"The King's speech" is also a film related to speech topics. At the 83rd Oscar in 2011, it won 12 nominations, and finally won four awards for best picture, best director, best actor, and best original screenplay. middle. The story of the British royal family itself has a hint of mystery, just look at the name of George VI, Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor, and the movie always revolves around a person's growth process, gradually changing from love to friendship, and then From the transformation of friendship to a ruler with compassion, and finally see an era from the trajectory of a person. Speech is not only a running thread, but also the best tool for rendering characters, and there is no sense of overpowering.
On the other hand, 4 years later, "Selma" with a similar theme is also aimed at the Olympics. Well, this is indeed a more serious and grand theme for the liberation of black people. However, let's take a look at this poster to understand what Ava DuVernay meant. She wanted to use Martin's eyes to restore the entire Selma incident at that time. So did she succeed?
No. It is a good angle to dig out historical themes and want to get rid of the commercial public smell. If you can nail Martin, show his role completely from his perspective. When the climax is reached in the middle section, the audience's resonance It is not difficult to cause. Because in the first 60 minutes, the audience already had a sense of trust in Martin, the male lead, follow him, believe what he said, and finally he found out that the people of the whole era are of the same mind and heart with him, how great an era. But Martin here is too much like an empty shell.
Many people praised David Oyelowo's acting skills, saying that it was as if he was possessed by Martin King, and the tone and tone of Mr. King's speech were recreated so sacred! No matter who he talks to, he is a strange voice of a speech prosthesis, and there are few scenes that show his strong speaking ability, so that the audience can immerse in emotion. When it comes to the speech, there is a group of people next to it. David's big, expressive eyes reveal a lot of information, what I see is not the will of the people, yes, restless, frustrated, restless.
The film spends a lot of effort to describe Martin's complacency and shared hatred of communication with the upper and lower. He should be a democratic leader, he should be a social activist, he talked about his dream that thousands of white and black Americans ran from all over the mountains to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, just to listen to him, because every Everyone has dreams. But in "Selma", he is not. He is just a public welfare ambassador who is running on the road and showing up at the right time, which is too far from the image of monuments in history.
So if the film hopes to weaken Martin's image in order to portray the scene of the black resistance movement, it will be a failure. Because it doesn't resonate with us. Wasn't the purpose of making such a 122-minute time-consuming, labor-intensive, oil-painting, and beautifully laid-out film is to make people understand the history of the dark corners of the past? To tell people today, especially Americans, especially black Americans, that freedom and equality are dreams that we can never give up. But across the foggy language barrier, I just checked the background of the superficial cultural background in advance. I can only understand the audience of the Selma movement in depth through Martin's personal image. In addition to the 2015 Oscars, what else can you gain?
Since it's a movie about speeches, let's move on to speeches. This field can make people crazy, because you give the speaker 3 minutes, he will change the orientation of your life, it is so magical, like a magic that cannot be revealed. In today's world, in addition to the "I love my motherland" style speeches of my country's immortal culture, it can be roughly divided into two groups, the TED school and the TM school.
Four purposes of speech: inform, entertain, inspire, persuade. Persuasion, entertainment, motivation, and persuasion are in no order of difficulty. TED tends to do inform, that is, let me tell you something you didn't know before. The difficulty is that you really don’t know what I’m talking about, so once you know it, you’ll be inspired a lot and give me a thumbs up. This field is a battle between academic experts who can do presentations and life experts. In fact, there is no surprising knowledge network for ordinary people to go to inform, and they often fail to do it well.
As a speech organization that sprang up from California in the United States for 24 years, TM is the most respected persuade. Unlike TED's 18 minutes, it only took seven minutes to change the world. Therefore, the time is cut in half. You can't go to infrom something new. You can only follow the idea of "Come on and tell a story" that TM admires, summarize your own experience into small stories, and then use small stories to impress the audience. Use all technical means to change them. The interesting thing is that no matter how big or small your personal experience is, as long as you have the right angle, you can always produce excellent speeches. As long as you are willing to study the skills, as long as you are good at summarizing, you can definitely persuade others to do what you asked them to do. Martin Luther King, Jr is a contestant who uses this method of inciting emotions to convince the public to win.
So what he says doesn't really matter that much, what he says is very important. It's just very embarrassing that his image created by the movie is rigid and blunt. The way of articulation is very different, and the tone of voice is the same on stage in private. Except for the black and white clearly knowing that the s-shaped looks at the eyes of his audience, it is really unbelievable that he is a successful speaker and a great speaker.
Every speaker is eager to have a stage and completely change everyone under the stage. The effort is not pulling your wife's hand, not standing in the front row of the protest line to show your resolve, but when you come to the stage, you are a different you, your language is suddenly so different, you Your thinking is reversed and clear from the angle in the newspaper comments. Your language is your full strength. People are expecting, not your personal charm, but expecting to use your guidance to let them see a transparent Brightly belong to their own tomorrow.
I really want to attach two manuscripts of Martin Luther King's dream speech and Wen Yiduo's last public speech before he was assassinated. Speech produces power, and the power of the people prevails.
==Martin Luther King==
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of bad captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live up to the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color if their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning.
My country, ’ tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring.
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York!
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slops of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi!
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!”
