out

[@localcvltleader]

Lmao what

[@charlesbuckwheat2347]

Do you mean "excited??" Idiot...🙄🙄🙄

[@gabbystupp4549]

What do u mean?

[@xxkissmeketutxx]

Do you mean excited? I hope you've developed enough to realise hating anyone for skin colour is beneath you.

[@michaelmagic988]

@@xxkissmeketutxx no im more racist and anti-jew then ever lol. about 27 years service of hate for most non whites