Text writen by McBean - Read by Michel Papineschi (Theatre and dubbing actor)
Robin Williams' French voice in most of his movies.
After the excitement and all the rewards won with "Good Will Hunting"
It has been really difficult to understand the commercial failure of "What Dreams May Come"
Released the same year and whose soundtrack you're listening to.
The topics addressed in this movie might have been too disrupted for the audience.
Indeed, it mentioned life and death,
Life after death, the idea of heaven and hell,
And so much more...
Among the 35 pictures I had the chance to dub, it's one of the most beautiful I have ever seen.
As a result of these quite violent criticisms,
Robin Williams has decided to play in movies with smaller budgets,
But without achieving the same success as movies of the 90's.
From this point, he spent more time away from movie sets,
Beside his family, his children and his relatives.
He invested even more into his passion : cycling,
Which, according to his own words, saved his life.
According to him, it was a kind of outlet helping him to stay healthy,
While fighting his demons : drugs and alcohol.
However, he said that he has never taken cocaine again,
Since the pass of his dear friend John Belushi, in 1982.
He has gone from an addiction to another for almost all his life,
The primary was of course his children. He stated in an interview :
"They give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings."
This video is dedicated to them.
To Zack, Zelda & Cody.
We can't share your sorrow, your regrets and this loss,
But we would like to look back at all the memorable moments.
To the last ones...
According to some journalists,
His daughter Zelda said about his father that he had struggled against depression for most of his life.
He was somehow a sad clown.
This condition could have been related to a latent bipolar disease.
He often retreated into one of his passion, shared with his children :
Video Games.
He explained to the journalists that it was a sort of "Cyber Cocaine"
It proved how much he was addicted.
It was also a way to escape reality and to contain his demons.
Despite all the endeavors he had made during the 2000's,
He had not hesitated to go to rehab in 2006, in order to beat his drinking problem.
This decade will end with an open-hearted surgery in 2009.
However, the lack of success launched for about 10 years, it didn't stop him from continuing his work,
Beside Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg, providing support to the "Comic Relief U.S.A."
Which helps people who live in dismal conditions.
In 2014, the same year he passed, this association has raised over 80 million dollars,
But it wasn't the only cause he was giving interest and support to.
Indeed, he travelled regularly to diverse requirements, in order to support the troops,
Particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For many years, he was a regular donor to the "Red Cross"
But also to a pediatric hospital, specialized in research on children’s illnesses.
As noted at the beginning of the video,
All the collected benefits of the advertisements will be donated to the "American Brain Foundation"
Which has been working for many years on the diseases and the disruptions in brain functioning.
It is what we are about to talk about from now on.
For a lot of journalists, Robin Williams left this world because he was depressed.
They even thought it was because of a bipolar disease.
Actually, it's much more complex.
As I explained to McBean, when I dubbed his character in the Tv Show "The Crazy Ones" in 2014,
But also in the movie "Night at the Museum 3"
I felt that there was something different in his acting, in his eyes.
He seemed to be absent, worried...
Behind the scenes, he was battling symptoms of Alzheimer disease,
Stages of Parkinson's with big anxiety disorders, repeated insomnias
And so much more.
His wife Susan and he had compared his conditions to "a terrorist inside his head"
And he kept saying to her that he wanted to "reinitialize his brain."
He decided to take his own life on August 11th, 2014,
Which can be related to a form of voluntary euthanasia.
He was suffering from Lewy body Dementia diagnosed 3 months after his death.
Even though he got only one academy award for Best Actor,
He will forever remain in our memory and in our hearts.
Text and video editing by McBean - HP2
Read by Michel Papineschi (Robin Williams' French voice in most of his movies)
Music by Michael Kamen "What Dreams may come" (1998)
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