== Wen Yiduo==
these few God, everyone knows that the most despicable and shameless thing in history happened in Kunming! Mr. Li (Mr. Li) refers to Li Gongpu (1902-1946), a native of Wujin, Jiangsu, a patriotic and democratic person. On July 11, 1946, he was killed by Kuomintang agents in Kunming. What crime was committed to get this murderous hand? He only writes articles with his pen and speaks with his mouth, and what he writes and speaks is nothing but the words of a Chinese who has not lost his conscience! Everyone has a pen and a mouth, so what is the reason to take it out! Come up with facts! (Voice excited)
Why do you want to fight and kill, and you don't dare to fight and kill openly, but secretly assassinate! (Applause) What is this? (applaud)
Are there any spies here today? You stand up! It's a hero's stand up! Come out and talk! Why did you want to kill Mr. Li? (Snack. Applause warmly) He killed someone, but he didn't dare to admit it, and he even slandered him, saying "Peachy Incident", an incident caused by an improper relationship between a man and a woman. After the Kuomintang reactionaries assassinated Li Gongpu, they tried to cover up their crimes in front of the people and spread rumors that Li Gongpu was assassinated because of the "Peachy Incident". "It is shameless to say that the Communist Party killed the Communist Party! Shameless! (Enthusiastic applause) This is the shamelessness of a certain group [a group] referring to the Kuomintang reactionaries, and it is Mr. Li's glory! Mr. Li's assassination in Kunming was the result of Mr. Li's stay Glory to Kunming! It is also the glory of Kunming people! (Applause)
Last year, on the evening of November 25, 1945, on the evening of November 25, 1945, more than 6,000 students from colleges and high schools in Kunming held an anti-civil war and current affairs evening party at Southwest United University. The Kuomintang reactionaries dispatched The army surrounded the venue, shot and fired artillery, made threats, and imposed martial law near the school to prohibit the passage of teachers and students. Therefore, students from various schools jointly went on strike. On December 1, the Kuomintang reactionaries sent a large number of military police and spies to the Southwest United University and Teachers College. Two grenades were thrown, killing four people and injuring more than ten people." Kunming young students were massacred in order to oppose the civil war, that is the generation of young people who gave their most precious lives! Now Mr. Li has been assassinated by the reactionaries in order to fight for democracy and peace. We are proud to say that this is an older generation like me, our old comrades in arms, who gave their most precious lives! These two incidents happened in Kunming, which is the infinite glory of Kunming! (Enthusiastic applause)
After the news of the reactionary assassination of Mr. Li came out, everyone heard it with grief and hatred. I thought to myself, these shameless things, I don't know what they think, what is their state of mind, what is their heart! (beats the table) It's actually very simple, they are panicking in such madness to create terror! I'm scared! So when they create terror, they are actually terrorizing themselves! Secret agents, think about it, how many days do you have? You are done, almost done! Do you think you can injure a few and kill a few, and that's enough to frighten the people? In fact, the vast majority of the people are inexhaustible and inexhaustible! If so, there would be no one in the world.
If you kill one Li Gongpu, millions of Li Gongpu will stand up! You will lose millions of people! Do you see that we have few people and no power? Let me tell you, our strength is very great, very strong! Look at these people who came today, they are all our people and our strength! In addition, there are the general public! We have this confidence that the power of the people will prevail and that truth will always exist. There has never been an anti-people force in history that was not destroyed by the people! Hitler, Mussolini, didn't they all fall before the people? Open the history and see, you can still stand for a few days! You are done, almost done! Our light is about to appear. We see, the light is right before our eyes, and now is the darkest hour before dawn. We have the power to break this darkness and fight for the light! Our light is the end of the reactionaries! (Enthusiastic applause)
Now Stuart is the U.S. ambassador to China. Stuart is a friend of the Chinese people and an educator. He grew up in China and was educated by the United States. He has lived in China longer than he has lived in the United States. Just like a Chinese student, he used to meet often in Peiping. He is an amiable scholar who really knows the demands of the Chinese people. This does not mean that Stuart has three heads and six arms and can solve everything for the Chinese people, but that the American people's public opinion has risen, and the United States has made this change. "
Mr. Li's blood will not be shed in vain! Mr. Li lost his life, and we have to pay a price. The four martyrs of "12·1" fell, and the blood of young soldiers was exchanged for political consultation The meeting was held; now Mr. Li has fallen, and his blood will be exchanged for the re-opening of the CPPCC meeting! (Enthusiastic applause) We have this confidence! (Applause)
"12·1" is the glory of Kunming and the people of Yunnan Glorious. Yunnan has a glorious history, as far away as protecting the country ① (referring to the war of protecting the country). In October 1915, the Beiyang warlord Yuan Shikai proclaimed the emperor, arousing the opposition of the people of the whole country. On December 25 of the same year, Yunnan first declared independence. Under the leadership of Cai E and others, they organized the army to protect the country to fight against Yuan. Needless to say, the closest ones, such as "12·1", belong to the people of Yunnan. We must carry forward the glorious history of Yunnan! (The audience expressed their acceptance)
The reactionaries are sowing discord, despicable and shameless, you see the United University (the abbreviation of Southwest United University). During the Anti-Japanese War, Tsinghua University, Peking University and Nankai University jointly formed the Southwest United University. In April 1946, the Southwest Associated Congress announced its dissolution. Go, the students have summer vacation, do you think we have no strength? Secret agents! You are wrong! You saw the more than 1,000 young people who came to the meeting today and shook hands again. Our young people in Kunming will never let you continue to be so arrogant!
Reactionaries, if you see one fall, you can also see thousands rise!
Justice can never be killed, because truth always exists! (Applause)
The task given to Kunming by history is to strive for democracy and peace, and our youth in Kunming must fulfill this task!
We are not afraid of death, we have the spirit of sacrifice! We are like Mr. Li at any time, stepping out of the gate with the front foot, and not ready to step into the gate with the back foot!
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