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  • 7/8/2025
Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age. Ten years before becoming the first Black man to win an Oscar, a young Sidney Poitie | dG1fcmZMTjQzcUpfOUk
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00:00A Hollywood studio contract.
00:03You'll never have to work a day in your life again.
00:05This is our chance, Sid.
00:07First they gotta know they can trust you.
00:10Whose side you're on.
00:12Side?
00:13We just gotta play the game a little.
00:15Something doesn't feel right.
00:16You don't see what's coming, do you?
00:18What's going on, Parks?
00:20Am I being watched?
00:21There's a whole war outside Poitiers.
00:23It's about power and who holds it.
00:26What's the point of principles if you don't have a platform?
00:30Why make provocative work if no one gets to see it?
00:34There just has to be another way.
00:37I mean, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?

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