“The Campaign” sets the reality of real life Campaigns When it comes down to the very moment it is human nature for most to do whatever it takes to win, because let’s face it no one wants to lose no one wants to feel like they are less than anyone. The Campaign is a perfect example of this human selfishness. In the movie “The Campaign” (2012) starring Will Ferrell who plays cam Brady and Zach Galifianakis who plays Marty Huggins, has won two awards which are the Golden Trailer and The BMI Film Music Award and were also nominated for four other awards. This movie was written by Adam McKay, Chris Henchy, and Shawn Harwell and directed by Jay Roach costing a grand total of ninety-five million dollars and only making about one hundred …show more content…
We have to think about the time and era that we are in, what events are happening around us and how that related to the movies that are being produced. This movie, for example, was made in 2012 during the time of the 2012 presidential campaign between Barak Obama and Mitt Romney. This movie was geared around this movie, not necessarily saying that any of the candidates were doing these things but to more so release the tenseness of this election and make a little joke out of it. This was the time when Barak Obama was running for his second term and started getting gray hairs because think about the being president is no easy job at all but in my opinion, Obama was, for the most part, honest and that’s very important to the people that are voting for you. As it relates to the 2016 presidential election with Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton, it’s almost like Donald trump watched this movie in 2012 and ran in 2016 trying to see how much stupidity he can get away with. Everything he did and said during that election period is almost like we were watching a movie about the Donald trump campaign. It was like he took the presidential campaign as a total joke. What I have come to realize is that sometimes stupidity can take you a long with people because honestly, Donald trump is president I can’t help but think that I am living in a world of illiterate people who would actually vote for Donald trump after all the crazy and unpredictable things he said during the campaign election. Donald Trump is Cam Brady from “the
Franklin Roosevelt’s speech says the following, “Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.” Roosevelt uses words such as “stubbornness”, “incompetence”, and “unscrupulous” to underline the absence of morals in these money changers that have failed the American people. Barack Obama’s speech says the following, “Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.” Obama uses words such as “violence”, “hatred”, and “weakened” to stress the wrongdoing that have been committed by the previous leaders of the country. Both of the presidents use emotive language to illustrate the wrongdoings that have been committed by the previous
It is as if he is proving everyone who ever doubted him wrong. Everyone who looked down upon him with a watchful eye or whispered behind his back should be sulking in their seats. Decades ago, everyone was supposedly given the same rights. Now days, there are such issues as gay marriage, flags, immigration, racism.
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A president has to have character, right? I mean, if the leader of the free world has no substance, nothing special about him, then how do we as citizens know that he is capable as far as foreign policies go. How do we know that we can trust him to make wise decisions? How do we know that he will tell us the truth? This concept is exactly what fictional president Andrew Shepherd successfully conveys in his “Address to the Press on Bob Rumson and the Crime Bill.” In the movie, The American President, Andrew Shepherd becomes romantically involved with crime bill lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade. Many characters, including Bob Rumson, believe that the relationship between Shepherd and Wade is hindering the advancement of the country. They believe that this relationship shows lack of character, and it is made apparent to Shepherd through the side comments and actions of those opposing him. In the closing scenes of the movie, Shepherd is found defending himself and his character through the form of a rhetorical speech. He convincingly uses pathos to appeal to his audience’s sense of nationality and pride.
It is very common among the United States’ political sphere to rely heavily on T.V. commercials during election season; this is after all the most effective way to spread a message to millions of voters in order to gain their support. The presidential election of 2008 was not the exception; candidates and interest groups spent 2.6 billion dollars on advertising that year from which 2 billion were used exclusively for broadcast television (Seelye 2008.) Although the effectiveness of these advertisements is relatively small compared to the money spent on them (Liasson 2012), it is important for American voters to think critically about the information and arguments presented by these ads. An analysis of the rhetoric in four of the political campaign commercials of the 2008 presidential election reveals the different informal fallacies utilized to gain support for one of the candidates or misguide the public about the opposing candidate.
