If you want to learn how to write for an audience, how to learn to speak in public and to win over a crowd, and how to be able to orate for over an hour without a teleprompter or even many notes - then put this on and watch and learn. This is a masterclass, and I am stunned at how good he is at it.
Yes, I've seen his documentaries, and his old TV programmes, but they're kinda easy to make - lots of editing and prompts, and of course you can always go again if you screw up a line. But this was fabulous - real old-school oratory as he prowled the stage bringing on board a hostile audience (from the applause he asked for at the beginning to show who were republicans and who were democrats the split seemed around 50/50) with some really clever techniques (e.g. told the women how great they were to get them all nodding agreement, then told the men they were a dying breed and a 'minority'). He even used a drone so we could all laugh at the corralled Muslims!
And his real triumph was to start by slagging off Hillary - said he didn't vote for her now or previously, said she killed Vince - piled it on until every redneck in the place was cheering him on. And then... and then he just spun it around and talked quietly. Convinced everyone of the righteousness of the path and the journey, and finished off with a crescendo of oratory!
Brilliant, just brilliant. Whatever you think of Michael Moore, watch this!
Yes, I've seen his documentaries, and his old TV programmes, but they're kinda easy to make - lots of editing and prompts, and of course you can always go again if you screw up a line. But this was fabulous - real old-school oratory as he prowled the stage bringing on board a hostile audience (from the applause he asked for at the beginning to show who were republicans and who were democrats the split seemed around 50/50) with some really clever techniques (e.g. told the women how great they were to get them all nodding agreement, then told the men they were a dying breed and a 'minority'). He even used a drone so we could all laugh at the corralled Muslims!
And his real triumph was to start by slagging off Hillary - said he didn't vote for her now or previously, said she killed Vince - piled it on until every redneck in the place was cheering him on. And then... and then he just spun it around and talked quietly. Convinced everyone of the righteousness of the path and the journey, and finished off with a crescendo of oratory!
Brilliant, just brilliant. Whatever you think of Michael Moore, watch this!