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Timecode :

00:00 Intro
01:14 Une enfance difficile
05:05 Une carrière prometteuse
10:53 La fin tragique
14:55 Les combats de River
17:22 Son héritage
19:56 Conclusion
21:22 Mon Livre

Films avec River Phoenix cités dans la vidéo :

- Explorers
- Stand by me
- The mosquito Coast avec Harrison Ford
- Indiana Jones et la Dernière Croisade de Steven Spielberg
- My Own Private Idaho avec Keanu Reeves
- Dark Blood

Extraits vidéos :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XB-xL2Zd1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmZz8O6moR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bnP3Lf9mOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl4IvLr-pEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiWdTz_MNc&t=1s

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00:04On October 31, 1993, the Italian director Federico Fellini died at his home in Rome.
00:11age 73. Known for directing some of the most important films of his time such as
00:15With films like La Strada, 8½, and La Dolce Vita, he is one of the greatest artists in cinema. Palme d'Or
00:21Gold, Golden Lion, Oscar, he swept the board. Yet, on this last day of October, the world has
00:28eyes
00:28riveted on Sunset Boulevard where another cinematic prodigy has just passed away at only 23 years old.
00:34The question is how the death of this very young Hollywood actor, who had a few
00:39His filmography has completely overshadowed that of one of the greatest European directors. How?
00:44Has River Phoenix managed to touch the hearts of his audience so deeply? In this video, I'm going to
00:48try to
00:49to answer these questions and uncover the secrets of one of the most talented and mysterious actors
00:53his generation.
00:55For me, being true is all I can do and it's all I can
01:04to do in my
01:04craft that makes sense to me.
01:16River is the name Arline Dunnets and John Libottom gave to their first child. The idea came from a
01:21passage
01:22a precise account of Hermann Hess's novel Siddhartha, in which Siddhartha attains enlightenment by contemplating a river that...
01:27Translated as River in English, a symbol of the cycle of life, wisdom, and continuity. The couple
01:33finds himself
01:34There is much in this character who decides to leave home in the hope of finding enlightenment
01:38spiritual. These two hippies at heart met in the late 1960s. Arline Dunnets
01:42She left everything behind to settle in California, her job as a secretary in New York and her husband. One day
01:47in
01:47While hitchhiking, she meets John. Both seeking a free life, they decide to live on
01:52the roads. They will have six children: young River, his sisters Rain and Summer, as well as Joaquin and Liberty.
01:59than a half-sister, Jodine. This large family will travel across the United States in search of meaning,
02:03of faith. They want to live in community and in harmony with their values. Quickly they are
02:07attracted by South America, in 1973 they settled in Venezuela to join the
02:13a sect called the Children of God. They have clearly found a true haven of peace.
02:17working as missionaries and fruit pickers. At first glance, this pacifist community
02:21which advocates self-abandonment and the rejection of the materialistic world seems completely harmless.
02:25But I'm not going to teach you how a cult works. This evangelical movement
02:29radical, founded in the late 1960s by David Berg, attracts young idealists to their
02:33promising a form of spiritual salvation. A community without money, without borders, without
02:38state. But behind the utopian appearances of the organization lie practices
02:42profoundly destructive. Mind control, indoctrination, isolation, forced labor,
02:48Psychological manipulation and early sexualization. River Phoenix spoke very little about this period of
02:53his life, but admitted in an interview to having had his first sexual experience at the age of 4
02:57with other children in the group. The children in the sect were forced to have relationships
03:01sexual acts with their parents and with other children. When John and Arlene Bottom realize
03:05Given the extent of the abuses, it's already too late. River is about six years old. According to several sources,
03:10including later interviews with Rain and Joaquin, the family then lived in terror.
03:14stifled by the sect's extreme doctrines. They barely manage to leave the
03:18Venezuela in 1977 and settled in Florida. They decided to change their name and became
03:23The Phoenix. River's early years, as well as those of his siblings, were chaotic.
03:27They lack basic comforts, don't go to school, and have no friends. River Phoenix will
03:32Naomi Fauner, who suffers from dyslexia and is also the mother of Maggie and Jack Guillenol,
03:37He would later say, "River was completely uneducated. He knew how to read, he knew how to write,
03:41He had an appetite for it, but he had no deep roots in any field.
03:45of history or literature. The parents' bohemian vision has its limits, and they are
03:50tangible in the gaze of young River, who seems imbued with a gravity that children should not
03:54He doesn't know. When he's sick, he suffers because his parents refuse to have him vaccinated.
