As an audience, we are conditioned to expect that speakers in a political environment will deliver a political speech. We expect a certain pitch, a certain cadence. We expect a certain focus. We expect them to be cheerleaders for the main event and to deliver a speech to the base.
Clint did not do what was expected. He did what he wanted to do. He acted. The result was brilliant. Clint Eastwood went out on stage and played a role. Nobody in the incredibly intelligent and sophisticated media "got" it - an actor, acting. But Mark Steyn did.
PLAY CLINTY FOR ME
Like William F. Gavin, I hugely enjoyed Clint Eastwood’s turn last night, but I’m not sure I agree that it was “unintentionally hilarious” and that “he forgot his lines, lost his way.” Clint is a brilliant actor, and a superb director of other actors (and I don’t just mean a quarter-century ago: In the last five years, he’s directed eight films). He’s also, as Mr. Gavin observed, a terrific jazz improviser at the piano — and, in film and music documentaries, an extremely articulate interviewee. So I wouldn’t assume that the general tenor of his performance wasn’t exactly as he intended. The hair was a clue: No Hollywood icon goes out on stage like that unless he means to.
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| Clint playing the part of the "Everyman". The American voter. |
Clint went out on stage and, playing a part, MOCKED our president. He could not, as himself, have done that without appearing petty and impolite. He is not a commentator or a stand up comedian. He is an ACTOR. So he chose to play the part of a wise, frustrated voter speaking to the average American in a manner that was natural and unaffected.
That's the real beauty of great acting - the affectation of acting appears completely natural and unaffected.
And NOBODY got that. (Okay, nobody in the media or on the left got that.)
Clint acted so brilliantly that everyone thought it was real. That he truly was some crazy old man up there on stage who had lost his way and was awkwardly trying to think of what to say while talking to an empty chair.
GOT YA!
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Liberals are so stupid. They NEVER get when you're making fun of them. Never.
They don't get it, but they know an icon of the fighters for good over evil thinks they're all snot nosed shits and wouldn't walk across the street to piss on them if they were on fire.
ReplyDeleteThey deserve it, and more. I don't think anyone with the least bit of honor thinks much of the pinch faced, Starbuck's sipping, puke-shits affiliated with the Democratic Party.
HAHAHAHAHA! Holy SHIT! Jess!
Delete****pinch faced, Starbuck's sipping, puke-shits affiliated with the Democratic Party.****
I'm stealing that! LOL!!!
Jess, it isn't healthy to hold stuff in like that. Tell us how you really feel! ;-)
DeleteThe "unintentionally hilarious" thing was the President's response. That "this chair is occupied" and photo tweet they did just showed how completely oblivious they were to what Clint was really doing. Some college somewhere must offer remedial classes in humility and humor. They should sign up.
ReplyDeleteExactly. I was tickled to death over their immediate response over the chair. It came across like a stupid little kid saying, "Oh, yeah? So there!"
DeleteThey just NEVER get when they are being made fun of because they honestly believe that they are above any criticism.
After the Obamaite's tweet of "This seat's taken", I think it would be poetic justice, indeed, if Mitt wins the election for him to make a gift of that chair to Clint. And, if a photo of Clint sitting in that chair should show up on the internet with the caption "NOW, this seat's taken", that would just be rubbing salt in the wound.
DeleteThat would be brilliant. A story to tell the grandkids.
DeleteI'm glad to see that even though we are painted as the party of stupid, so many of us got that Clint was playing a part. When he got to the part about "23 million people out of work" and stared straight into the camera with laser focus, I almost died.
ReplyDeletePrecisely. If you didn't know Clint was completely playing a role at that moment, you just weren't paying attention.
DeleteI loved when he said, "....we own this country."
Yeah, baby.
Especially if you pay attention at the end of the "speech". Clint straitens up, and his voice and its cadences change completely.
DeleteHe was in complete control of that stage, when he was acting and at the end when he was simply speaking to the people from his heart. When he said you don't have to be a mental masochist and vote for someone just because he seems like a nice guy, that was code for voting against Obama does not make you a racist. He just hasn't done the job. You gotta let'em go. Good good stuff.
Delete"When he got to the part about "23 million people out of work" and stared straight into the camera with laser focus"
ReplyDeleteYep, that's when I knew he knew *EXACTLY* what he was doing. Bravo, Clint.
Yup. If you didn't understand at that moment that Clint was out there playing a part just SO he could mock Obama, then you just didn't WANT to get it. I think Dems were so disconcerted and stunned that Clint Eastwood had gone out on that stage to mock Obama and not to introduce Romney that they just couldn't get their pointy little heads around it. And their always handy default position for confusion is contempt.
DeleteNope, leftards never want to get it when it comes to reality. If they did, they would have to give up their victim-hood. They would have to give up their entitlement mentality and their 'right' to be an excessively emotional non-thinker. They have too much invested in their delusions to face reality.
DeleteUnfortunately for them, when reality inevitably bites them in the ass (and it always bites *hard*) they no longer have the ability to deal with it. They rarely come to the realisation that in most cases they've created their own problems.
"They rarely come to the realisation that in most cases they've created their own problems."
DeleteYep, Morris. When and if they finally get clubbed in the head with reality, it will definitely not have been their own fault.