Posted on 02/09/2020 8:21:03 PM PST by EdnaMode
By this point in awards season, Brad Pitt’s march toward a Best Supporting Actor Oscar seems all but inevitable. Not to say anyone’s complaining. In fact, the loudest knock against the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star is that his warm-up acceptance speeches at events like the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the BAFTAs have been a little too, well, perfect.
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Fenway Strategies is a speechwriting and communications firm founded by former Obama administration officials Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor. Although the firm’s most obvious connection is to the political arena, helping speakers prep TED talks or United Nations addresses, Fenway has branched out into Hollywood. And over the last few years the firm has helped ghostwrite awards acceptance speeches for a number of A-list clients; you definitely know them but their identities are protected by non-disclosure agreements.
To hear it from Fenway principal Sam Koppelman, a former speechwriter for Michael Bloomberg and digital strategist for Hillary Clinton who also co-authored the New York Times best seller Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump, the practice is so widespread among movie, music, and TV stars nowadays, he finds it more astonishing to discover a nominee has eschewed professional speechwriting help than when one seeks it out.
“Writing for actors is a speechwriter’s dream come true,” says Koppelman. “Because unlike politicians, who are not professionals at memorizing lines or delivering them in compelling and charismatic ways, actors actually know how to deliver the lines.”
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It’s always puzzled me why people pay so much attention to people who play pretend for a living.
You’d think they could write a few notes and do it themselves, pampered sorry&tortured soulless b*tches that many of these “stars” are.
but hollyweed is more about fake than reality in the end (except when Weinstein is doing the “casting” for talent.)..
no matter how they spin it, most of the “work” is about propagandizing and manipulating the masses ever so slowly, while fleecing the viewers pocketbook and gutting longstanding societal norms.
Now, on with the show..
Don’t ya love it, when the Director yells “quit acting stupid” and the actor yells “I’m not acting”?
Thank you. It is a very weak mind that gives any weight at all to people who’s job as adults is to play make-believe.
Most are in REALITY inarticulate and low educated so depend on things to be written for them. Brad Pitt always sound plain retarded and on pot. Even the educated and actually smart ones sound completely retarded when they speak outside of their pathetic world of entitlement and make believe.
What lunatic wrote that drivel for Phoenix?
L
Whoever wrote Joaquin Phoenix’s speech was tripping on LSD.
“Because unlike politicians, who are not professionals at memorizing lines or delivering them in compelling and charismatic ways, actors actually know how to deliver the lines.”
Only problem is they cant sell it to anyone else but other actors and directors who are also retarded and do the hiring. Brad Pitt gets all the hand slaps on the back from his fellow retards tonigh and pisses off his future box office audience. was looking forward to Call of the Wild, until that asshole Harrison Ford opened up his mouth the other day bad mouthing Trump, so, phuck off! No money being spent on these idiots.
Bingo!!!!
Why make the speech? It’s like boarding the Titanic after it strikes the iceberg.
Gone are the days (1950s) when an actress won an Oscar and then went on to thank everyone from the director to the caterer, to the man who trimmed the hedges at home, sometimes taking 20-30 minutes of thanking everyone.
But at least no one talked or preached politics from the podium back then.
Let’s top all of it by glorifying Jane Fonda.
I bet he’s a blast at dinner parties..
I dunno...but I’m pretty sure Joe Biden is writing Joaquin Phoenix’s...
See #16
Hahahaha
Haha! I think you’re right.
Biden may be a better actor. It’s close.
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