03:58to give him medication, preferring to treat him with plants and spiritual awakening.
04:02The young boy doesn't have time to flourish as a child since he has to provide for the
04:06His family's needs. He plays guitar in the street with his sister Rain to earn some money.
04:10rooms. He speaks of desperate situations when he talks about this period in interviews. He is marked
04:15by a chronic melancholy that is etched on his face, a unique face that will not
04:19to delay being noticed.
04:45flourished and remained fairly detached and wasn't really informed about what
04:51People are thinking about my new hairstyle or something like that. So, if that
04:56To answer your question, I really maintained a distance that I quite like.
05:08One day, the artistically inclined Iris Burton discovered the young River, a guitar in hand, with his
05:13Brothers and sisters in the streets of Westwood in Los Angeles. She falls under their spell and decides
05:17quickly to represent River, who, under the impetus of her mother, will go from audition to audition. We discover
05:21River Phoenix made her screen debut in 1982 in the series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,
05:27He was 12 years old at the time. And although the series was a failure, he impressed the director by
05:31A
05:31Naturally, he displayed a rather disconcerting efficiency in the game for a child his age. After that, he did...
05:36small appearances in minor series until 1985 and began his debut the same year in
05:40He appeared in Joe Dante's film Explorer, alongside Ethan Hawke, playing a young genius.
05:45scientist. A sort of miscasting, considering River never really associated with scientists.
05:49the schools. A prelude to a meteoric rise to fame, since the year
05:53Next, he appears in the cult film Stand By Me by Rob Rainer.
06:12By adapting Stephen King's novel, the director allows a new generation
06:16actors shine throughout this story where four twelve-year-old boys
06:20They set out in search of a body that has not yet been discovered by the police. This journey
06:24This initiatory process will lead them to question the strength of their group, but also
06:27to allow them to reflect on the family deficiencies they experience on a daily basis and
06:31to the importance of a friendship based on trust. In setting out to find this
06:34With a corpse, they will put an end to their innocence. That's the whole point of the film, what we
06:38wins and what we lose as we grow up. River Phoenix, for his part, is impressive in
06:42Chris's role, the group's natural leader, with his childlike appearance but his gaze
06:46as an adult. His character is crushed by the weight of his social class. He must endure the
06:50Violence from his elders and a clear lack of love. No one but River Phoenix
06:54could not have played this role. He infuses it with his own suffering, his own vision of the
06:58world. And like his character, he too was destined never to know innocence
07:02of a happy childhood. The cinema, on the other hand, is ready to open its doors wide to him.
07:05And after the success of Stand By Me, River followed up with Peter Weir's Mosquito Coast.
07:10He stars opposite the legendary Harrison Ford, who plays Ali Fox, a genius inventor.
07:14disgusted by the consumer society in which he lives and which will drag his family into it
07:17for Honduras where he is trying to build the perfect society he has always dreamed of.
07:21What is striking at first glance about this story is that it is almost identical
07:25to that of River and her parents, who left everything behind to live a bohemian life
07:28in Venezuela, thinking he was joining a community with perfect values ​​before being caught
07:32by reality. River was aware of this and admitted that the character of Ali Fox...
07:36recalled the utopian wanderings of his own father. After Stand By Me, which also offers
07:40a true parallel to his own childhood, one is entitled to wonder if River Phoenix
07:43did not choose her roles with the aim of relieving herself of her own emotional suffering
07:48by externalizing his traumas through his characters. In 1988, in Jimmy Rirdon,
07:53He plays a teenager condemned to imitate his parents' career path, and
07:57In Running Out, he is forced to follow his parents on a perpetual flight.
08:00thus experiencing a situation he did not choose. Through his career choices,
08:04he seemed to want us to understand the terrible childhood he had suffered in the name of
08:08from the ideology of his parents, who neglected to give him the necessary attention,
08:11clear guidelines and healthy development. Perhaps that's why it has always been
08:15also fair and natural in his acting, because he never had to play melancholy,
08:18It was already flowing in her veins. River Phoenix displayed emotional intelligence.
08:22He was quite amazing in his approach to his roles. He elevated his dialogues and gave his characters a soul.
08:27In any case, with all his films to his credit, it's safe to say he has entered
08:30the court of
08:30great. He stars alongside Harrison Ford and even plays his legendary role as Injana
08:34A younger Jones in The Last Crusade. He lends his talents to the greatest directors.
