A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Patrick Oliphant was a giant slayer, bravely taking on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his might | dG1fUVdBX2ZfQmNUWms

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00:01And action!

00:21Is Pat Oliphant really a threat to the American political system?

00:24His irreverent cartoons poke fun at the establishment

00:27and the credibility of US leaders.

00:29You know, you could get thrown in jail for doing this stuff.

00:32If Pat Oliphant couldn't draw, he'd be an assassin.

00:37The most famous political cartoonist in the world.

00:41You haven't really made it in Washington

00:43until Pat Oliphant has made fun of you.

00:47He saw his father drawing and wanted to try his own hand at it,

00:50and quickly it became a passion for him.

00:53America called to him because that's where the art was happening.

00:57American cartooning had been looked down upon.

01:00It seemed that the art had run down and it just wasn't doing its job anymore.

01:03So I felt that perhaps I could inject something new into it.

01:07With his satire and spiky caricatures,

01:09he helped create a whole new style of cartooning.

01:12You shouldn't think of the cartoon as a funny drawing.

01:15It's supposed to be a serious expression of political thought.

01:20He said, you're gonna wake up every morning angry.

01:24Make people write to the editor, get mad, get mad as you are.

01:28I remember him getting death threats.

01:31You son of a bitch, why didn't you go back where you came from?

01:33He just didn't care what the political establishment wanted.

01:38Our country was born from political protest,

01:40yet the financial picture of the media

01:42is making it harder and harder for that to happen.

01:44When the president of the United States every day

01:47does something that is newly offensive

01:49and an affront to democracy and civil liberties,

01:52for a cartoonist not to be doing that work

01:55is absolutely insane.

01:57Pat uniquely showed courage to go after folks

02:02that were beyond reproach or too dangerous to touch.

02:08Did you see your work affect public opinion?

02:11That's a good question, isn't it?