Meat Puppets
Did you ever notice how many of the best actors are idiots when they don't have a script.? I don't mean the actors you never heard of, but top-line people who can really act, like Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, and Robert DiNiro. Give them a script and you are pretty much guaranteed a good or even excellent performance.However, without a script a garbled, often incomprehensible, bunch of twaddle emanates from their lips.. They remind me of ventriloquist's dummies, only instead of wood and paint, they are made of flesh and blood.They purport to be human --- but are they? I guess Shakespeare had them down some hundreds of years ago, "Full of sound and fury, signifying, nothing."
Put one quote from those next to one quote from the ones I mentioned. Note the difference between sanity and inanity.
Why is your description so complimentary?
While I agree that actors can be disappointing in their reflections about their roles, I also grant them their due. The reason why is that I am a writer. I meet a lot of readers who say that they wished they could write.
As it wuz stated in thet thar Hamlet play, y'all.
Q; How do you typify the actors who mindlessly mouth conservative doctrine?
A; You do not typify them because they are deep thinkers.
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Your contrived Q & A is specious with respect to my thoughts regarding some conservative doctrine. It's also an irrelevant deflection. Try again, please.
They cannot write because they have no more intellect than a mongoose. They have a talent. They instinctively have the ability to turn written words into believable actions and the spoken word. They often have no idea what the say and what it means. Brando couldn't even memorize his lines, having them taped up where the camera couldn't see them but he could.
Come to think of it, there appears to be a lot of representatives of ours in congress that are just like that too. It's like hiring some poor person to run the economy for the country, we might as well have some real duds representing us too.
Big money actors are only people who are very good at memorizing a script and playing characters.
It's not surprising that such people becoming household names can swell heads into becoming know-it-alls.
Those who presume to tell "the little people" how to think should be called "meat puppets" to their faces.
"Is that a fact, Mr. Baldwin? By the way, congratulations for your latest meat puppet award. What's a meat puppet?
Oh, I'm merely referring to your expertise. Mr. Baldwin, your expertise. Something you actually know about."
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Why are they not meat puppets?
Lest you miss my point: the conservatives are not meat puppets; and neither are the liberals. They may not be the deep analytical thinkers that you and I are. You can criticize their politics if you wish. After all, conservatism is shot through with errors. But their political opinions are independent of their other marketable skills.
Let me start with what I consider an axiom: to write exceptionally well, you need, first of all, to be able to think exceptionally well.
Films are written by screenplay writers, directed by directors, shot by cinematographers and performed by acting individuals (how is that for avoiding gender preferences? ;-) ).
The talented actors and actresses provide beautiful faces, strong and sexy bodies and recite the text, adding facial expressions and body language, mainly guided by the director. Therefore, mostly, they enunciate other people's thoughts and expressions. But, because they are the faces of the film, they get to be admired by the mass audiences much more than the fundamental creators of the films.
The smart actors absorb better the directors' guidance because they understand it better. But, that does not make them very deep thinkers.
When an actor becomes a director, it shows as a benefit at both ends. One example that crosses my mind is Clint Eastwood. He directed better because he was an actor and acted better because he was a director.
I think that this leads to the conclusion that one should not expect from people with appealing looks and good memory, famous and wealthy because their films sell a lot of tickets, any deep understanding of life, philosophical, economic or political issues. After all they are experts in blabbing what others have told them.
Just my opinion.
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post... ) but how is your acting. I heard an interview with Jim Parsons ("Sheldon Cooper") is also apparently not that smart, but one thing he said about acting and in particular Tom Lehrer's "Elements" song - which I also have Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter") performing - was "I love memorizing." Memorizing is a skill.
I do a lot of public presentations, though lately, only three or four times a year. Earning a Toastmaster's certificate, I learned that there is nothing wrong with holding your holds or looking down at them. Just don't read them. And I don't. But I do use them. Memorizing is hard work. You get good at it. We do alot of it just "naturally" every day. But actors learn long passages. And they do not just recite them, they live them -- for your entertainment.
BTW:
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And you point is.....?
John Wayne was a grip. I believe that it was young John Ford who liked his graceful moves and put him in a cowboy movie because he looked good. John Wayne was a patriot who spoke well for America. But he did not write his lines. He read the lines written for him by his friend, one of the screen writers. (Sorry, going through IMDB has not helped... didn't memorize that answer...) If you read his political opinions he was very traditional and unarguably American, but not at all sophisticated in his analysis.
Perhaps having to always follow a script and in order to be good at it they need to have a fluid identity...always someone else's identity and never their own. In short, perhaps they've become automatons...just following the program.
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Must say I've heard that song on the radio before.
So I'm wondering if it was their song I heard or was I hearing somebody else.
They were covering Nirvana's
Hit.
They lyrics are some what fitting for this post though.