08:38Steven Spielberg, Peter Weir and Sidney Lumet for Running on Empty, a film that earned him a nomination
08:43He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at just 18 years old. He was at the height of his fame, but Hollywood
08:48It's a world he dreads, a superficial world where he doesn't feel he belongs. Fame
08:52It scares him and he doesn't want to feed him.
09:13He is courted by the biggest production companies and the greatest directors, but he refuses everything.
09:17and made the bold choice to turn to a singular artist, Gus Van Zandt.
09:26The director wrote and directed My Own Private Idaho in 1991. The story follows Mike, played
09:32by River Phoenix, a narcoleptic, melancholic, and self-destructive vagabond, and Scott,
09:37portrayed by Keanu Reeves, son of a wealthy politician who lives on the streets as a form of provocation.
09:41Together, they travel across the United States, then Italy, between squats, seedy hotels, deserted farms and endless roads.
09:48But this geographical wandering conceals a much more internal quest, that of love and identity.
09:53The film depicts young men selling their bodies to survive. And this prostitution is a consequence of
09:58'a void in family life, emotions and the economy.
10:00Mike doesn't know his father and was abandoned by his mother. He's not looking for success, but a
10:05Home, a place of belonging.
10:06But for him, that place will never present itself. It's River Phoenix's finest role. He is
10:11of a unique sensitivity in this film.
10:13And he seeks his melancholy deep within himself, perhaps a little too deep.
10:17River Phoenix was a particularly anxious person. And the intensity of his game always came at a price.
10:21He wanted to feel everything, understand everything. But nothing made sense to him, because he wasn't made for it.
10:26for this world.
10:27He then took refuge in music, and began experimenting with drugs.
10:30He started using heroin on the set of My Own Private Idaho, in addition to spending
10:34weeks in a squat.
10:35He sees this as a social and professional experience, in order to fully immerse himself in the subtleties of his character.
10:40And the result is truly brilliant. But at what cost?
10:43Because, whether knowingly or not, River Phoenix opened the door to even greater demons.
10:48Demons that, two years later, would cost him his life.
10:57The date is October 26, 1993.
11:00River Phoenix returns to Los Angeles after six weeks of filming in the Utah desert, for his last
11:05The film Dark Blood by George Luiser.
11:07These past few weeks have been grueling. The young actor sometimes films for up to 10 hours a day.
11:11His character, a young man traumatized by his wife's death, lives as a hermit in the desert,
11:16allows us to explore madness and isolation.
11:17He has to put himself in the shoes of this tortured man, but he finds it difficult to do so.
11:21He suffers from anxiety attacks on set. He seems distant.
11:24A return to Los Angeles to be with his family and friends can only be beneficial to him.
11:28He now has to spend two weeks filming in the studio for the needs of the film.
11:31But at the same time, he contracts a mysterious illness. He can't even attend a date with
11:35a director who came all the way from London to talk to him about his next film.
11:39Those around him found him pale and emaciated. He remained bedridden for three days.
11:43Then on October 30th, he returned to the studio to film his scenes for Dark Blood.
11:47The film crew finds him different. He seems to be under the influence of something.
11:50He is covered in sweat, banging against the wall, trembling. We will later learn that he had mixed an anxiolytic and
11:55marijuana.
11:56After filming, he meets up in his hotel room with his girlfriend Samantha Matisse, his brother Joaquin and his
12:01Sister Rain.
12:02No one knows at this moment that they are about to spend their last evening together.
12:05Everyone is toasting with champagne, but River isn't drinking. He's partying by using cocaine.
12:10This was the third different substance he ingested that day, after anxiolytics and cannabis.
12:14Around 10 p.m., the small group headed towards the Viper Room, a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard.
12:20Johnny Depp, one of the club's co-owners, and Flea, a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, perform on stage there.
12:25And River fully intends to join them. He has always loved music, learned guitar on the fly, in
12:30the street.
12:30Then in the late 80s, when he was already famous in Hollywood, he founded a group with
12:34his sister Rain.
12:35River sings, plays guitar, and shouts the lyrics. Rain also sings, composes, and co-directs the universe of
12:41band.
12:41It therefore makes sense to find them both there on the evening of October 30, 1993, in order to enjoy
12:46'a concert that promises to be spectacular.
12:49Around midnight, River and his group were seated in the VIP section. After a while, River...
12:54He gets up and asks his friend Flea if he can also come on stage and play with them.
12:58But Flea refuses; there are already too many musicians on stage. The actor is furious; he feels rejected.
