In my opinion, the great artistic acts for freedom of speech in American artistic history include:

Mark Twain opposing racist bigotry through The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.

Walt Whitman’s life long Hymn to America a.k.a Leaves Of Grass.

Chaplin Celebrating the male capacity for Parental Love in his first feature film The Kid.

Hank Williams breaking barriers of anglophile grovelling by sounding totally American In Song.

Dylan Rejecting Woke Censorship With  Freedom of Emotional Speech in Maggie’s Farm And lines like “How Does It Feel?” and “Once upon a time you dressed so fine/Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?/People call say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall’/
You thought they were all kidding you” to deaf snobs and opened eared fans at Newport. Nobel Prize winning words.

The Sheer Devotional Greatness Of A Complete Unknown’s Recreation Of The Dylan at Newport In 1965 Story

And What Respect Does Hollywood To This Film’s 8 Thoroughly Deserved Nominations?

None.

Zero.

Not one win.

Show your colours, Hollywood elite.

We already knew.

“And something is happening and you don’t know what it, do you”, Hollywood?

Geoff Fox, 4th March, 2025, Melbourne, Australia