Every 20th of January, the United States undergoes the passing of power from one president, to another. In this specific election, Donald J. Trump was elected president. He has received much criticism from the opposition, but much praise from his supporters. Although a very controversial person, Trump gave a great speech that was based on uniting the people as one. Trump used multiple rhetorical strategies such as repetition, pauses in speech, and listing are just a few of them.
In the television world, big issues are solved in a matter of seconds. Viewers are led to believe that their concerns about issues will be solved just as quickly. Candidates use political commercials to manipulate their audience to believing this false assumption. Although it seems like a quick fix in the commercials change does not occur overnight. Voters want the easiest, quickest solution to their personal social and economic struggles. So the candidate with the easiest and quickest solution gets their vote.
“The Candidate” is the prime example of how an election is ran including the campaign strategies, the media, the debates, and the arguments. While Jarmens campaigning was not completely viewed throughout the movie it was clear he knew McKay was a threat. McKay’s idea of running a campaign included his personal touches of not listening to his campaign manager. Actually listening to what the people want and what they need seems to gain their attention and vote; this is the strategy that won McKay the election.
Now if none of this is appealing to you i don't know what “He says what he wants to say, insults whom he wants to insult, and never, ever considers apology or retreat. ”(Kluger,Jeffrey). I have great respect for this quote of Donald's because it shows that he's not afraid to stand against something or stand up for it. It's quite obvious that he's not afraid to stand up for anything. In my eyes that is the best reason why he deserves so much respect and attention.
Obama states how some have said that his candidacy is being viewed to defend the recent scandal of Revereand Wright. But states “the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial…. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country… that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America” (Obama pg. 2). He states how this scandal is only a distraction that turns our attention away from the real issue. He also goes on stating that “we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems two wars, a terrorist threat, a failing economy a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all” (Obama pg. 2-3). Obama’s use of patho appeal and definitional claim states the real issues that we need to face. It makes the audience feel that they need to work together to establish unity to help bring this nation
He marketed his products over five times in this speech that is only an hour and forty minutes long. He mentioned himself being basically a genius four times, claimed even the geniuses at Harvard don’t know as much as him. That’s about once every eleven minutes he talks about himself or his products in a presidential speech about making America great. When he wasn’t talking about himself or his products he was talking about getting rid of immigrants. Getting rid of immigrants is counterproductive, our founding father knew the importance of it, diversity is important for all large or small companies. What we should be focusing on is fixing the broken system that makes it very difficult to become a legal
This created much disbelief and shock across the grid. To summarize his entire presidential campaign in one word, it would simply be “different”. It is worth noting that Trump has taken an extreme approach against what is normally expected, and that resulted in one of the most divided political stances up to date. “David Robinson, who performed a statistical analysis of the President-elect's Twitter account in August, said Mr. Trump's tendency to tweet like an "entertainer" meant he was able to garner the “interest" of the American people, which in turn boosted his chances of election success”(Independent.co.uk 1). His appeal to emotion has personally benefited himself to the point where he remained a key subject of interest throughout the entire election. Whether or not he was favored, he was the most focused on topic for widespread
If Americans want to choose Trump as their president, they first listen to Etan Cohen. Comedy screenwriter Etan Cohen noticed some similarities between mendacious former reality star Donald Trump and Cohen’s movie Idiocracy, which features wrestling champion-turned-president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Those similarities have only grown, leading to
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Nowadays, instead of always voting for the person who is the best at handling their prospective job, people are voting for candidates who handle themselves the best during the campaign. The candidate who is the most charismatic, funny, and outgoing is usually the person who is going to get elected. This is becoming particularly true in the case of many celebrities who have entered the field of politics. Although these people, who have gained fame in another field, are not as qualified for the job as others in the election, they find themselves capturing the majority of the vote anyway. To truly understand how people with hardly any political experience can step right into the spotlight and win an election, one must first understand what goes into a political campaign.