13:03and will try to alleviate this frustration by consuming any drugs that come his way.
13:07From this point on, accounts of those final moments differ depending on the witness. Some claim to have seen him.
13:12in the club's toilets taking cocaine; others say they saw him down a glass with
13:16a sort of brown liquid.
13:18What is certain is that, according to the toxicology report written after his death, he had consumed
13:22the heroine during that evening, in addition to everything else.
13:24The mixture of cocaine and heroin is undoubtedly what proved fatal for him. When he
13:28Back in the VIP area, River starts vomiting and loses consciousness.
13:32Some people saw others give him more cocaine at that moment. He regained his senses and a few
13:36minutes later he begins to tremble uncontrollably.
13:38He went back to the bathroom and started vomiting again. One of the last people to have seen him alive
13:43That night, it was Bob Forest, leader of the band Tello News Monster, who explained how
13:48He was using drugs at that time.
13:49He said this: our drug routine has remained pretty consistent for everyone. First smoking crack or...
13:54'Inject directly from the shell into a vein for 90 seconds.
13:57Then, we would inject heroin to regain control and come down enough to be able to hold a conversation for a few minutes.
14:03minutes before starting again.
14:04When he comes out of the bathroom, River heads towards Bob. He seems extremely weak. He is pale and struggling to
14:10stand.
14:11He tells Bob that he thinks he's overdosing, but Bob doesn't seem to take him seriously.
14:15River was then escorted out of the nightclub to get some fresh air.
14:18But once outside, he collapses. He begins to convulse. His eyes roll back. His arms,
14:23Her legs and head are hitting the ground violently and continuously.
14:26His friends try to calm him down. Joaquin Phoenix, his brother, calls an ambulance.
14:30On the other end of the line, he sounds panicked, completely helpless.
14:33Caesars, on Sunset and Larrabee, please come here.
14:36Ok, calm down a little bit, ok, what's the address where you need it?
14:39It's Sunset and Larrabee, it's at the Viper room.
14:42Ok, what's the address, sir, you know?
14:44What's the address, it's a f***ing crowd!
14:47Ok, sir, sir, calm down a little bit, ok?
14:50I'm sorry, it's my brother, please come here.
14:52How old is he?
14:52He's 23.
14:55When the paramedics arrived, River had stopped breathing. They tried to resuscitate him for 17 minutes, but nothing worked.
15:01'It's done.
15:01On October 31, 1993, at 1:51 a.m., River Phoenix was declared dead. He was 23 years old.
15:15In the early morning of that fateful Halloween day in 1993, the Viper Room became a sanctuary.
15:21The club entrance is covered in flowers and candles. The floor is covered in messages of love for
15:25River.
15:26The world has just lost one of its finest artists.
15:30The film Dark Blood, on which he was working, has been cancelled.
15:34However, the director decided to unearth the negatives 20 years later and finish editing the film.
15:39by filling in for River's absence with voice-over narration.
15:41The film was finally released in 2012 and allowed for a final tribute to be paid to the deceased actor.
15:46It was also agreed that he would play the role of Daniel Molloy in Interview with the Vampire in 1994.
15:51alongside Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, but the role will ultimately be offered to Christian Slater.
15:55And he will decide to donate his fee to environmental organizations.
15:59who have always been supported by River Phoenix.
16:01Indeed, the actor has always been a fervent environmental advocate.
16:04He became vegan at the age of 7, as it seemed inconceivable to him to eat animals.
16:09This is what he said about it.
16:11We take these animals and violins completely for what they are.
16:13We use them, abuse them, deprive them of their entire lives.
16:16Then we slit their throats, tear them to pieces, and eat them.
16:20Morally, I am against it. Ethically, I cannot justify it.
16:22And from an ecological standpoint, it's simply insane.
16:25The idea of ​​eating meat makes me shudder.
16:27As for wearing fur, it is the crudest, most thoughtless, selfish, and sick thing that
16:32I can imagine.
16:33At that time, he was one of the few artists to commit to this cause.
16:36He wrote letters to members of the government.
16:38He demonstrated very often in the streets.
16:40Supported organizations like PETA and made donations very regularly.
16:44He also incorporated this struggle into his art by writing extensively.
16:47Poems, songs, introspective texts about the suffering of the world and one's own inability to repair it.
16:52In 1992, PETA even awarded him the Humanitarian of the Year prize for his activism and
16:57his fundraising efforts.
16:59Today, knowing all this, his death remains a strange paradox.
