This awesome track features speeches from Kennedy, Mac Arthur, Bush, Nixon and Reagan.
I thought it would make for a fun opener.
Now, I've found that speeches don't look, in print, half as awesome as they do when their speaker speaks them. What would—an Obama speech be—without—all the pauses? How do you go about reflecting the emphasis of words, the inflections of voice? Or, rather, how do you go about reproducing the effect in print, with a speech (wright?) that, conversely, would not sound nearly as cool when spoken?
Then there's the matter of the content of the speech, what giving it says about the speaker—and what the reaction to it says about the audience. The circumstances that make the speech necessary or required, its purpose and the context that sustains it.
There's also the matter of tone; the dangerous lines between the epic and the cheesy, the dire and the humourless, the responsible and the self-important, the familiar and the cliché, the righteous and the self-righteous, the pathos and the bathos.
I could go on. At any rate, this sounds like an interesting topic to discuss, and I'd love to work on studying Real Life cool speeches, and making up our own, right here.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
This awesome track features speeches from Kennedy, Mac Arthur, Bush, Nixon and Reagan.
I thought it would make for a fun opener.
Now, I've found that speeches don't look, in print, half as awesome as they do when their speaker speaks them. What would—an Obama speech be—without—all the pauses? How do you go about reflecting the emphasis of words, the inflections of voice? Or, rather, how do you go about reproducing the effect in print, with a speech (wright?) that, conversely, would not sound nearly as cool when spoken?
Then there's the matter of the content of the speech, what giving it says about the speaker—and what the reaction to it says about the audience. The circumstances that make the speech necessary or required, its purpose and the context that sustains it.
There's also the matter of tone; the dangerous lines between the epic and the cheesy, the dire and the humourless, the responsible and the self-important, the familiar and the cliché, the righteous and the self-righteous, the pathos and the bathos.
I could go on. At any rate, this sounds like an interesting topic to discuss, and I'd love to work on studying Real Life cool speeches, and making up our own, right here.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.