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"Perreo to the ground and self-esteem to heaven." The phrase, turned into a recurring meme on social networks, could well define

Glenn Close's

Oscar night

. There was no award for his performance, the eighth time he looks closely at the statuette, but it does not end in his living room. But there was enough self-esteem to bring the dog to the ground.

It was when

Lil Rel Howery,

in the middle of a round of questions about songs to the nominees, approached the 74-year-old actress and asked for the music to play.

And Glenn Close, a diva in her own right, not only knew the answer, but also the dance, giving away the meme of the night to the rhythm of

Da Butt

, the song that

Spike Lee

popularized in his late 80s movie

School Daze.

And, it is that in an Oscars that were eternalized again despite the efforts of the director Steven Soderbergh, it had to be the female veteran who gave the great moments of the gala.

If Close was the dance, Korean Youn Yuh-jung

He had to put the discursive humor when he went up for his Oscar for best supporting actress for

Minari

.

"Mr. Pitt, nice to meet you"

There was no other person in charge of presenting it than Brad Pitt, impeccable as always with his style, and there the Asian interpreter found the opportune moment to shine.

"

Sir, Pitt, delighted to finally meet you,"

Yuh-jung started with a trembling voice that grew with each laugh from the audience gathered at Union Station in Los Angeles.

The 74-year-old actress already felt the focus of attention with her start and decided not to slow down until the end. "I have listened to him in all the ways, but tonight you are all forgiven," he continued on the pronunciations of his name, not easy to pronounce by the respectable American (and Spanish), before also leaving with his children. "

They made me want to leave the house to go to work,

and, well, this is the result of my mother working so hard," she concluded before receiving an applause at her farewell.

There was also a time for sex (not live) and blush at a mostly decaffeinated gala.

It was

Daniel Kaluuya

, who was in charge of remembering that he was picking up the statuette on the Los Angeles stage thanks to "the sexual relations" that his parents had had.

His mother, in the audience, put her hands to her face without knowing exactly where to go.

Racial discourse

But not only do the Oscars live in humor, political activism is non-negotiable in an event where African-American actors tend to be underrepresented. It was

Regina King

, in the first gala intervention, who wanted to set the pace on this path "as the mother of a black son" by condemning the race riots in Minneapolis during the last days and months after the death of George Floyd.

One of the directors of the short film

Two distant strangers,

Travon Free

, of black race, was in charge of walking the path that the actress had opened for him.

"Every day the police in the United States kill three black people, today they have killed three, tomorrow they will kill another three and the day after they will kill another three," said the filmmaker who was seconded by the winners of the Oscar for best animated short

Will McCormack

and

Michael Govier

.

"There are too many people killed by bullet shots, we can do better and we must do better," said the directors of

If something happens to me, I love you

, who do not share skin color with Travon Free, but do have a message.

Vinterberg's Sign Language and Emotion

Apart from the racial question, activism also came in the form of a sign. Deaf actress

Marlee Matlin

, winner of the 1986 Oscar for

Children of a Lesser God,

starred in another of the night's moments by handing out three Oscars using sign language with a simultaneous translator at her side. Translator, in this case vocal, who also had to resort to

Bon Joon Ho

in the delivery of the statuette for best director for making it in Korean.

There was also the emotional moment of the night when Danish director

Thomas Vinterberg

could not contain his tears when he collected his award for best foreign film for

Another Round.

"Ida, this has been a miracle and you are part of that miracle," stammered the emotional filmmaker in memory of his daughter, who died four days before the shooting of a movie in which she was to have a prominent role began. .

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