17:02He, who always shunned the excesses of fame, dies in the most clichéd way possible.
17:06An overdose outside a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard.
17:09He, who spent his life thinking before he consumed, taking care of his environment and his health,
17:14from his plate.
17:15He only had to cross one border, that of drugs, for it to prove fatal.
17:27What would his artistic output be today if he were still alive?
17:30It's highly likely he would have a career as prestigious as Leonardo DiCaprio's.
17:33An actor who followed in his footsteps, frequently citing him as his greatest aspiration.
17:37Who acts as a successor with regard to his very singular vision of cinema.
17:40Particularly through his career choices, but also his humanitarian work.
17:44Incidentally, as a side note, James Cameron's first choice to play Jack in Titanic,
17:48While the film was still just an idea in his head, it was River Phoenix.
17:52Before the role officially went to DiCaprio, making him an international star.
17:56Just like Marlon Brando in his time, River Phoenix is ​​the first of a new generation of actors.
18:01who were all inspired by his vision and talent.
18:03From Brad Pitt to Jared Leto, and including Heath Ledger who would also meet a tragic end.
18:10I tried to compete with people I really, really admire.
18:17You didn't suffer from envy?
18:18Oh God, have you... have you... have you?
18:21Who doesn't do it?
18:22I know, maybe some people don't suffer from envy.
18:26But I learned a very important lesson at a young age.
18:29This is my first book, Explorers, which was with River Phoenix,
18:33which I thought was just incredible.
18:37And I suffered so much as a young person because I...
18:42...
18:42I didn't choose the actor.
18:44You're talking about the child now.
18:46It's the same with a child.
18:47But River went on to become very famous.
18:50And I loved, the desire, the desire, and I distanced myself from him so much,
18:55It was terrible, you know, just...
19:00His brother Joaquin has managed to perpetuate his legacy in the best possible way.
19:03by continuing the fight for respect for the environment
19:05and against animal abuse,
19:06but also by building a legendary filmography
19:09which allows the Phoenix name to remain at the top of the film industry.
19:12In an interview, Joaquin revealed that it was River who had encouraged him to become an actor.
19:16including showing him Martin Scorsese's film Raging Bull several times.
19:19so that he might draw inspiration from it.
19:21Shortly before his death, River had shown his friends a film in which his brother acted in a film
19:24by saying "this guy is going to be better than me".
19:27In 2020, when Joaquin Phoenix received the Oscar for Best Actor for Joker,
19:30It is inconceivable for him not to mention his brother.
19:33“I just, I wanna, um… when he… when he was… when he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric,
19:50he said, run to the rescue with love and peace will follow. Thank you.”
19:58River Phoenix was dyslexic. He couldn't learn more than a page of lines without making mistakes.
20:03He therefore turned to feelings to express himself through his characters.
20:06He never played his scenes the same way twice, and that's what gave his
20:10the game in all its power.
20:11He was an actor capable of transforming his weaknesses into strengths, of using his experiences, sometimes traumatic, and of...
20:17to put at the service of his art.
20:19His filmography now resonates like a kind of biography, an open book on the soul of a young man
20:24always searching for family stability, a dream, an ideal.
20:28That's what we remember about him, not how he ended up, but who he was.
20:32will remain a young soul forever, and a film artist like very few others.
20:38I don't approach things for strategic reasons. I genuinely believe in something and I go with it.
20:45That.
20:46And the effects on one side would come later, and I'll be fine with what happens.
20:55I mean, my life is not dependent on or in need of any kind of public acceptance
21:05general.
21:05It's not my business to worry about the market.
21:11This is nothing to do with my business, and I need to focus on work.
21:15It gives you freedom, doesn't it?
21:17It gives me freedom, yes. I give myself freedom.
21:23The video you just watched is taken from a chapter of my book, Hollywood on the Other Side.
21:27of the mirror,
21:28where, through ten chapters, I recount the tragic fates of film and television stars,
21:32From River Phoenix, then, to Patrick Swayze, via Michael G. Fox or even Carrie Fisher.
21:37So, if you liked this video, logically you'll like this book.
21:40So I invite you to click on the link in the description or pinned comment to get it.
21:44As for me, thank you for following me this far, and I'll see you very soon.
21:59Let's go!
Commentaires
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Grourmayil y a 7 heures
Très intéressant merci!
Coda Cultureil y a 11 heures
Très bonne vidéo
Alssannil y a 11 heures
Très bonne vidéo
Belle histoire

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