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> Did you know about the time Marlon Brando refused to accept an Oscar because he was mad about the government response to a protest in South Dakota? He also w
by jancsika 5y ago
> Did you know about the time Marlon Brando refused to accept an Oscar because he was mad about the government response to a protest in South Dakota?
He also went on Dick Cavett and made some insane connection between that random protest and the stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood movies and tv shows.
Not only that, he traveled back in time to participate in the civil rights movement to gain enough credibility to convince an actress who'd been at the occupation of Alcatraz to accept his Oscar and give a speech connecting Native American stereotypes and that random protest. We're talking serious Back to the Future level shit here.
Brando's nuts.
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoIt's pretty stunning how consistently intense, passionate arguments get sanitized to mere disagreements in the popular imagination. You read about the Cross of Gold speech, where William Jennings Bryan declared that the gold standard is an enemy to humanity and whipped up a mob to cancel anyone who supported it, and it comes across as some kind of polite dispute.