"Here we are now, entertainers
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertainers"
"Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us."
So it's more from the point of view of the audience, which of course can be just as leftist as the entertainers.
I generally listen to rock when Rush or someone similar goes to commercial. Old dino is not all that sharp on the bands anymore.
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A poster of Nirvanna from back in the day is valuable.
I had the first issue of Spiderman, The Hulk, Iron Man, Ant Man, Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, Dr. Strange, X-Men, Creepy, Eerie, Vamperilla, the only four issues of a failed Blazing Combat and where did they all and more first issues go?
Guess.
I suddenly recall when I first started to work the back gate tower. I got on the hand radio and announced that "the garbage truck is here."
My angry shift commander phoned to tell me that I was never to say garbage truck again. From now on I was to always say "sanitation services."
For the rest of the shift when unheard in that tower I was nasally intoning "sanitation services" with a British accent.
"Oih say, sanutaaachun services hauve arrived!"
"By Jove, it''s saunnityution services time!"
"Oh, sun-you-teh-shun services sounds so much squeaky cleaner than some ole' actual dirty--ugh! yuck!--garrbage truck!"
"Phony for stupid public radio relations is wot this sanyoiutaytion services be all about by golly!
Hey, blokes! If oih don't say sunutaytion services, I'll be in for a spot of bother, I would."
Could help you stay alert.
It reminds me of a tv show" Mel's matinee theater"
Mel would take a certain caller say the fifth who would answer some type of question for $25 .
It was almost always a house wife and Mel would ask "what does your husband due? A local joke was that one woman answered that her husband was a garbage truck driver. No matter what any woman answered Mel would say "he's got a good job" this woman answered "the hell he does".
Mel Jazz was lost for words at that point and they cut to a commercial.
Ouch.....
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He worked in Vaudeville as Buddy Green
250 movies or cartoons .Voices for John Lennon and George Harrison.
[asked if he ever had reason to resent his choice of profession] Sometimes, yes. But it's nothing I can't overcome when I look at the bank balance.
You might enjoy this https://youtu.be/LlR9YeewwJw
As I am sure you
vould know vie.
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He sent me to get trained in at a larger dealer
Tom was a salesman . He moved to California
And was about 40 at the time married with a family I was 18 . A friend went with me and we stayed in Tom's home in Rancho Bernardo as I scoped out the lay of the land. I then moved to Dana Point and had roommates including my 30 yr old cousin, on St. Patrick's day my girl friend and now wife of 38 years came out we got an apartment in Huntington Beach soon we married
Had our first child and we moved back to Minn.
Sadly I did not keep in touch with Tom.
Certain ascetics (roof color) style so on
This wide eyed 21yr old remembered.
It was 1978 New Year's Eve.
At the time it was about 45 min drive
N of San Diego. Kind of this new suburb built
Out in the middle of rolling rocky hills.
The real estate value has increased so much from back then.. Not worth it .
Life has been so much easier
In Minn Than to live in that heat and looney lib land.
Are performers stupid? The safest answer is yes, they are very stupid. Being obnoxious or different helps the long odds of being a performer some how they need to be noticed to stand out. Being stupid lets these people avoid thinking about the moral dilemmas that are inevitable in the business. The stars are so divorced from reality that they can no longer apply their intelligence to the normal world as it has become a foreign place for them. This means that most of the stars are both stupid and ignorant, that is why they so often sound like entittled fools when speaking With out a script.
The solution, of course, is to stop paying for their propaganda disguised as entertainment.
I have a cousin who was an "automotive savant." He grew up to make custom parts for dragsters while working for Ford Motor Company. He was really good at building models. I was not. I never got around to asking my cousin which statist propaganda he endorsed, or if he still considered himself a Catholic.
How about you and the works of Ayn Rand? Do you have any critical analysis of her theory of epistemology?
It was not the rule in America while America was expanding under capitalism. That was a "brief shining moment."
Even in the American military, enlisteds salute officers who salute higher officers though enlisted do not salute each other (usually). You must be painfully aware of the British society that we inherited in which officers were gentlemen -- who as children did not button their own clothes and hence as adults needed orderlies.
The Marxists were not wholly wrong about class, comrade.
Q: What's the difference between God and a surgeon?
A: God knows that He is not a surgeon.
What's the difference between a frog in a taxi and a trombone player in a taxi?
The frog is probably on his way to a gig.
And so on...
Obviously, you think that you are pretty smart, but how is your acting?
Most people do not use their access to the media to foist irrational theories on others or to manipulate others into supporting failed economic and political systems, and unconstitutional infringements on rights. The actors and politicians that I criticize do this. Comparing their activity to objectivists reciting quotes from Atlas Shrugged is foolishness.
"If you disagree with Alec Baldwin's views on global warming"
Already posted frequently.
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