A une table voisine de celle de Robert Redford, on distingue un figurant à la veste beige en train de dîner. Non crédité au générique de ce film de 1969, il allait devenir quelques années plus tard une très grande star de cinéma. Sauriez vous le reconnaître ?
Released in 1984 as the lead single from Twisted Sister’s breakthrough album Stay Hungry, “We’re Not Gonna Take It” became an enduring anthem of youthful rebellion and a defining track of the glam metal era. The track reached #21 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #14 on the UK Singles Chart, fueled by heavy rotation on MTV. The song's humorous and iconic music video arguably became just as famous as the track itself. Featuring actor Mark Metcalf as a tyrannical, screaming father, the video brilliantly parodied his own antagonistic character, Douglas Neidermeyer, from the classic comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House.
Beyond its commercial success, the song's legacy was cemented in 1985 when Dee Snider famously defended it before the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) at a U.S. Senate hearing on music censorship. Arriving without a lawyer, Snider eloquently argued that the song was about self-empowerment and standing up to oppression, not violence, making the track a lasting symbol of artistic freedom. The young boy who gets scolded by the father in the music video is actually Snider's own son, Jesse. The song's memorable chorus melody shares a striking, albeit unintentional, resemblance to the classic Christmas carol "O Come, All Ye Faithful", a connection Snider later embraced by recording a heavy metal version of the carol.