00:00The Oscars are, after all, a very special evening in the history of cinema.
00:03A legendary event due to its longevity, but also the plethora of stars it has been able to reward,
00:07but which is also not averse to controversy.
00:09La La Land is cited as the winner, when it is not.
00:20Shakespeare in Love beats Saving Private Ryan because of an aggressively orchestrated marketing campaign
00:25by Miramax.
00:26Will Smith losing his temper.
00:27In short, quite a few controversies then.
00:29But there is one that particularly caught my attention, and it took place during the 45th edition.
00:33It's 1973, and Marlon Brando wins his second Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Vito Corleone.
00:39in The Park.
00:40But he is not present.
00:41Instead, he sends a certain Chacine Littlefizer, a Native American activist, onto the stage, who speaks on behalf of
00:47of the actor.
01:09This speech caused quite a stir at the time, and the actress underwent this procedure for a long time.
01:13years.
01:13But she had the courage to go and face an entire room and an entire industry to denounce an injustice.
01:19And Brando, despite all the controversies surrounding him, was never the most humane person
01:23It's nice that it exists, but at least he will have had his humanitarian battles to his credit.
01:26Because in addition to this highly symbolic action, he marches alongside Martin Luther King and fights for
01:30American civil rights.
01:31In 1975, he participated in a protest rally against American investments in South Africa and for the
01:37release of Nelson Mandela.
01:38In 1989, he came out of a nearly 10-year retirement and accepted a union salary to play the role
01:44by Ian McKenzie in A Dry White Season,
01:46a film directed by Eusan Palky that shows the raw and violent reality of apartheid in Africa
01:51South.
01:51I wrote a video titled "Brando, the actor who ruined his life," because he...
01:55'never tolerated this status of movie star.
01:57But at least he used it well to bring such thorny subjects into the media.
02:01at a time when an actor of his stature would not have taken that kind of risk at all.
02:27Subtitling by Radio-Canada
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