It was much more than the repeated husband of Barefoot through the parkthat the hot journalist of All the president’s menthat the living portrait of the Hollywood glamor with cap and braces in The blowthat the hunter adventurer of Memories of Africaeven that Oscar’s winning film director for Ordinary people or the founding visionary of the Film Festival of Sunday, which survives him. Robert Redford fought all his life for being more, much more, than a pretty face and white letters on black back on the screen. That position has finally been recognized by its related and the entire world.
Although he assured that he knew how to recognize where the problems were, and participated in advice and together to improve the environment for decades, he never wanted to present himself in a government office. Recognized Democrat, President Barack Obama handed him the presidential medal of La Libertad in the East Room of the White House in November 2016. And, since his first term, he was critical of Trump. In 2017 he wrote an article where he warned about his dangers in him, exalted that “accurate journalism defends our democracy,” and advocated and talked about the importance of All the president’s menfocused on how the watergate scandal was uncovered, and its similarities with real life: “The greatest is the importance of freedom and independence of the media to defend our democracy.” “When the president with the media,” he wrote, “and tweet that they are the enemy of the Americans, his language leads the false accusations about the Nixon administration journalists to a new and dangerous level.” Precisely, this Tuesday Donald Trump was one of the first to regret his death: “There was a time when he was the most popular. I think he was a great,” he said when a group of journalists informed him of his death.
But the star has also received dozens of tributes from her colleagues. They have cried their death authors such as Stephen King and Marianne Wilson, directors such as Ron Howard, politicians such as, and of course actors such as Rosie O’Donnell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Antonio Banderas, Colman Domingo, William Shatner, Marlee Matllin, James Gunn or Jane Fonda, another activist and companion, who has said of him that he was Each facet “:” He was standing for a United States for which we have to continue fighting. ” As Meryl Streep regretted in a statement sent to: “One of the lions has died. Rest in peace, my dear friend.”
Redford was a cause of causes, a voice that was heard in an industry that looks at politics and its activism with distance already often even shame. He, no. He used his well -known name to report or value, which reaped allies and enemies, including current President Donald Trump.
He was barely 11 years old, at the end of the forties, when he had a call. There, as a child, he was traveling to Yosemite, one of the great national parks of the United States. Mountains, rivers, forests. “It seemed that God had sculpted that territory,” he recalled a few years ago in an interview with The New York Times. He impressed him so much that for two summers he asked for a job in the park and worked there, which he connected forever with nature. That teenage love made him a man involved with all the issues of the environment, aware that resources are scarce and lawyer for sending the message. For this I also believe and take it beyond, in search of solutions to the earth. “The resources of our planet are limited,” he says on the website. In spite of everything, he did not like to call an activist, a term that he considered too serious for him. But, bad to weigh,
Utah, as unknown as loaded with the most exquisite and wild landscapes of the West, was his home and his fetish state. He was insistent that those winding cannons in which he received traffic fines with his Porsche did not become a six -lane road. He battled so that a coal plant was not installed in the south, in the plains of Kaiparowits; He succeeded, and today they are part of the national monument Grand Staircase-Escalante. But then the opposition was such that the residents of Kanab, the closest city, came to burn an image of theirs in the main street. Redford even wrote a book about the so -called Outlaw Trail, also known as the path of outlaws, a fascinating landscape route that connects Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. In the seventies he toured her, meeting some of her inhabitants, talking to them, who remembered those old gunmen, collecting her photographs and putting her experiences in writing.
That E took him to found the Sunday festival. But with him, like everything he touched, popularity devastated much more than he intended. Tens of thousands of people flooded every January Salt Lake City, for their misfortune: “I want street vendors, vodka brands, gift bags and Paris Hiltons They leave forever, ”he told a journalist more than a decade ago. Finally, he also succeeded: the 2026 edition will be precisely his last year there ,.
