Allegedly, when Littlefeather left the stage and went backstage, John Wayne had to be "restrained by six security guards" because he was so furious at what she had done. This lead to an interminable amount of anxious mixtures of nervous applause and thunderous boos. She went up to the stage, silently refused to take the award, and proceeded to go on a prolonged speech about how the American film industry had historically mistreated the Native American community and made a mockery of them. When he was officially announced as the winner, the camera swooped across the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and settled on.a young woman with long black hair and a traditional Native American buckskin dress. According to The Contender, everybody knew Marlon didn't show up and that he was going to send a mysterious "someone" to accept his award. You really want to shove that guy front and center again?īrando didn't even bother showing up to the Academy Awards show. So imagine flashing forward 18 years to an older, increasingly jaded and more socially conscious than ever Marlon Brando being given another award he didn't actually want in the first place. Even when he won his first Oscar for On the Waterfront, he would many years later say it was an "error in judgment" and "silly" to accept that award, that it felt like a flagrant hypocrisy on his part. To make a long story short (too late), Brando took his internal craft seriously but took all the external career/fandom/media aspects of his life with little to no seriousness at all, if not with downright disdain. He later found the continued insistence on him using the Method as insulting. In Brando's mind, Strasberg spread such misinformation in order to boost the number of students who'd come to learn it, since he only dropped in a few times for fun. He also said the idea that he was at all loyal to "the Method" as an acting philosophy was a lie spread by Lee Strasberg, the legendary acting teacher and chief faculty of the studio where the Method became popular. He would espouse the belief that "acting was not an important vocation in life when the world was still facing so many problems," that the only reason he committed to an acting career was as a promise to his dying mother, Dodie. Mann's definitive biography of Brando, The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando, a common theme is how, throughout his entire life, Brando felt more committed to sociopolitical and social justice causes than he ever felt committed to his acting career.
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