Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Don't know where you've been for the last 50 years, but it's always been about politics and is every year; for example you might remember Sacheen Littlefeather refusing to accept the Best Actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando for The Godfather....in 1973.
Sacheen Littlefeather was a native American actress. Brando's refusal of the award was for the treatment of native Americans by the film industry. Don't recall that it had anything to do with the President of the USA. Just politics within the film industry. From all the westerns that I watched as a child. Hollywood usually treated the Indians as the bad guys and they used white actors and actresses to portray native Americans.
Marlon Brando didn't have a problem in 72 with the film "Last Tango in Paris" as a 48 year old taking advantage of a young 19 year old actress Maria Schneider when he had her naked face down on the floor and put butter on he butt and performed a sex act on her.
Controversial rape scene
The film contains a scene in which Brando's character engages in anal rape using butter as a lubricant. In a 2006 interview, Schneider said that the scene was not in the script and that "when they told me, I had a burst of anger. Woo! I threw everything. And nobody can force someone to do something not in the script. But I didn't know that. I was too young". In 2007, Schneider recounted feelings of sexual humiliation pertaining to the rape scene:
They only told me about it before we had to film the scene and I was so angry. I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie', but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take.
